Symes, R. A.
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings: a Guide for Family Historians
(Pen and Sword, 2016).
Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle sat down and wrote a poem, or a memoir? Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together and managing their collective affairs. With industrialisation, improved education, and far more geographical mobility, British people of all classes were writing for new purposes, with new implements, in new styles, using new modes of expression and new methods of communication (e.g. telegrams and postcards). Our ancestors had an itch for scribbling from the most basic marks (initials, signatures and graffiti on objects as varied as trees, rafters and window ledges), through more emotionally-charged kinds of writing such as letters and diaries, to more creative works such as poetry and even fiction. This book shows family historians how to get the most out of documents written by their ancestors and, therefore, how better to understand the people behind the words. Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-A15529
Keywords: 9781473855434, family, geneaology, family trees, geneaological, diaries, social history, family historians, ancestors, literacy, correspondence, journals, autobiographies, signatures, commonplace books
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Roberts, Elizabeth, editor. Lancaster University.
Centre for North-West Regional Studies: Regional Bulletin
(Centre for North-West Regional Studies, 1995).
New Series No 9. Summer 1995. Booklet. Paperback. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A14706
Keywords: C.N.W.R.S, Centre for North-West Regional Studies, bulletin, bulletins, journals, Lancaster University, booklet, booklets
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Feminist Studies, .
Feminist Studies: Volume 29: Number 1. Spring 2003
(Feminist Studies, 2003).
Journal. Fine. 233pp. Order No. NSBK-C10633
Keywords: journals, feminism, feminist, women's studies, women, woman, gender, twentieth century, 20th
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Feminist Studies, .
Feminist Studies: Volume 28 Number 2
(Feminist Studies, Summer 2002).
Paperback. Near fine. 251-457pp. Order No. NSBK-C10087
Keywords: feminism, feminists, women, woman, gender, Volume 28, journals, twentieth century, 20th
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Feminist Studies, .
Feminist Studies: Volume 30: Number 3
(Feminist Studies, Fall 2004).
pp 561-807. Journal. Fine. 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C10634
Keywords: journals, feminism, feminist, women's studies, women, woman, gender, twentieth century, 20th
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Greville, Julia, ed.
Mistress Dorothy Drayton: Her Diary 1553-1559
(The Religious Tract Society, 1909 (?)).
Hardback. Good + in rubbed, decorated boards. vii + 243pp. Order No. NSBK-C15545
Keywords: B0014I5J9Y, Mistress Dorothy Drayton, diaries, diary, sixteenth century, journal
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Robinson, W. Sydney.
Muckraker: The Scandalous Life and Times of W. T. Stead. Britain's First Investigative Journalist
(The Robson Press, 2012).
With a foreword by Tristram Hunt. Hardback. Very good + in dw. xv + 281pp. Order No. NSBK-A15392
Keywords: 9781849542944. Muckraker, W. T. Stead, journalism, journalist, press, Victorian, nineteenth century, biography, biographical, self-history
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Faludi, Susan.
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women
(Chatto and Windus, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. xv + 592pp. Order No. NSBK-C9721
Keywords: 0701146435, women, woman, twentieth century, 20th, feminism, feminists, women's studies, post-feminism, journalism, journalists, reporters, Susan Faludi
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Neustatter, Angela.
Hyenas in Petticoats: A Look at Twenty Years of Feminism
(Harrap, 1989).
Hardback. Good in yellowed dustwrapper. 250pp. Order No. NSBK-C8281
Keywords: 0245546189, feminism, feminists, history of ideas, political, political, women, women's history, twentieth century, 20th, women's rights, women's movements, journalism, motherhood, sexuality, gender
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Sutherland, John.
Mrs Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-eminent Edwardian
(OUP Clarendon, 1990).
A biography of Mary Ward: novelist; anti-suffragist; philanthropist; founder of Somerville College for women in Oxford; journalist during World War I. Hardback. Dustwrapper slightly faded and creased at spine, otherwise very good. ix + 432pp. Order No. NSBK-C6392
Keywords: 9780198185871, women writers, novels, novelists, literature, Victorian, Edwardian, Somerville College, Oxford, Oxford University, biography, biographies, Mary Ward, women journalists, journalism, anti-suffrage, philanthropy, women philanthropists
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