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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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, 1999).
VHS video. VHS video. Very good+. pp. Order No. NSBK-A15759
Keywords: B00004CXY7, hypnosis, sports, sport, playing golf, Paul McKenna
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Mackinnon, Alison.
Love and Freedom: Professional Women and the Reshaping of Personal Life
(CUP, 1997).
Paperback. Very good condition. xvii + 298pp. Order No. NSBK-C3154
Keywords: 9780521497619, women, gender roles, sexuality, motherhood, family, university, reproduction, feminism
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Foster, Timothy R V.
101 Ways to Great Publicity:
(Kogan Page, 1993).
Paperback. Good+. 114pp. Order No. NSBK-H13764
Keywords: 0749409584, publicity, business, twentieth century, 20th
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Colmer, John.
E. M. Forster: The Personal Voice
(RKP, 1975).
Paperback. Very good+. xii + 243pp. Order No. NSBK-A13820
Keywords: 0710094965, E. M. Forster, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors, literary criticism, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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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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Martin, Christopher, ed.
The Great Christian Centuries to Come: Essays in Honour of A. M. Ramsey
(Mowbray's, 1974).
Hardback. A good+ copy in a torn dustwrapper. 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A10217
Keywords: 026466051X, religion, faith, Christians, Christianity, religious, faith, belief, Archbishop, Vatican
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Robinson, Jane.
Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote
(Doubleday, 2018).
Hardback. Ex library, dustwrapper slightly browned, otherwise good+. xx + 374pp. Order No. NSBK-C15657
Keywords: 9780857523914, Votes for Women, women's suffrage, suffragettes, history
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Billiere, General Sir Peter de la.
Storm Command: A Personal Account of the Gulf War
(Harper Collins, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 348pp. Order No. NSBK-A13960
Keywords: 0002551381, Storm Command, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, wars, Gulf War, General Sir Peter de la Billiere
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Finer, S. E.
Anonymous Empire: A Study of the Lobby in Great Britain
(Pall Mall Press, rpt., 1966).
Paperback. Lacks fly leaf, covers browned, otherwise good. xiii + 173pp. Order No. NSBK-A6073
Keywords: B0000CMY6T, political, politics, twentieth century, lobby, lobbying, lobbies, Resale Price Maintenance Bill, Finance Bill, Race Relations Bill, Bills, governments, Parliaments, Britain, British, England, English, history, laws, legal
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