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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Hyde, Mrs.
How to Win Our Workers: A Short Account of the Leeds SewingSchool for Factory Girls
(Macmillan and Co., 1862).
Dedicated by Permission to the Earl of Carlisle. BOUND PHOTOCOPY. Hardback. Photocopy only in leather library binding, very good. 81pp. Order No. NSBK-C15366
Keywords: B0014MJEUK
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Jacobs, Ruth.
Organic Gardening: A Guide for Beginners
(Alfresco Books, second edition, 1999).
Paperback. New book, fine. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A14044
Keywords: 1873727143, garden, organic gardening, gardens, horticulture, horticultural, plants, pests, diseases, gardeners, environmentally-friendly gardens
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Coates, Ken and Topham, Anthony.
Industrial Democracy in Great Britain: A Book of Readings and Witnesses for Workers' Control
(Macgibbon and Kee, 1968).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly worn, slightly marked dustwrapper. xxxvi + 431pp. Order No. NSBK-A14555
Keywords: 0901740888, labour, labor, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, trade unionism, industrial democracy, industrialisation, working classes, trade disputes, wages, pay, Labour Party, shop stewards
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Helm, Sarah.
If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
(Little Brown, 2015).
Hardback. Minor sun-tanning to base of pages, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xviii + 748pp. Order No. NSBK-C15689
Keywords: 9780349120034, Nazi Germany, concentration camps, women, Ravensbruck
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Clark, Anna.
The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class
(Rivers Oram, 1995).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xv + 416pp. Order No. NSBK-C2179
Keywords: 9781854890757, gender, British, Britain, class, working class, marriage, courtship, Glasgow, Lancashire, London, factories, textiles, artisans, labour, labor, factory, social history
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Scutt, Jocelynne A.
Women and Magna Carta: A Treaty for Rights or Wrongs?
(Palgrave, 2016).
Hardback. Top corner bumped, otherwise very good+. vii + 154pp. Order No. NSBK-C15650
Keywords: 9781137562340, Magna Carta, women's rights, history, natural rights, human rights
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Senjen, Rye, and Guthrey, Jane.
The Internet for Women:
(Spinifex, 1996).
Paperback. Fine. xiii + 285pp. Order No. NSBK-C9528
Keywords: 1875559523, internet, computers, women, woman, female, twentieth century, 20th, technological, technology, online, gender, email
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Manchester Women's History Group, .
Resources for Women's History in Greater Manchester:
(National Museum of Labour History, 1993).
An invaluable guide to archival material in over forty institutions, which resulted from a major project of retrieval and recovery undertaken by the Manchester Women's History Group. It uncovers a fascinating array of material of use to all those interested in researching the history of women: film, photographs, oral history tapes, manuscripts, artifacts & printed sources. Paperback. Very good. iv + 172pp. Order No. NSBK-C679
Keywords: 0950712019, Manchester, Greater Manchester, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, Manchester Women's History Group, sources, resources, National Museum of Labour History
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Fimo, .
Fimo: Brilliantly Coloured Material for Creative Modelling
(Eberhard Faber, 1982).
Full of brightly coloured illustrations of Fimo models. Booklet. Good. 36pp. Order No. NSBK-G12238
Keywords: Fimo, Eberhard Faber, clay, models, modelling, art, crafts, modelling material, twentieth century, 20th, booklet
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