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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Craig, Peter, ed.
The Penguin Book of British Comic Writing:
(BCA, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 460pp. Order No. NSBK-A11443
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Kanter, Hannah, Lefanu, Sarah et al, eds.
Sweeping Statements: Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, 1981 - 83
(Women's Press, 1984).
Paperback. Good. 307pp. Order No. NSBK-C15768
Keywords: 9780704339309, literature, women's liberation movement, feminist movement, feminism
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Golby, J.M., ed.
Culture and Society in Britain, 1850-1890: a Source Book of Contemporary Writings
(OUP, rpt with corrections, 1992).
Paperback. Covers slightly edge-worn, otherwise good+. xiii + 342pp. Order No. NSBK-A983
Keywords: 0198711123, Britain, British, England, English, history, culture, society, social history, cultural, Victorian, nineteenth century
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Dwyer, Bernard.
But That's Another Story: Collected Writings of Roscommon Man
(Dave Mallinson, 1995).
Paperback. Good+. viii + 97pp. Order No. NSBK-A14246
Keywords: 1899512152, Roscommon Man, Irish, Ireland, story telling, stories, fact, fiction, legends, tales, Bernard Dwyer
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Margery, Susan, Guerin, Caroline, Hamilton, P, ed.
Writing Lives: Feminist Biography and Autobiography
(Australian Feminist Publications, 1992).
Paperback. Covers slightly yellowed, otherwise very good. xi + 169pp. Order No. NSBK-C15784
Keywords: women's autobiographies, biographies, women writers
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Spender, Dale, ed.
The Penguin Anthology of Australian Women's Writing:
(Penguin, 1988).
Paperback. Very good. xxxiii + 882pp. Order No. NSBK-C2141
Keywords: 0140112375, Australian, Australian women, Australian women's history, anthology, women writers
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Spender, Dale.
Feminist Theories: Three Centuries of Women's Intellectual Traditions
(The Women's Press, 1983).
Paperback. Page edges slightly soiled, back cover creased, otherwise very good. 402pp. Order No. NSBK-C9940
Keywords: 0704338890, three centuries, women, woman, women's history, feminism, feminists, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth century, women writers, woman writer, women's writing, women's studies
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Sharp, Evelyn.
Rebel Women:
(Portrayer, 2003 facsimile of the 1st edit. of 1910).
A special edition of this highly sought-after work of suffragette fiction, in smart bespoke binding. Walnut finish boards with blue & green head and tail bands. Coloured endpapers. A series of descriptive sketches about the suffragette movement. Hardback. Fine condition. 135pp. Order No. NSBK-C6498
Keywords: 0954476107, suffragettes, suffrage, women's history, Rebel Women, Edwardian, New Woman, Votes for Women, Evelyn Sharp, Britain, British, England, English, enfranchisement, woman suffrage, woman, women writers, fiction, social protest, political women, politics, collector's editions, literature, twentieth century, 20th century, Portrayer, Portrayer's, Portrayer Publishers, fictional, writing, stories, sketches
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Norris, Samuel.
Two Men of Manxland: Hall Caine (Novelist) and T. E. Brown (Poet)
(The Norris Modern Press, rpt., 1948).
Hardback. Spine neds slightly bumped, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xvi + 342pp. Order No. NSBK-A12890
Keywords: B0007JIZMY, manx, Isle of Man, men, man, islands, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, T. E. Brown, poets, poetry, poems, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors, Hall Caine
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