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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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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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Donald, Joyce.
The Letters of Thomas Hayton: Vicar of Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire. 1821 - 1887
(Buckinghamshire Record Society, No 20, 1979).
Buckinghamshire Record Society. No 20. 1979. Hardback. A little soiling to cloth, otherwise very good. xx + 185pp. Order No. NSBK-A13330
Keywords: 0901198161, vicars, religion, religious, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, Buckinghamshire Record Society, 19th century, nineteenth century, Victorian, history, letters, Thomas Hayton, church, village life, agrarian, charity commissioners, poor law, social history, correspondence, curate, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Suffragette Poster, Modern Reproduction.
Votes for Women Wanted Everywhere:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007).
Paper: SRA3 = 320mm by 450mm. Image: A3 = 297mm by 420mm. 300 GMS gloss art high quality poster paper, coated and treated. Reproduction of an attractive suffragette poster advertising "Votes for Women", the Pethick-Lawrence edited newspaper, founded in October 1907. The colours are green, grey, purple and white and the image depicts a suffragette in contemporary dress standing in a field and holding aloft a copy of the newspaper. Poster. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C13071
Keywords: B000UZVP7M, Portrayer Publishers, suffragettes, suffragette poster, suffragette posters, Votes for Women, woman suffrage, history, women, enfranchisement, franchise, women's movement, politics, England, English, illustrations, suffrage, politics, images, imagery, women, women's, representations, pictures, poster, posters, enfranchisement, the franchise, reproductions, modern reproductions, print, prints, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, Britain, British, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera, newspapers, new design
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Poulson, Christine.
William Morris:
(Quantum, 2002).
Paperback. Fine. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A7151
Keywords: 186160548X, William Morris, nineteenth century, 19th, designs, art, artists, architecture, paintings, textiles, wallpapers, poetry, furniture, patterns, biographical, biography, biographies, lives, life history, life histories, arts and crafts, Arts and Crafts Movement
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Creighton, Louise.
Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton:
(Longmans, Green, 1913).
Hardback. Some white blotching to cloth, corners worn, otherwise good. xii + 534pp. Order No. NSBK-A5558
Keywords: B00087RYFO, lives, letters, biography, biographies, correspondence, Victorian, nineteenth century, history, historians, historian, Mandell Creighton, Louise Creighton, the Creightons, Britain, British, England, English, English Historical Review, bishops, bishop, religion, religious, clerical, Embleton, Oxford, rural deans, Worcester Canonry, Cambridge
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Haldane, A. R. B.
Three Centuries of Scottish Posts: An Historical Survey to 1836
(Edinburgh UP, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xiv + 336pp. Order No. NSBK-A5427
Keywords: 0852241488, Scottish, Scots, Scotland, Scotch, history, post, postal service, post office, letters, correspondence, mail, posts, despatches, postmasters, post offices, penny postage, stamps, Haldane
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Lemmen, Hans Van.
Victorian Tiles:
(Shire Publications Ltd, rpt., 1986).
In booklet form. Paperback. Good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A6018
Keywords: 0852635486, Victorian, tiles, tiling, art, artists, buildings, architecture, urban, decorative, decoration, history, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, interior design, designs, cities, city, towns, booklet
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Slater, Catherine Ponton.
Margaret Pow in Foreign Parts:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1913).
Margaret Pow in Foreign Parts. Hardback. Corners rubbed otherwise very good and bright. 123pp. Order No. NSBK-C4929
Keywords: B000HBXQQM, Catherine Ponton Slater, Margaret Pow, women's history, woman's history, twentieth century, Edwardian, travellers, travelers, travel, woman traveler, woman traveller, English, England, Britrain, British, history, Scots Pictorial, France, Paris, Rome, Italy, Europe, European, Florence, Roman, Firenze, venice, Venezia, Grenoble, letters, epistolary, correspondence, woman writer, women writers, London, Bloomsbury, Square
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Rewald, John, ed.
Paul Cezanne Letters:
(Bruno Cassirer, 1941).
Hardback. Some rubbing and darkening to boards, especially at spine, light wear to corners, otherwise a good solid copy. 308pp. Order No. NSBK-C15812
Keywords: B002828KAK, letters, correspondence, Paul Cezanne, artists, art, stored in hall, France, French, post-impressionism
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