Symes, Ruth A.
Family First: Tracing Relationships in the Past
(Pen and Sword, 2015).
Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents - these are the relationships that structure the family tree and fascinate the family historian. But how much do we really know about how our ancestors lived out these multiple roles? Buffeted this way and that by economic developments, legal changes, medical advances, Two World Wars, the rise of the Welfare State, women's emancipation and many other factors, relationships between members of our family in the past were subtly different to those of today and continually transforming. This book is both a social history of the period 1800-1950 and a practical guide on how to set about tracing and better understanding the relationships between members of your own family. What did it mean to be a father in this period, but also, how might you discover the father of an ancestor if his name is not mentioned on the birth certificate? What common ideas were held about the role of wives and mothers, but also, how were multiple births, stillbirths, abortions and infanticides dealt with in the records? What factors might have influenced the size of your ancestor's family, but also why were its children named as they were? Did pecking order in a family matter, but also, was it legal to marry a cousin, or the sister of a deceased wife? How long could people expect to live, but also what records can tell you more about the circumstances of your ancestors' last years? A final chapter considers relationships with neighbours, friends and club associates. Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C15530
Keywords: 9781473833883, family relationships, family trees, geneaology, geneaological, social history, ancestors, tracing ancestors, fathers, mothers, siblings, cousins, women, welfare state, infants, clubs, grandparents
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John, Angela.
By the Sweat of Their Brow: Women Workers at Victorian Coalmines
(Croom Helm, 1980).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, otherwise good+ in faded dustwrapper. 245pp. Order No. NSBK-D7113
Keywords: 9780856647482, work, Victorian England, women, coal mines, coal-mining, collieries, pits, labour, industry, pit brow lasses, history, Britain, British, England, English, women and work, women's work, women's history, coal, pit, working-class women, mine, mining, miner, coal pits, mining communities, coal pit
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Down, Arthur, editor.
A Short Biography of Thomas John Down:
(John Walker, 1938).
Lacking one leaf in appendix (pg 225 - 226). Hardback. Lacking one leaf in appendix (pg 225 - 226). Some fading & wear to leather, mainly at spine & edges, otherwise a good solid copy. 229pp. Order No. NSBK-A13786
Keywords: B000WXVAQI, Warrington, Stockton Heath, bands, bandsmen, Thomas John Down, memoir, band, orchestra, military bands, history, music, concerts, North-West. Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, memoirs, biography, biographies, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth
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Hamilton, Mary Agnes.
The Labour Party Today: What it is, and How it Works
(Labour Book Service, 1939).
Scarce. With a section on women. Hardback. Some foxing, otherwise very good. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A1948
Keywords: B000LE439Y, Mary Agnes Hamilton, Hamilton, trade union, Labour party, party politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, trade unionism, women and work , women's work, labor, labour, trade unions
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Rollyson, Carl.
Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1995).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. 442pp. Order No. NSBK-C10006
Keywords: 0340590505, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, women writers, woman writer, writing, women's history, Rebecca West, novelists, novels, fiction
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Holdsworth, Angela.
Out of the Doll's House: The Story of Women in the Twentieth Century
(BBC, rpt, 1989).
Paperback. Covers slightly creased, otherwise good. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C3627
Keywords: 0563206314, women's history, women's movement, domesticity, family, motherhood, fashion, social history, women and work, home, twentieth century, 20th century, work, womens, Angela Holdsworth
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Malmgreen, Gail.
Neither Bread nor Roses: Utopian Feminists and the English Working Class, 1800-1850
(John L. Noyce, 1978).
Studies in Labour History. Pamphlet. Covers slightly soiled and browned, otherwise good. 43pp. Order No. NSBK-C12787
Keywords: B001B4DC36, Gail Malmgreen, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, utopias, class, working class, working-class, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, pamphlets, stored with pamphlets
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Cailliet, Emile.
The Themes of Magic in Nineteenth Century French Fiction:
(Porcupine Press, rpt., 1980).
English translation by Lorraine Havens. Hardback. Fine. xii + 228pp. Order No. NSBK-A5806
Keywords: 0879915013, magic, literature, literary, French, fiction, novels, novelists, nineteenth century, Victorian, France, history, necromancy, merveilleux, occultism, supernatural, animal magnetism, spiritualism, sorcery, peasants, exotic, savages, fairy tales
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Francis, Richard.
Ann the Word: The Story of Ann Lee: Female Messiah, Mother of the Shakers, The Woman Clothed with the Sun
(Fourth Estate, 2000).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xii + 388pp. Order No. NSBK-C6123
Keywords: 1857029690, Ann Lee, Female Messiah, religion, religious, Shakers, Shakerism, woman clothed with the sun, women's history, gender, Manchester, nineteenth century, Victorian, America, American, United States, USA, Shaking Quakers, Quakers, Quakerism, cults, millennium, New York, Jacob Kidney, Doorkeeper to the Commissioners for Detecting Conspiracies, Square House, Harvard, Massachusetts, New England, spiritual, spiritualism, faith, belief
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Madan, Nora (edition).
20th Anniversary of the Victory:
(Political Publishers, Havana, 1979).
With colour photo illustrations. Hardback. Corners worn, a small ink stain to inner board, otherwise a very good copy. 107pp. Order No. NSBK-A15961
Keywords: Fidel Castro, communism, history, communist, Havana, revolution, Cuba, Cuban, revolutionary, Marxism, Marxist, catalogued under M
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