Symes, Ruth A.
It Runs in the Family:
(The History Press, 2013).
In the quest to uncover our family history, we turn to written records, the family album and even heirlooms. However, they can often be difficult to interpret and sometimes pose more questions than they answer: Why didn't my ancestors smile for the camera? Why did great-grandfather wear a beard while his sons were clean-shaven? Why is my great-grandmother holding flowers in this photograph? Drawing on evidence from social history, women's history, and the histories of photography, art and fashion, and using examples from the lowly as well as the famous, Ruth Symes explores many aspects of ordinary life in the past - from the state of the nation's teeth, to the legal and economic connotations of wearing a wedding ring and even the business of keeping a dog. This fascinating volume aims to help family historians get to know their elusive ancestors by deciphering the wealth of personal and historical clues contained in photographs, documents and artefacts. Paperback. New book, fine. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-D15428
Keywords: 9780752497020, family history, family, families, Ruth Symes, genealogy, geneaolgical, social history, evidence, sources, research, women, old photographs, photography
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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
Price £28.00.
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Ouvry, Elinor Southwood.
Extracts from Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1864 - 1911:
(Adelphi Book Shop, London, 1933).
Foreword by Neville Chamberlain. Card covers. Spine darkened, edges of covers slightly chipped / slightly curled, some chipping to spine, internally very good. iii + 64pp. Order No. NSBK-C4295
Keywords: B001QVTYT0, open spaces, housing, housing management, house, houses, Octavia Hill, London, philanthropy, women, woman, philanthropist, philanthropists, town planning, social history, welfare, towns, city, cities, fellow workers, fellow-workers, housing reformers, housing reformer, slum, slums, property, poor, poverty, nineteenth century, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century
Price £26.50.
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Mayer, Philip.
A Tram Ride to Dingle:
(Bluecoat Press, 1996).
Paperback. Very good. 79pp. Order No. NSBK-A13926
Keywords: 1872568343, Liverpool, Merseyside, Dingle, trams, tramways, city, cities, transport, history, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, social history
Price £11.00.
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Blatchford, Robert.
Spangles of Existence:
(John Lane, Bodley Head, 1921).
Hardback. A little light patching to cloth, and wear to spine ends and corners, otherwise good+. viii + 229pp. Order No. NSBK-A8958
Keywords: B000H3YQUA, Robert Blatchford, labour movement, social history, Britain, British, England, English, fiction, literature
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Corporation of Nottingham, .
Records of the Borough of Nottingham: Being a Series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corporation of Nottingham. Vol IX. 1836 - 1900
(Corporation of Nottingham, 1956).
Hardback. Light mottling to cloth, otherwise very good in chipped, slightly worn, lightly soiled dustwrapper. 462pp. Order No. NSBK-A14074
Keywords: B001M5CF0U, records, volume nine, 9, IX, Nottingham, borough, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Nottinghamshire, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th century, social history, housing, town, urban, urbanisation, towns, markets, Nottinghamshire, schools, public health, sewers, police, buildings, Midlands
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Atkinson, Diane.
Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front
(Preface Publishing, 2009).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly soiled, slightly creased dustwrapper. 280pp. Order No. NSBK-C15563
Keywords: 9781848091337, Great War, First World War, social history, women, nursing, ambulances, motorcycles, biography, nurses, medicine
Price £11.95.
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Walton, John K. & Walvin, James, eds.
Leisure in Britain, 1780-1939:
(MUP, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, otherwise good+ in slightly faded, slightly creased dustwrapper. 241pp. Order No. NSBK-A2320
Keywords: 071900912X, leisure, entertainment, social history, recreation, Victorian, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, twentieth century, England, English, Britain, British, hobbies, working class, working classes, middle class, middle classes, class, John Walton, Jim Walvin, James Walvin, Walton, Leisure in Britain
Price £28.00.
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Surman, Phyllis.
Eliza of Otmoor:
(Oxprint, 1976).
Scarce. Paperback. Covers soiled, with a little bumping to corners, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise a good copy. 49pp. Order No. NSBK-C15833
Keywords: stored with the booklets, booklet, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Otmoor, women's history, family history, Islip, rural, villages, social history, village, Eliza of Otmoor, Coggins, farming
Price £18.00.
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Raybould, S.G., ed.
Trends in English Adult Education:
(Heinemann, 1959).
Hardback. Ex library, with minimal library stamps and markings, light wear to cloth especially at spine, otherwise good condition, solid. xiii + 258pp. Order No. NSBK-A16000
Keywords: B000SE7YJ8, shed, waist height, green cloth, English, British, adult education, colleges, trade unions, Ashby Report, social history
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