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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Laderman, Carol.
Wives and Midwives: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia
(California UP, rpt., 1987).
Paperback. Some minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise good. vii + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-C5978
Keywords: 0520060369, Carol Laderman, Malays, Malaysia, childbirth, children, birth, pregnancy, midwives, midwife, pregnant, nutrition, food, natal, diet, dietary, ritual, medical, medicine, shaman, fieldworkers, Southeast Asia, Asian, mothers, motherhood, maternal, wife, wives, families, family, twentieth century, babies, baby, maternity, midwifery
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Cruz, Vera da.
Bailliere's Midwives' Dictionary:
(Bailliere Tindall, 4th edition, rpt, 1964).
Hardback. Covers soiled & a little worn, otherwise a good working copy. xiii + 396pp. Order No. NSBK-C7273
Keywords: 0702005967, midwives, midwives' dictionary, Bailliere's Midwives' Dictionary, health, midwifery, history, 1950s, 1960s, post war, childbirth, nurses, nursing, advice books, nurse, Britain, British, England, English, social history, women's history, having babies, reproduction, motherhood, childbirth, mothers, maternity, pregnancy, pregnant
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British Mother's Magazine, .
British Mother's Magazine: January 1950-January 1951
(T. Constable, Edinburgh, 1951).
Hardback. Spine ends chipped, marbled boards, pages browned, otherwise good+. pp. Order No. NSBK-C10710
Keywords: B000HBZRZA, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, mothers, motherhood, maternal, maternity, children, childhood, Victorian, women, women's studies, women's history
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Meckel, C., et al.
Kathe Kollwitz:
(Inter Nationes, 1967).
With contributions by Christoph Meckel, Ulrich Weisner, Hans Kollwitz, Kathe Kollwitz (letters). Paperback. A little yellowing to pages, covers worn at edges and with some light white speckling. Overall good. 49pp. Order No. NSBK-A8016
Keywords: B000HC13B6, Kathe Kollwitz, artists, German, Germany, Europe, European, twentieth century, nineteenth, Victorian, 20th, 19th, socialism, socialist, mothers, women, women's history, woman, children, pictures, drawings, sketches
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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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Grove, Valerie.
The Compleat Woman: Marriage, Motherhood, Career: Can She Have it All?
(The Hogarth Press, rpt., 1988).
Paperback. Good. viii + 293pp. Order No. NSBK-C12276
Keywords: 0701208260, marriage, motherhood, mums, mothers, maternal, children, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Basch, Francoise.
Relative Creatures: Victorian Women in Society and the Novel, 1837-1867
(Allen Lane, 1974).
Hardback. Some sun-fading to spine of dustwrapper, with newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise a good copy. xx + 360pp. Order No. NSBK-C4627
Keywords: 9780713904857, Victorian, nineteenth century, women, novels, novel, spinsters, spinster, history, wives, mothers, writing, society, social history, literature, social history, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, fiction, novelists, female, novelist, literary, England, English, Britain, British
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Van Every, Jo.
Heterosexual Women Changing the Family: Refusing to Be a Wife
(Taylor & Francis, 1995).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. x + 165pp. Order No. NSBK-C14018
Keywords: 0748402837, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, heterosexuality, sexuality, twentieth century, 20th, family, families, sexual roles, household, anti-sexist, households, domestic labour, marriage, mothers, mothering, feminism, feminists
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Roberts, Elizabeth.
A Woman's Place: an Oral History of Working-Class Women, 1890-1940
(Blackwell, reissue, 1985).
Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. vii + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C4152
Keywords: 0631147543, oral history, Elizabeth Roberts, Lancaster, Barrow, Preston, working class, working classes, family, marriage, work, leisure, motherhood, mothers, neighbourhood, North West, Northern, England, British, Britain, English, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Edwardian
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