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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Wheeler, Barry, ed.
Spare the Rod: Journal of a Victorian Schoolmaster in Dorset, 1863 - 64
(Winterbourne Press, 1988).
Booklet. Spine faded, covers lightly soiled, otherwise good. 36pp. Order No. NSBK-A13308
Keywords: 0950828947, Dorset, Victorian, 19th, century, nineteenth, history, schools, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, education, 1860s, journals, teachers, diaries, booklet
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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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Keetley, Dawn and Pettegrew, John.
Public Women, Public Worlds: A Documentary History of American Feminism
(Madison House, 1997).
Volume 1: Beginnings to 1900. Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xxi + 377pp. Order No. NSBK-C8526
Keywords: 0945612443, American, America, USA, United States, feminism, feminists, nineteenth century, Salem, Victorian, 19th, texts, speeches, novels, poetry, poems, fiction, broadsides, testimonies, transcripts, trials, journals, newspapers, magazines
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Turnbull, Jean, ed.
Lancaster University Centre for North-West Regional Studies: Regional Bulletin
(Lancaster University, 2001).
Booklet. New Series No 15, 2001. Paperback. Very good. 117pp. Order No. NSBK-A15045
Keywords: C.N.W.R.S, Centre for North-West Regional Studies, bulletin, bulletins, journals, Lancaster University, booklet, booklets
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Australian Feminist Studies, .
Australian Feminist Studies: Volume 13 Number 28
(Carfax Publishing, 1998).
Journal. Cover corners bent, otherwise very good+. 189-387pp. Order No. NSBK-C10447
Keywords: Australian, Australia, feminists, feminism, journals, women, women's studies, women's history, woman, twentieth century, 20th century
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Childhood, .
Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research
(Norwegian Centre for Child Research, 1996).
2 issues. Vol 3 (1996) Nos 1 and 3. Journals. Very good +. pp. Order No. NSBK-A11417
Keywords: journals, children child, child rights, youth, education, Norwegian Centre for Child Research
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Feminist Studies, .
Feminist Studies: Volume 29: Number 1. Spring 2003
(Feminist Studies, 2003).
Journal. Fine. 233pp. Order No. NSBK-C10633
Keywords: journals, feminism, feminist, women's studies, women, woman, gender, twentieth century, 20th
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Feminist Studies, .
Feminist Studies:
(University of Maryland, 1989-1996).
7 issues. Vol 15 (1989) No 2; Vol 22 (1996) Nos 1, 2 and 3; Vol 27 (2001) No1; Vol 30 (2004) No 2; Vol 31 (2005) No 2. Journals. Soiling to page edges, otherwise good+. pp. Order No. NSBK-A11400
Keywords: Feminist Studies, feminism, feminists, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, journals, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States
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Cobbett, William.
Journal of a Year's Residence in the United States of America:
(Alan Sutton, rpt, 1983).
Paperback. Very good. 327pp. Order No. NSBK-A4594
Keywords: 0862991005, USA, United States of America, American, history, British, Britain, English, England, radicals, nineteenth century, radicalism, North Hempstead, Long Island, countryside, William Cobbett, journals
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