Symes, R. A.
Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries:
(Pen and Sword, 2016).
The intriguing characters in these real family history mysteries include an agricultural labourer who left secrets behind in Somerset when he migrated to Manchester, a working-class woman who bafflingly lost ten of her fourteen children in infancy, a miner who purportedly went to live with the Red Indians and a merchant prince of the Empire who was rumoured to have two wives. This book shows how a variety of sources including birth, marriage and death certificates, censuses, newspaper reports, passports, recipe books, trade directories, diaries and passenger lists were all used to uncover more, and how much can be detected by setting the characters from your family tree in their proper historical backgrounds. Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A15528
Keywords: 9781473862944, social history, geneaology, family trees, women, men, Empire, birth certificates, geneaology, marriage, death, mortality, fertility, diaries, passenger lists, labour, censuses, emigration, family relationships
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Sanders, Valerie.
Records of Girlhood: Volume 2. An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Childhoods
(Routledge, 2012).
Volume 2, The Nineteenth Century Series. Paperback. Top back corner slightly bumped, and top corner of rear cover creased, otherwise very good, bright. 230pp. Order No. NSBK-C16027
Keywords: 9781138275157, girlhood, women, childhoods, children, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, sources, social, girls
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McKibbin, Ross.
Classes and Cultures: England, 1918 - 1951
(OUP, 1998).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf. With newspaper articles pasted to fly leaf, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. vii + 562pp. Order No. NSBK-C15699
Keywords: 9780198206729, class, classes, cultures, Ross McKibbin, interwar, inter-war, culture, social history, twentieth century, England, English, Britain, British, social customs, social life, class consciousness, social conditions, 20th century
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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004 facsimile of 1918 text).
Clementina Black (1854 - 1922) was a campaigner committed to improving the plight of working women. In this work of 1918, she urges a reorganisation of household duties, in order to free women from domestic drudgery. In her utopian vision of 'co-operative housekeeping', women would be released from the wasted effort of housework and made available for the labour market, which was now so very depleted of men after the Great War. She criticises the 'stupidity' of 'labour-making houses', and questions the continuing validity of the employment of domestic servants in the modern age. Her solution is to propose the formation of 'domestic federations'. These would represent committees of householders who would collectively manage their domestic arrangements in a centre 'fitted up with store places, kitchens, dining-rooms, offices, and lodgings for a nucleus of resident servants'. Examples of material included: women employed in housekeeping; changes in domestic standards; why not be servantless?; the distaste for domestic service; labour-making houses; domestic federations; reconstructed domestic service; the motor as emancipator; waste of labour; women who do domestic work without aptitude or satisfaction; service of women needed by the country. Paperback. New book, fine. x + 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C7548
Keywords: 0954476123, Great War, First World War, World War I, social history, class, middle classes, middle class, domesticity, servants, domestic servants, maid, maids, housemaids, housekeeping, Clementina Black, labour-making houses, homes, houses, domestic service, twentieth century, interwar, inter-war, inter war, Homes for Heroes, housing, domestic standards, etiquette, women, domestic work, labour, working women, women's history, chores, co-operative housekeeping, domestic federations, cooperative housekeeping, co-operatives, co-operation, cooperation, Women's Industrial Council, labour-saving, labour market, labor, labour shortage, housework, utopianism, utopian, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Portrayer reprints, Portrayer facsimiles, new titles
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Nicholson, Mavis.
What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?: Women in World War II
(Chatto & Windus, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 264pp. Order No. NSBK-A8523
Keywords: 0701133562, war, Second World War, women, history, women's, World War II, Home Front, twentieth century, domestic front, land army, land girls, oral history, WAAF, wartime, wartime brides, widows, war effort, woman, female, social history
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Carpenter, Mary.
Reformatory Schools: For the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes and for Juvenile Offenders
(Woburn Press, Augustus M. Kelley, new impression, 1969).
A re-issue of the 1851 text. Hardback. Very good in spine-faded, lightly soiled dustwrapper. xi + 353pp. Order No. NSBK-C13605
Keywords: B0010Y287S, crime, reformatory schools, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, childhood, education, children, schooling, Mary Carpenter, juvenile offenders, poverty, destitution, social history, free day schools, ragged schools, gaols, prisons
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Kaye, Michael.
Child Welfare Outside the School:
(Oliver and Boyd, 1937).
Hardback. Some brown soiling to cloth and rubbing to edges, otherwise good. viii + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-A13584
Keywords: B00112B870, inter-war, inter war, child welfare, social welfare, home, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, housing, family, poverty, social history, health, employment, unemployment, leisure, delinquency, slums, slum, fitness, children
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Mahood, Linda.
The Magdalenes: Prostitution in the Ninteenth Century
(Routledge, 1990).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in spine-faded dustwrapper. ix + 205pp. Order No. NSBK-C15703
Keywords: 9780415001663, nineteenth century, 19th, prostitutes, prostitution, history,women, gender, Britain, British, social history
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Davis, Jean.
Straw Plait:
(Shire Publications, 1981).
Shire Album, no 78. Pamphlet. A little wear to edges, rear cover slightly marked near spine, otherwise a good copy. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-C15763
Keywords: stored with pamphlets, booklets, history, Shire Album, Straw Plait, plaiting, straw plaiting, crafts, crafting, countryside, rural, hats, hat-making, Midlands, bonnets, hat trade, social history
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Cole, Pauline.
Transition to Arcady: A Story of Two Years Spent in the Women's Land Army - '47 to '49
(Arthur H.Stockwell, 2001).
Booklet. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. 31pp. Order No. NSBK-C13316
Keywords: 0722333412, women and work, working women, Women's Land Army, post-war, social history, women's history, farms, farming, agriculture, rural, post war, woman, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Pauline Cole, booklet
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