Symes, Ruth A.
It Runs in the Family:
(The History Press, 2013).
In the quest to uncover our family history, we turn to written records, the family album and even heirlooms. However, they can often be difficult to interpret and sometimes pose more questions than they answer: Why didn't my ancestors smile for the camera? Why did great-grandfather wear a beard while his sons were clean-shaven? Why is my great-grandmother holding flowers in this photograph? Drawing on evidence from social history, women's history, and the histories of photography, art and fashion, and using examples from the lowly as well as the famous, Ruth Symes explores many aspects of ordinary life in the past - from the state of the nation's teeth, to the legal and economic connotations of wearing a wedding ring and even the business of keeping a dog. This fascinating volume aims to help family historians get to know their elusive ancestors by deciphering the wealth of personal and historical clues contained in photographs, documents and artefacts. Paperback. New book, fine. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-D15428
Keywords: 9780752497020, family history, family, families, Ruth Symes, genealogy, geneaolgical, social history, evidence, sources, research, women, old photographs, photography
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Laverack, Elizabeth.
With This Ring: 100 Years of Marriage
(Elm Tree Books, 1979).
Based on the H. Samuel Wedding Collection. Hardback. Cover boards slightly soiled, an ex-library copy showing signs of use, but good. 138pp. Order No. NSBK-C6340
Keywords: 0241898951, marriage, marriages, weddings, matrimony, husbands, wife, wives, spouses, family, Britain, British, history, England, English, men, women, families, twentieth century, gender, wedding ceremonies
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Liddiard, Mabel.
British Red Cross Society: Infant Welfare Manual. No 9
(J. & A. Churchill, third edition, 1933).
Hardback. Some fading and soiling to cloth, otherwise good. viii + 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A7277
Keywords: B000HC1154, health, history, British Red Cross Society, Red Cross, philanthropy, first aid, first-aid, medicine, medical, history, manuals, Britain, British, England, English, childhood, children, child, infants, infant, infant welfare, social welfare, mothers, motherhood, maternity, advice books, ante-natal, feeding children, babies, looking after babies, interwar, inter-war, inter war, baby, breast feeding, breast-feeding, bottle feeding, natural feeding, artifical feeding, teething, family, families
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Anderson, Christopher.
The Domestic Constitution or the Family Circle: the Source and Test of National Stability
(W.P. Kennedy, Edinburgh, new & improved edition, 1847).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, embossed cloth rubbed / slightly marked, a little splitting top spine end & internally at spine, otherwise good, tight. xviii + 464pp. Order No. NSBK-A5355
Keywords: B000W6Q560, domestic, domesticity, contemporary comment, history, Britain, British, England, English, family, families, nineteenth century, domestic constitution, national stability, nation, nationhood, parenthood, civilisation, parents, instruction, advice books, moral, moral constitution, mores, morality, obedience, domestic education, domestic government, obligation, right, duties, duty, responsibility, responsibilities, domestic circles, reason, rational, religion, religious, educating children, antiquarian
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Cambridge Women's Studies Group, .
Women in Society:
(Virago, rpt, 1985).
Paperback. Some pencil markings to title page and in a few places in text, sticker mark and creasing to paper covers, otherwise good. 313pp. Order No. NSBK-C6427
Keywords: 0860680835, feminists, feminist, feminism, sociology, Cambridge Women's Studies Group, England, English, Britain, British, feminist theory, family, state, work, sexuality, families, motherhood, sexual difference, Ludmilla Jordanova, Denise Riley
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Lambert, Sharon.
Irish Women in Lancashire, 1922-1960: their Story
(Centre for North West Regional Studies, 2001).
Paperback. New book, fine. xii + 129pp. Order No. NSBK-C4253
Keywords: 1862201102, Ireland, Irish, women, Irish women, history, Britain, British, England, English, immigration, immigrant, immigrants, emigration, emigrants, emigrant, Lancashire, oral history, social history, life stories, autobiography, autobiographies, Sharon Lambert, Dublin, Wigan, Preston, Lancaster, Liverpool, Lancaster University, Catholic, Catholics, Catholicism, female, national identity, family, families, North West, Centre for North West Regional Studies
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Albin, Mel and Cavallo, Dominick, eds.
Family Life in America, 1620-2000:
(Adelphi University, 1921).
Paperback. Good. ii + 345pp. Order No. NSBK-C12319
Keywords: 0960372606, B000O74UL4 family, families, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, century, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th
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Himmelfarb, Gertrude.
Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians: and Other Essays
(Faber and Faber, 1986).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. xiv + 253pp. Order No. NSBK-C12399
Keywords: 0571139523, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, marriage, morals, morality, weddings, matrimony, family, families, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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Lewis, Charlie and O'Brien, Margaret, eds.
Reassessing Fatherhood: New Observations on Fathers and the Modern Family
(Sage, 1987).
Paperback. With newspaper reviews pasted to front and back endpapers, otherwise good. v + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-A14211
Keywords: 9780803980204, family, families, masculinity, fatherhood, fathers, men, parents, parenthood, sociology, Britain, Australia, Scandinavia, North America
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Hewitt, Patricia.
About Time: Revolution in Work and Family Life
(IPPR, Rivers Oram, 1993).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 183pp. Order No. NSBK-A14945
Keywords: 1854890409, Patricia Hewitt, work, family life, life cycle, families, employment, working women, flexible working hours
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