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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Kaufman, M.
The Housing of the Working Classes and of the Poor:
(EP Publishing/Rowman and Littlefield, 1975 rpt of 1907 text).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 146pp. Order No. NSBK-A2577
Keywords: 0715811347, housing, working classes, history, poor, poverty, Britain, England, urban, urbanisation, British, English, houses, paupers
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Wollaston, Charles.
Silkscreen in Schools:
(Dryad Press Leicester, 1960).
Hardback. Covers worn, internally good. 72pp. Order No. NSBK-G12272
Keywords: B0000CKS51,Charles Wollaston, silkscreen, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Moss, Les.
Live and Learn: A Life and Struggle for Progress
(QueenSpark Books, 1979).
Paperback. Good. 137pp. Order No. NSBK-A12911
Keywords: 0904733068, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Les Moss, Queenspark
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Bax, Clifford, ed.
The Silver Casket: Being Love-Letters and Love-Poems Attributed to Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
(Home & Van Thal, 1946).
Hardback. Cloth sun-faded with a little wear to edges, otherwise good. 54pp. Order No. NSBK-A14423
Keywords: B0011G83ME, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, Scotland, Scottish, poems, poetry, letters, correspondence, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Elizabethan, 16th century, sixteenth century
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Horn, Pamela.
Victorian Countrywomen:
(Basil Blackwell, 1991).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. xiii + 281pp. Order No. NSBK-C15519
Keywords: 0631155228, Victorian, nineteenth century, women, countrywomen, work, rural life, country, countryside, women's history, women's work
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Fletcher, Winston.
Keeping the Vision Alive: The Story of Barnado's 1905-2005
(Barnado's, 2005).
Richly illustrated with photographs. Paperback. Near fine. 157pp. Order No. NSBK-A12615
Keywords: 190465911X, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Barnado's, charity, charities, philanthropy, children, child, twentieth century, 20th
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Stanley, Oliver; Buchan, John, Bressey, C. H.
British Bridges: an Illustrated Technical and Historical Record
(Public Works, Roads, Transport Congress, 1933).
With many photographic illustrations. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Splitting / cracking damage to exterior of spine, with some wear to all edges. Otherwise overall good. xxiv + 498pp. Order No. NSBK-A14968
Keywords: B000RZAQPW, bridges, history, technical, transport, history, technology, roads, infrastructure, public works, bridge, towns, crossing points, photos, photographs, pictures, illustrations
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Dyhouse, Carol.
Feminism and the Family in England, 1880-1939:
(Basil Blackwell, 1989).
Out-of-print paperback. Paperback. Scattered ink annotation not affecting legibility, otherwise good. vi + 204pp. Order No. NSBK-C5789
Keywords: 0631167366, feminism, women, history, family, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, twentieth century, domestic, domesticity, marriage, sexuality, private sphere, separate spheres, economic, reproduction, childbirth, childcare, families
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Shiman, Lilian Lewis.
Women and Leadership in Nineteenth-Century England:
(St Martin's Press, 1992).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+ in slightly discoloured dustwrapper. xiii + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-C1954
Keywords: 9780312079123, temperance movement, women's suffrage, suffragettes, methodism, evangelicalism, Quakerism, evangelical women, nineteenth-century England, Victorian, temperance, England, Britain, history, English, Quakers, reform, reform movements, Primrose League, temperance movement
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