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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Stocks, Mary.
My Commonplace Book: an Autobiography
(Peter Davies, rpt, 1970).
Women's suffrage; the welfare state; the L.S.E.; adult education; the Great Depression in Manchester; social work in London; a variety of government assignments. Hardback. Very good in soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. ix + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C779
Keywords: 0432157506, suffrage, suffragette, women's rights, L.S.E., the Great Depression, adult education, Manchester, London, social work, welfare state, England, Britain, history, English, British
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Muggeridge, Kitty and Adam, Ruth.
Beatrice Webb: A Life, 1858-1943
(Academy Chicago, rpt, 1983).
Paperback. Marginal ink notation (very marginal), otherwise good. 271 + vipp. Order No. NSBK-C5304
Keywords: 0897330889, Beatrice Webb, Webb, Webbs, biography, biographies, life histories, life history, women's history, Fabian society, left, Sudney Webb, London School of Economics, The New Statesman, social reform, Modern Welfare State, journals, diary, diaries, socialists, socialism, Stalin, Russia, women's movement, feminism, feminist, Herbert Spencer, Balfour, Haldane, G. B. Shaw
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Mee, Graham.
Aristocratic Enterprise: The Fitzwilliam Industrial Undertakings, 1795-1857
(Blackie, 1975).
Hardback. Very good in slightly rubbed dustwrapper protected by cellophane. 222pp. Order No. NSBK-A5332
Keywords: 0216900506, aristocrat, aristocrats, aristocratic, class, enterprise, Fitzwilliam undertakings, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, industry, coal-mining, coal mining, iron foundries, Wentworth estates, Earls Fitzwilliam, welfare, co-operation, cooperation, unionism, mines, foundries, trade unionism, trade unions, Elsecar, Milton, ironworks, collieries, colliery, paternalism, paternalist
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Lofthouse, W.F.
The Family and the State:
(Epworth Press, 1944).
The Social Service Lecture, 1944. Hardback. Red boards slightly bubbled & darkened, otherwise very good. 145pp. Order No. NSBK-C2442
Keywords: B0007IV87O, family, state, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Liddiard, Mabel.
British Red Cross Society: Infant Welfare Manual. No 9
(J. & A. Churchill, third edition, 1933).
Hardback. Some fading and soiling to cloth, otherwise good. viii + 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A7277
Keywords: B000HC1154, health, history, British Red Cross Society, Red Cross, philanthropy, first aid, first-aid, medicine, medical, history, manuals, Britain, British, England, English, childhood, children, child, infants, infant, infant welfare, social welfare, mothers, motherhood, maternity, advice books, ante-natal, feeding children, babies, looking after babies, interwar, inter-war, inter war, baby, breast feeding, breast-feeding, bottle feeding, natural feeding, artifical feeding, teething, family, families
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Thompson, Roger C.
The Pacific Basin since 1945: A History of the Foreign Relations of the Asian, Australasian and American Rim States and the Pacific Islands
(Longman, 1994).
Paperback. Very good. xiv + 353pp. Order No. NSBK-A6923
Keywords: 0582021278, foreign relations, Asian, Australasian, American, Pacific, politics, Rim States, Japan, Japanese, wars, history, world
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Fiorenza, Mary and Edmonds, Michael.
Women's History Resources at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin:
(State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1997).
Paperback. Fine. xi + 139pp. Order No. NSBK-C5987
Keywords: 0870201891, women's history resources, women's history, America, American, USA, United States, Wisconsin, historical societies, archives
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Wootton, Graham.
Workers, Unions and the State:
(RKP, 1966).
Hardback. Good in soiled dustwrapper. xi + 173 + 13pp. Order No. NSBK-A7961
Keywords: 0710034792, workers, trade unions, trade unionists, the State, politics, trade unionism, employees, employers, work, laboor, labor, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, factories, factory, civic
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Stivers, Camilla.
Gender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administrative State
(Sage, 1993).
Paperback. Very good. ix + 164pp. Order No. NSBK-C14964
Keywords: 9780803948037, gender, public administration, state, women leaders, leadership, masculinity
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