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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Women's Studies International Forum, .
Women's Studies International Forum:
(Pergamon/Elsevier, 2003-5).
7 issues. Vol 24 (2001) No 6; Vol 26 (2003) No 5; Vol 27 (2004) Nos 4 and 5-6; Vol 28 (2005) Nos 1, 4 and 5. Journals. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A11419
Keywords: Women's Studies International Forum, journal, journals
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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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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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Cheshire History, .
Cheshire History: Autumn 1983, No 12
(Chesh Comm Council Loc Hist Comm, 1983).
Pamphlet. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, card covers, otherwise good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A11205
Keywords: B000HC1N8O, local history, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Cheshire, Macclesfield, Sir Giles Overreach, ridge, furrow, Trailbaston, pamphlet, journal
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Keetley, Dawn and Pettegrew, John.
Public Women, Public Worlds: A Documentary History of American Feminism
(Madison House, 1997).
Volume 1: Beginnings to 1900. Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xxi + 377pp. Order No. NSBK-C8526
Keywords: 0945612443, American, America, USA, United States, feminism, feminists, nineteenth century, Salem, Victorian, 19th, texts, speeches, novels, poetry, poems, fiction, broadsides, testimonies, transcripts, trials, journals, newspapers, magazines
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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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Xinran, .
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
(Ted Smart, 2002).
Translated by Esther Tyldesley. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. x + 230pp. Order No. NSBK-C7023
Keywords: Xinran, voices, oral history, China, Chinese, women, women's history, woman, Words on the Night Breeze, journalism, journalists, the press, the media, radio, Party Leaders, peasants
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Bressey, Caroline.
Empire, Race and the Politics of Anti-Caste:
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2013).
Hardback. Fine. xi + 287pp. Order No. NSBK-C15418
Keywords: 9781780936635, empire, imperialism, colonialism, race, ethnicity, Catherine Impey, British Empire, Quakers, racism, slavery, United States, journalism, anti-racism, racial prejudice, Victorian, 19th century
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Ormsby, Waterman L.
The Butterfield Overland Mail: Only Through Passenger on the First Westbound Stage
(Huntington, rpt, 1991).
Paperback. Light edge-wear, otherwise very good. xv + 179pp. Order No. NSBK-A14935
Keywords: 0873280954, history, USA, America, United States of America, Overland Mail Company, travel, adventure, American West, journalism
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