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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Hassey, Janette.
No Time for Science: Evangelical Women in Public Ministry Around the Turn of the Century
(Academie Books, 1986).
Paperback. Very good. xv + 254pp. Order No. NSBK-C15473
Keywords: 0310294517, evangelical, religion, religious, women, woman, ministers, ministry, science, scientific, divinity, history, Bible, biblical
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Floud, Roderick.
An Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Historians:
(Methuen, 1973).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers in slightly faded, slightly torn dustwrapper. ix + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A9279
Keywords: 0416125506, quantitative, statistics, historical method, methodology, data, theory
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Scaffardi, Sylvia.
Fire Under the Carpet: Working for Civil Liberties in the 1930s
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1986).
Paperback. Very good. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C14152
Keywords: 0853156549, 1930s, thirties, inter war, inter-war, interwar, civil liberties, NCCL, Mosley, fascism, Ronald Kidd, Sylvia Scaffardi, anti-fascism, anti-semitism
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Vicinus, Martha.
Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920
(Chicago UP, 1985).
Hardback. Light edgewear to dustwrapper, otherwise good+. xv + 396pp. Order No. NSBK-C7557
Keywords: 0226855678, women's work, single women, spinster, community, work, Britain, British, England, English, history, jobs, career, communities, spinsterhood, careers
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Lingard, Horace.
Hints and Ideas of a Practical Man for Unpractical People:
(Horace Lingard, privately printed, no date).
A booklet about plain and high class decorative painting for the home. Booklet. Red covers slightly darkened with a small mark to rear, otherwise good. 16pp. Order No. NSBK-A16032
Keywords: booklets, booklet, decoration, home decorating, painting and decorating, advice, palette, furniture, sign-writing, art, interior design, decor, history
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Coates, Ken, et al.
Eleventh Hour for Europe:
(Spokesman, 1981).
Paperback. Very good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A11172
Keywords: 0851243096, peace, Europe, European, twentieth century, 20th, nuclear war, nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation treaty, Polaris, disarmament
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Garrett, Richard.
The Search for Prosperity: Emigration from Britain, 1815-1930
(Wayland, 1973).
Illustrated. Hardback. Large, very good in dustwrapper. 127pp. Order No. NSBK-A2850
Keywords: 853403163, emigration, America, USA, Malthus, the colonies, settlers, Australia, coffee table book, emigrants, emigrant, colony, settler, history, British, Britain, English, England
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Floud, Roderick.
An Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Historians:
(Methuen, 2nd edit., rpt, 1983).
Paperback. A little waviness to spine area, otherwise good condition. ix + 237pp. Order No. NSBK-A743
Keywords: 0416716709, quantitative, statistics, historical method, methodology, data, theory
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Gohm, D.C.
Maps and Prints for Pleasure and Investment:
(Arco Publishing, 1969).
Colour plates and black and white photographs. Hardback. Very good in edgeworn and torn dustwrapper. 190pp. Order No. NSBK-A13004
Keywords: 0707102618, maps, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, cartography, prints, pictures, images
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