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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Mathias, Peter.
The First Industrial Nation: an Economic History of Britain, 1700-1914
(Routledge, 2nd edition, 1990).
Paperback. Front cover rather creased, otherwise good. xiv + 522pp. Order No. NSBK-A1036
Keywords: 041502756X, economic history, Britain, industrialisation, industry, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, twentieth century
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Public Schools Commission, .
Public Schools Commission: First Report. Vol I: Report
(HMSO, 1968).
Paperback. Ex lib with usual lib stamps, cvrs soiled. xviii + 237pp. Order No. NSBK-A3243
Keywords: 112700012, public school, schooling, education, Britain, British, history, teacher, pupil, boarding school, independent school, private education
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Fildes, Valerie; Marks, Lara and Marland, Hilary.
Women & Children First: International Maternal and Infant Welfare, 1870 - 1945
(Routledge, 1992).
The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Hardback. Very good in slightly loose, slightly yellowed good dustwrapper. xxiii + 311pp. Order No. NSBK-C15720
Keywords: 9780415080903, women, maternity, motherhood, infant welfare, children, international, child, mothers, history
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Allison, J. Murray.
Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War: Volume I: The First Twelve Months of the War
(John Lane, 1919).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, original cloth rather soiled / darkened, occasion soiling to pages, else good. xv + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A14991
Keywords: B000Q9R9A4, humour, comedy, comic, humorous, World War I, Great War, World War One, history, Western Front, trench warfare, cartoons, Raemaekers, art, artists
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Smith, Angela.
Discourses Surrounding British Widows of the First World War:
(Bloomsbury, 2013).
Hardback. Fine. x + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-C15573
Keywords: 9781780932019, widows, widowhood, history, Great War, women, World War I
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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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Fletcher, Sheila.
Women First: The Female Tradition in English Physical Education, 1880-1980
(The Athlone Press, 1984).
Paperback. Very good. 194pp. Order No. NSBK-C6593
Keywords: 0485120461, female tradition, England, English, Britain, British, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century, sports, sporting, physical, Sheila Fletcher, women's sports, teaching, PE, P.E., Bedford High Schools, children, childhood, Bedford Physical Training College, child, girlhood, girls
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Watkins, Micky.
Henrietta Barnett in Whitechapel: Her First Fifty Years
(Micky Watkins, 2005).
Paperback. Very good. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C15630
Keywords: 9780954979805, Henrietta Barnett, Octavia Hill, social history, housing, biography, slums, garden suburbs, garden cities
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Robinson, W. Sydney.
Muckraker: The Scandalous Life and Times of W. T. Stead. Britain's First Investigative Journalist
(The Robson Press, 2012).
With a foreword by Tristram Hunt. Hardback. Very good + in dw. xv + 281pp. Order No. NSBK-A15392
Keywords: 9781849542944. Muckraker, W. T. Stead, journalism, journalist, press, Victorian, nineteenth century, biography, biographical, self-history
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