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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Chandrasekhar, S.
A Dirty, Filthy Book: The Writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on Reproductive Physiology and Birth Control and an Acount of the Bradlaugh-Besant Trial
(University of California Press, 1981).
With the definitive texts of Fruits of Philosophy by Charles Knowlton, The Law of Population by Annie Besant, Theosophy and the Law of Population by Annie Besant. Hardback. Excellent in dustwrapper. xi + 217pp. Order No. NSBK-C15468
Keywords: 0520041682, Victorian, history, Annie Besant, Charles Knowlton, Britain, British, England, English, reproduction, sexual, sex, females, feminism, women, woman, physiology, birth control, contraception, population, law, Bradlaugh-Besant trial
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Sheridan, Dorothy, ed.
Wartime Women: A Mass-Observation Anthology of Women's Writing, 1937 - 1945
(Phoenix Press, rpt, 2000).
Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. xiv + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-C5912
Keywords: 1842122134, war, Second World War, World War II, mass-observation, mass observation, people, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, mass observation studies
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Dwyer, Bernard.
But That's Another Story: Collected Writings of Roscommon Man
(Dave Mallinson, 1995).
Paperback. Good+. viii + 97pp. Order No. NSBK-A14246
Keywords: 1899512152, Roscommon Man, Irish, Ireland, story telling, stories, fact, fiction, legends, tales, Bernard Dwyer
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Margery, Susan, Guerin, Caroline, Hamilton, P, ed.
Writing Lives: Feminist Biography and Autobiography
(Australian Feminist Publications, 1992).
Paperback. Covers slightly yellowed, otherwise very good. xi + 169pp. Order No. NSBK-C15784
Keywords: women's autobiographies, biographies, women writers
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Polkey, Pauline, ed.
Women's Lives Into Print: The Theory, Practice and Writing of Feminist Auto/Biography
(Macmillan, 1999).
Hardback. Very good+, without dustwrapper. xx + 238pp. Order No. NSBK-C15694
Keywords: 9780333684108, autobiography, autobiographies, history, feminism, biography, biographies, recollections, self, female identity, literature, women
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Pimlott, Ben.
Frustrate their Knavish Tricks: Writings on Biography, History and Politics
(HarperCollins, 1994).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 417pp. Order No. NSBK-A11328
Keywords: 000255495X, Ben Pimlott, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history , Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, John Kennedy, Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Bill Clinton, Edgar Hoover, Arthur Koestler, Anthony Crosland, Noman Tebbit, Neil Kinnock, politics, political, politicians, government
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Craig, Peter, ed.
The Penguin Book of British Comic Writing:
(BCA, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 460pp. Order No. NSBK-A11443
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Cobbett, William.
Cobbett's Country Book: An Anthology of William Cobbett's Writings on Country Matters
(David and Charles, no date).
Edited and with an introduction by Richard Ingrams. Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled, slightly dented dustwrapper. 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A6274
Keywords: 0715368001, William Cobbett, Radicals, Tory Radicals, popular Radicals, popular radicalism, Britain, British, British Isles, nineteenth century, history, rural, country, seasons, countryside, gardening, farming, rural sports, farms, social history
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Spongberg, Mary; Caine, Barbara; Curthoys, Ann, eds.
Companion to Women's Historical Writing:
(Palgrave, 2005).
Hardback. Light soiling to page edges, otherwise very good. xvii + 712pp. Order No. NSBK-C15675
Keywords: 9781403915085, women historians, women writers, resources, history
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