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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Anon, .
The First Casualty: The German Underground Hospital and Jersey's Occupation Experience
(High Level Associates Ltd, 1991).
Paperback. Good. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-A5892
Keywords: B0000EF19I, German, Germany, Jersey, occupation, wars, warfare, World War II, World War Two, Second World War, twentieth century, military, Nazis, Nazism, Channel Islands, history, European, Europe, history, hospitals, medicine, medical, Underground Hospital, jews, jewish, Spanish, refufees, Russians, Gestapo, Anti-Semitism, antisemites, islands, resistance, Britain, British
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Agricultural Economists, .
Proceedings of the First International Conference of Agricultural Economists: Held at Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon, England, August 26 to September 6 1929
(The Collegiate Press, 1929).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good. xi + 353pp. Order No. NSBK-A11312
Keywords: B000HBZTT4, agricultural, agriculturalists, agrarian, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, international, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon, farms, farming, agricultural economics, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States,
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White, Kevin.
The First Sexual Revolution: The Emergence of Male HeteroSexuality in Modern America
(New York UP, 1993).
Paperback. Fine. xii + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-A13136
Keywords: 0814792588, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, sexuality, homosexuality, gay history, New Man, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, twentieth century, masculinity, men, male
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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.
The Man-Made World: or, Our Androcentric Culture
(T. Fisher Unwin, first UK edition, 1911).
Small green splash to front inner board. Overall good+, a solid copy for the collector. Hardback. Original dark green cloth with gilt lettering. Boards a little scratched, & with light blotching. Corners worn & top spine end slightly split. Else good+. 269pp. Order No. NSBK-A13725
Keywords: B00085ZQRE, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, women writers, man-made world, men, masculinity, feminism, ethics, humanity, economics, education, women's emancipation, history, twentieth century, UK 1st editions, first editions
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Chesterton, Gilbert.
Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen Rhymes and Sketches
(R. Brimley Johnson, 1st edition, 1900).
A good working copy. Hardback. External condition poor. Boards soiled, scuffed and worn at edges. Annotation to title page, & fly leaf. Internally shaky, with scattered pencil scribblings & minor soiling. 102pp. Order No. NSBK-Z15451
Keywords: B0017IWDD6, first editions, 1st editions, G. K. Chesterton, literature, poetry
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Mort, Frank.
Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics in England since 1830
(RKP, 1987).
Paperback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, covers browned, otherwise a good copy. ix + 280pp. Order No. NSBK-A9632
Keywords: 0710208561, sexuality, sexualities, medico-moral, medicine, science, England, English, history, Britain, British, disease, STD, health, AIDS, twentieth century, nineteenth, 20th, 19th, Victorian, moral purity, sanitary, legislation, laws, medical
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Liddle, Peter.
Testimony of War, 1914-18:
(Michael Russell, 1979).
Hardback. Large format, very good in slightly rubbed dustwrapper. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A2490
Keywords: 0859550737, history, First World War, World War II, war, Great War, twentieth century
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Brittain, Vera.
Born 1925: A Novel of Youth
(Virago, 1982).
Paperback. Good. 379pp. Order No. NSBK-C5942
Keywords: 0860682706, Vera Brittain, Adrian Cadbury, wars, warfare, Europe, European, Nazi Germany, German, pacifism, First World War, World War I. World War One, Great War, novels, novelists, women writers, woman writer, women's history, twentieth century, literature, literary, fiction, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Royal College of Nursing, Molly Case.
Album: It May Be for Sometime, it May be Forever
(RCN, 2017).
Poetry anthology inspired by ten nurses who kept scrapbooks during World War I. Paperback. Very good. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-C15688
Keywords: Molly Case, Royal College of Nursing, World War I, First World War, nursing, medicine, nurses, women and work, history, booklets
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