Sandford, Mrs Henry.
Home Work and Duties:
(W. & R. Chambers, 1885).
Girls' Reading-Book. Hardback. Some wear to edges & fraying to spine ends. Red / black cloth with gilt lettering slightly darkened, otherwise a good copy. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C13123
Keywords: Victorian, 1880s, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, duties, responsibilities, duty, responsibility, social history, women's history, Mrs Henry Sandford, women's education, girls, girlhood, domestic economy, food, clothing, sewing, needlework, knitting, ventilation, cleaning, washing, health, sickness, Britain, British, England, English, hygiene,
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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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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John, Angela V.
The Actors' Crucible: Port Talbot and the Making of Burton, Hopkins, Sheen and All the Others
(Parthian, 2015).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xvi + 205pp. Order No. NSBK-D15434
Keywords: 9781910409947, Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Sheen, Port Talbot, history, acting, drama, actors, Wales, Welsh, dramatic, social history
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Nicolson, Juliet.
The Great Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age
(Grove Press, 2009).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xvi + 302pp. Order No. NSBK-C15930
Keywords: 9780802119445, peace, grief, Great War, 1920s, social history
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Whitney, Janet.
Elizabeth Fry: Quaker Heroine
(George G. Harrap, rpt., 1938).
Hardback. Newspaper cutting pasted to inside front cover, boards stained and worn, otherwise good. 328pp. Order No. NSBK-C11320
Keywords: 0405090722, prison, prison reform, Elizabeth Fry, philanthropy, Victorian, Quaker, women, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, jails, gaols, Quakers, biography, biographical, biographies, life history, life histories
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Brittain, Vera.
Poems of the War and After:
(Victor Gollancz, first edition, 1934).
Ex-Wigan Free Public Library. A signed first edition copy. Inscription reads: 'With best wishes to Wigan, and Wigan Public Library from Vera Brittain. Wigan, December 7th, 1936'. Scarce, for the collector. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps.(Wigan Library). Cream cloth soiled, lacks spine cover, but contents firm, solid. Collectible though a working copy. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-C16020
Keywords: Vera Brittain, First World War, Great War, poems, verse, poetry, signed, women, women's history, social history, grief, mourning, signed editions, first editions, first edition, World War I, Wigan, Wigan Free Public Library, Lancashire, interwar, inter war, 1930s, thirties, antiquarian, collectible, literature, women writers, pacifism, pacifists
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Mason, Michael.
The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes:
(Oxford UP, 1994).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+ in slightly dull dustwrapper. xi + 256pp. Order No. NSBK-C8975
Keywords: 0198122926, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, sexuality, masculinity, femininity, sex, gender, morals, moralism, social history, sexual ideology, women, men, free love, evangelicalism, chastity, free thought, Malthus, Malthusian, prostitutes, prostitution, birth control, contraception, Annie Besant, Charles Bradlaugh, celibacy, marriage, Britain, British, England, English
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Matthews, Mike.
Alf Cobb: Mugsborough Rebel. The Struggle for Justice in Edwardian Hastings
(Hastings Press, rpt, 2003).
Paperback. Fine. 143pp. Order No. NSBK-A6675
Keywords: 190410911X, Hastings, history, social history, Sussex, Britain, British, England, English, Alf Cobb, Robert Tressell, Social Democratic Federation, socialist, socialists, socialism, mob orators, rebels, Mugsborough, working class, working classes, political rebels, radicalism, Edwardian, twentieth century, labour movement, politics, local politics, local government, oratory, local councils, local corporations, local councillors
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Oakley, Ann.
Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents Early Years
(Flamingo, 1997).
Paperback. Spine creased and cover edges worn, otherwise good. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C10416
Keywords: 0006550134, parents, Richard Titmuss, Kay Titmuss, Kay Miller, welfare state, biography, biographies, autobiography, autobiographies, feminism, feminists, family, social history, families, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, 20th
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Surman, Phyllis.
Eliza of Otmoor:
(Oxprint, 1976).
Scarce. Paperback. Covers soiled, with a little bumping to corners, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise a good copy. 49pp. Order No. NSBK-C15833
Keywords: stored with the booklets, booklet, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Otmoor, women's history, family history, Islip, rural, villages, social history, village, Eliza of Otmoor, Coggins, farming
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