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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Vigne, Thea, ed.
Oral History: the Journal of the Oral History Society. Family History Issue
(University of Essex, 1975).
Volume 3: Number 2. Paperback. Light soiling and fading to covers, otherwise good+. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A13980
Keywords: B001ERIRIK, journals, oral history, family history, geneaology, Thea Vigne, Paul Thompson
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Fletcher, Ronald.
The Abolitionists: The Family and Marriage Under Attack
(Routledge, 1988).
Paperback. Fine. x + 230pp. Order No. NSBK-A11039
Keywords: 0415008751, family, familes, sociology, sociologists, marriages, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Arlott, John.
Island Camera: The Isles of Scilly in the photography of the Gibson Family
(David and Charles, 1972).
Written in collaboration with Rex Cowan and Frank Gibson. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Hardback. Boards and fly leaf slightly soiled, otherwise good + in torn dustwrapper. 110pp. Order No. NSBK-A10434
Keywords: 0715357743, Isles of Scilly, Gibson family, families, islands, photos, photography, photographs, Scillonians, ships, shipping, coasts, coastal, sea birds, Victorian, twentieth century, Edwardian, nineteenth century, 19th
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Drew, Eileen, Emerek, Ruth, Mahon, Evelyn.
Women, Work and the Family in Europe:
(Routledge, 1998).
Paperback. Very good +. xvii + 230pp. Order No. NSBK-C15497
Keywords: 0415153514, women, work, family, Europe, European, sociology, sociological, gender, demographic
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Rapoport, Rhona and Rapoport, Robert N.
Leisure and the Family Life Cycle:
(RKP, 1975).
Hardback. Good+ in faded, slightly soiled dustwrapper. x + 386pp. Order No. NSBK-A15802
Keywords: 9780710081346, sociology, hobbies, leisure, family life
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Bigwood, Rosemary.
The Scottish Family Tree Detective: Tracing Your Ancestors in Scotland
(Manchester University Press, 2006).
Paperback. Brand new, fine. xiv + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-C14639
Keywords: 9780719071850, family tree, geneaology, geneaological, history, Scotland, Scottish, ancestors, Scots, archives, population, demography, parish registers, census, research, birth, marriage, death
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Harris, C.C.
The Family and Industrial Society:
(George Allen and Unwin, 2nd impress., 1984).
Studies in Sociology:13. Paperback. Spine creased, some ink annotation not affecting legibility, otherwise good. xi + 260pp. Order No. NSBK-A9401
Keywords: 004301156X, family, families, industrial, industry, sociology, kinship, child, children, household, statistics, marriage, Britain, British, England, English, history, population, demography
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Dyhouse, Carol.
Feminism and the Family in England, 1880-1939:
(Basil Blackwell, 1989).
Out-of-print paperback. Paperback. Scattered ink annotation not affecting legibility, otherwise good. vi + 204pp. Order No. NSBK-C5789
Keywords: 0631167366, feminism, women, history, family, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, twentieth century, domestic, domesticity, marriage, sexuality, private sphere, separate spheres, economic, reproduction, childbirth, childcare, families
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Westwood, Sallie.
All Day Every Day: Factory and Family in the Making of Women's Lives
(Pluto Press, 1984).
Paperback. Cover soiled and bent, otherwise good. viii + 259pp. Order No. NSBK-C12713
Keywords: 0861047605, ethnicity, work, labour, factory, factories, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's work, women and work, family, children, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, feminism, feminists, shopfloor, Asians, Indians, hosiery, Needletown
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