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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Trustram, Myna.
Women of the Regiment: Marriage and the Victorian Army
(CUP, 1984).
Hardback. Very good in slightly browned and torn dustwrapper. ix + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-C4189
Keywords: 9780521262941, regiments, regiment, army, armies, women, nineteenth century, Victorian, war, marriage, marital relations, family, military, sexuality, soldiers, soldier, wives, wife, social history, Britain, British, England, English, Myna Trustram
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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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Wilson, Andrew, ed.
The Modern Physician: Being a Complete Guide to the Attainment and Preservation of Health
(Caxton Publishing, 1913).
Volume IV ONLY of five. Frontispiece portrait lacks tissue paper covering. Hardbacks. Original green / gilt cloth a little marked and rubbed, with wear to edges, otherwise a good solid copy. Single volume only, Vol 4. viii + 296pp. Order No. NSBK-A7370
Keywords: B000881XCI, social history, Edwardian health, twentieth century, medical, medicine, medical history, Dr Andrew Wilson, Britain, British, England, English, physicians, physician, welfare, organs, circulation, treatments, symptoms, ailments, diseases, women, men, children, doctors, illnesses, hygiene, fevers, vaccinations, drugs, exercise, exercising, exercises
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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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Enamel Reproduction Suffragette Badge, Waving Flag Design.
Votes For Women Modern Replica Badge, W.S.P.U:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004).
Votes For Women: waving flag badge. High quality modern reproduction enamel badge. (Hard enamel type finish, no epoxy sealing). Size: 28mm wide by 25mm tall (approx). Waving flag-shaped. In purple, white and green (the colours of the suffragette campaign). Brass back and gold-plated safety-pin with safe locking ring to rear. This badge is a replica of an original of the period, shaped as a tricolour-style waving flag. The words "Votes for Women" occupy one word per colour, per line. Presented inside a small poly-bag. Badge. New, fine - wrapped in polythene wrapper. pp. Order No. NSBK-C8167
Keywords: B002HJHDQQ, Votes For Women, suffrage, woman suffrage, pin, button, badge, pin back, pinback, pins, suffragette, suffragettes, suffragettes' badges, badges, suffragist, suffragists, women, women's history, women history, social history, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, enamel, enamels, jewellery, jewelry, women's suffrage, political women, politics, England, English, Britain, British, Christmas gifts, Portrayer Publishers, suffragette ephemera
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Montgomery, W. A. and Weightman, M. Scott.
Grace Darling:
(M. S. Weightman, rpt, 1999).
Booklet. Paperback. Very good. 24pp. Order No. NSBK-A15035
Keywords: B0042Q183Q, Grace Darling, history, women heroines, Northumbria, social history, Victorian, booklets
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Walter, John.
Crowds and Popular Politics in Early Modern England:
(Manchester UP, 2006).
Hardback. Good in slightly faded dustwrapper. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A14499
Keywords: 0719074754, crowd studies, crowds, popular politics, history, social history, early modern, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, food riots, grain riots, Maldon, protest, English Civil War, enclosure, harvests, Midlands Rising, 16th century, seventeenth century, 17th century, sixteenth century
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Mayhew, Henry.
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts. Volume 3
(Caliban Books, 1981).
Paperback. Spine lightly browned, otherwise very good. 277pp. Order No. NSBK-A13116
Keywords: 0904573222, Victorian, 1850, 19th century, nineteenth century, labour, poor, poverty, Henry Mayhew, social surveys, social investigations, sanitation, oral history, wages, sweated labour, poor law, employment, work, thieves, theft, robbery, London, tramps, vagrancy, lodging houses, housing, food, earnings, child labour, boot and shoe trade, beggars, asylums, clothes, boot and shoe makers
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Sadler, Michael E.
Report on Secondary and Higher Education in Essex:
(J.H. Nicholas, 1906).
With a map and diagrams. Hardback. Brown cloth sun-faded with some rubbing to edges, otherwise good. v + 418 + livpp. Order No. NSBK-A707
Keywords: B0008A8F2W, education, Essex, social history, Edwardian, Michael E. Sadler, secondary education, higher education, Chelmsford, Colchester, Saffron Walden, children, childhood, child, teenagers, teenage, Dunmow, pupils, scholarships, Britain, British, England, English, school, schools, schooling
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