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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Salisbury, Harrison E.
Disturber of the Peace: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent
(Unwin, 1989).
Hardback. Light soiling to page edges, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xii + 424pp. Order No. NSBK-A9274
Keywords: 0044403895, reports, reporting, foreign correspondent, journalism, journalists, media, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century, 20th, Harrison, E. Salisbury, autobiographies, auobiography, autobiographical, life, lives, foreign correspondents
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Priestley, Philip.
Victorian Prison Lives: English Prison Biography, 1830-1914
(Methuen, 1985).
Hardback. Good+ in dustwrapper. xviii + 311pp. Order No. NSBK-A298
Keywords: 0416347703, biography, biographies, prison, gaol, jail, prisons, jails, England, English, Britain, British, gaols, crime, criminals, criminal, law and order, prisoner, prisoners, incarceration, prison administration, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, imprisonment, imprison
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Margery, Susan, Guerin, Caroline, Hamilton, P, ed.
Writing Lives: Feminist Biography and Autobiography
(Australian Feminist Publications, 1992).
Paperback. Covers slightly yellowed, otherwise very good. xi + 169pp. Order No. NSBK-C15784
Keywords: women's autobiographies, biographies, women writers
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Lambert, Sharon.
Irish Women in Lancashire, 1922-1960: their Story
(Centre for North West Regional Studies, 2001).
Paperback. New book, fine. xii + 129pp. Order No. NSBK-C4253
Keywords: 1862201102, Ireland, Irish, women, Irish women, history, Britain, British, England, English, immigration, immigrant, immigrants, emigration, emigrants, emigrant, Lancashire, oral history, social history, life stories, autobiography, autobiographies, Sharon Lambert, Dublin, Wigan, Preston, Lancaster, Liverpool, Lancaster University, Catholic, Catholics, Catholicism, female, national identity, family, families, North West, Centre for North West Regional Studies
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Metcalfe, Jean.
Sunnylea: a 1920s Childhood Remembered
(Michael Joseph, 1980).
With beautiful watercolour prints. Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly soiled dustwrapper. 60pp. Order No. NSBK-A3735
Keywords: 0718119231, Jean Metcalfe, watercolours, autobiography, memoirs, child, childhood, autobiographies
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Watson, Mrs Sydney.
A Village Maiden's Career: Life Story of Mrs Sydney Watson
(S. W. Partridge, second edit. n.d).
Authoress of 'Old Home on the Hill', 'Hubert Grantham's Atonement,' 'Kenneth St Clair,' etc., etc. Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, blue cloth rubbed along edges, gilt titles, pages browned, otherwise a good working copy. 392pp. Order No. NSBK-C7509
Keywords: Mrs Sydney Watson, nineteenth century, 19th, woman writer, women writers, Britain, British, England, English, history, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, lives, life history, life histories, memoirs, novelists, literature, novels, fiction, Wiltshire, religion, religious
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Lawrence, Elizabeth.
A Home on My Hands:
(Book Guild, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 139pp. Order No. NSBK-A13299
Keywords: 0863327869, narrowboats, narrowboat, boats, canals, canal boats, rural, agriculture, agricultural, history, countryside, villages, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, autobiography, autobiographies, women
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Butler, Josephine E.
Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2002 facsimile reprint of 1910 edition).
A well-presented facsimile of a hitherto scarce title. Paperback. New book, fine. 268pp. Order No. NSBK-C581
Keywords: 0954263219, Josephine E. Butler, education, social history, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, equality, gender roles, working women, women workers, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade, prostitution, prostitutes, State Regulation of Vice, Contagious Diseases Act, social purity, Liverpool, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical
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Polkey, Pauline, ed.
Women's Lives Into Print: The Theory, Practice and Writing of Feminist Auto/Biography
(Macmillan, 1999).
Hardback. Very good+, without dustwrapper. xx + 238pp. Order No. NSBK-C15694
Keywords: 9780333684108, autobiography, autobiographies, history, feminism, biography, biographies, recollections, self, female identity, literature, women
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