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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Fildes, Valerie; Marks, Lara and Marland, Hilary.
Women & Children First: International Maternal and Infant Welfare, 1870 - 1945
(Routledge, 1992).
The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Hardback. Very good in slightly loose, slightly yellowed good dustwrapper. xxiii + 311pp. Order No. NSBK-C15720
Keywords: 9780415080903, women, maternity, motherhood, infant welfare, children, international, child, mothers, history
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Wilson, Charles.
First With the News: The History of W. H. Smith, 1792-1972
(Guild Publishing, 1985).
Hardback. Very good. xiv + 510pp. Order No. NSBK-A12029
Keywords: 0224021567, W. H. Smith, news, newspapers, companies, company, business, businesses, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, eighteenth, twentieth, 18th, 20th, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Watkins, Micky.
Henrietta Barnett in Whitechapel: Her First Fifty Years
(Micky Watkins, 2005).
Paperback. Very good. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C15630
Keywords: 9780954979805, Henrietta Barnett, Octavia Hill, social history, housing, biography, slums, garden suburbs, garden cities
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Esher, Reginald Viscount.
The Tragedy of Lord Kitchener:
(John Murray, rpt, 1921).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Boards worn and marked. Some splitting internally at spine, a good working copy. xv + 219pp. Order No. NSBK-A15067
Keywords: B000L9ILRY, Lord Kitchener, World War I, Great War, First World War, Western Front, army, military
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Mort, Frank.
Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics in England since 1830
(RKP, 1987).
Paperback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, covers browned, otherwise a good copy. ix + 280pp. Order No. NSBK-A9632
Keywords: 0710208561, sexuality, sexualities, medico-moral, medicine, science, England, English, history, Britain, British, disease, STD, health, AIDS, twentieth century, nineteenth, 20th, 19th, Victorian, moral purity, sanitary, legislation, laws, medical
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King, Peter.
Women Rule the Plot: The Story of the 100 Year Fight to Establish Women's Place in Farm and Garden
(Duckworth, 1999).
Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C5406
Keywords: 0715629492, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, gardens, gardening, plots, unions, unionists, Women's Farm and Garden Union, earth, land, World War 1, World War One, Great War, wars, First World War, rural, country, countryside, agrarian, Lady Warwick, Gertrude Jekyll, Brend Colvin, Madeline Agar, suffrage, suffragettes, Women's Farm and Garden Association, associations, organisations, feminism, feminists, WFGA, Folly Farm, Highgrove, Chenies Manor, women and work, women's work, farming
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Jones, Helen, ed.
Duty and Citizenship: the Correspondence and Papers of Violet Markham, 1896-1953
(The Historians' Press, 1994).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. vi + 202pp. Order No. NSBK-C3649
Keywords: 9781872273037, Violet Markham, women, work, duty, citizenship, suffrage, anti-suffrage, Votes for Women, anti-suffragism, suffragettes, Edwardian, war, World War I, Great War, First World War, Home Front, citizens, Liberals, local politics, Liberal politics, twentieth century, letters, Helen Jones
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Bet-El, Ilana R.
Conscripts: Lost Legions of the Great War
(Sutton Publishing, 1999).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xv + 239pp. Order No. NSBK-A8113
Keywords: 0750921080, Britain, British, England, English, history, wars, warfare, First World War, World War 1, One, I, Great War, twentieth century, 20th, conflicts, munitions, soldiers, military, battles, armies, army
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Barnett, Correlli.
The Great War:
(BBC Worldwide, second edition, 2003).
Paperback. Some light soiling / browning to page edges, otherwise a good copy. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A15765
Keywords: 9780563488873, Great War, First World War, WOrld War I
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