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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Iacovetta, Franca and Valverde, Mariana, eds.
Gender Conflicts:
(Toronto UP, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. xxvii + 303pp. Order No. NSBK-C9855
Keywords: 9780802067739, gender, women, men, American, America, USA, United States, Women's Political League, Toronto, Jewish, Jews, Canada, Canadian, ethnicity, ethnic, racism, race, twentieth century, 20th
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Phillips, Catherine Coffin.
Jessie Benton Fremont:
(Nebraska UP, 1995 rpt of 1935 edit.).
Wife of John C. Fremont. Washington presidential circles in the late nineteenth century. Intro. by Christine Bold. Paperback. Very good. xvii + 361pp. Order No. NSBK-C1630
Keywords: 0803287402, Jessie Benton Fremont, Fremont, Jessie Fremont, John C. Fremont, John Fremont, Washington, United States, USA, America, American, American women, American women's history, biography, nineteenth century
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Henny, E. and Byett, J. D.
Modern Home Laundrywork:
(J.M. Dent and Sons, rpt., 1948).
Illustrated with photographs and drawings of different types of laundry equipment, methods of folding items of clothing etc. Hardback. Good. x + 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A10644
Keywords: women, women's history, homes, Britain, British, homekeeping, housekeeping, housewifery, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, laundry, washing, stains, cotton, linen, fabrics, cleaning, rayon, nylon, family wash, domestic, domesticity, laundrywork, reagents, equipment, water, soap, women's work, textiles, housewife, housewives, clothes, clothing
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Leadbeater, Eliza.
Handspinning:
(Studio Vista, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-C9765
Keywords: 0289705983, handspinning, spinning, spinning wheels, industry, women's work, woman, history, women's history, women and work, domestic industry
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Radner, Hilary.
Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure
(Routledge, 1995).
Paperback. With very minor pencil annotation not affecting legibility, otherwise very good. xiv + 216pp. Order No. NSBK-C12426
Keywords: 0415905400, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, pleasure, shopping, consumption, feminism, feminists
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Collins, Judith.
Winifred Nicholson:
(Tate Gallery, 1987).
Scarce. Published for the exhibition of 3 June - 2 August 1987. Illustrated throughout. A very fine representation of the works of this much esteemed and revered British female artist. 36 colour illustrations; 69 black and white illustrations. Card covers. White card covers a little yellowed with age, and lightly soiled, otherwise good+. Plates in colour & black & white in 117pp. Order No. NSBK-F4104
Keywords: 9780946590643, Winifred Nicholson, art, paintings, exhibition catalogues, catalogue, women artists, arts, Cornwall, nicholson, nicholsons, winifred, catalog, catalogs, exhibition, exhibitions, exhibit, exhibits, st ives, watercolours, modern, contemporary, impressionism, impressionist, impressionists, impressionistic, painting, paintings, painter, painters, paint, art, artist, artists, drawing, drawings, sketches, sketch, sketching, illustrations, illustration, woman, women, female, ben, william, flower tales, unknown colour, rare, scarce, tate, gallery, galleries, 1987, sketchings, The Tate, Nicholsons, Nicholson family
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Cleland, John.
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure: Fanny Hill
(Mayflower Paperback, rpt, 1970).
Unexpurgated. Paperback. Spine creased, pages browned, otherwise good. 222pp. Order No. NSBK-C1403
Keywords: 0583116833, memoir, women's history, novel, literature, women's history, sexuality, eighteenth century
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Clay, Trevor.
Nurses: Power and Politics
(Heinemann Nursing, rpt., 1987).
In association with Alison Dunn and Neil Stewart. Foreword by Virginia Henderson. Paperback. Spine sun faded, otherwise very good. vii + 165pp. Order No. NSBK-C6638
Keywords: 0433060050, nurses, nursing, medicine, health, medical, hospitals, Health Service, NHS, National Health Service, patients, students, women's work, women and work, Britain, British, England, English
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Wardlaw, C. W.
A Quiet Talent: Jessie Wardlaw, 1903 - 1971. A Brief Biographical Note on her Artistic Accomplishments
(Manchester, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in soiled, faded and slightly chipped dustwrapper. vii + 28pp. Order No. NSBK-C6565
Keywords: 0950215600, Jessie Wardlaw, women, twentieth century, women artists, art, artistic, paintings, English, British, Britain, Britain, Trinidad, Belgian Congo, Bramhall, Cheshire, Manchester, Bapende, Kundu, Topoke, the Congo, 20th century, portraits, black history, biography, biographies, life histories, life history
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