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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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National Research Council, .
Computer Chips and Paper Clips: Technology and Women's Employment
(National Academy Press, 1986).
Volume 1. Paperback. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A14140
Keywords: 0309036887, work, women and work, employment, workers, computers, technology, labour, labor, female, clerical work, white collar, Louise A. Tilly
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Kleinberg, S. Jay, ed.
Retrieving Women's History: Changing Perceptions of the Role of Women in Politics and Society
(Berg, 1988).
Paperback. Very good. xii + 380pp. Order No. NSBK-C9045
Keywords: 085496682X, women, woman, gender, politics, political, society, Soviet Union, Norway, Turkey, Britain, France, Arab States, Muslims, African, American, United States, slavery, Dutch, Netherlands, Holland, feminism, feminists
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Cobbett, William.
Cobbett's Country Book: An Anthology of William Cobbett's Writings on Country Matters
(David and Charles, no date).
Edited and with an introduction by Richard Ingrams. Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled, slightly dented dustwrapper. 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A6274
Keywords: 0715368001, William Cobbett, Radicals, Tory Radicals, popular Radicals, popular radicalism, Britain, British, British Isles, nineteenth century, history, rural, country, seasons, countryside, gardening, farming, rural sports, farms, social history
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Pimlott, Ben.
Frustrate their Knavish Tricks: Writings on Biography, History and Politics
(HarperCollins, 1994).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 417pp. Order No. NSBK-A11328
Keywords: 000255495X, Ben Pimlott, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history , Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, John Kennedy, Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Bill Clinton, Edgar Hoover, Arthur Koestler, Anthony Crosland, Noman Tebbit, Neil Kinnock, politics, political, politicians, government
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Somerville, Claire & Watson, Helena.
Birth and Power: an Examination of Some Mass-Observation Writing
(Uni of Sussex, 1996).
Paperback. New booklet, fine. 14pp. Order No. NSBK-C5338
Keywords: 850870348, Mass Observation, Mass-Observation, social investigations, surveys, twentieth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English, sociology, Mass Observation team, 20th century, social research, Mass-Observation Archive, methodology, research, methodological, Sussex University, Occasional Papers, birth, motherhood, maternity, childbirth, mothers
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Ouditt, Sharon.
Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Identity and Ideology in the First World War
(Routledge, 1994).
Very good. x + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C15575
Keywords: 9781138151529, women writers, Great War, literature, history, World War I
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Coleman, Deirdre, ed.
Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies: Two Women's Travel Narratives of the 1790s
(Leicester UP, 1999).
Paperback. New book, fine. xviii + 247pp. Order No. NSBK-C4338
Keywords: 0718501500, maiden voyages, colonies, colonialism, imperialism, empire, travel, narrative, narratives, women, history, 1790s, eighteenth century, traveler, travelers, travellers, travelers, Mary Ann Parker, Anna Maria Falconbridge, voyages, voyage, Sierra Leone, black history, John Clarkson, Thomas Clarkson, William Dawes, ships, Africa, African, sailing vessels, vessels
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Royden, Maude.
Women's Partnership in the New World:
(George Allen and Unwin, 1941).
Hardback. Spine sunfaded, otherwise good in soiled and torn dustwrapper. 141pp. Order No. NSBK-C15481
Keywords: B0010WBLA0, women, woman, female, females, sex, civilization, twentieth century, histor, historical Britain, British
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Taking Liberties Collective, Jo Campling, ed.
Learning the Hard Way: Women's Oppression in Men's Education
(Macmillan, 1989).
Hardback. Pencil annotation to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xii + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C14100
Keywords: 0333432835, education, women, men, femininity, gender, masculinity, equality, working classes, further education, higher education, feminism, oppression
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