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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Drysdale, Ann.
A Pig in a Passage:
(Robert Hale, 1997).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+. 155pp. Order No. NSBK-C10028
Keywords: 0709060777, Ann Drysdale, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, lives, life histories, life history, rural, agrarian, agriculture, North York Moors, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English
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Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, and Roger Leech.
Early Industrial Housing: the Trinity Area of Frome
(HMSO, 1981).
Supplementary Series. Paperback. Covers lightly rubbed, otherwise very good. viii + 44pp. Order No. NSBK-A7705
Keywords: 0117009075, Frome, Trinity Area, industrial housing, housing, houses, social history, architecture, architectural, buildings, homes, surveys, plans, streets, neighbourhood, town planning, regional studies, Britain, British, England, English, Somerset, urban, urbanisation, urban development, growth, 18th century, eighteenth century
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Moore, Lindy.
Bajanellas and Semilinas: Aberdeen University and the Education of Women, 1860-1920
(Aberdeen UP, 1991).
Out-of-print. Paperback. Very good. xii + 164pp. Order No. NSBK-C5634
Keywords: 0080409180, Aberdeen University, education, women, higher education, women's education, Scotland, Scottish, Scots, Britain, British, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Edwardian, universities, students, Banjans, Semis, Semilinas, Banjanellas, adult education
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Morris, Audrey Y.
Gentle Pioneers: Five Nineteenth-Century Canadians
(Hodder and Stoughton, rpt., 1973).
Paperback. Pages slightly browned, otherwise good. xii + 253pp. Order No. NSBK-A13080
Keywords: 0340026952, Canada, Canadians, pioneers, Morris, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, Samuel Strickland, Mrs Moodie, Sheriff of Hastings, Douro, Susanna Moodie, John W. Dunbar Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill, Thomas Traill, Traills
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Goldberg, P.J.P., Ed.
Women in Medieval English Society:
(Sutton, 1997).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xvii + 229pp. Order No. NSBK-C6511
Keywords: 0750916400, women, medieval, history, England, English, Britain, British, gender, marriage, family, Middle Ages, Peter Biller, P.J.P. Goldberg
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Proudfoot, Karin.
Genealogy for Beginners:
(Phillimore and Co, Ltd, 2003).
Paperback. Very good+. xii + 126pp. Order No. NSBK-J12583
Keywords: 1860772684, genealogy, family history, families, family trees, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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