Symes, R. A.
Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries:
(Pen and Sword, 2016).
The intriguing characters in these real family history mysteries include an agricultural labourer who left secrets behind in Somerset when he migrated to Manchester, a working-class woman who bafflingly lost ten of her fourteen children in infancy, a miner who purportedly went to live with the Red Indians and a merchant prince of the Empire who was rumoured to have two wives. This book shows how a variety of sources including birth, marriage and death certificates, censuses, newspaper reports, passports, recipe books, trade directories, diaries and passenger lists were all used to uncover more, and how much can be detected by setting the characters from your family tree in their proper historical backgrounds. Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A15528
Keywords: 9781473862944, social history, geneaology, family trees, women, men, Empire, birth certificates, geneaology, marriage, death, mortality, fertility, diaries, passenger lists, labour, censuses, emigration, family relationships
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Evelyn, John.
The Life of Margaret Godolphin:
(Alexander Moring, 1904).
The King's Classics. Hardback. Covers slightly worn, otherwise a good copy. xxxix + 169pp. Order No. NSBK-C11116
Keywords: B000X8TJY2, Margaret Godolphin, seventeenth century, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, diaries, diarists, authoresses, literature, fiction, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, John Evelyn
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Carr, Monica.
Monica Carr's Country Diary:
(Colour Books, 1997).
Paperback. Good. ix + 142pp. Order No. NSBK-C5234
Keywords: 0860769551, Monica Carr, country, countryside, diary, diaries, Mary Norton, Dunlavin, Farming Independent, farm, farming, Ireland, Irish, twentieth century
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Merrill, Marlene Deahl, ed.
Growing Up in Boston's Gilded Age: The Journal of Alice Stone Blackwell, 1872-1874
(Yale UP, 1990).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xix + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-C9223
Keywords: 0300047770, Boston, America, American, United States, USA, US, Alice Stone Blackwell, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian, women writers, woman writer, journals, diaries, diary, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Blackwell, Emily Blackwell, women's suffrage, suffragettes, women's movement, women's rights
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Wordsworth, Dorothy.
Illustrated Lakeland Journals: Complete Edition
(Collins, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C8864
Keywords: 0004122631, Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, literature, poetry, nineteenth century, journals, woman writer, women writers, Lake District, Britain, British, England, English, history, Grasmere, countryside, rural, William Wordsworth, journals, Dorothy Wordsworth's journals, Cumbrian, Cumbria, nineteenth century, Georgian, regency, diaries, diary, diarists, women
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Mackenzie, Norman and Jeanne, eds.
The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Volume I: 1873 - 1892. Glitter Around and Darkness Within
(Virago, 1982).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xxii + 386pp. Order No. NSBK-C6086
Keywords: 0860682099, Beatrice Webb, socialism, socialist, socialists, Fabian, Fabians, Fabian socialism, women, history, diaries, diary, Victorian, Sidney Webb, Charles Booth, Margaret Harkness, Joseph Chamberlain, nineteenth century, Virago, Webbs
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Davis, Edwin Adams and Hogan, William Ransom.
The Barber of Natchez:
(Louisiana UP, 1973).
Paperback. Very good. 278pp. Order No. NSBK-A8204
Keywords: 0807102121, Natchez, barbers, slavery, slaves, free slaves, USA, United States, Black history, negroes, Mississippi, politics, American, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian, diaries, diary, letters, biography, biographies, lives, life histories, life history, biographical, business records
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Mackenzie, Norman and Jeanne, eds.
The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Volume Two, 1892-1905: All the Good Things of Life
(Virago, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xv + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-C6087
Keywords: 0860682102, Beatrice Webb, Sidney Webb, the Webbs, social reform, Edwardian, Victorian, LSE, London School of Economics, poor, poverty, trade unionism, local government, state, women's history, woman, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, diaries, diary, Virago
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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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Pottle, Frederick A.
Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763:
(William Heinemann, rpt., 1951).
Now first published from the original manuscript prepared for the press with an introduction and notes by Frederick A. Potttle. Hardback. Covers soiled and spine edges slightly torn, otherwise good+. xiii + 370pp. Order No. NSBK-A12438
Keywords: B000HGIENM, Boswell, diary, diaries, eighteenth century, 18th, journals
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