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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Weinberg, Samantha.
A Fish Caught in Time: the Search for the Coelacanth
(Fourth Estate, 1999).
Paperback. Fine. xiii + 239pp. Order No. NSBK-A5560
Keywords: 1857029062, fish, rare fish, fossils, discovery, twentieth century, J.L.B. Smith, fishes, Coelacanth, seas, sea, pisces, underwater
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Scutt, Jocelynne A.
Women and Magna Carta: A Treaty for Rights or Wrongs?
(Palgrave, 2016).
Hardback. Top corner bumped, otherwise very good+. vii + 154pp. Order No. NSBK-C15650
Keywords: 9781137562340, Magna Carta, women's rights, history, natural rights, human rights
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Stephens, W. B.
Sources for English Social History:
(MUP, 1973).
Paperback. Mottling inside front and back covers otherwise good+. x + 260pp. Order No. NSBK-A11028
Keywords: 0719005051, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, sources, local history
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Scaffardi, Sylvia.
Fire Under the Carpet: Working for Civil Liberties in the 1930s
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1986).
Paperback. Very good. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C14152
Keywords: 0853156549, 1930s, thirties, inter war, inter-war, interwar, civil liberties, NCCL, Mosley, fascism, Ronald Kidd, Sylvia Scaffardi, anti-fascism, anti-semitism
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Paludi, Michele amd Steuernagel, Gertrude A.
Foundations for a Feminist Restructuring of the Academic Disciplines:
(Harrington Park Press, 1990).
Paperback. Light rubbing to purple card covers, otherwise good+. xix + 276pp. Order No. NSBK-C16044
Keywords: 9780918393647, feminism, feminist, academia, academic
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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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Brown, G. Sutton.
A Preliminary Plan for Lancashire:
(Lancashire County Council/Percy Lund, 1950).
With a preface by County Alderman, A. Bates and a foreword by County Councillor A. E, Higham. Includes three sets of planning maps in torn envelopes. (Land Availability: 4 maps, Land Use: 4 maps; Development Proposals: 2 maps - appear to be 2 maps missing?). Hardback. Ex library, boxed edition, some wear to cloth and fraying at spine, a good working copy. xv + 222pp. Order No. NSBK-A10083
Keywords: Lancashire, Lancashire County Council, preliminary plan, regions, Britain, British, England, English, geography, maps, plans, development, twentieth century, 20th, land use, land availability, development proposals
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Coates, Ken and Topham, Anthony.
Industrial Democracy in Great Britain: A Book of Readings and Witnesses for Workers Control
(Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 1968).
Hardback. Good+ in chipped dustwrapper. ix + 161pp. Order No. NSBK-A12551
Keywords: 0901740888, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, reading, witmeses, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, work, workers, sex discrimination, labour market, employers, employment, employees, twentieth century, 20th
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Robinson, Jane.
Parrot Pie for Breakfast: An Anthology of Women Pioneers
(OUP, 1999).
Paperback. New book, fine. xiv + 177pp. Order No. NSBK-C2624
Keywords: 0192880209, women travellers, pioneers, emigration, emigrant, imperialism, empire, women writers, history, travel
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