Vicinus, Martha.
Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920
(Chicago UP, 1985).
Hardback. Light edgewear to dustwrapper, otherwise good+. xv + 396pp. Order No. NSBK-C7557
Keywords: 0226855678, women's work, single women, spinster, community, work, Britain, British, England, English, history, jobs, career, communities, spinsterhood, careers
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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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Harrop, Sylvia.
The Merchant Taylors' School for Girls, Crosby: One Hundred Years of Achievement, 1888-1988
(Liverpool UP, 1988).
Hardback. With newspaper article pasted to fly leaf, slight scratching to dustwrapper, otherwise good. 221pp. Order No. NSBK-C12936
Keywords: 0853230560, girls' schools, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Liverpool, Crosby, Merchant Taylors' School, centenary, 100 Years
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Scutt, Jocelynne A.
Women and Magna Carta: A Treaty for Rights or Wrongs?
(Palgrave, 2016).
Hardback. Top corner bumped, otherwise very good+. vii + 154pp. Order No. NSBK-C15650
Keywords: 9781137562340, Magna Carta, women's rights, history, natural rights, human rights
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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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Rowbotham, Judith.
Good Girls Make Good Wives: Guidance for Girls in Victorian Fiction
(Blackwell, 1989).
Paperback. Some sunfading to covers, otherwise good+. viii + 301pp. Order No. NSBK-C4162
Keywords: 0631163964, wives, wife, girls, education, fiction, literature, Judith Rowbotham, Victorian, nineteenth century, childhood, middle class, middle classes, reading habits, domesticity, private sphere, separate spheres, femininity, feminine, novels, L.T. Meade, history, social control, Charlotte Mary Yonge, women
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Coates, Ken and Topham, Anthony.
Industrial Democracy in Great Britain: A Book of Readings and Witnesses for Workers' Control
(Macgibbon and Kee, 1968).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly worn, slightly marked dustwrapper. xxxvi + 431pp. Order No. NSBK-A14555
Keywords: 0901740888, labour, labor, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, trade unionism, industrial democracy, industrialisation, working classes, trade disputes, wages, pay, Labour Party, shop stewards
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Hyde, Mrs.
How to Win Our Workers: A Short Account of the Leeds SewingSchool for Factory Girls
(Macmillan and Co., 1862).
Dedicated by Permission to the Earl of Carlisle. BOUND PHOTOCOPY. Hardback. Photocopy only in leather library binding, very good. 81pp. Order No. NSBK-C15366
Keywords: B0014MJEUK
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Herman, G. Ernest.
Difficult Labour: A Guide to its Management for Students and Practitioners
(Cassell, new and enlarged edition, 1910).
New and Enlarged Edition, With Added Chapters on Retroversion of the Gravid Uterus and Puerperal Eclampsia. With 180 illustrations. Paperback. A rather shakey ex-library copy. Binding loose (needs rebinding), lacks original cover, (has library jacket). A working copy only. 547pp. Order No. NSBK-C13896
Keywords: B00087WBKW, labour, history of childbirth, having a baby, Edwardian, women's history, maternity, motherhood, medical, medicine, labor, uterus, uterine, gynaecology, obstetrics, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Chancellor, Valerie E.
History for their Masters: Opinion in the English History Textbook, 1800-1914
(Adams & Dart, 1970).
Hardback. Very good in yellowed dustwrapper. 153pp. Order No. NSBK-A2653
Keywords: 0239000684, English History, textbook, education, schooling, school, education, History, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history
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