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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Sturge, Elizabeth.
Reminiscences Of My Life: and Some Account Of The Children Of William And Charlotte Sturge And Of The Sturge Family Of Bristol
(J. W. Arrrowsmith, for private circulation, 1928).
Presentation copy from the writer. Hardback. Family charts all present though with tearing to spine. Some wear and light marking to blue cloth, and fraying at spine and spine edges. Light foxing, but a good solid copy. 202pp. Order No. NSBK-A15096
Keywords: B00088VGWA, Sturge, Bristol, history, biography, reminiscences, memoirs, Elizabeth Sturge, Sturges, family, William Sturge, Charlotte Sturge, Mary Carpenter, Quaker, Quakers, Quakerism, Victorian, Edwardian, philanthropy
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Edwards, Rosalind.
Mature Women Students: Separating or Connecting Family and Education
(Taylor and Francis, 1993).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. v + 179pp. Order No. NSBK-A14087
Keywords: 0748400869, mature students, female, women, women's education, adult education, family, academic, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, higher education, university, universities, colleges
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Van Every, Jo.
Heterosexual Women Changing the Family: Refusing to Be a Wife
(Taylor & Francis, 1995).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. x + 165pp. Order No. NSBK-C14018
Keywords: 0748402837, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, heterosexuality, sexuality, twentieth century, 20th, family, families, sexual roles, household, anti-sexist, households, domestic labour, marriage, mothers, mothering, feminism, feminists
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Mount, Ferdinand.
The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriage
(Jonathan Cape, 1982).
Hardback. Very good in soiled dustwrapper. 282pp. Order No. NSBK-C10796
Keywords: 0224019996, love, marriage, family, sex, gender, marital, divorce, couples, husbands, wives, wife, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Dyhouse, Carol.
Feminism and the Family in England, 1880-1939:
(Basil Blackwell, 1989).
Out-of-print paperback. Paperback. Scattered ink annotation not affecting legibility, otherwise good. vi + 204pp. Order No. NSBK-C5789
Keywords: 0631167366, feminism, women, history, family, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, twentieth century, domestic, domesticity, marriage, sexuality, private sphere, separate spheres, economic, reproduction, childbirth, childcare, families
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Foreman, Ann.
Femininity as Alienation: Women and the Family in Marxism and Pyschoanalysis
(Pluto Press, 1977).
Paperback. Very good+. 168pp. Order No. NSBK-C11112
Keywords: 0904383628, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, family, families, Marxism, psychoanalysis, psychoanalytical, feminism, feminists, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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Lofthouse, W.F.
The Family and the State:
(Epworth Press, 1944).
The Social Service Lecture, 1944. Hardback. Red boards slightly bubbled & darkened, otherwise very good. 145pp. Order No. NSBK-C2442
Keywords: B0007IV87O, family, state, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Rabb, Theodore K and Rotberg, Robert I.
The Family in History: Interdisciplinary Essays
(Harper Torchbooks, 1973).
Paperback. Covers soiled and slightly torn, otherwise a good working copy. vii + 235pp. Order No. NSBK-C9490
Keywords: 0061317578, family, families, history, social history, men, women, children, domesticity, women, women's history
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Cavan, Ruth Shonle.
The American Family:
(Thomas Y. Crowell, 5th printing, 1956).
Hardback. Slightly musty, back cover board blotched, otherwise good. xiv + 658pp. Order No. NSBK-C1527
Keywords: 0690064217, America, sociology, United States, USA, U.S.A., family
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