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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Garrett, Richard.
The Search for Prosperity: Emigration from Britain, 1815-1930
(Wayland, 1973).
Illustrated. Hardback. Large, very good in dustwrapper. 127pp. Order No. NSBK-A2850
Keywords: 853403163, emigration, America, USA, Malthus, the colonies, settlers, Australia, coffee table book, emigrants, emigrant, colony, settler, history, British, Britain, English, England
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Anderson, Madge.
The Heroes of the Puppet Stage:
(Jonathan Cape, 1924).
With illustrations by the author. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps. Some soiling / streaking to cloth, a little cracking internally at spine, otherwise a good solid working copy. vi + 420pp. Order No. NSBK-A14241
Keywords: B00088FF4A, puppets, Punch, Mr Punch, puppetry, history, stage, theatre, puppet shows, marionettes, Punch and Judy, leisure, entertainment
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Exley, Richard and Helen.
Grandmas and Grandpas: A Gift Book Written by Grandchildren for their Grandparents
(Exley, rpt., 1985).
Hardback. Good. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A5011
Keywords: grandparents, grandfathers, grandmothers, parents, children, humour, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century
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Senjen, Rye, and Guthrey, Jane.
The Internet for Women:
(Spinifex, 1996).
Paperback. Fine. xiii + 285pp. Order No. NSBK-C9528
Keywords: 1875559523, internet, computers, women, woman, female, twentieth century, 20th, technological, technology, online, gender, email
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Griffin, Ben.
The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain: Masculinity, Political Culture And The Struggle For Women's Rights
(CUP, 2012).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xii + 352pp. Order No. NSBK-C15637
Keywords: 9781107015074, gender, women's rights, Victorian, Britain, masculinity, history, nineteenth century
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Arthur, T.S.
Anna Lee: Or the Maiden, the Wife and the Mother: Stories for My Young Countrywomen
(William Nicholson, Halifax, n.d., Victorian).
Hardback. Edges rubbed, otherwise very good, dainty. vi + 128pp. Order No. NSBK-C2894
Keywords: literature, maiden, wife, motherhood, marriage, Anna Lee, Victorian, T. S. Arthur
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Garcia, J., Kilpatrick, R., & Richards, M., eds.
The Politics of Maternity Care: Services for Childbearing Women in Twentieth-Century Britain
(OUP, 1990).
Paperback. Newspaper reviews pasted to fly leaf and endpaper, spine faded, otherwise good. viii + 346pp. Order No. NSBK-C8124
Keywords: 0198272871 maternity, mothers, motherhood, childbirth, hospitals, babies, Britain, British, England, English, history, baby, women, women's history, health, fathers, midwives, midwifery, doctors, nurses, nursing, obstetrics, twentieth century, 20th, childbearing, pregnancy, pregnant
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Weinberg, Samantha.
A Fish Caught in Time: the Search for the Coelacanth
(Fourth Estate, 1999).
Paperback. Fine. xiii + 239pp. Order No. NSBK-A5560
Keywords: 1857029062, fish, rare fish, fossils, discovery, twentieth century, J.L.B. Smith, fishes, Coelacanth, seas, sea, pisces, underwater
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Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Dept, .
Education and Training for the Cotton and Rayon Industry: Papers and Dicussions at a Conference in Manchester in September 1946 Organized by the Cotton Board With the Collaboration of the British Rayon Federation, the Textile Institute and the Textile Teachers' Association
(Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Dept, 1946).
A series of essays from different contributors. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly browned, edge worn dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A7704
Keywords: post war, post-war industry, cotton, textiles, rayon, training, industries, textile, Britain, British, England, English, Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Department, industrial training, production, technical colleges, teach, teachers, teaching, technical education, history
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