Symes, Ruth A.
Family First: Tracing Relationships in the Past
(Pen and Sword, 2015).
Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents - these are the relationships that structure the family tree and fascinate the family historian. But how much do we really know about how our ancestors lived out these multiple roles? Buffeted this way and that by economic developments, legal changes, medical advances, Two World Wars, the rise of the Welfare State, women's emancipation and many other factors, relationships between members of our family in the past were subtly different to those of today and continually transforming. This book is both a social history of the period 1800-1950 and a practical guide on how to set about tracing and better understanding the relationships between members of your own family. What did it mean to be a father in this period, but also, how might you discover the father of an ancestor if his name is not mentioned on the birth certificate? What common ideas were held about the role of wives and mothers, but also, how were multiple births, stillbirths, abortions and infanticides dealt with in the records? What factors might have influenced the size of your ancestor's family, but also why were its children named as they were? Did pecking order in a family matter, but also, was it legal to marry a cousin, or the sister of a deceased wife? How long could people expect to live, but also what records can tell you more about the circumstances of your ancestors' last years? A final chapter considers relationships with neighbours, friends and club associates. Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C15530
Keywords: 9781473833883, family relationships, family trees, geneaology, geneaological, social history, ancestors, tracing ancestors, fathers, mothers, siblings, cousins, women, welfare state, infants, clubs, grandparents
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Renton, Alice.
Tyrant or Victim: a History of the British Governess
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A15062
Keywords: 0297811681, education, governess, governesses, teaching, women and work, history, teachers, women
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Hopkins, Ellice.
The Power of Womanhood: or Mothers and Sons. A Book for Parents and Those in Loco Parentis
(Wells, Gardner, Darton, 1900).
Hardback. Boards soiled, otherwise good. vi + 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C13668
Keywords: B000XIDAU6, womanhood, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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Salter, Elizabeth.
Edith Sitwell:
(Bloomsbury, rpt., 1988).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper, large format. 103pp. Order No. NSBK-C5422
Keywords: 1870630610, Edith Sitwell, women writers, woman writer, literature, novels, novelist, poets, poetry, poems, biography, biographies, life history, life histories, Osbert Sitwell, Sacheverell, Ultimate Good, Elizabeth Salter
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Tierney, Jane.
Tobo: One Woman's Escape
(Guild Publishing, 1985).
Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly torn dustwrapper. 156pp. Order No. NSBK-C6025
Keywords: B000HGFZJS, Jane Tierney, women's history, woman, Far East, Second World War, World War II, World War Two, World War 2, wars, warfare, twentieth century, Japanese, Japan, Singapore, Malaya, East Indies, Ceylon, Dutch Fifth Columnists, Gestapo, Australia, escape
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Crow, Duncan.
The Edwardian Woman:
(Book Club, rpt, 1978).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. 231pp. Order No. NSBK-C5018
Keywords: 0049421581, women, women's history, Edwardian, social history, Britain, British, England, English, suffrage, suffragettes, woman suffrage, Votes for Women, marriage, Edwardians
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Evans, Mary, ed.
The Woman Question:
(Sage, 2nd ed., 1994).
Paperback. Back cover and last few pages creased, otherwise good+. viii + 384pp. Order No. NSBK-C130
Keywords: 080398748X, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists
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Beiergrosslein, Katharina et al.
Die Reise der Frau Lotter aus Herrenberg nach America: in den Jahren 1786 bis 1787
(Verlag Regionalkultur, 2019).
German edition. Hardback. Very good+. 272pp. Order No. NSBK-C15740
Keywords: 9783955051327, Germany, history, 18th century, eighteenth century, German, Frau Lotter, women
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British Mother's Magazine, .
British Mother's Magazine: January 1950-January 1951
(T. Constable, Edinburgh, 1951).
Hardback. Spine ends chipped, marbled boards, pages browned, otherwise good+. pp. Order No. NSBK-C10710
Keywords: B000HBZRZA, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, mothers, motherhood, maternal, maternity, children, childhood, Victorian, women, women's studies, women's history
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Strong, Patience.
The Harvest of a Quiet Eye:
(Frederick Muller, 1969).
Photographs by Ronald Goodearl. Drawings by Barry Gurbutt. Hardback. Good+ in soiled and edgeworn dustwrapper. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A13497
Keywords: 0584107595, Patience Strong, The Garvest of a Quiet Eye, poets, poetry, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, literature, fiction, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th
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