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
Price £10.99.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Public Schools Commission, .
Public Schools Commission: First Report. Vol I: Report
(HMSO, 1968).
Paperback. Ex lib with usual lib stamps, cvrs soiled. xviii + 237pp. Order No. NSBK-A3243
Keywords: 112700012, public school, schooling, education, Britain, British, history, teacher, pupil, boarding school, independent school, private education
Price £8.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Robinson, W. Sydney.
Muckraker: The Scandalous Life and Times of W. T. Stead. Britain's First Investigative Journalist
(The Robson Press, 2012).
With a foreword by Tristram Hunt. Hardback. Very good + in dw. xv + 281pp. Order No. NSBK-A15392
Keywords: 9781849542944. Muckraker, W. T. Stead, journalism, journalist, press, Victorian, nineteenth century, biography, biographical, self-history
Price £19.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Shipman, David.
Cinema: The First Hundred Years
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993).
Foreword by Barry Norman. Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. 384pp. Order No. NSBK-A11046
Keywords: 0297832018, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, cinemas, films, media, twentieth century, 20th, film stars
Price £26.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Fildes, Valerie; Marks, Lara and Marland, Hilary.
Women & Children First: International Maternal and Infant Welfare, 1870 - 1945
(Routledge, 1992).
The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Hardback. Very good in slightly loose, slightly yellowed good dustwrapper. xxiii + 311pp. Order No. NSBK-C15720
Keywords: 9780415080903, women, maternity, motherhood, infant welfare, children, international, child, mothers, history
Price £25.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Ruth, Sheila.
Issues in Feminism: A First Course in Women's Studies
(Houghton Mifflin, rpt., 1964).
Foreword by Sheila Tobias. Paperback. Covers slightly chipped, otherwise very good. xii + 593pp. Order No. NSBK-C9967
Keywords: 0395286913, women's studies, women, woman, women's history, women, woman, feminism, feminists, history of ideas, gender, sexuality, patriarchy
Price £5.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Lyster, Robert A.
A First Course in Hygiene:
(University Tutorial Press, rpt, 1946).
Hardback. Blue cloth darkened and marked in places, corners worn, otherwise good. viii + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-A6371
Keywords: health, hygiene, social welfare, social hygiene, history, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, Robert A. Lyster, body, ventilation, text books, foods, digestion, cooking, nervous system, dwellings, housing, heating, water supply, diseases, infection, houses, diets
Price £5.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
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
Price £24.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Mathias, Peter and Davis, John A. eds.
The First Industrial Revolutions:
(Basil Blackwell, rpt., 1990).
Paperback. Covers slightly browned, otherwise very good. viii + 175pp. Order No. NSBK-A8848
Keywords: 0631160396, industrial, Industrial Revolutions, technology, labour, labor, enterprise, agriculture, transport, agriculture, population
Price £7.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Smith, Angela.
Discourses Surrounding British Widows of the First World War:
(Bloomsbury, 2013).
Hardback. Fine. x + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-C15573
Keywords: 9781780932019, widows, widowhood, history, Great War, women, World War I
Price £24.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
|
|
