Symes, Ruth A.
Family First: Tracing Relationships in the Past
(Pen and Sword, 2015).
Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents - these are the relationships that structure the family tree and fascinate the family historian. But how much do we really know about how our ancestors lived out these multiple roles? Buffeted this way and that by economic developments, legal changes, medical advances, Two World Wars, the rise of the Welfare State, women's emancipation and many other factors, relationships between members of our family in the past were subtly different to those of today and continually transforming. This book is both a social history of the period 1800-1950 and a practical guide on how to set about tracing and better understanding the relationships between members of your own family. What did it mean to be a father in this period, but also, how might you discover the father of an ancestor if his name is not mentioned on the birth certificate? What common ideas were held about the role of wives and mothers, but also, how were multiple births, stillbirths, abortions and infanticides dealt with in the records? What factors might have influenced the size of your ancestor's family, but also why were its children named as they were? Did pecking order in a family matter, but also, was it legal to marry a cousin, or the sister of a deceased wife? How long could people expect to live, but also what records can tell you more about the circumstances of your ancestors' last years? A final chapter considers relationships with neighbours, friends and club associates. Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C15530
Keywords: 9781473833883, family relationships, family trees, geneaology, geneaological, social history, ancestors, tracing ancestors, fathers, mothers, siblings, cousins, women, welfare state, infants, clubs, grandparents
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Moore, Katharine.
Victorian Wives:
(Allison and Busby, 1985).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, otherwise good+. xxviii + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C9482
Keywords: 0850316340, women, woman, wives, wife, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, husbands, spouses, matrimony, weddings, Emily Patmore, Catherine Norton, Custody of Infants Act, Harriet Beecher Stowe, women's history, women's studies, Britain, British, England, English, American, America
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Petersen, William.
Malthus:
(Heinneman, 1979).
Hardback. Fly leaf clipped, otherwise very good in chipped dustwrapper. vi + 302pp. Order No. NSBK-A8250
Keywords: 043554800X, Thomas Robert Malthus, economists, economy, population, people, fertility, mortality, economics, economy, biography, biographies, biographical, history of ideas, nineteenth century, Britain, British, birth-control, contraception, demography, demographic, Malthusian, Darwinianism, Social Darwinianism
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Paterson, Donald and Smith, J. Forest.
Modern Methods of Feeding in Infancy and Childhood:
(Constable, 7th edition, reprint, 1942).
Hardback. Boards slightly bowed / soiled, with some splitting internally at binding, otherwise a good working copy. 219pp. Order No. NSBK-A7703
Keywords: infancy, childhood, children, infants, feeding, mothers, maternity, motherhood, breast feeding, history, infant foods, medicine, medical, health, sick children, breast milk, artificial feeding, Britain, British, England, English, social history, twentieth century, advice books, diets, baby, babies, bringing up babies
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Atkinson, Diane.
The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton:
(Preface, 2012).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. 486pp. Order No. NSBK-C15289
Keywords: 9781848093010, Diane Atkinson, Mrs Norton, motherhood, women, law, legal, infant custody, marriage, nineteenth century, Britain, England, biography
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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Kineton/The Roundwood Press, 1974).
Hardback. Covers slightly soiled, marginal pencil annotation not affecting legbility, otherwise very good. xvi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C11001
Keywords: 0900093307, women, woman, gender, 1920s, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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Bigwood, Rosemary.
The Scottish Family Tree Detective: Tracing Your Ancestors in Scotland
(Manchester University Press, 2006).
Hardback. Fine condition, as new, no dustwrapper. xiv + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-A14611
Keywords: 0719071844, Scotland, Scots, family tree, genealogy, family history, Scottish, ancestors, tracing ancestors, research, birth, marriage, death, mortality, fertility, certificates, ancestry
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Ravenhill, Alice.
Some Characteristics and Requirements of Childhood:
(E. J. Arnold & Son, 2nd edition, 1910).
Hardback. Some cracking internally to hinges and some pencil scorings, cloth slightly browned, otherwise good. x + 71pp. Order No. NSBK-A14412
Keywords: B001OM0IZA, childhood, education, Alice Ravenhill, history, children, childhood development, infants, food, nurture, nature, play, development, adolescence, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Edwardian, women writers
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Wojtczak, Helena.
Women of Victorian Sussex: their Status, Occupations,and Dealings With The Law, 1830-1870
(Hastings Press, 2003).
Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-C7234
Keywords: 1904109055, Victorian, Hastings, women, woman, nineteenth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English, provinces, provincial, regional studies, seaside, seaside towns, women's history, occupations, neighbourhood, community, communities, urban, urban history, St Leonards, gender, Sussex, Victorian prostitution, prostitutes, prostitute, infanticide, liquor, liquor trade. trade, motherhood, mothers, mother, occupation, occupations, infant murder, infant killing, infant killings, brothel, brothels, milliners, milliner, midwives, midwife, midwifery, drunkenness, drunkard, drunkards, drink, drinking, drinker, drinkers, 19th Century, Lewes, Brighton, status, law, laws, Hailsham, Helena Wojtczak, Chichester, Class, Classes
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Dyer, Colin.
Population and Society in Twentieth Century France:
(Hodder & Stoughton, 1978).
Paperback. A little scuffing to covers, otherwise good+. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-A8683
Keywords: 0340219106, France, French, history, population, demography, demographic, social history, statistics, statistical, mortality, fertility, population rates, birth rates, birth-rates, migration
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