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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Aitken-Swan, Jean.
Widows in Australia: A Survey of the Economic and Social Condition of Widows with Dependent Children
(Council of Social Service of NS Wales, 1962).
Paperback. A little marking/soiling to card covers, otherwise a good copy. x + 148pp. Order No. NSBK-C7054
Keywords: B0007JIO2K, twentieth century, 20th, history, Australia, Australian, Australasian, women, women's history, woman, female, widows, children, economics, economy, widowhood, widow
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Casalini, Maria.
Le Donne Della Sinistra: 1944 - 1948
(Carocci, 2005).
Paperback. Coffee stains to page edges not affecting text, a good working copy. 263pp. Order No. NSBK-A9305
Keywords: 884303264X, Italy, Italian, history, 1940s, forties, socialism, Italia
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Lockwood, Helen Drusilla.
Tools and the Man: A Comparative Study of the French Workingman and English Chartists in the Literature of 1830-1848
(AMS Press, 1966).
Hardback. Cloth slightly rubbed, otherwise good. 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A6133
Keywords: B0007DWRK6, England, English, French, French, British, Britain, Europe, European, history, workingman, working class, working-class, Chartists, radicals, literature, Victorian, nineteenth century, Chartism, Chartist Movement, working classes
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Sander, Kathleen Waters.
The Business of Charity: The Woman's Exchange Movement, 1832-1900
(Illinois UP, 1998).
Paperback. Fine. xi + 165pp. Order No. NSBK-C12317
Keywords: 0252067037, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Woman's Exchange Movement, business, charity, philanthropic, philanthropy
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Bryson, Valerie.
Feminist Political Theory: an Introduction
(Macmillan, 1992).
Paperback. Covers lightly soiled, otherwise very good. xiii + 304pp. Order No. NSBK-C2340
Keywords: 0333516362, feminism, politics, women and politics, political theory, history of ideas, political
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Plazzotta, Enzo.
Bruton Gallery:
(Bruton Gallery, no date).
Illustrated with black and white and colour photographs of Plazotta's work. Catalogue. Fine. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A11207
Keywords: B0006C788E, bronzes, statues, sculptures, sculptors, art, artists, painters, paintings, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Enzo Plazzotta, photos, photographs, images
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Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll.
Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America
(Alfred A. Knopf, 1985).
Hardback. Good+ in edgeworn dustwrapper. viii + 357pp. Order No. NSBK-A13139
Keywords: 0394535456, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, masculinity, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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McNeill, ed, Maureen.
Gender and Expertise:
(Free Association Books, 1987).
Paperback. Newspaper review pasted to front endpaper, otherwise very good. vi + 266pp. Order No. NSBK-C9659
Keywords: 0946960267, women, woman, women's studies, twentieth century, feminism, feminists, sexual difference, femininity, gender, history of ideas, test-tube babies, science, technology
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Motz, Marilyn Ferris.
True Sisterhood: Michigan Women and their Kin, 1820-1920
(New York State UP, 1983).
Hardback. Very good. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-C5274
Keywords: 0873957156, Michigan, USA, United States, America, American, women, American women's history, sisterhood, home, family, nineteenth century, Victorian, kin network, Marilyn Ferris Motz, white women, Protestant, twentieth century, Bentley Library, correspondence, letters, diary, diaries, photographs, language, cult of domesticity, women's history, house
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