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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Cleland, John.
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure: Fanny Hill
(Mayflower Paperback, rpt, 1970).
Unexpurgated. Paperback. Spine creased, pages browned, otherwise good. 222pp. Order No. NSBK-C1403
Keywords: 0583116833, memoir, women's history, novel, literature, women's history, sexuality, eighteenth century
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Hammond, J. L and Hammond, Barbara.
Lord Shaftesbury:
(Constable and Co, 1923).
In the series Makers of the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Basil Williams. Hardback. Cloth faded/worn/marked, otherwise a good working copy. `x + 313pp. Order No. NSBK-A6007
Keywords: B0006AJFC8, Lord Shaftesbury, politics, Victorian, nineteenth century, biographies, biographical, biography, men, life histories, life history, lunacy, mental health, philanthropy, Peel, mines, mine reform, mining, factories, industry, industrialisation, Ten Hours Bill, public health, Anton Ashley Cooper, Ashley, Earl of Shaftesbury
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Matthews, Mike.
Alf Cobb: Mugsborough Rebel. The Struggle for Justice in Edwardian Hastings
(Hastings Press, rpt, 2003).
Paperback. Fine. 143pp. Order No. NSBK-A6675
Keywords: 190410911X, Hastings, history, social history, Sussex, Britain, British, England, English, Alf Cobb, Robert Tressell, Social Democratic Federation, socialist, socialists, socialism, mob orators, rebels, Mugsborough, working class, working classes, political rebels, radicalism, Edwardian, twentieth century, labour movement, politics, local politics, local government, oratory, local councils, local corporations, local councillors
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Rabb, Theodore K and Rotberg, Robert I.
The Family in History: Interdisciplinary Essays
(Harper Torchbooks, 1973).
Paperback. Covers soiled and slightly torn, otherwise a good working copy. vii + 235pp. Order No. NSBK-C9490
Keywords: 0061317578, family, families, history, social history, men, women, children, domesticity, women, women's history
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Jamieson, Lynn, and Corr, Helen ed.
State, Private Life and Political Change:
(Macmillan, 1990).
Paperback. Near fine. xi + 247pp. Order No. NSBK-A9339
Keywords: 0333493699, twentieth century, politics, state, Britain, British, England, English, history, welfare state, masculinity, sexuality, nineteenth
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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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Livingstone, W.P.
Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
(Hodder & Stoughton, Popular edition, 34th edition, 1931).
With illustrations. Scottish factory girl, 1848-1915, and her missionary work in the tropics. Hardback. Rubbing to corners and spine ends, splitting to tops spine edge (3 inches), a little spotting to boards, otherwise good/firm. x + 352pp. Order No. NSBK-C370
Keywords: B000855ZWA, tropics, Mary Slessor, Slessor, missionary, Scotland, pioneer, women travellers, woman traveller, women travelers, women traveler, missionaries
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Pillai, Vijayan K. and Shannon Lyle W., eds.
Developing Areas: A Book of Readings and Research
(Berg, 1995).
Paperback. Fine. xi + 552pp. Order No. NSBK-A7030
Keywords: 1859730027, politics, political, development, developmental, economic, economy, economics, twentieth century, 20th, AIDs, Central American, North America, United States, Third World, Fourth World, colonialism, colonialists, colonies, colony, social, ecosystems
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Renton, Andrew.
Maria Chevska:
(Anderson O'Day Gallery, 1990).
Published in a limited edition of 500 to coincide with an exhibition at Anderson O'Day Gallery, 18 October - 17 November 1990. Illustrated. White and stored with art catalogues. Catalogue. Very good paperback in red card covers protected by a soiled white dustwrapper. 30pp. Order No. NSBK-F7669
Keywords: B00379DEUE, Maria Chevska, art, artists, twentieth century, catalogues, Anderson O'Day Gallery, London, paintings, women painters, White and stored with art catalogues in rare book stack
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