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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Shonfield, Zuzanna.
The Precariously Privileged: A Professional Family in Victorian London
(OUP, 1987).
Hardback. With newspaper cutting pasted to inside front cover, otherwise good in dustwrapper. ix + 266pp. Order No. NSBK-C463
Keywords: 0192122657, class, professional, Victorian, London, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, middle class
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Working Man's Friend Periodical, .
The Working Man's Friend and Family Instructor:
(John Cassell).
14 unbound pamphlets / issues. Weeks ending: March 16th 1850; July 13th 1850; July 20th 1850; July 27th 1850; October 5th 1850; October 26th 1850; January 4th 1851; February 15th 1851; February 22nd 1851; March 1st 1851; March 8th 1851; March 15th 1851; March 22nd 1851; March 29th 1851. Disbound pamphlets. Darkened / browned with natural ageing, some soiling, otherwise good. Unbound issues of the magazine. pp. Order No. NSBK-A13130
Keywords: class, Britain, British, England, English, working class, working classes, magazines, magazine, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, working men, literacy, knowledge, periodicals, working class consciousness, Exhibition of 1851, pamphlets
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Burnett, John, ed.
Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Penguin, rpt, 1984).
Paperback. Spine slightly sun-faded, otherwise very good. 345pp. Order No. NSBK-A1481
Keywords: 9780140073454, autobiography, childhood, education, Victorian, social history, England, Britain
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Stopes, Marie.
Wise Parenthood: the Treatise on Birth Control for Married People
(G.P. Putnam, 7th edit., 1921).
Hardback. Cloth slightly marked and edges worn, a good working copy. 60pp. Order No. NSBK-C77
Keywords: B0014FFD70, Marie Stopes, parenthood, parent, birth control, marriage, contraception, reproduction, sexuality, women's history, family, motherhood
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Carr, Jean.
Another Story: Women and the Falklands War
(Hamish Hamilton, 1984).
Paperback. Crease to front cover, otherwise good. xv + 162pp. Order No. NSBK-C3647
Keywords: 0241113547, Falklands War, women, Margaret Thatcher, Thatcherism, history, eighties, politics, Britain, England, English, British, Argentina, family, Tories, Tory, Conservatives, Malvinas
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Smith, Blanche Marie.
The Single Woman of Today: Her Problems and Adjustment
(Watts and Co, 2nd impression, 1952).
Hardback. Good in sun-faded, slightly soiled dustwrapper. 130pp. Order No. NSBK-A15945
Keywords: B0007EE0I2, single women, unmarried, spinsters, spinsterhood, marriage, history, careers, monogamy, woman, family
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Hall, Ruth.
Marie Stopes: a Biography
(Andre Deutsch, 1977).
Hardback. Ex library with marks left by library stickers, well-used but good in loose, creased dustwrapper. 351pp. Order No. NSBK-C653
Keywords: 0233968792, Marie Stopes, history, contraception, family, childbirth, birth control, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history
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Buswell, Carol.
Women in Contemporary Society:
(Macmillan, 1989).
Issues in Sociology. Paperback. Fine. ix + 147pp. Order No. NSBK-A11243
Keywords: 0333461312, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, society, feminism, feminists, work, media, politics, family, edcuation
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Garden, Graeme.
A Sense of the Past:
(Ward Lock, 1985).
With Graham Nown. Hardback. Very good in slightly worn dustwrapper. 124pp. Order No. NSBK-A6479
Keywords: 0706363450, history, photographs, shops, buildings, local, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, swimming baths, graveyards, pubs, packaging, advertising, popular, Victorian, shopping, food, spas, family, Portsmouth, railways, commericals
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