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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Goodman, Dave.
How the Old Age Pension was Won: the Forgotten Story. No Thanks to Lloyd George
(Third Age Press, 2nd edition, 1998).
Paperback. Very good. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-A14082
Keywords: 1898576122, old age pension, pensions, history, Lloyd George, social security, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, National Insurance, politics, Labour movement, popular politics, aged, old, retirement
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Muir, Richard.
The Villages of England:
(BCA, 1992).
With many photographs. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A4547
Keywords: 0500015295, village, village life, villages, countryside, rural, history, community, communities, farming, farms, Britain, British, England, English, social history
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Goldman, Harold.
Emma Paterson: She Led Woman into a Man's World
(Lawrence & Wishart, 1974).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in chipped, slightly soiled dw. 127pp. Order No. NSBK-C2499
Keywords: 0853153051, Emma Paterson, feminists, feminism, feminist, social history, women's history, equal pay, labour, labor, trade unions, trades unions, trade unionism, women's movement, TUC, women trade unionists, T.U.C, England, English, Britain, British, nineteenth century, twentieth century
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Heath, Carl.
Military Service, Compulsory and Otherwise:
(Rationalist Peace Society, no date, circa First World War).
Leaflet no 2. Paperback. Slight browning and chipping to edges, otherwise very good. 2pp. Order No. NSBK-A14131
Keywords: pacifists, pacifism, pacifist, military service, compulsory military service, social history, Carl Heath, fighting, World War I, First World War, Great War, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, peace, peace movements
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Enamel Reproduction Suffragette Badge, Organisers & Organising Secretaries.
NUWSS (National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies): Women's Suffrage
(Portrayer Publishers, 2005).
High quality modern reproduction enamel badge. Collectable modern replica of a suffragette badge (originally produced by the NUWSS, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies). Size: 30mm height at tallest point. Approx 23mm at widest point. Featuring a hand-sculpted 3D figure to the centre of the badge (woman blowing trumpet), surrounded by the words [at top] "The Union of N.U.W.S.S" and [at bottom] "Organisers & Organising Secretaries". Colours are shiny gold with red, white and green edging. Gold back and safety pin to rear for easy affixing to garments. Presented inside a small poly-bag. Badge. Fine, new. pp. Order No. NSBK-C8942
Keywords: B00467U4PE, Christmas gifts, jewellery, jewelry, woman suffrage, button badge, pin back, badges, pinback, suffragette era, pins, suffragettes, suffragist activity, suffragists, women, women's history, woman, history, social history, Britain, British history, England, English history, NUWSS, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, enamel badges, suffragette jewellery, suffragette jewelry, brooch, brooches, women's movement, Portrayer Publishers, suffragette ephemera
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Basch, Francoise.
Relative Creatures: Victorian Women in Society and the Novel, 1837-1867
(Allen Lane, 1974).
Hardback. Some sun-fading to spine of dustwrapper, with newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise a good copy. xx + 360pp. Order No. NSBK-C4627
Keywords: 9780713904857, Victorian, nineteenth century, women, novels, novel, spinsters, spinster, history, wives, mothers, writing, society, social history, literature, social history, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, fiction, novelists, female, novelist, literary, England, English, Britain, British
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Summerfield, Penny.
Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives:
(MUP, 1998).
Paperback. Fly leaf clipped, spine creased, minor pencil annotation, with newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C2122
Keywords: 0719044618, wartime, women's history, women's work, World War II, Second World War, World War Two, social history, oral history, popular culture, war effort, home front, domestic front, gender relations, gender roles, cultural representations, films, magazines, media, Women's Land Army, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, WAAF, Women's Royal Navy Service, WRNS
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Sadler, Michael E.
Report on Secondary and Higher Education in Essex:
(J.H. Nicholas, 1906).
With a map and diagrams. Hardback. Brown cloth sun-faded with some rubbing to edges, otherwise good. v + 418 + livpp. Order No. NSBK-A707
Keywords: B0008A8F2W, education, Essex, social history, Edwardian, Michael E. Sadler, secondary education, higher education, Chelmsford, Colchester, Saffron Walden, children, childhood, child, teenagers, teenage, Dunmow, pupils, scholarships, Britain, British, England, English, school, schools, schooling
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Suffragettes, DVD format.
The Suffragettes: the Story of Emmeline Pankhurst
(Pegasus Entertainment, 2006 DVD release of 1994 recording).
PAL format DVD. Number of discs: 1. Classification: Exempt. Run Time: 52 minutes. DVD. New, fine condition, in cellophane. pp. Order No. NSBK-C13723
Keywords: B000HLDAG8, Emmeline Pankhurst, Pankhursts, feminism, feminists, feminist history, Votes for women, suffragettes, suffrage movement, Britain, British History, Edwardian, women and politics, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU, England, Britain, history, England, English, British, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, Christabel Pankhurst, E. Sylvia Pankhurst, NUWSS, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, franchise, enfranchisement, Asquith, gender, socialist, socialists, socialism, World War I, First World War, Great War, Annie Kenney, prisons, television programmes, television programme, TV, Christmas gifts, dvds, dvd, DVD, Pegasus Entertainment, teaching aids, suffragette ephemera
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