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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Thompson, Jane.
Learning Liberation: Women's Response to Men's Education
(Croom Helm, 1983).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, with newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, a little sun-fading to covers, otherwise good condition. 207pp. Order No. NSBK-C15805
Keywords: 0709924399, education, men, women, training, masculinity, sociology
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Biggs, Mary.
Women's Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women
(Columbia UP, 1996).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xix + 501pp. Order No. NSBK-C2525
Keywords: 0231079869, women, words, quotations, citation, Mary Biggs
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Kleinberg, S. Jay, ed.
Retrieving Women's History: Changing Perceptions of the Role of Women in Politics and Society
(Berg, 1988).
Paperback. Very good. xii + 380pp. Order No. NSBK-C9045
Keywords: 085496682X, women, woman, gender, politics, political, society, Soviet Union, Norway, Turkey, Britain, France, Arab States, Muslims, African, American, United States, slavery, Dutch, Netherlands, Holland, feminism, feminists
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Kenner, Charmian.
No Time for Women: Exploring Women's Health in the 1930s and Today
(Pandora Press, 1985).
Paperback. Very good. xvii + 168pp. Order No. NSBK-A15000
Keywords: 0863580327, women, health, illness, 1930s, thirties, history, health education, interwar, inter war
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Chandrasekhar, S.
A Dirty, Filthy Book: The Writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on Reproductive Physiology and Birth Control and an Acount of the Bradlaugh-Besant Trial
(University of California Press, 1981).
With the definitive texts of Fruits of Philosophy by Charles Knowlton, The Law of Population by Annie Besant, Theosophy and the Law of Population by Annie Besant. Hardback. Excellent in dustwrapper. xi + 217pp. Order No. NSBK-C15468
Keywords: 0520041682, Victorian, history, Annie Besant, Charles Knowlton, Britain, British, England, English, reproduction, sexual, sex, females, feminism, women, woman, physiology, birth control, contraception, population, law, Bradlaugh-Besant trial
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Sanders, Valerie.
Records of Girlhood: Volume 2. An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Childhoods
(Routledge, 2012).
Volume 2, The Nineteenth Century Series. Paperback. Top back corner slightly bumped, and top corner of rear cover creased, otherwise very good, bright. 230pp. Order No. NSBK-C16027
Keywords: 9781138275157, girlhood, women, childhoods, children, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, sources, social, girls
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Hughes, Mary and Kennedy, Mary.
New Futures: Changing Women's Education
(RKP, 1985).
Paperback. Minor marginal pencil annotation, covers slightly browned, otherwise a good copy. 183pp. Order No. NSBK-C15824
Keywords: 9780710099884, sociology, education, women
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National Lesbian and Gay Survey, .
Proust Cole Porter Michelangelo Marc Almond and Me: Writings by Gay Men on Their Lives and Lifestyles
(Routledge, 1993).
Paperback. Very good. xi + 196pp. Order No. NSBK-A15960
Keywords: 9780415089142, gay men, history, literature, masculinity
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Dwyer, Bernard.
But That's Another Story: Collected Writings of Roscommon Man
(Dave Mallinson, 1995).
Paperback. Good+. viii + 97pp. Order No. NSBK-A14246
Keywords: 1899512152, Roscommon Man, Irish, Ireland, story telling, stories, fact, fiction, legends, tales, Bernard Dwyer
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