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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Hollett, David.
The Pioneer Ramblers, 1850 - 1940:
(Ramblers' Association, North Wales Area, 2002).
Foreword by Nick Barrett. Paperback. New book, fine. 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A6867
Keywords: 1901184544, Victorian, nineteenth century, history, social history, socialism, socialist, socialists, utopian, utopias, utopia, Robert Blatchford, Clarion Club, Clarion Movement, Clarion, Clarion Newspaper, Clarion Clubs, Clarion Fellowship, rambling clubs, ramblers, rambling club, exercise, hobbies, entertainment, working class, working classes, Britain, British, England, English, nature, natural, rambling, countryside, rambles, country, rural, North Wales Ramblers' Association, Ramblers' Association, Ramblers' Clubs, Duke of Atholl, walking, walkers, Access, access, open spaces, commons, tramping, recreation, Clarion Ramblers, pedestrians, trespassers, trespass, holidays, holiday, FHA, Friendship Holidays Association, Holiday Fellowship, hiking, long distance walking, youth hostels, youth hostelling, Edwardian, twentieth century, Commons Preservation Society
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Blatchford, Robert.
Not Guilty: a Defence of the Bottom Dog
(Clarion Press, 1906).
Hardback. Spine edges and corners worn, otherwise good. 261pp. Order No. NSBK-A5491
Keywords: B0006DAEK2, Robert Blatchford, labour movement, Clarion Clubs, Clarion Movement, social history, Britain, British, England, English, Edwardian, labour history, class, heredity, working class, working classes, working-class, punishment, environment, influence of environment, period sources, contemporary comment, antiquarian
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Dawley, Alan.
Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn
(Harvard University Press, rpt., 1979).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly soiled covers. viii + 301pp. Order No. NSBK-C7793
Keywords: 0674133951, Lynn, American, America, United States, USA, shoes, shoemakers, footwear, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, labor, labour, work, employers, employees, workers, owners, factories, nineteenth-century, nineteenth, 19th, property, income, economics, economy, history, social, Industrial Revolution, entrepreneurs, artisans, factory, poor, militants, politicians, equal rights, factory system
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Stewart, Angus, ed.
Contemporary Britain:
(RKP, 1983).
Paperback. Spine creased, covers edge worn, otherwise good. ix + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-A11311
Keywords: 071009406X, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, social welfare, twentieth century, 20th, politics, political, social, race relations, middle class
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Howe, P.P.
The Life of William Hazlitt:
(Hamish Hamilton, new edition, 1947).
Hardback. Spine faded, otherwise very good. xxvi + 433pp. Order No. NSBK-A4755
Keywords: B0006XOXBS, Regency, Georgian, England, English, Britain, British, social commentary, journalism, journalists, history, William Hazlitt, nineteenth century, William Godwin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Blackwood's Magazine, The Edinburgh Review, essays, essayists, essayist, Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, Henry Crabb Robinson
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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Alan Sutton, 1985).
Paperback. Creases to back cover, otherwise good. xii + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A13483
Keywords: 0862991579, women, woman, gender, 1920s, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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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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Wojtczak, Helena.
Women of Victorian Sussex: their Status, Occupations,and Dealings With The Law, 1830-1870
(Hastings Press, 2003).
Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-C7234
Keywords: 1904109055, Victorian, Hastings, women, woman, nineteenth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English, provinces, provincial, regional studies, seaside, seaside towns, women's history, occupations, neighbourhood, community, communities, urban, urban history, St Leonards, gender, Sussex, Victorian prostitution, prostitutes, prostitute, infanticide, liquor, liquor trade. trade, motherhood, mothers, mother, occupation, occupations, infant murder, infant killing, infant killings, brothel, brothels, milliners, milliner, midwives, midwife, midwifery, drunkenness, drunkard, drunkards, drink, drinking, drinker, drinkers, 19th Century, Lewes, Brighton, status, law, laws, Hailsham, Helena Wojtczak, Chichester, Class, Classes
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Symes, Ruth A.
Stories from Your Family Tree: Researching Ancestors within Living Memory
(The History Press, 2009).
Paperback. New book, fine. x + 172pp. Order No. NSBK-A14177
Keywords: 075095082X, family tree research, Ruth A. Symes, genealogy, genealogical, history, family history, families, social history, North West England, Wigan, Liverpool, Tanzania, Tanganyika, Manchester, death, birth, mortality, census, working class, working classes, Lancashire, Symes, Sachak, Wilkinson, Daniels, Cooke, lodgers
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