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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Roberts, Elizabeth, editor. Lancaster University.
Centre for North-West Regional Studies: Regional Bulletin
(Centre for North-West Regional Studies, 1995).
New Series No 9. Summer 1995. Booklet. Paperback. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A14706
Keywords: C.N.W.R.S, Centre for North-West Regional Studies, bulletin, bulletins, journals, Lancaster University, booklet, booklets
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Centre d'Investigacio Historica Dona, .
Duoda: Papers de Treball
(Centre d'Investigacio Historica Dona, University of Barcelona, 1991).
Centre d'Investigacio Historica de la Dona: 2: 1991. Paperback. Very good. 197pp. Order No. NSBK-A11220
Keywords: Centre d'Investigacio Historica de la Dona, University of Barcelona, history, papers de treball, journals, Spain, Spanish,
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Boyd, A. W.
The Country Diary of a Cheshire Man:
(Collins, 1946).
Hardback. Minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise very good copy in slightly tatty, soiled dustwrapper. 320pp. Order No. NSBK-A14052
Keywords: B0012IVEOA, diary, diaries, Cheshire, natural history, birds, journals, history, insects, flowers, Northern England, A. W. Boyd
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Demos, John & Boocock, Sarane Spence, eds.
Turning Points: Historical and Sociological Essays on the Family
(Chicago UP, 1978).
American Journal of Sociology. Vol 84, Supplement, 1978. Paperback. Covers browned and slightly soiled, internally good. xi + 413pp. Order No. NSBK-C4613
Keywords: 0226142868, family, families, sociology, sociological, history, American Journal of Sociology, social change, demography, America, Americas, United States, USA, Canada, Canadian, Tamara K. Hareven, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
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Histoire Sociale, Social History.
Histoire Sociale: Social History
(Ottowa UP, 1990-1998).
13 issues. Vol XXIII (1990) No 46; Vol XXIV (1991) No 48; Vol XXV (1992) Nos 49 and 50; Vol XXVII (1994) No 54; Vol XXVII (1995) No 55; Vol XXVIII (1995) No 56; Vol XXIX (1996) Nos 57 and 58; Vol XXX (1997) Nos 59 and 60; Vol XXXI (1998) Nos 61 and 62. Paperbacks. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A11401
Keywords: B000HCJAAC, University of Ottowa, French, English, social history, histoire sociale, sociology, journal, journals
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Robinson, W. Sydney.
Muckraker: The Scandalous Life and Times of W. T. Stead. Britain's First Investigative Journalist
(The Robson Press, 2012).
With a foreword by Tristram Hunt. Hardback. Very good + in dw. xv + 281pp. Order No. NSBK-A15392
Keywords: 9781849542944. Muckraker, W. T. Stead, journalism, journalist, press, Victorian, nineteenth century, biography, biographical, self-history
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Neustatter, Angela.
Hyenas in Petticoats: A Look at Twenty Years of Feminism
(Harrap, 1989).
Hardback. Good in yellowed dustwrapper. 250pp. Order No. NSBK-C8281
Keywords: 0245546189, feminism, feminists, history of ideas, political, political, women, women's history, twentieth century, 20th, women's rights, women's movements, journalism, motherhood, sexuality, gender
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John, Angela V.
Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869 - 1955
(MUP, 2009).
Paperback. Fine, as new. xv + 281pp. Order No. NSBK-D14266
Keywords: 9780719080159, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, politics, political, rights, women's rights, women's movement, Votes for Women, woman, women's history, women's studies, women's suffrage, Evelyn Sharp, biography, biographies, children's authors, women writers, Henry W. Nevinson, schoolgirl fiction, Manchester Guardian, Weimar Germany, famine, Soviet Russia, journalists, journalism, Victorian, Edwardian, nineteenth century, 19th, Rebel Women, Angela V. John
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Howe, P.P.
The Life of William Hazlitt:
(Hamish Hamilton, new edition, 1947).
Hardback. Spine faded, otherwise very good. xxvi + 433pp. Order No. NSBK-A4755
Keywords: B0006XOXBS, Regency, Georgian, England, English, Britain, British, social commentary, journalism, journalists, history, William Hazlitt, nineteenth century, William Godwin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Blackwood's Magazine, The Edinburgh Review, essays, essayists, essayist, Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, Henry Crabb Robinson
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