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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Kaye, Michael.
Child Welfare Outside the School:
(Oliver and Boyd, 1937).
Hardback. Some brown soiling to cloth and rubbing to edges, otherwise good. viii + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-A13584
Keywords: B00112B870, inter-war, inter war, child welfare, social welfare, home, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, housing, family, poverty, social history, health, employment, unemployment, leisure, delinquency, slums, slum, fitness, children
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Barker, A.J.
Redcoats:
(Gordon & Cremonesi, 1976).
Hardback. Page edges slightly foxed, otherwise very good in torn dustwrapper. 156pp. Order No. NSBK-A4113
Keywords: 0860330079, America, American, Redcoats, military history, social history, eighteenth century
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NUWSS Supporters' Badge, Suffragist Suffragette.
Enamel Reproduction NUWSS Suffragist Suffragette Stick-Pin Badge / Brooch:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2018).
NUWSS Supporters' Badge. Enamel Reproduction NUWSS Suffragette Stick-Pin Badge / Brooch, a Faithful Replica of the Original By Portrayer Publishers. High-quality modern reproduction enamel badge, brand new. Size: Badge circle diameter: 22mm. Length - badge and stick pin together -55mm. This badge is a replica of an original of the period, an enamel badge issued by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, NUWSS, displaying the organisation's official colours of red, white and green. The text reads: National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies Constitutional Non Party. Attaches to clothes safely by the stick-pin, the bottom of which - the bell cap - pushes on firmly. The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, NUWSS, also known as the Suffragists, was an organisation of women's suffrage societies in the United Kingdom. The organisation was democratic, and devoted itself to achieving women's suffrage - the Vote for Women - through peaceful and legal means. The badge / brooch comes with a free attractive purple velvet gift pouch. Presented within a lovely gift bag which is clear at the front and shiny silver at the rear. Brand new, excellent condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15560
Keywords: Christmas gifts, jewellery, jewelry, woman suffrage, button badge, pin back, badges, pinback, suffragette era, pins, suffragettes, suffragist activity, suffragists, women, women's history, woman, history, social history, Britain, British history, England, English history, NUWSS, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, enamel badges, suffragette jewellery, suffragette jewelry, brooch, brooches, women's movement, Portrayer Publishers, suffragette ephemera, replica, reproduction
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Mason, Michael.
The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes:
(Oxford UP, 1994).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+ in slightly dull dustwrapper. xi + 256pp. Order No. NSBK-C8975
Keywords: 0198122926, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, sexuality, masculinity, femininity, sex, gender, morals, moralism, social history, sexual ideology, women, men, free love, evangelicalism, chastity, free thought, Malthus, Malthusian, prostitutes, prostitution, birth control, contraception, Annie Besant, Charles Bradlaugh, celibacy, marriage, Britain, British, England, English
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Stewart, Angus, ed.
Contemporary Britain:
(RKP, 1983).
Paperback. Spine creased, covers edge worn, otherwise good. ix + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-A11311
Keywords: 071009406X, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, social welfare, twentieth century, 20th, politics, political, social, race relations, middle class
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Field, Jean.
Whitnash:
(Tempus Publishing, 2005).
Images of England Series. Paperback. Fine. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-C9028
Keywords: 0752435124, Royal Leamington Spa, Whitnash, village, villages, images, image, photographs, photograph, history, social history, cottages, cottage, English, British, Britain, England, rural, agriculture, agricultural, pictures
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Simmons, Jack.
Life in Victorian Leicester:
(Leicester Museums, 1971).
Paperback. Good. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-A14236
Keywords: B001QXYCK4, Leicester, Leicestershire, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, 19th century, nineteenth century, local history, towns, urban, Midlands, social history
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Trustram, Myna.
Women of the Regiment: Marriage and the Victorian Army
(CUP, 1984).
Hardback. Very good in slightly browned and torn dustwrapper. ix + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-C4189
Keywords: 9780521262941, regiments, regiment, army, armies, women, nineteenth century, Victorian, war, marriage, marital relations, family, military, sexuality, soldiers, soldier, wives, wife, social history, Britain, British, England, English, Myna Trustram
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Walton, John K. and Walvin, James.
Leisure in Britain, 1780 - 1939:
(MUP, 1983).
Paperback. Ex library, spine creased, usual library markings, otherwise good. vi + 241pp. Order No. NSBK-A13843
Keywords: 071901946X, leisure, entertainment, social history, recreation, Victorian, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, twentieth century, England, English, Britain, British, hobbies, working class, working classes, middle class, middle classes, class, John Walton, Jim Walvin, James Walvin, Walton, Leisure in Britain
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