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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Mckenna, Paul.
Great Golf: Paul Mckenna's Sports Hypnosis
(Paul Mckenna Productions, 1998).
Brand new, shrinkwrapped. Totally unused and in mint condition. Audio Cassette. Brand new, shrink wrapped, unused and in MINT condition, well preserved title, scarce and rarely seen. pp. Order No. NSBK-F13805
Keywords: 1900148056, Paul Mckenna, golf, hypnosis, hypnotism, hypnotist, hypnotise, hypnotised, england, english, britain, british, NLP, neuro linguistic programming, bandler, sport, sports, golfing, golfer, golfers, sporting, athlete, athletes, athletic, stage, mind, health, healthy, lifestyle
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Kelly, Thomas, ed.
A Select Bibliography of Adult Education in Great Britain:
(Nat Institute of Adult Education, rpt., 1974).
Hardback. Very good in browned dustwrapper. xiii + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A8338
Keywords: 0900559268, adult education, education, educational, schools, schooling, bibliographies, bibliography, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Mackenzie-Grieve, Averil.
The Great Accomplishment: The Contribution of Five English Women to 18th Century Colonisation
(Geoffrey Bles, 1953).
Hardback. Very good in worn and faded dustwrapper. xiii + 290pp. Order No. NSBK-C3122
Keywords: B0000CIHIY, Empire, Mrs Pinckney, South Carolina, Mrs Macarthur, New South Wales, Mrs Simcoe, Canada, Mrs Falconbridge, Sierra Leone, Mrs Brodbelt, Jamaica, West Indies, America, Australia, colonialism
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Stocqueler, J. H.
A Personal History of The Horse-Guards From 1750 to 1872:
(Hurst and Blackett, 1873).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Heavy dark staining to red cloth, edges worn, spine cover split. Internally good and solid. x + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-A15148
Keywords: B002NISKJU, horse-guards, army, cavalry, history, military, Duke of York, war, nineteenth century, eighteenth century
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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Kineton/The Roundwood Press, 1974).
Hardback. Covers slightly soiled, marginal pencil annotation not affecting legbility, otherwise very good. xvi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C11001
Keywords: 0900093307, women, woman, gender, 1920s, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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Jones, Helen, ed.
Duty and Citizenship: the Correspondence and Papers of Violet Markham, 1896-1953
(The Historians' Press, 1994).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. vi + 202pp. Order No. NSBK-C3649
Keywords: 9781872273037, Violet Markham, women, work, duty, citizenship, suffrage, anti-suffrage, Votes for Women, anti-suffragism, suffragettes, Edwardian, war, World War I, Great War, First World War, Home Front, citizens, Liberals, local politics, Liberal politics, twentieth century, letters, Helen Jones
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Kent, Susan Kingsley.
Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918 - 1931
(Palgrave, 2009).
Hardback. Covers slightly rubbed, otherwise very good+. ix + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A15716
Keywords: 9781403993335, politics, trauma, psyche, emotions, emotional, inter-war, inter war, twenties, psychology, social history, post World War I, Great War
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Fisher, David.
The War Magician: How Jasper Maskelyne and his Magic Gang Altered the Course of World War II
(Coward McCann, New York, 1983).
Britain's most bizarre secret weapon of WWII - he made the Suez canal disappear. Became an assassination target of Hitler's regime during WWII. A very scarce title. Hardback. Slight bumping to corners, otherwise very good in chipped, slightly discoloured, slightly worn dustwrapper. First Edition in 315pp. Order No. NSBK-A4731
Keywords: 0698111400, magic, conjuring, maskelyne, illusions, music hall, theatre, David Devant, jasper, Neville, war, Hitler, illusion, conjurer, warfare, war, magic gang, magician, magicians, magical, illusionist, jasper maskelyne, illusionists, Second World War, great britain, great british, england, english, war magician, history, david fisher, egyptian hall, illusions, deceptions, deception, deceptionist, deceptionists, decept, deceptive, deceptor, world war, wartime, war magician, magic gang, history, magic history, conjurers, conjured, J.N Maskelyne, white magic, World War II, World War Two, Inter-war, Interwar, Inter war
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Monger, David.
Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain: The National War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale
(Liverpool UP, 2012).
Hardback. Near fine in dustwrapper. xiv + 310pp. Order No. NSBK-A15698
Keywords: 9781846318306, patriotism, First World War, Great War, propaganda, civilian morale, social history, NWAC, World War I
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