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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Foreman, Ann.
Femininity as Alienation: Women and the Family in Marxism and Pyschoanalysis
(Pluto Press, 1977).
Paperback. Very good+. 168pp. Order No. NSBK-C11112
Keywords: 0904383628, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, family, families, Marxism, psychoanalysis, psychoanalytical, feminism, feminists, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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Lynch, Katherine A.
Family, Class and Ideology in Early Industrial France: Social Policy and the Working-Class Family, 1825 - 1848
(Wisconsin UP, 1988).
Paperback. Fine. xii + 272pp. Order No. NSBK-A5913
Keywords: 0299117944, social policy, family, families, social history, class, working class, working-class, working classes, France, French, Europe, Europeans, European, nineteenth century, industry, industrial, social policy, workers, demography, demographic, population, labour, labor
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Harris, C.C.
The Family: an Introduction
(G.A. & Unwin, 2nd impression, 1970).
Paperback. Covers soiled / browned and corners chipped, otherwise a good working copy. viii + 212pp. Order No. NSBK-A1313
Keywords: Britain, British, England, English, history, family, families, kinship, mobility, community, marriage, nuclear family, sociology
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Seccombe, Wally.
A Millennium of Family Change: Feudalism to Capitalism in Northwestern Europe
(Verso, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. vii + 343pp. Order No. NSBK-C11822
Keywords: 0860913325, family, families, feudalism, capitalism, capitalists, Europe, European, Northwestern, politics, political, economic, economy, economies
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Young, Robert, ed.
Memoirs of a Family: 1822 - 1944
(Oxford, 1983).
Paperback. Light soiling, otherwise very good. viii + 93pp. Order No. NSBK-A15567
Keywords: 9780950899107, pamphlet, family, families, memoirs, booklets, pamphlets, childhood, autobiography
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Tilly, Louise A.& Scott, Joan W.
Women, Work and Family:
(Routledge, rpt, 1989).
Paperback. Covers soiled, a little wear to corners, otherwise good. 274pp. Order No. NSBK-C1249
Keywords: 0415902622, women, work, family, families, history, Joan W. Scott, Louise A. Tilly, economy, wage economy, living wage, economic conditions, France, French, Britain, British, England, English, industrialisation, industrialization, pre-industrial, Industrial Revolution, work, industry, women and work
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Strachey, Barbara.
Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Family
(Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1980).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. 351pp. Order No. NSBK-C13649
Keywords: 0575028238, Pearsall Smith, Barbara Strachey, Edwardian, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, family, families, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history
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Elliot, Faith Robertson.
The Family: Change or Continuity:
(Macmillan Education, 1989).
Paperback. Spine faded, otherwise very good. xi + 235pp. Order No. NSBK-C9678
Keywords: 0333329708, family, families, women's studies, feminism, feminists, women, woman, women's movement, children, twentieth century, 20th, child, abortion, marriage, parenthood, parents
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Peterson, M. Jeanne.
Family, Love and Work in the Lives of Victorian Gentlewomen:
(Indiana UP, 1989).
Paperback. Spine browned, with a newspaper review pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good. xii + 241pp. Order No. NSBK-C4229
Keywords: 0253205093, family, love, work, Victorian, women, gentlewomen, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, middle class, middle classes, upper-middle-classes, class, private sphere, public sphere, separate spheres, leisure, leisured classes, home, domesticity, gender, wife, wives, M. Jeanne Peterson, marriage, marriages, wedlock
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