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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Elwes, Richard.
First Poems:
(Hodder & Stoughton, rpt, 1941).
Hardback. Soiled / marked cream covers with gilt lettering, endpapers a little marked, otherwise good. 44pp. Order No. NSBK-C6755
Keywords: B000P1QEHM, poems, poets, poetry, Richard Elwes, Second World War, World War II, World War Two, social history, Europe, European, Poland, Finland, sonnets, verses, wars, twentieth century, 1940s
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Agricultural Economists, .
Proceedings of the First International Conference of Agricultural Economists: Held at Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon, England, August 26 to September 6 1929
(The Collegiate Press, 1929).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good. xi + 353pp. Order No. NSBK-A11312
Keywords: B000HBZTT4, agricultural, agriculturalists, agrarian, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, international, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon, farms, farming, agricultural economics, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States,
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Shipman, David.
Cinema: The First Hundred Years
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993).
Foreword by Barry Norman. Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. 384pp. Order No. NSBK-A11046
Keywords: 0297832018, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, cinemas, films, media, twentieth century, 20th, film stars
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Wilson, Charles.
First With the News: The History of W. H. Smith, 1792-1972
(Guild Publishing, 1985).
Hardback. Very good. xiv + 510pp. Order No. NSBK-A12029
Keywords: 0224021567, W. H. Smith, news, newspapers, companies, company, business, businesses, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, eighteenth, twentieth, 18th, 20th, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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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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Anon, .
Enumeration and Parish Registers, 1811: Abstract of the Answers and Returns made Pursuant to an Act, Passed in the Fifty-first Year of His Majesty King George III. An Act for Taking Into Account of the Population of Great Britain, and of the Increase or Diminution Thereof
(House of Commons, 1812).
Preliminary Observations, Enumeration Abstract, Parish-Register Abstract. Hardback. Outsized book, front and back boards loose / detached and rather worn / battered (poor), lacking spine cover. A few rear pages loose also. A good working copy. xxxi + 511 + 148pp. Order No. NSBK-A11784
Keywords: B000HC1RTE, enumeration, parish registers, population, demography, demographic, people, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, nineteenth century, census, head count, parish register, legal, laws, census, 1811, Georgian
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Cunningham, Anne; Irvine, Isobel; et al, eds.
Lightyears: the First Collection of Merseyside Women's Writing
(Headland, 1992).
Paperback. Edges slightly soiled, otherwise good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-C4108
Keywords: 0903074710, Merseyside, Liverpool, women's writing, literature, fiction, prose, poetry, poems, North West England, English, Britain, British, Anne Cunningham, Isobel Irvine, Pauline Lavercombe, Tracy Ryan, Flora Small, Ruth Symes, Clare Rush, Rose Ryan, Dora Kennedy, Jean Barlow, Women's Anthology Group, poets, women
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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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Ouditt, Sharon.
Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Identity and Ideology in the First World War
(Routledge, 1994).
Very good. x + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C15575
Keywords: 9781138151529, women writers, Great War, literature, history, World War I
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