Symes, R. A.
Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries:
(Pen and Sword, 2016).
The intriguing characters in these real family history mysteries include an agricultural labourer who left secrets behind in Somerset when he migrated to Manchester, a working-class woman who bafflingly lost ten of her fourteen children in infancy, a miner who purportedly went to live with the Red Indians and a merchant prince of the Empire who was rumoured to have two wives. This book shows how a variety of sources including birth, marriage and death certificates, censuses, newspaper reports, passports, recipe books, trade directories, diaries and passenger lists were all used to uncover more, and how much can be detected by setting the characters from your family tree in their proper historical backgrounds. Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A15528
Keywords: 9781473862944, social history, geneaology, family trees, women, men, Empire, birth certificates, geneaology, marriage, death, mortality, fertility, diaries, passenger lists, labour, censuses, emigration, family relationships
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Lillington, Kenneth, ed.
For Better For Worse: an Anthology of Courtship and Marriage
(Angus & Robertson, 1979).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. 157pp. Order No. NSBK-C3428
Keywords: 0207958262, courtship, marriage, social history, anthology, poems, prose, engagement, betrothal, literature, extracts, marital relations, weddings
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Burnett, John, ed.
Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, 1982).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise good+ in browned, slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. 345pp. Order No. NSBK-A7533
Keywords: 9780713912142, autobiography, childhood, education, Victorian, social history, England, Britain, autobiographies, 19th century, nineteenth century, children, family, families, schooling, working class, working classes, working-class, literature, John Burnett
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Sackett, Terence.
British Life a Century Ago: Images from the Francis Frith Collection
(Frith Book Co, rpt, 2001).
Paperback. Very good. 137pp. Order No. NSBK-A13972
Keywords: 1859372139, Francis Firth collection, photography, photograph, images, image, pictures, social history, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, work, shops, recreation, leisure, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Edwardian
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Goodman, Dave.
How the Old Age Pension was Won: the Forgotten Story. No Thanks to Lloyd George
(Third Age Press, 2nd edition, 1998).
Paperback. Very good. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-A14082
Keywords: 1898576122, old age pension, pensions, history, Lloyd George, social security, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, National Insurance, politics, Labour movement, popular politics, aged, old, retirement
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Hay, J.R.
The Development of British Welfare State, 1880 - 1975:
(Edward Arnold, 1978).
Documents of Modern History. Paperback. Very good. viii + 116pp. Order No. NSBK-A15623
Keywords: B00SLUV91U, welfare state, Britain, British, social history, employment, unemployment, National Insurance
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Thompson, Dorothy, ed.
The Early Chartists:
(South Carolina UP, 1971).
Paperback. Edges rubbed, otherwise very good. xii + 307pp. Order No. NSBK-A1435
Keywords: 0872492311, radicalism, radical, Chartist, politics, working class, working-class, Victorian, politics, class, britain, british, socil history, history, chartist, chartists, chartism, chartist movement, radicals, nineteenth century, 19th century, chartist propoganda, propoganda, social protest, franchise, militancy, militants, militant, working classes, working-classes
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Manning-Sanders, Ruth.
Seaside England:
(B.T. Batsford, 1951).
Hardback. Grey cloth somewhat soiled, but a good working copy. viii + 151pp. Order No. NSBK-A13598
Keywords: B0000CHVZC, sea, seaside, leisure, Britain, British, England, English, social history, United Kingdom, UK, spas, bathing places, tourism, tourists, bathers, Brighton, Weymouth, Southport, railways, Bognor, Bournemouth, Torquay, Victorian seaside, holidays
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Gash, Norman.
Aristocracy and People: Britain, 1815 - 1865
(Arnold, rpt, 1988).
Paperback. Spine creased, minor pencil annotation, otherwise good+. 376pp. Order No. NSBK-A7498
Keywords: 0713161604, Norman Gash, aristocracy, class, classes, nineteeth century, text books, Victorian, 19th century, history, politics, social change, industry, industrial, constitution, government, Britain, British, England, English
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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(W. Collins, 1st edition, 1918).
Rare first edition copy of this ground-breaking work. For the collector. Women employed in housekeeping; changes in domestic standards; why not be servantless?; the distaste for domestic service; labour-making houses; domestic federations; reconstructed domestic service; the motor as emancipator; waste of labour; women who do domestic work without aptitude or satisfaction; service of women needed by the country. Clementina Black urges a reorganisation of household duties, in order to free women from domestic drudgery. In her utopian vision of 'co-operative housekeeping', women would be released from the wasted effort of housework and made available for the labour market, which was now so very depleted of men after the Great War. She criticises the 'stupidity' of 'labour-making houses', and questions the continuing validity of the employment of domestic servants in the modern age. Her solution is to propose the formation of 'domestic federations'. These would represent committees of householders who would collectively manage their domestic arrangements in a centre 'fitted up with store places, kitchens, dining-rooms, offices, and lodgings for a nucleus of resident servants'. Hardback. Original cloth covered in small dark and white blotches, corners worn and spine split, text firm. A good working copy only. 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C4960
Keywords: Great War, First World War, World War I, social history, class, middle classes, middle class, domesticity, servants, domestic servants, maid, maids, housemaids, housekeeping, Clementina Black, labour-making houses, homes, houses, domestic service, twentieth century, interwar, inter-war, inter war, Homes for Heroes, housing, domestic standards, etiquette, women, domestic work, labour, working women, women's history, chores, co-operative housekeeping, domestic federations, cooperative housekeeping, co-operatives, co-operation, cooperation, Women's Industrial Council, labour-saving, labour market, labor, labour shortage, housework, utopianism, utopian, stored with antiquarian
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