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
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Wood, Ethel M.
The Pilgrimage of Perseverance:
(Nat. Counc. Soc. Services, 1949).
Hardback. Boards slightly marked, otherwise good in soiled, torn / repaired dustwrapper. x + 90pp. Order No. NSBK-C2324
Keywords: B0007IV4QE, social services, civil service, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, philanthropy
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Brown, Sally.
Diary of a People's Marcher: Account of the People's March Against the Poll Tax
(Anteus Graphics, 1991).
Paperback. Good+. 115pp. Order No. NSBK-A15559
Keywords: 9781873621004, Thatcherism, Poll Tax, 1991, Tory Britain, protest, radicalism, 1990s, Tyneside, people's marches, anti-poll tax, women
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Mulryne, Ronnie and Shewring, Margaret.
This Golden Round: The Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan
(Mulryne and Shewring in assoc with Jolly, 1989).
Paperback. Cover creased, otherwise good. 179pp. Order No. NSBK-D13248
Keywords: 094830806X, theatres, stage, plays, drama, literature, literary, actors, actresses, playwrights, writers, dramatic, theatrical, The Royal Shakespeare Company
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Hause, Steven C.
Hubertine Auclert: The French Suffragette
(Yale University Press, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 268pp. Order No. NSBK-C7515
Keywords: 0300038453, France, French, Europe, Europeans, history, women, women's history, women's movement, women's rights, rights for women, Women's suffrage, politics, political, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, 20th, twentieth, Edwardian, Hubertine Auclert, feminism, feminists, Paris, Parisian, suffragettes, votes for women, biography, biographical, biographies, life histories, lives, life history, enfranchisement, woman suffrage
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Kramer, Ann.
Land Girls and their Impact:
(Remember When, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2008).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xxiii + 183pp. Order No. NSBK-C14607
Keywords: 1844680290, Ann Kramer, land girls, landgirls, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Second World War, World War II, Two, women and work, working women, Lady Gertrude Denman, Women's Timber Corps, WVS, Women's Voluntary Service, employment, jobs, pay, oral history, courting, courtship, Women's Land Army, Women's Forestry Corps, women's history
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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(W. Collins, 1st edition, 1918).
Rare first edition copy of this ground-breaking work. For the collector. 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. Clementina Black 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'. Hardback. Original cloth covered in small dark and white blotches, corners worn and spine split, text firm. A good working copy only. 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C4960
Keywords: 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, stored with antiquarian
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Richardson, Joanna.
Stendhal: A Biography
(Victor Gollancz, 1974).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, sellotape marks to boards, otherwise good in bright dustwrapper. 344pp. Order No. NSBK-A11846
Keywords: 0575018704, Stendhal, France, French, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors, nineteenth century, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, Marie-Henri Beyle, French Romantic Movement, Romanticism, French Consular Service
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Hunter, Anne E, ed.
On Peace, War and Gender: A Challenge to Genetic Explanations
(Feminist Press, 1991).
Genes and Gender VI. Paperback. Spine sun-faded, otherwise very good. xiv + 176pp. Order No. NSBK-C15788
Keywords: 9781558610255, genetics, war, gender, women, aggression, pacifism
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Clarke, Isabel C.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: a Portrait
(Hutchinson, new edition, 1935).
Hardback. Good+ in worn / chipped dustwrapper. 287pp. Order No. NSBK-C2135
Keywords: 0804608121, woman poet, women's poetry, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, poets, women
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