Symes, Ruth A.
Family First: Tracing Relationships in the Past
(Pen and Sword, 2015).
Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents - these are the relationships that structure the family tree and fascinate the family historian. But how much do we really know about how our ancestors lived out these multiple roles? Buffeted this way and that by economic developments, legal changes, medical advances, Two World Wars, the rise of the Welfare State, women's emancipation and many other factors, relationships between members of our family in the past were subtly different to those of today and continually transforming. This book is both a social history of the period 1800-1950 and a practical guide on how to set about tracing and better understanding the relationships between members of your own family. What did it mean to be a father in this period, but also, how might you discover the father of an ancestor if his name is not mentioned on the birth certificate? What common ideas were held about the role of wives and mothers, but also, how were multiple births, stillbirths, abortions and infanticides dealt with in the records? What factors might have influenced the size of your ancestor's family, but also why were its children named as they were? Did pecking order in a family matter, but also, was it legal to marry a cousin, or the sister of a deceased wife? How long could people expect to live, but also what records can tell you more about the circumstances of your ancestors' last years? A final chapter considers relationships with neighbours, friends and club associates. Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C15530
Keywords: 9781473833883, family relationships, family trees, geneaology, geneaological, social history, ancestors, tracing ancestors, fathers, mothers, siblings, cousins, women, welfare state, infants, clubs, grandparents
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Cunningham, Anne; Irvine, Isobel; et al, eds.
Lightyears: the First Collection of Merseyside Women's Writing
(Headland, 1992).
Paperback. Edges slightly soiled, otherwise good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-C4108
Keywords: 0903074710, Merseyside, Liverpool, women's writing, literature, fiction, prose, poetry, poems, North West England, English, Britain, British, Anne Cunningham, Isobel Irvine, Pauline Lavercombe, Tracy Ryan, Flora Small, Ruth Symes, Clare Rush, Rose Ryan, Dora Kennedy, Jean Barlow, Women's Anthology Group, poets, women
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Fildes, Valerie; Marks, Lara and Marland, Hilary.
Women & Children First: International Maternal and Infant Welfare, 1870 - 1945
(Routledge, 1992).
The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Hardback. Very good in slightly loose, slightly yellowed good dustwrapper. xxiii + 311pp. Order No. NSBK-C15720
Keywords: 9780415080903, women, maternity, motherhood, infant welfare, children, international, child, mothers, history
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Shipman, David.
Cinema: The First Hundred Years
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993).
Foreword by Barry Norman. Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. 384pp. Order No. NSBK-A11046
Keywords: 0297832018, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, cinemas, films, media, twentieth century, 20th, film stars
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Cowles, Virginia.
The Kaiser:
(Collins, 1963).
Hardback. Good+ in torn dustwrapper. 446pp. Order No. NSBK-A11889
Keywords: B0000CLXLT, Kaiser, Germany, Germans, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, Queen Victoria
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Hallett, Christine E.
Nurses of Passchendaele: Caring for the Wounded of the Ypres Campaigns 1914 - 1918
(Pen and Sword, 2017).
Paperback. Very good. xx + 196pp. Order No. NSBK-C15608
Keywords: Ypres, First World War, history, nursing, Belgium, nurses, women, World War I
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Service, Robert W.
The Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man:
(T. Fisher Unwin, 1916).
Hardback. Some splitting internally at spine front and back. Endpapers partly detached, ex library. Boards stained, frayed at edges and soiled. A good working copy only. viii + 176pp. Order No. NSBK-A14891
Keywords: B000RNFXA2, Red Cross, verse, poems, poetry, World War I, First World War, Great War, social history, Robert W. Service
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Mort, Frank.
Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics in England since 1830
(RKP, 1987).
Paperback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, covers browned, otherwise a good copy. ix + 280pp. Order No. NSBK-A9632
Keywords: 0710208561, sexuality, sexualities, medico-moral, medicine, science, England, English, history, Britain, British, disease, STD, health, AIDS, twentieth century, nineteenth, 20th, 19th, Victorian, moral purity, sanitary, legislation, laws, medical
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Buchan, John.
The History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers (1678 - 1918):
(Thomas Nelson, 1925).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some dark patching / staining to boards & wear to edges - but a good solid copy. xii + 502pp. Order No. NSBK-A15235
Keywords: B001SQJ7YK, Royal Scots Fusiliers, army, armies, military, fighting, war, soldiers, military regiments, Crimean War, Zulu War, First World War, history
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Forty, George.
Tank Action: From the Great War to the Gulf
(Alan Sutton, 1995).
Supported by more than 170 black and white photographs and over 50 maps and line drawings. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some thumbing to page edges, otherwise good in creased dustwrapper. xvi + 296pp. Order No. NSBK-A7416
Keywords: 0750904798, transport, tanks, Great War, wars, warfare, First World War, World War I, World War 1, One, Second World War, World War Two, 2, II, Gulf War, military, action, technology, Heavy Mk 1, Challenger, Korea, Vietnam, Arab-Israeli, Kohima, Royal Tank Regiment, world history, tank warfare
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