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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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
Price £10.99.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
THIS BOOK IS IN YOUR BASKET (Remove it)
|
Floud, Roderick.
An Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Historians:
(Methuen, 2nd edit., rpt, 1983).
Paperback. A little waviness to spine area, otherwise good condition. ix + 237pp. Order No. NSBK-A743
Keywords: 0416716709, quantitative, statistics, historical method, methodology, data, theory
Price £6.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Floud, Roderick.
An Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Historians:
(Methuen, 1973).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers in slightly faded, slightly torn dustwrapper. ix + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A9279
Keywords: 0416125506, quantitative, statistics, historical method, methodology, data, theory
Price £7.50.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
THIS BOOK IS IN YOUR BASKET (Remove it)
|
Spongberg, Mary; Caine, Barbara; Curthoys, Ann, eds.
Companion to Women's Historical Writing:
(Palgrave, 2005).
Hardback. Light soiling to page edges, otherwise very good. xvii + 712pp. Order No. NSBK-C15675
Keywords: 9781403915085, women historians, women writers, resources, history
Price £34.95.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Creighton, Louise.
Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton:
(Longmans, Green, 1913).
Hardback. Some white blotching to cloth, corners worn, otherwise good. xii + 534pp. Order No. NSBK-A5558
Keywords: B00087RYFO, lives, letters, biography, biographies, correspondence, Victorian, nineteenth century, history, historians, historian, Mandell Creighton, Louise Creighton, the Creightons, Britain, British, England, English, English Historical Review, bishops, bishop, religion, religious, clerical, Embleton, Oxford, rural deans, Worcester Canonry, Cambridge
Price £5.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Creighton, Mandell.
Historical Essays and Reviews:
(Longmans, Green, 1902).
Edited by Louise Creighton. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, and a large library sticker (partly peeled off) on front board, cloth worn, a good working copy. 356pp. Order No. NSBK-C5553
Keywords: Louise Creighton, Mandell Creighton, Victorian, historians, nineteenth century, Edwardian, Britain, British, England, English, Renaissance, Creightons
Price £8.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Field, Jean.
Mary Dormer Harris: The Life and Works of a Warwickshire Historian
(Brewin Books, 2002).
Special Hardback edition of 250 copies signed by the author. Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xii + 180pp. Order No. NSBK-C7148
Keywords: 1858581990, Mary Dormer Harris, history, historians, Jean Field, Warwickshire, Warwick, suffragists, women's rights, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, women writers, women's writing, women's history, suffragettes, suffrage movement, 19th, 20th, Edwardian, biography, biographical, biographies, life histories, life history, lives
Price £11.99.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Clive, John.
Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History
(Collins Harvill, 1990).
Paperback. Near fine. xiv + 334pp. Order No. NSBK-A10012
Keywords: 0002720604, essays, history, reading, writing, Macaulay, Gibbon, Carlyle, Victorians, Michelet, De Tocqueville, Trevelyan, historiography, historians, nineteenth, twentieth, century, 19th, 20th
Price £3.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Hyde, H. Montgomery.
A Victorian Historian: Private Letters Of W.E.H. Lecky, 1859 - 1878
(Home and Van Thal, 1947).
Hardback. Some soiling to red binding, otherwise good. 90pp. Order No. NSBK-A14878
Keywords: B000H3S1RO, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, letters, W. E. H. Lecky, historians
Price £11.99.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Bonnard, Georges A.
Edward Gibbon: Memoirs of My Life
(Nelson, 1966).
Hardback. Good+ in edgeworn dustwrapper. xxxv + 346pp. Order No. NSBK-A12544
Keywords: B000IMLF2M, Edward Gibbon, historians, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history , Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, memoirs, eighteenth century, 18th
Price £25.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
THIS BOOK IS IN YOUR BASKET (Remove it)
|
|
|
