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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Ereira, Alan.
The People's England:
(RKP, 1981).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. Newspaper review pasted to inner board. xviii + 285pp. Order No. NSBK-A11832
Keywords: 0710005962, social history, Alan Ereira, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, miners, factory, factories, factory system, shopkeepers, servants, working classes, workers
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Wilbur, Sibyl.
The Life of Mary Baker Eddy:
(The Christian Science Publishing Company, 1941).
Hardback. A very good copy, brown boards with gilt lettering, in torn and worn dustwrapper. xvi + 406pp. Order No. NSBK-C10298
Keywords: B0000E7O0W, Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, American, America, women, woman, women's history, religion, religious, Christians, Christianity, biography, biographical, biographies, lives, life history, life histories
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Central Office of Information, .
Women in Britain:
(H.M.S.O, 1991).
Paperback. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise good+. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-C10095
Keywords: 0117016322, women in Britain, sport, education, employment, health, social welfare, legal, laws, criminal justice, culture, media
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Goodman, Dave.
How the Old Age Pension was Won: the Forgotten Story. No Thanks to Lloyd George
(Third Age Press, 2nd edition, 1998).
Paperback. Very good. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-A14082
Keywords: 1898576122, old age pension, pensions, history, Lloyd George, social security, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, National Insurance, politics, Labour movement, popular politics, aged, old, retirement
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Bell, E. Moberly.
Josephine Butler: Flame of Fire
(Constable, 1962).
Hardback. A little soiling to cloth and rubbing to edges, otherwise a good copy. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-C187
Keywords: B0000CLMAE, social reform, prostitution, women's history, Josephine Butler, social purity, Contagious Diseases Act, Victorian, nineteenth century, Ladies' National Association, Liverpool, Winchester, Henry Wilson, J.B. Stansfeld, W.T. Stead
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Riding, Jacqueline.
Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre
(Head of Zeus, 2018).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to title pages, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. 386pp. Order No. NSBK-A15731
Keywords: 9781786695840, Peterloo, Peterloo Massacre, social history, protest, Manchester
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Murphy, Mary.
Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914 - 41
(Illinois Press, 1997).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, spine creased, otherwise good+. xviii + 279pp. Order No. NSBK-A14207
Keywords: 0252065697, Butte, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, leisure, mining, consumerism, twentieth century, social history, consumer culture, copper mines, Montana
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Proud, E. Dorothea.
Welfare Work: Employers' Experiments for Improving Working Conditions in Factories
(G. Bell, 3rd edition, 1918).
Foreword by David Lloyd-George. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers. some wear to edges, otherwise good. xx + 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C6760
Keywords: B000856JQQ, welfare, Great War, First World War, World War I, workers, working, factory system, factories, working conditions, women and work, working women, David Lloyd-George, social experiments, history, Catherine Helen Spence, E. Dorothea Proud, pay, wages, economic, economy, industry, industrial, twentieth century, antiquarian, factory legislation, factory labour, factory girls, labor
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Department of Education, Strathclyde Regional Council.
Scottish Women and the Vote: Sources for the History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in Scotland
(Strathclyde Regional Council).
Ringbound A4-size folder. A very useful collection of printed source material on the history of the women's suffrage movement in Scotland, with an emphasis on Glasgow and the West of Scotland. Ringbound folder. Very good. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C15728
Keywords: Scottish women, Scotland, sources, Votes for Women, suffragettes, suffrage, suffragette, social history, Scots, politics, Leah Leneman, West of Scotland, Western Scotland, Glasgow, WSPU, stored in antiquarian
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