Symes, Ruth A.
It Runs in the Family:
(The History Press, 2013).
In the quest to uncover our family history, we turn to written records, the family album and even heirlooms. However, they can often be difficult to interpret and sometimes pose more questions than they answer: Why didn't my ancestors smile for the camera? Why did great-grandfather wear a beard while his sons were clean-shaven? Why is my great-grandmother holding flowers in this photograph? Drawing on evidence from social history, women's history, and the histories of photography, art and fashion, and using examples from the lowly as well as the famous, Ruth Symes explores many aspects of ordinary life in the past - from the state of the nation's teeth, to the legal and economic connotations of wearing a wedding ring and even the business of keeping a dog. This fascinating volume aims to help family historians get to know their elusive ancestors by deciphering the wealth of personal and historical clues contained in photographs, documents and artefacts. Paperback. New book, fine. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-D15428
Keywords: 9780752497020, family history, family, families, Ruth Symes, genealogy, geneaolgical, social history, evidence, sources, research, women, old photographs, photography
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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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Cobbe, Frances Power.
Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors: Is the Classification Sound? A Discussion on the Laws Concerning the Property of Married Women
(Portrayer, 2002 rpt of 1868 article).
First appeared in Fraser's Magazine, Dec 1868. No 2 in the Open Archive Occasional Series. Booklet. New booklet, fine. 22pp. Order No. NSBK-C6302
Keywords: social history, Frances Power Cobbe, Victorian, nineteenth century, women, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, philanthropy, philanthropists, women's rights, women's movement, suffrage, woman suffage, women's suffrage, London National Society for Women's Suffrage, feminists, feminist, feminism, family history, families, Married Women's Property Act, law, legal, marital relations, marital law, property holders, property owners, married women, husbands, wives, married couples, domesticity, wife, laws, Fraser's Magazine, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Open Archive Occasional Series, new title, booklet
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Gladwin, D.D.
The Waterways of Britain: a Social Panorama
(B.T. Batsford, 1976).
Illustrated. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A4271
Keywords: 0713431598, social history, canals, canal, waterways, transport, Britain, British, England, English, family, families, navigation, canal boats, canal people, boat people, boat men, boat women, navvies, inland waterways, rivers, carriers, river, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, twentieth century, travelling people, travellers, travelers, traveller, traveller
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Wicks, Ben.
No Time to Wave Goodbye: True Stories of Britain's 3,500,000 Evacuees
(Bloomsbury, 1988).
Hardback. Very good in lightly scuffed dustwrapper. xi + 228pp. Order No. NSBK-A2182
Keywords: 0747500835, evacuation, evacuees, World War II, Second World War, history, evacuee, family, families, total war, wartime, Britain, British, England, English, children, child
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Anderson, Christopher.
The Domestic Constitution or the Family Circle: the Source and Test of National Stability
(W.P. Kennedy, Edinburgh, new & improved edition, 1847).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, embossed cloth rubbed / slightly marked, a little splitting top spine end & internally at spine, otherwise good, tight. xviii + 464pp. Order No. NSBK-A5355
Keywords: B000W6Q560, domestic, domesticity, contemporary comment, history, Britain, British, England, English, family, families, nineteenth century, domestic constitution, national stability, nation, nationhood, parenthood, civilisation, parents, instruction, advice books, moral, moral constitution, mores, morality, obedience, domestic education, domestic government, obligation, right, duties, duty, responsibility, responsibilities, domestic circles, reason, rational, religion, religious, educating children, antiquarian
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Young, Robert, ed.
Memoirs of a Family: 1822 - 1944
(Oxford, 1983).
Paperback. Light soiling, otherwise very good. viii + 93pp. Order No. NSBK-A15567
Keywords: 9780950899107, pamphlet, family, families, memoirs, booklets, pamphlets, childhood, autobiography
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Marsh, David C.
The Changing Social Structure of England and Wales, 1871-1961:
(RKP, revised edition, 1965).
Hardback. Ex library with usual markings, but generally good in lightly worn, slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 273pp. Order No. NSBK-A967
Keywords: 0710033737, social structure, Wales, Welsh history, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, nineteenth century, twentieth century, classes, population, demography, demographic, family, families
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Symes, Ruth A.
Stories from Your Family Tree: Researching Ancestors within Living Memory
(The History Press, 2009).
Paperback. New book, fine. x + 172pp. Order No. NSBK-A14177
Keywords: 075095082X, family tree research, Ruth A. Symes, genealogy, genealogical, history, family history, families, social history, North West England, Wigan, Liverpool, Tanzania, Tanganyika, Manchester, death, birth, mortality, census, working class, working classes, Lancashire, Symes, Sachak, Wilkinson, Daniels, Cooke, lodgers
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Oakley, Ann.
Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents Early Years
(Flamingo, 1997).
Paperback. Spine creased and cover edges worn, otherwise good. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C10416
Keywords: 0006550134, parents, Richard Titmuss, Kay Titmuss, Kay Miller, welfare state, biography, biographies, autobiography, autobiographies, feminism, feminists, family, social history, families, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, 20th
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