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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Brookner, Anita.
Family and Friends:
(Guild Publishing, 1985).
Hardback. Very good in sl faded dustwrapper. 187pp. Order No. NSBK-C4157
Keywords: women novelists, novels, fiction, twentieth century, Anita Brookner, literature
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White, Florence, ed.
How to Wash Clothes at Home: Containing Simple and Complete Instructions
(Florence White, 1901).
An advice book, recommending the best methods of carrying out laundry work. A very interesting one of its kind, with illustrations and lots of detail of interest to the social historian. Paperback. Original covers slightly soiled and creased at edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C15121
Keywords: clothes, clothing, washing clothes, laundry, laundry work, working women, domesticity, antiquarian, social history, ironing, starching, booklets, boiling, advice books, linen, booklet, booklets
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Deacon, Bob, et al.
The New Eastern Europe: Social Policy, Past, Present and Future
(Sage, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. ix + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A9468
Keywords: 0803984391, social policy, history, Europe, Eastern Europe, East Europe, European, Soviet Union, communism, communist, market economy, democracy, welfare, childcare, working women, unemployed, poor, twentieth century, 20th
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Firmager, Gabrielle M., ed.
Eliza Haywood: the Female Spectator: Selections
(Bristol Classical, 1993).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. x + 181pp. Order No. NSBK-C4077
Keywords: 1853992097, Eliza Haywood, novelists, eighteenth century women, periodicals, The Female Spectator, manners, morals, Britain, British, England, English
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Janiewski, Dolores E.
Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender, and Class in a New South Community
(Temple UP, 1985).
Class & Culture. Paperback. Very good. xvii + 248pp. Order No. NSBK-A15893
Keywords: 9781566390064, race, gender, class, New South, history, USA, America, American, race, ethncity, cotton, tobacco, labour, labor, women, Durham, textiles, industry, unions, unionism
Price £28.95.
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Tierney, Jane.
Tobo: One Woman's Escape
(Guild Publishing, 1985).
Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly torn dustwrapper. 156pp. Order No. NSBK-C6025
Keywords: B000HGFZJS, Jane Tierney, women's history, woman, Far East, Second World War, World War II, World War Two, World War 2, wars, warfare, twentieth century, Japanese, Japan, Singapore, Malaya, East Indies, Ceylon, Dutch Fifth Columnists, Gestapo, Australia, escape
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Edgeworth, Maria.
Popular Tales:
(George Routledge, new edition, no date but late Victorian).
Light foxing. With 30 illustrations and 4 coloured plates by F. A. Fraser. (Sadly one of the illustrations is loose). Hardback. Red boards attractively decorated in gilt, green & black. Light wear to cloth, espec. at spine/edges, some splitting to hinges. Else a good copy, all edges gilt. ix + 436pp. Order No. NSBK-C8622
Keywords: B00I97APTW, Maria Edgeworth, Popular Tales, women writers, literature, fiction, stories, Maria Edgeworth's
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Hilton, Mary, Styles, Morag, & Watson, Victor ed.
Opening the Nursery Door: Reading, Writing and Childhood, 1600 - 1900
(Routledge, 1997).
Paperback. Minor chipping top spine end, otherwise very good. x + 242pp. Order No. NSBK-C15301
Keywords: 9780415148993, childhood, children, child, reading, writing, Jane Johnson, women educators, education, children's literature
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Hallett, Christine E.
Nurses of Passchendaele: Caring for the Wounded of the Ypres Campaigns 1914 - 1918
(Pen and Sword, 2017).
Paperback. Very good. xx + 196pp. Order No. NSBK-C15608
Keywords: Ypres, First World War, history, nursing, Belgium, nurses, women, World War I
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