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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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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Arnold, Eleanor, ed.
Voices of American Homemakers:
(Indiana UP, 1985).
Paperback. Very good. 295pp. Order No. NSBK-C11859
Keywords: 0253207991, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, oral history, States, homemakers, family, families, family values, rural, oral histories, education, courtship, marriage, child rearing, farms, farming, farmers, agricultural, land, agrarian, agriculture, country, countryside, rural
Price £5.00.
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Elliot, Faith Robertson.
The Family: Change or Continuity:
(Macmillan Education, 1989).
Paperback. Spine faded, otherwise very good. xi + 235pp. Order No. NSBK-C9678
Keywords: 0333329708, family, families, women's studies, feminism, feminists, women, woman, women's movement, children, twentieth century, 20th, child, abortion, marriage, parenthood, parents
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Hamilton-Edwards, Gerald.
In Search of Army Ancestry:
(Phillimore, 1977).
Hardback. Some fading to spine and slight scuffing to front board, otherwise good. 106pp. Order No. NSBK-A13879
Keywords: 0850332877, army, armies, history, family history, military, genealogy, families, army lists, army records, service records
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Arlott, John.
Island Camera: The Isles of Scilly in the photography of the Gibson Family
(David and Charles, 1972).
Written in collaboration with Rex Cowan and Frank Gibson. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Hardback. Boards and fly leaf slightly soiled, otherwise good + in torn dustwrapper. 110pp. Order No. NSBK-A10434
Keywords: 0715357743, Isles of Scilly, Gibson family, families, islands, photos, photography, photographs, Scillonians, ships, shipping, coasts, coastal, sea birds, Victorian, twentieth century, Edwardian, nineteenth century, 19th
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Proudfoot, Karin.
Genealogy for Beginners:
(Phillimore and Co, Ltd, 2003).
Paperback. Very good+. xii + 126pp. Order No. NSBK-J12583
Keywords: 1860772684, genealogy, family history, families, family trees, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Laderman, Carol.
Wives and Midwives: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia
(California UP, rpt., 1987).
Paperback. Some minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise good. vii + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-C5978
Keywords: 0520060369, Carol Laderman, Malays, Malaysia, childbirth, children, birth, pregnancy, midwives, midwife, pregnant, nutrition, food, natal, diet, dietary, ritual, medical, medicine, shaman, fieldworkers, Southeast Asia, Asian, mothers, motherhood, maternal, wife, wives, families, family, twentieth century, babies, baby, maternity, midwifery
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Laverack, Elizabeth.
With This Ring: 100 Years of Marriage
(Elm Tree Books, 1979).
Based on the H. Samuel Wedding Collection. Hardback. Cover boards slightly soiled, an ex-library copy showing signs of use, but good. 138pp. Order No. NSBK-C6340
Keywords: 0241898951, marriage, marriages, weddings, matrimony, husbands, wife, wives, spouses, family, Britain, British, history, England, English, men, women, families, twentieth century, gender, wedding ceremonies
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Seccombe, Wally.
A Millennium of Family Change: Feudalism to Capitalism in Northwestern Europe
(Verso, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. vii + 343pp. Order No. NSBK-C11822
Keywords: 0860913325, family, families, feudalism, capitalism, capitalists, Europe, European, Northwestern, politics, political, economic, economy, economies
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