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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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Thomas, Dylan.
Under Milk Wood: a Play for Voices
(Dent, Everyman's Library, rpt, 1984).
Paperback. Spine sunned, otherwise very good. xiv + 82pp. Order No. NSBK-A7670
Keywords: 0460110063, Dylan Thomas, Wales, Welsh, writers, writing, literature, plays, play, Under Milk Wood, Everyman Library
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Royal Archaeological Institute, .
The Archaeological Journal: Volume XCIV for 1937. Part Two
(Royal Archaeological Institute, 1938).
With pull-out maps etc. Paperback. Covers slightly soiled and somewhat tatty, internally good and firm. 177 to 360pp. Order No. NSBK-A14263
Keywords: B0023BNKX8, Royal Archaeological Institute, The Archaeological Journal, history, archaeology, Winchelsea, St. Alban, Cologne, ancient highways, Dorset, Somerset, ancient ruins, remains
Price £28.00.
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Chesterton, Gilbert.
Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen Rhymes and Sketches
(R. Brimley Johnson, 1st edition, 1900).
A good working copy. Hardback. External condition poor. Boards soiled, scuffed and worn at edges. Annotation to title page, & fly leaf. Internally shaky, with scattered pencil scribblings & minor soiling. 102pp. Order No. NSBK-Z15451
Keywords: B0017IWDD6, first editions, 1st editions, G. K. Chesterton, literature, poetry
Price £125.00.
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Rowbotham, Sheila.
A New World for Women: Stella Browne - Socialist Feminist
(Pluto, 2nd impress., 1978).
Scarce. Paperback. Covers yellowed and lightly soiled, otherwise good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-C1584
Keywords: 0904383547, socialism, feminism, Stella Browne, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history
Price £7.00.
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Liddle, Roger.
The New Case for Europe: The Crisis in British Pro-Europeanism - and How to Overcome it
(Fabian Society, 2005).
Fabian Ideas 615. Paperback. Very good. vi + 81pp. Order No. NSBK-A11179
Keywords: 0716306158, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Europe, European, twentieth century, 20th
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Hopkins, Ellice.
The Power of Womanhood: or Mothers and Sons. A Book for Parents and Those in Loco Parentis
(Wells, Gardner, Darton, 1900).
Hardback. Boards soiled, otherwise good. vi + 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C13668
Keywords: B000XIDAU6, womanhood, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
Price £15.00.
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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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Glyn, Andrew and Miliband, David, eds.
Paying For Inequality: The Economic Cost of Social Injustice
(IPPR/Rivers Oram Press, 1994).
Paperback. Very good. xiii +248pp. Order No. NSBK-A15502
Keywords: 185489059X, economics, economic, inequality, poverty, poor, Labour, politics, Britain, British, history, twentieth century
Price £11.50.
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Kelly's, .
Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes for 1919:
(Kelly's Directories, 1919).
45th Annual Edition. Hardback. Original red cloth with black and gilt detail. Some light soiling and light wear to cloth, espec. at edges, otherwise good+, solid. xvii + 1741pp. Order No. NSBK-A15210
Keywords: B002VDA1PI, Kelly's directories, Kelly's handbook, Kelly, upper class, upper classes, titles, history, titled, class, social structure, aristocracy
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