Symes, Ruth A.
It Runs in the Family:
(The History Press, 2013).
In the quest to uncover our family history, we turn to written records, the family album and even heirlooms. However, they can often be difficult to interpret and sometimes pose more questions than they answer: Why didn't my ancestors smile for the camera? Why did great-grandfather wear a beard while his sons were clean-shaven? Why is my great-grandmother holding flowers in this photograph? Drawing on evidence from social history, women's history, and the histories of photography, art and fashion, and using examples from the lowly as well as the famous, Ruth Symes explores many aspects of ordinary life in the past - from the state of the nation's teeth, to the legal and economic connotations of wearing a wedding ring and even the business of keeping a dog. This fascinating volume aims to help family historians get to know their elusive ancestors by deciphering the wealth of personal and historical clues contained in photographs, documents and artefacts. Paperback. New book, fine. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-D15428
Keywords: 9780752497020, family history, family, families, Ruth Symes, genealogy, geneaolgical, social history, evidence, sources, research, women, old photographs, photography
Price £13.99.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
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
Price £6.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
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
Price £12.50.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Westwood, Sallie.
All Day Every Day: Factory and Family in the Making of Women's Lives
(Pluto Press, 1984).
Paperback. Cover soiled and bent, otherwise good. viii + 259pp. Order No. NSBK-C12713
Keywords: 0861047605, ethnicity, work, labour, factory, factories, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's work, women and work, family, children, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, feminism, feminists, shopfloor, Asians, Indians, hosiery, Needletown
Price £5.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Arlott, John.
Island Camera: The Isles of Scilly in the photography of the Gibson Family
(David and Charles, 1972).
Written in collaboration with Rex Cowan and Frank Gibson. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Hardback. Boards and fly leaf slightly soiled, otherwise good + in torn dustwrapper. 110pp. Order No. NSBK-A10434
Keywords: 0715357743, Isles of Scilly, Gibson family, families, islands, photos, photography, photographs, Scillonians, ships, shipping, coasts, coastal, sea birds, Victorian, twentieth century, Edwardian, nineteenth century, 19th
Price £3.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
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
Price £3.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Anderson, Christopher.
The Domestic Constitution or the Family Circle: the Source and Test of National Stability
(W.P. Kennedy, Edinburgh, new & improved edition, 1847).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, embossed cloth rubbed / slightly marked, a little splitting top spine end & internally at spine, otherwise good, tight. xviii + 464pp. Order No. NSBK-A5355
Keywords: B000W6Q560, domestic, domesticity, contemporary comment, history, Britain, British, England, English, family, families, nineteenth century, domestic constitution, national stability, nation, nationhood, parenthood, civilisation, parents, instruction, advice books, moral, moral constitution, mores, morality, obedience, domestic education, domestic government, obligation, right, duties, duty, responsibility, responsibilities, domestic circles, reason, rational, religion, religious, educating children, antiquarian
Price £12.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Lewis, Charlie and O'Brien, Margaret, eds.
Reassessing Fatherhood: New Observations on Fathers and the Modern Family
(Sage, 1987).
Paperback. With newspaper reviews pasted to front and back endpapers, otherwise good. v + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-A14211
Keywords: 9780803980204, family, families, masculinity, fatherhood, fathers, men, parents, parenthood, sociology, Britain, Australia, Scandinavia, North America
Price £10.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Meriam, Adele Stuart.
The Stepfather in the Family:
(Chicago UP, 1940).
A Social Service Monograph of the University of Chicago. The approach is both sociological and legalistic. Meriam looks at judicial decisions and "sets out the logic and arguments on which those decisions have been based.She brings out clearly the strange dilemma created because of the position of the courts in accordance with the principle that by marriage the stepfather undertakes no obligations to the children of an earlier marriage, as over and against the logic of the older view that when he married a woman a husband took his wife with all of her liabilities." The problem of the stepfather; the stepfather as a stranger; the in loco parentis relationship; liability to support; right of stepfather to his stepchild's earnings; inheritance; right to punish; etc. Paperback. Ex library, covers yellowed, otherwise good+. x + 158pp. Order No. NSBK-A2346
Keywords: B000HBYPWQ, stepfather, step-parent, fatherhood, parenting, law, legal, America, American, American history, USA, United States, family
Price £9.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Austin, Frances, ed.
The Clift Family Correspondence, 1792-1846:
(Centre for English Cultural Tradition, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. xv + 265pp. Order No. NSBK-A13814
Keywords: 0907426034, Clift family, letters, correspondence, epistles, epistolary, Cornwall, miller, eighteenth century, 18th
Price £8.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
|
|
