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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Hoffert, Sylvia D.
When Hens Crow: the Woman's Rights Movement in Antebellum America
(Indiana UP, 1995).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. x + 153pp. Order No. NSBK-C2439
Keywords: 0253328802, America, American, American women, women's rights, Antebellum America, American women's history, United States, USA
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Cline, Sally.
Radclyffe Hall: a Woman Called John
(John Murray, 1997).
Hardback. Very good in very good dustwrapper, lightly creased at edges. xiv + 434pp. Order No. NSBK-C15735
Keywords: 9780719554087, Radclyffe Hall, women writers, history, literature, biography, biographies
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Tomalin, Claire.
Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King
(Penguin, rpt., 1995).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise very good. xx + 422pp. Order No. NSBK-C10026
Keywords: 0140159231, actresses, actress, actors, drama, theatres, theatrical, Mrs Jordan, women's history, plays, stage, William IV, Dora Jordan, eighteenth, nineteenth, century, courts, royalty, monarchs, monarchy, kings, Britain, British, England, English, biography, biographies, woman, biographical, lives, life history, life histories
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Suffragette Poster, .
What a Woman May Be, and Yet Not Have the Vote: What a Man May Be, and Yet Not Lose the Vote
(Portrayer Publishers, 2009).
A modern reproduction of this suffragette poster. Printed with archival inks on premium paper (350 GSM, Silk Art, photographic print). Size of the paper is 450mm x 320mm and image is approx 435mm x 305mm. The image is printed in vibrant lithographic colours and depicts a row of women in respectable jobs and beneath this a row of male convicts, lunatics etc. (Please note that the sample electronic image, unlike the poster itself, is watermarked with a Portrayer insignia and reduced in quality, to prevent image theft). Poster. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C14476
Keywords: B003DHSDCY, posters, poster, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, suffragettes, Votes for Women, Portrayer Publishers, new, suffragette ephemera, reproduction, images, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's representation, Christmas gifts
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Gittings, Robert & Manton Jo.
Dorothy Wordsworth:
(Clarendon, 1985).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in dustwrapper. x + 318pp. Order No. NSBK-C4131
Keywords: 0198185197, Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, biography, biographies, women writers, women diarists, regency, Romantics, Romanticism, Lake District, Cumbria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, literary, literature, Thomas de Quincey, Cumbria, England, English, Britain, British, Northern, history, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Sara Hutchinson
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McPhee, C., & Fitzgerald, A.
The Non-Violent Militant: Selected Writings of Teresa Billington-Greig
(RKP, Women's Source Lib., 1987).
Her involvement in the Women's Social & Political Union, the Women's Freedom League and the I.L.P. Hardback. Very good in slightly rubbed dustwrapper. vii + 312pp. Order No. NSBK- C5
Keywords: 0710212321, Teresa Billington-Grieg, writings, militancy, non-violence, suffrage, Votes for Women, history, suffragettes, education, women's movement, Britain, England, English, British, Edwardian
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Nightingale, Florence.
Letters and Reflections:
(Arthur James, 1996).
Paperback. Fine. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C2437
Keywords: 0853053537, Florence Nightingale, letters, Crimea, Crimean War, nursing, medicine, women travellers, nurse, women's work, women and work, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Reid, Robert.
Marie Curie:
(Camair Press, rpt with amendmts, 1984).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 349pp. Order No. NSBK-C114
Keywords: 0950962805, Marie Curie, Curie, cancer, women and work, science, medicine, biography, biographies, life history, life histories, radium, women's history
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Taylor, Craig, translator. La Pucelle.
Joan of Arc: La Pucelle
(Manchester University Press, 2006).
Hardback. Fine. xii + 370pp. Order No. NSBK-C14624
Keywords: 9780719068461, Joan of Arc, Rouen, trial, trials, fifteenth century, 15th century, history, France, French, women, martyrs, early modern history, women's
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