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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Powell, Edgar and Trevelyan, G. M., eds.
The Peasant's Rising and the Lollards: A Collection of Unpublished Documents Forming an Appendix to England in the Age of Wycliffe
(Longmans, Green, 1899).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, minor rubbing to corners & fraying / splitting to spine ends, otherwise good. xiii + 81pp. Order No. NSBK-A14970
Keywords: B001NK2LEE, Lollards, Lollardy, Dissent, Wycliffe, peasants' rising, history, nonconformity, religion, religious, 14th century, fourteenth century, early modern, peasantry, documents, sources, Church, social disturbances, antiquarian
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Malone, Carolyn.
Women's Bodies and Dangerous Trades in England, 1880-1914:
(Royal Historical Society, 2003).
Royal Historical Society Studies in History. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xi + 169pp. Order No. NSBK-C13167
Keywords: 0861932641, women's bodies, body, sexuality, femininity, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, social history, work, industry, reproduction, dangerous trades, white lead, pottery trade, potteries, medicine, medical, health, pregnancy, working conditions, sexual difference, infant mortality, foetal protection
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Thompson, Paul.
The Edwardians: the Remaking of British Society
(Weidenfeld and Nicholson, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Slight split at base of spine, otherwise good in chipped, slightly soiled dustwrapper. xi + 382pp. Order No. NSBK-A15216
Keywords: 9780713432244, Edwardian, Britain, British, England, English, history, society, oral history, interviews, interview, Edwardians, social conditions, 20th century, twentieth century, social change
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Heron, Liz.
Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties
(Virago, rpt, 1985).
Paperback. With newspaper review pasted inside front cover, back cover slightly browned, otherwise a good copy. viii + 248pp. Order No. NSBK-C2389
Keywords: 0860685969, fifties, growing up, education, history, girls, women, post-war, welfare state, feminism, society, social, careers, childhood, child, girlhood
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Wood, Ethel M.
The Pilgrimage of Perseverance:
(Nat. Counc. Soc. Services, 1949).
Hardback. Boards slightly marked, otherwise good in soiled, torn / repaired dustwrapper. x + 90pp. Order No. NSBK-C2324
Keywords: B0007IV4QE, social services, civil service, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, philanthropy
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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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Joyce, Patrick.
Work, Society & Politics: the Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England
(Rutgers UP, rpt, 1984).
Paperback. Light scuffing to back cover, otherwise very good+. xxv + 356pp. Order No. NSBK-A9036
Keywords: 081351083X, factory, factories, nineteenth century, Victorian, England, English, Britain, British, social history, society, politics, class, paternalism, deference, labour, labor, 19th century, industry, factory system, Patrick Joyce, community, communities
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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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Phillips, Barbara.
A Tottenham Childhood:
(Barbara Phillips, Mapro Publishing, rpt, 1991).
Booklet. Very good. 40pp. Order No. NSBK-C15809
Keywords: booklet, booklets, Tottenham Childhood, girlhood, girls, children, London, schools, education, schooling, autobiography, autobiographies, social history, stored with booklets
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