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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Butler, Josephine E.
Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2002 facsimile reprint of 1910 edition).
A well-presented facsimile of a hitherto scarce title. Paperback. New book, fine. 268pp. Order No. NSBK-C581
Keywords: 0954263219, Josephine E. Butler, education, social history, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, equality, gender roles, working women, women workers, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade, prostitution, prostitutes, State Regulation of Vice, Contagious Diseases Act, social purity, Liverpool, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical
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Abbs, Peter.
Autobiography in Education:
(Heinemann Educational Books, 1974).
Hardback. Ex library with traces of usual library stamps and stickers. viii + 182pp. Order No. NSBK-A13700
Keywords: 0435800116, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs, self history, self histories, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students
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Lambert, Sharon.
Irish Women in Lancashire, 1922-1960: their Story
(Centre for North West Regional Studies, 2001).
Paperback. New book, fine. xii + 129pp. Order No. NSBK-C4253
Keywords: 1862201102, Ireland, Irish, women, Irish women, history, Britain, British, England, English, immigration, immigrant, immigrants, emigration, emigrants, emigrant, Lancashire, oral history, social history, life stories, autobiography, autobiographies, Sharon Lambert, Dublin, Wigan, Preston, Lancaster, Liverpool, Lancaster University, Catholic, Catholics, Catholicism, female, national identity, family, families, North West, Centre for North West Regional Studies
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Pankhurst, Emmeline.
My Own Story:
(Vintage, 2015).
Paperback. Nice clean copy in very good condition. xiii + 327pp. Order No. NSBK-C15723
Keywords: 9781784870409, Emmeline Pankhurst, Pankhursts, suffrage, Rights for Women, Women's Movement, female emancipation, women's rights, women's history, woman's history, autobiography, autobiographies, life histories, life history, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, radicals, radicalism, Women's Social and Political Union, munition workers, militancy, votes, voting, Christabel, Sylvia, Adela, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, WSPU, woman suffrage
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Barlow, Amy.
Seventh Child: The Autobiography of a Headmistress
(Gerald Duckworth and Co, 1969).
Hardback. Good+ in slightly worn dustwrapper. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A12201
Keywords: 0715604287, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Amy Barlow, schoolmistress, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students
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Bamford, Samuel.
Passages in the Life of a Radical:
(OUP, 1984 rpt of 1884 text).
Preface by Tim Hilton. Paperback. Back cover slightly soiled, otherwise good. 368pp. Order No. NSBK-A814
Keywords: 0192814133, radical, Britain, British, England, English, history, radicals, radicalism, samule banford, autobiography, autobiographies, working class, working classes, hampden clubs, peterloo massacre, manchester, weavers, nineteenth century, 19th century
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Martineau, Harriet.
Harriet Martineau's Autobiography:
(Virago, 1983 rpt of Smith, Elder, 3rd edit., 1877).
Volume II. With an introduction by Gaby Weiner. Paperback. Light foxing to page edges, otherwise very good. xii + 510pp. Order No. NSBK-A620
Keywords: 086068430X, Harriet Martineau, autobiography, women writers, Unitarian, political economy, feminism, history, nineteenth century, woman, Victorian, autobiographies, Britain, British, England, English
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Addy, John, ed.
The Diary of Henry Prescott, LLB., Deputy Registrar of Chester Diocese: Volume 1, 28 March 1704 - 24 March 1711
(Alan Sutton Publishing, 1987, Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire).
Hardback. Very good in slightly torn, slightly faded dustwrapper. xxx + 303pp. Order No. NSBK-A10989
Keywords: 0902593161, diary, diaries, Henry Precott, lawyer, LLB, eighteenth century, 18th, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
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Cooper, Thomas.
The Life of Thomas Cooper:
(Leicester UP, 1971).
With an introduction by John Saville. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 400pp. Order No. NSBK-A8323
Keywords: 0718550161, Thomas Cooper, autobiography, autobiographical, autobiographies, lives, life histories, life history, memoir, working, man, Chartists, Chartism, nineteenth century, 19th, Leicester, Leicestershire, working class, working-class, classes, Victorian, political, politics, John Saville
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