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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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
Price £10.99.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Woloch, Isser, ed.
The Peasantry in the Old Regime: Conditions and Protests
(Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970).
Paperback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and sticker, some light creasing / edge wear to covers - otherwise good. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-A13347
Keywords: 0030798302, ancien regime, old regime, history, peasants, peasantry, class, society, protest, poverty, peasant uprisings, riots, 18th century, eighteenth century, popular protest, agrarian, village, peasant revolution of 1789, France, French
Price £11.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Thompson, Thea.
Edwardian Childhoods:
(RKP, reprint, 1982).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers and a little waviness to a few pages, otherwise good. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A6236
Keywords: 0710093357, child, children, Edwardian, infancy, family, Britain, British, England, English, history, childhood, reminiscences, memories, memory, autobiographies, autobiography, autobiographical, class, povert, poor, paupers, working class, working classes, lower orders
Price £5.50.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Best, Muriel and Lugg, Vicky.
Design Sources for Embroidery:
(Batsford, 1988).
Hardback. Good+ in slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A13928
Keywords: 071345573X, embroidery, design, sewing, needlework, collage, textiles
Price £12.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Blackmore, Stanley.
Reflections of a Country Magistrate:
(Saracen Publications, 1988).
Hardback. Very good. 236pp. Order No. NSBK-A6256
Keywords: 0951394606, magistrates, legal, laws, Britain, British, England, English, history, Stanley Blackmore, courts, magistracy, country magistrates, autobiographical
Price £4.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Chambers, J. D.
Population, Economy, and Society in Pre-Industrial England:
(OUP, 1972).
Paperback. Cover creased, otherwise good. viii + 162pp. Order No. NSBK-A10735
Keywords: 0198880855, population, demography, demographic, social history, Chambers, society, mortality, England, English, Britain, British, Thomas Malthus, marriage customs, fertility
Price £3.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Lewis, Peter.
The Fifties:
(Book Club, 1978).
Hardback. Very good in torn dustwrapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A3671
Keywords: 0397013558, Fifties, Britian, British, England, English, history, Nuclear War, food rationing, Festival of Britain, Rock 'n' Roll
Price £5.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Flandrin, Jean-Louis.
Families in Former Times: Kinship, Household and Sexuality
(CUP, Rpt, 1979).
Paperback. Good. xi + 265pp. Order No. NSBK-B22
Keywords: 0521294495, household, family, sexuality, families, history, kinship, France, Annales, marriage, early modern, birth control, French, Francais, Families, Contraception
Price £5.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Miller, H. Tatlock and Sainthill, Louis.
Churchill: The Walk with Destiny
(Hutchinson, 1959).
Comprises black and white photographs of Churchill's time in office. Hardback. Over-size book, spine ends badly bumped, covers lightly worn, internally good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A12296
Keywords: B000B5H28C, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century
Price £9.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Gostelow, Mary.
The Coats Book of Embroidery:
(David and Charles, 3rd impress., 1979).
With over 800 line illustrations by the author. Colour photographs by Martin F. Gostelow. Hardback. Spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise very good+ in dustwrapper. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-G10523
Keywords: 0715376144, crafts, embroidery, embroiderers, needlework, sewing, stitching, stitches, needlepoint, canvas work, crafts, Britain, British, England, English, history, assissi work, Applique, Bargello, Blackwork, Hardanger, patchwork, stitchwork, fabrics, threads
Price £8.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
|
|
