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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Thwaite, Ann.
Waiting for the Party: the Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849-1924
(Secker & Warburg, 1974).
Hardback. Ex library, lacks fly leaf, usual lib stamps & stickers, some white speckling to boards, otherwise good in dw. xii + 274pp. Order No. NSBK-C757
Keywords: 436521504, Frances Hodgson Burnett, children's writing, woman writer, women writers, literature, Secret Garden, The Little Princess, Britain, British, England, English, history, biography, biographies
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Morley, Louise and Walsh, Val, eds.
Feminist Academics: Creative Agents for Change
(Taylor and Francis, 1995).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. vi + 203pp. Order No. NSBK-C9106
Keywords: 0748402993, women, woman, female, academe, academia, universities, higher education, university, degrees, graduates, academy, teachers, gender, feminists, feminism
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Kelly, Alison, ed.
Science for Girls?:
(Open University Press, 1987).
Paperback. With a newspaper article pasted to endpapers, light soiling to covers, otherwise good+. ix + 141pp. Order No. NSBK-A14095
Keywords: gender, education, science, science in education, scientific, technology, schools, training, gender identity, physics, masculinity, femininity, engineering, mathematics, careers
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Hawkins, Angus & Powell, John, eds.
The Journal of John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley for 1862-1902:
(CUP for Royal Hist. Soc., 1997).
Camden 5th series, vol 9. Hardback. Very good. xxii + 530pp. Order No. NSBK-A1936
Keywords: 0521623286, John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Glyn, Andrew and Miliband, David, eds.
Paying For Inequality: The Economic Cost of Social Injustice
(IPPR/Rivers Oram Press, 1994).
Paperback. Very good. xiii +248pp. Order No. NSBK-A15502
Keywords: 185489059X, economics, economic, inequality, poverty, poor, Labour, politics, Britain, British, history, twentieth century
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Harris, C.C.
The Family and Industrial Society:
(George Allen and Unwin, 2nd impress., 1984).
Studies in Sociology:13. Paperback. Spine creased, some ink annotation not affecting legibility, otherwise good. xi + 260pp. Order No. NSBK-A9401
Keywords: 004301156X, family, families, industrial, industry, sociology, kinship, child, children, household, statistics, marriage, Britain, British, England, English, history, population, demography
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Coates, Ken, et al.
Eleventh Hour for Europe:
(Spokesman, 1981).
Paperback. Very good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A11172
Keywords: 0851243096, peace, Europe, European, twentieth century, 20th, nuclear war, nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation treaty, Polaris, disarmament
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Abbott, Joan.
Student Life in a Class Society:
(Pergamon Press, 1971).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf but very good in slightly sunned, slightly rubbed dustwrapper. xxiv + 641pp. Order No. NSBK-A15949
Keywords: 9780080156545, education, students, student, class, university, universities, history, sociology
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Lingard, Horace.
Hints and Ideas by a Practical Man for Unpractical People:
(Publisher unknown, no date).
Paperback. Small stain on back cover, otherwise good. 16pp. Order No. NSBK-A3223
Keywords: decorative, painting, home decoration, advice, history, Horace Lingard, DIY, handywork
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