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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Grove, Valerie.
The Compleat Woman: Marriage, Motherhood, Career: Can She Have it All?
(The Hogarth Press, rpt., 1988).
Paperback. Good. viii + 293pp. Order No. NSBK-C12276
Keywords: 0701208260, marriage, motherhood, mums, mothers, maternal, children, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Parsons, The Rev. Martin.
Your Marriage:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 2nd impress., 1960).
The Christian Commitment Series. Paperback. Spine creased, ink annotation to inside back cover, otherwise good. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-A10275
Keywords: 0340020024, The Reverend Martin Parsons, marriage, weddings, husbands, wives, wife, marital, mothers, fathers, emn, women, Christians, Christianity
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Chapman, J. Vincent.
Your Secondary Modern Schools: An Account of Their Work in the Late 1950s
(College of Preceptors, 1959).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, splitting / cracking internally at binding, else good in chipped sl soiled dw. 298pp. Order No. NSBK-A14178
Keywords: B001AG4U5Y, education, secondary modern, schools, fifties, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, 1950s, post war, vocational training, technical education, examinations, teaching, teachers, social history
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Markus, Julia.
Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
(Bloomsbury, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. viii + 382pp. Order No. NSBK-C7304
Keywords: 0747522960, women writers, woman's history, woman, poets, poetry, poems, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Robert Browning, marriage, marital, elopement, Italy, Italian, eloping, courtship, Victorian, nineteenth century, letters, correspondence, literature, literary, romance, Tennyson, Thackeray, Rossetti, William Story, Harriet Hosmer, Charlotte Cushman, George Sand, morphine, spiritualism, depression
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Suffragette Poster, Modern Reproduction.
Votes for Women Wanted Everywhere:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007).
Paper: SRA3 = 320mm by 450mm. Image: A3 = 297mm by 420mm. 300 GMS gloss art high quality poster paper, coated and treated. Reproduction of an attractive suffragette poster advertising "Votes for Women", the Pethick-Lawrence edited newspaper, founded in October 1907. The colours are green, grey, purple and white and the image depicts a suffragette in contemporary dress standing in a field and holding aloft a copy of the newspaper. Poster. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C13071
Keywords: B000UZVP7M, Portrayer Publishers, suffragettes, suffragette poster, suffragette posters, Votes for Women, woman suffrage, history, women, enfranchisement, franchise, women's movement, politics, England, English, illustrations, suffrage, politics, images, imagery, women, women's, representations, pictures, poster, posters, enfranchisement, the franchise, reproductions, modern reproductions, print, prints, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, Britain, British, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera, newspapers, new design
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McKenna, Paul.
Easy Weight Loss: Programme Your Mind To Slim Your Body
(Gut Records, 2004).
Will play on any DVD player, worldwide, including the USA as it is region 0 [all regions]. DVD. Brand new, mint condition, original item, Region 0 DVD [all regions], Shrinkwrapped, immaculate. pp. Order No. NSBK-F13410
Keywords: B00024767E, Paul McKenna, hypnosis, hypnotism, self help, self-help, self-improvement, self improvement, self study, self-study, hypnotist, mckenna
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Bhagat, M.G.
The Farmer: his Welfare and Wealth
(Co-operators' Book Depot, Bombay, 1943).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, corners worn. Small ink marks to page edges, otherwise a good working copy. xvi + 303pp. Order No. NSBK-A7538
Keywords: B0007JSFPQ, farming, Indian, India, history, 1940s, Taluka, population, demography, demographic, village, villages, farms, farm, agricultural, land holding, landholding, land, agriculture, agricultural, economy, economic, cows, cattle, grazing, mortality, infant mortality, soil, fertility, caste, castes
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MacKnight, Nancy, ed.
Dearest Andrew: Letters from V. Sackville-West to Andrew Reiber, 1951-1962
(Michael Joseph, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 127pp. Order No. NSBK-C5058
Keywords: 0718118235, Vita Sackville-West, Andrew Reiber, women writers, correspondence, letters, twentieth century, woman, women's history, 1950s, 1960s, literary, literature, friendship,
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Alschuler, Rose H. and Hattwick, La Berta Weiss.
Painting and Personality: a Study of Young Children. Volume II
(Chicago University Press, 1947).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, boards worn at spine, edges and corners, otherwise good. 265 - 590pp. Order No. NSBK-A13899
Keywords: B00140SOJO, childhood, painting, personality, psychology, children, art, easel painting
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