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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Becke, A. F.
History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions: The Regular British Divisions Part 1
(Sherwood Press, 1990).
Based on Official Documents. The Regular British Divisions Part 1. By Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, a little curling to edges, covers soiled, internally good. ix + 130pp. Order No. NSBK-A14883
Keywords: 0948983019, First World War, World War I, history, battles, army, divisions, British, fighting, Western Front, order of battle
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Wilson, Neil.
Great Sea Disasters:
(Parragon, 1998).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A11654
Keywords: sea, ocean, maritime, history, seas
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Robbins, Keith.
The Eclipse of a Great Power: Modern Britain, 1870-1975
(Longman, 1983).
Paperback. Very good. xi + 408pp. Order No. NSBK-A9399
Keywords: 0582489725, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth, twentieth, 19th, 20th, century, EEC, United Kingdom, Empire, imperialism, Commonwealth, democracy, economy, economics, European, Europe
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Martin, Christopher, ed.
The Great Christian Centuries to Come: Essays in Honour of A. M. Ramsey
(Mowbray's, 1974).
Hardback. A good+ copy in a torn dustwrapper. 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A10217
Keywords: 026466051X, religion, faith, Christians, Christianity, religious, faith, belief, Archbishop, Vatican
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Atkinson, Diane.
Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front
(Preface Publishing, 2009).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly soiled, slightly creased dustwrapper. 280pp. Order No. NSBK-C15563
Keywords: 9781848091337, Great War, First World War, social history, women, nursing, ambulances, motorcycles, biography, nurses, medicine
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Smith, Angela K. , ed.
Women's Writing of the First World War: An Anthology
(Manchester UP, 2000).
Paperback. Fine. xi + 340pp. Order No. NSBK-C3679
Keywords: 9780719050732, women, women's writing, literature, First World War, Great War, World War I, history, British, Britain, Sylvia Pankhurst, Virginia Woolf, Vesta Tilley, diary, letter
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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004 facsimile of 1918 text).
Clementina Black (1854 - 1922) was a campaigner committed to improving the plight of working women. In this work of 1918, she urges a reorganisation of household duties, in order to free women from domestic drudgery. In her utopian vision of 'co-operative housekeeping', women would be released from the wasted effort of housework and made available for the labour market, which was now so very depleted of men after the Great War. She criticises the 'stupidity' of 'labour-making houses', and questions the continuing validity of the employment of domestic servants in the modern age. Her solution is to propose the formation of 'domestic federations'. These would represent committees of householders who would collectively manage their domestic arrangements in a centre 'fitted up with store places, kitchens, dining-rooms, offices, and lodgings for a nucleus of resident servants'. Examples of material included: women employed in housekeeping; changes in domestic standards; why not be servantless?; the distaste for domestic service; labour-making houses; domestic federations; reconstructed domestic service; the motor as emancipator; waste of labour; women who do domestic work without aptitude or satisfaction; service of women needed by the country. Paperback. New book, fine. x + 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C7548
Keywords: 0954476123, Great War, First World War, World War I, social history, class, middle classes, middle class, domesticity, servants, domestic servants, maid, maids, housemaids, housekeeping, Clementina Black, labour-making houses, homes, houses, domestic service, twentieth century, interwar, inter-war, inter war, Homes for Heroes, housing, domestic standards, etiquette, women, domestic work, labour, working women, women's history, chores, co-operative housekeeping, domestic federations, cooperative housekeeping, co-operatives, co-operation, cooperation, Women's Industrial Council, labour-saving, labour market, labor, labour shortage, housework, utopianism, utopian, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Portrayer reprints, Portrayer facsimiles, new titles
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Allison, J. Murray.
Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War: Volume I: The First Twelve Months of the War
(John Lane, 1919).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, original cloth rather soiled / darkened, occasion soiling to pages, else good. xv + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A14991
Keywords: B000Q9R9A4, humour, comedy, comic, humorous, World War I, Great War, World War One, history, Western Front, trench warfare, cartoons, Raemaekers, art, artists
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Proud, E. Dorothea.
Welfare Work: Employers' Experiments for Improving Working Conditions in Factories
(G. Bell, 3rd edition, 1918).
Foreword by David Lloyd-George. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers. some wear to edges, otherwise good. xx + 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C6760
Keywords: B000856JQQ, welfare, Great War, First World War, World War I, workers, working, factory system, factories, working conditions, women and work, working women, David Lloyd-George, social experiments, history, Catherine Helen Spence, E. Dorothea Proud, pay, wages, economic, economy, industry, industrial, twentieth century, antiquarian, factory legislation, factory labour, factory girls, labor
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