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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Renoir, Jean.
Renoir: My Father:
(The Reprint Society, 1962).
Hardback. Very good in soiled and chipped dustwrapper. 416pp. Order No. NSBK-A3891
Keywords: 0316740136, art, artist, biography, life history, fatherhood, father, painter, painting, French, history, France, biographies, Renoir
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Homberger, Eric.
The Art of the Real: Poetry in England and America Since 1939
(Dent, 1977).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, spine faded, otherwise good. x + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-A7484
Keywords: 0460110845, poets, poet, poetry, American, America, USA, England, English, Britain, British, twentieth century, 20th century, post war, post-war, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, literary, literature
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Leek, Michael E.
The Art of Nautical Illustration: A Visual Tribute to the Achievements of the Classic Marine Illustrations
(Eagle Editions, 2001).
Paperback. Fine, large format. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A5823
Keywords: 1861604246, nautical, illustrations, marine, sea, drawings, paintings, art, artists, painters, ships, shipping, sailing, history, designs, designers, Dutch painters, American nautical artists, Europe, European, boats, USA, United States, American, history
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Bowes, Peter.
Picturesque Weardale Revisited:
(Weardale Publishing, 1996).
Richly illustrated by William Morley Egglestone. Paperback. Paper covers slightly faded, light edgewear, otherwise very good. 142pp. Order No. NSBK-D16097
Keywords: 9781897822036, stored with antiquarian, illustrations, photograph, photographs, history, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, social history, Newcastle, Wear Valley, William Morley Egglestone, North Pennines, County Durham, River Wear, Durham, Stanhope, Wolsingham, Frosterley, St John's Chapel, Teesdale, images, pictures, Peter Bowes
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Digby, George Wingfield.
French Tapestries from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries:
(B. T. Batsford, 1951).
With an Introduction and Notes on the Plates. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, otherwise good+ in darkened, soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. 12pp. Order No. NSBK-A14618
Keywords: B0000CI32U, early modern history, tapestry, tapestries, needlework, history, France, French, sewing
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Moore, Geoffrey.
Jean Bart: Resistance Leader
(G. Moore, 1982).
Paperback. Good. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A13389
Keywords: 0950636096, resistance, resistance, resistance fighters, resistance leaders, Jean Bart, 1940s, Second World War, World War Two, World War II, Monty, Dunkirk, history, Rouen, France, French, Normandy
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Famous Warplanes Video Volume 26, .
Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk: Northrop B-2 Spirit
().
Running time: 52 mins. VHS Video PAL, Famous Warplanes Volume 26. VHS Video. Very good, in cellophane. pp. Order No. NSBK-A14210
Keywords: warplanes, famous warplanes, Nighthawk, aircraft, military, aeroplanes, history, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, aviation, bombing, bombers, flying, stealth bombers
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Adnett, Nick.
Labour Market Policy:
(Longman Group, 1989).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 279pp. Order No. NSBK-A7873
Keywords: 0582009626, twentieth century, economy, economics, labour, labor, market policy, labour market policy, neoclassical models, labour mobility, migration, employment, unemployment, Britain, British, England, English
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Reynolds, M. E.
Memories of John Galsworthy:
(Robert Hale, 1936).
By his sister. Hardback. Very good in slightly torn, rubbed and browned dustwrapper. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A10299
Keywords: B000I83NSU, John Galsworthy, biography, biographies, lives, life histories, life history, writers, literature, authors, fiction, novels, Forsyte Saga, M. E, Reynolds
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