Symes, R. A.
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings: a Guide for Family Historians
(Pen and Sword, 2016).
Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle sat down and wrote a poem, or a memoir? Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together and managing their collective affairs. With industrialisation, improved education, and far more geographical mobility, British people of all classes were writing for new purposes, with new implements, in new styles, using new modes of expression and new methods of communication (e.g. telegrams and postcards). Our ancestors had an itch for scribbling from the most basic marks (initials, signatures and graffiti on objects as varied as trees, rafters and window ledges), through more emotionally-charged kinds of writing such as letters and diaries, to more creative works such as poetry and even fiction. This book shows family historians how to get the most out of documents written by their ancestors and, therefore, how better to understand the people behind the words. Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-A15529
Keywords: 9781473855434, family, geneaology, family trees, geneaological, diaries, social history, family historians, ancestors, literacy, correspondence, journals, autobiographies, signatures, commonplace books
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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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Scutt, Jocelynne A.
Women and Magna Carta: A Treaty for Rights or Wrongs?
(Palgrave, 2016).
Hardback. Top corner bumped, otherwise very good+. vii + 154pp. Order No. NSBK-C15650
Keywords: 9781137562340, Magna Carta, women's rights, history, natural rights, human rights
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Hassey, Janette.
No Time for Science: Evangelical Women in Public Ministry Around the Turn of the Century
(Academie Books, 1986).
Paperback. Very good. xv + 254pp. Order No. NSBK-C15473
Keywords: 0310294517, evangelical, religion, religious, women, woman, ministers, ministry, science, scientific, divinity, history, Bible, biblical
Price £11.00.
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Coomes, David.
Dorothy L. Sayers: a Careless Rage for Life
(Lion Books, 1992).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, otherwise good in dw. 242pp. Order No. NSBK-C1382
Keywords: 073240522X, Dorothy L. Sayers, biography, crime writer, literature, novel, novelist, woman writer, women writers
Price £4.00.
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Turner, Barry.
Equality for Some: The Story of Girls' Education
(Ward Lock Educational, 1974).
Hardback. Ex library with marks left by usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in faded, slightly soiled dustwrapper. 233pp. Order No. NSBK-C3265
Keywords: 070623426X, girl, girls' education, school, schooling, sexual equality, teaching, hockey, girlhood
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Fraser, W. Hamish.
Trade Unions and Society: The Struggle for Acceptance, 1850-1880
(George Allen and Unwin, 1974).
Studies in Social History. Hardback. Good+ in spine-faded dustwrapper. 292pp. Order No. NSBK-A12038
Keywords: 004331063X, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, sociology, sociologists, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Morley, Louise and Walsh, Val, eds.
Feminist Academics: Creative Agents for Change
(Taylor and Francis, 1995).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. vi + 203pp. Order No. NSBK-C9106
Keywords: 0748402993, women, woman, female, academe, academia, universities, higher education, university, degrees, graduates, academy, teachers, gender, feminists, feminism
Price £28.00.
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Moynihan, Ruth Barnes.
Rebel for Rights: Abigail Scott Duniway
(Yale UP, 1983).
Paperback. Creasing to spine, otherwise very good. xv + 273pp. Order No. NSBK-C1207
Keywords: 0300034784, women's rights, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Abigail Scott Duniway
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Mahony, Pat.
Schools for the Boys: Co-Education Reassessed
(Hutchinson, 1985).
Explorations in Feminism. Paperback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good condition. 118pp. Order No. NSBK-A15801
Keywords: 0091608414, schools, education, male, boys, childhood, co-education
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