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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McGann, Susan; Crowther, Anne and Dougall, Rona.
A History of the Royal College of Nursing 1916-90: A Voice for Nurses
(Manchester University Press, 2009).
Hardback. Very good. x + 358pp. Order No. NSBK-C14628
Keywords: 9780719077951, nursing, nurses, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, hospitals, Royal College of Nursing, managers, NHS, National Health Service, training, unions, unionism, trade unionism, women and work
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Jones, Jenny.
Where the Children Cry:
(Victor Gollancz, 1998).
Hardback. Near fine in dustwrapper. 384pp. Order No. NSBK-H13775
Keywords: 057506157X, children, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, literature, fiction, twentieth century, novels, York
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Stratton, Helen.
Walberswick Marshes:
(Date unknown).
An original delicate watercolour painting on card (unframed) believed to be by the artist Helen Stratton (24.5 cm x 27.5cm or 9.5 inches x 10.5 inches). Stratton is a highly-regarded illustrator of children's fairy tales. Signed with initials in bottom right-hand corner (active 1891-1925). Framer's plate (which is separate, but which has presumably been on the back of the picture when framed) gives provenance - Walberswick Marshes - Helen Stratton - and her London address: 113 Abingdon Road, Kensington. The picture, in greens and blues, is of a bridge over marshland. Walberswick in Suffolk was a haven for artists in the 1890s and 1900s and is associated with Philip Wilson Steer and his circle of English Impressionists. The card has suffered a little acidification from the original backing boards. Corners worn, one slightly split, some browning to edges, and light brown staining to top left edge, about 1.5cm wide. Otherwise very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15466
Keywords: B07FT384YJ, Helen Stratton, Stratton, painter, painting, original, watercolour, Suffolk, Walberswick Marshes,painters, Walberswick, illustrations, images, art. artist, artists, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, nineteenth century, Helen Isobel Mansfield Ramsey Stratton, Art Nouveau, Glasgow School, woman artist, women artists, book illustrator, illustrators, children's book illustrator, Minsmere-Walberswick Heaths and Marshes Site of Special Scientific Interest, Walberswick National Nature Reserve, Southwold, marshland, reedbeds, English Impressionists, impressionist, Enfland, 20th century, 19th century, antiquarian, women painters, watercolours
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Cobbe, Frances Power.
The Hopes of The Human Race: Hereafter and Here
(James Miller).
Hardback. Spine and decorated boards rubbed and chipped, internally good. 270pp. Order No. NSBK-A15484
Keywords: B00087431C, Frances Power Cobbe, Victorian, woman writer, women writers, afterlife, death, religion, Britain, British, history, England, English
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Beik, Mildred Allen.
The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization
(Pennsylvania University Press, 1996).
Paperback. Near fine. xxx + 447pp. Order No. NSBK-A10290
Keywords: 0271015675, immigrants, immigration, America, American, USA, US, United States, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, unionization, unionisation, Pennsylvania, Windber, miners, mining, coal, coalminers, coalmining, Berwind-White Coal Mining Company, New Deal, United Mine Workers, ethnicity, ethnic
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Abrams, Fran.
Freedom's Cause: The Lives of the Suffragettes
(Profile Books, 2003).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xvii + 283pp. Order No. NSBK-A15642
Keywords: 9781861974259, history, suffragettes, Votes for Women
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Harrity, Richard and Martin, Ralph G.
The Three Lives of Helen Keller:
(Hodder & Stoughton, rpt., 1964).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in chipped dustwrapper. 189pp. Order No. NSBK-C5075
Keywords: B0000CM99H, Helen Keller, women's history, woman history, blind, blindness, mute, deaf and dumb, deafness, dumbness, disability, Anne Sullivan, biography
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Wilson, Mary.
A European Journal: Two Sisters Abroad in 1847
(Bloomsbury, 1987).
With Illustrations by Anne Wilson. Edited and Introduced by Jennifer Simpson. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C5784
Keywords: 0747500223, Mary Wilson, Anne Wilson, Europe, European, journals, nineteenth century, Victorian, 1847, women's writing, women writers, woman writer, literature, literary, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Alps, Wilson sisters, Wilsons
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Stallard, Patricia Y.
Glittering Misery: Dependents of the Indian Fighting Army
(Oklahoma UP, rpt., 1992).
With a foreword by Darlis A. Miller. Illustrated with more than 60 photographs. Paperback. Very good+. 159pp. Order No. NSBK-C13254
Keywords: 0806124741, Civil War, Indian Fighting Army, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, children, child
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