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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Taking Liberties Collective, Jo Campling, ed.
Learning the Hard Way: Women's Oppression in Men's Education
(Macmillan, 1989).
Hardback. Pencil annotation to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xii + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C14100
Keywords: 0333432835, education, women, men, femininity, gender, masculinity, equality, working classes, further education, higher education, feminism, oppression
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Golby, J.M., ed.
Culture and Society in Britain, 1850-1890: a Source Book of Contemporary Writings
(OUP, rpt with corrections, 1992).
Paperback. Covers slightly edge-worn, otherwise good+. xiii + 342pp. Order No. NSBK-A983
Keywords: 0198711123, Britain, British, England, English, history, culture, society, social history, cultural, Victorian, nineteenth century
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National Research Council, .
Computer Chips and Paper Clips: Technology and Women's Employment
(National Academy Press, 1986).
Volume 1. Paperback. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A14140
Keywords: 0309036887, work, women and work, employment, workers, computers, technology, labour, labor, female, clerical work, white collar, Louise A. Tilly
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Royden, Maude.
Women's Partnership in the New World:
(George Allen and Unwin, 1941).
Hardback. Spine sunfaded, otherwise good in soiled and torn dustwrapper. 141pp. Order No. NSBK-C15481
Keywords: B0010WBLA0, women, woman, female, females, sex, civilization, twentieth century, histor, historical Britain, British
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Somerville, Claire & Watson, Helena.
Birth and Power: an Examination of Some Mass-Observation Writing
(Uni of Sussex, 1996).
Paperback. New booklet, fine. 14pp. Order No. NSBK-C5338
Keywords: 850870348, Mass Observation, Mass-Observation, social investigations, surveys, twentieth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English, sociology, Mass Observation team, 20th century, social research, Mass-Observation Archive, methodology, research, methodological, Sussex University, Occasional Papers, birth, motherhood, maternity, childbirth, mothers
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Dwyer, Bernard.
But That's Another Story: Collected Writings of Roscommon Man
(Dave Mallinson, 1995).
Paperback. Good+. viii + 97pp. Order No. NSBK-A14246
Keywords: 1899512152, Roscommon Man, Irish, Ireland, story telling, stories, fact, fiction, legends, tales, Bernard Dwyer
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Cobbett, William.
Cobbett's Country Book: An Anthology of William Cobbett's Writings on Country Matters
(David and Charles, no date).
Edited and with an introduction by Richard Ingrams. Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled, slightly dented dustwrapper. 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A6274
Keywords: 0715368001, William Cobbett, Radicals, Tory Radicals, popular Radicals, popular radicalism, Britain, British, British Isles, nineteenth century, history, rural, country, seasons, countryside, gardening, farming, rural sports, farms, social history
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Thompson, Jane.
Learning Liberation: Women's Response to Men's Education
(Croom Helm, 1983).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, with newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, a little sun-fading to covers, otherwise good condition. 207pp. Order No. NSBK-C15805
Keywords: 0709924399, education, men, women, training, masculinity, sociology
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Sanders, Valerie.
Records of Girlhood: Volume 2. An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Childhoods
(Routledge, 2012).
Volume 2, The Nineteenth Century Series. Paperback. Top back corner slightly bumped, and top corner of rear cover creased, otherwise very good, bright. 230pp. Order No. NSBK-C16027
Keywords: 9781138275157, girlhood, women, childhoods, children, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, sources, social, girls
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