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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Hobman, D. L.
Go Spin You Jade: Studies in the Emancipation of Women
(Watts, 1957).
Hardback. Very good in soiled dustwrapper. 152pp. Order No. NSBK-C8343
Keywords: B0000CJV3I, history of women, women's history, women's rights, emancipation, Queen Elizabeth 1st, Sir Thomas More, Charlotte Charke, Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Elstob, Daniel Defoe, Mary Astell, Mrs Macaulay, Charlotte Lennox, the Blue Stockings, Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Caroline Norton, Harriet Martineau, Josephine Butler, Contagious Disease Acts, eductaion, religion, church, medicine, Sophia Jex-Blake, Olive Schreiner, Mrs Fawcett, NUWSS, Pankhurst, Eleanor Rathbone
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IRIS, .
Governance and the Economy in Africa: Tools for Analysis and Reform of Corruption
(IRIS, n.d).
Published by the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS) University of Maryland at College Park. Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. vi + 196 + 49pp. Order No. NSBK-A7514
Keywords: Africa, African, corruption, politics, political, economics, economy, Benin, Niger, Uganda, Bolivia, Iran-Contra, Dakar, Third World, developing countries, developing world
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Supple, Barry E., ed.
The Experience of Economic Growth: Case Studies in Economic History
(Random House, 1963).
A Random House Book. Hardback. Spine ends bumped, otherwise good in torn dustwrapper. x + 458pp. Order No. NSBK-A13141
Keywords: 0198203578, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, industry, work, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Coates, Ken, et al.
Eleventh Hour for Europe:
(Spokesman, 1981).
Paperback. Very good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A11172
Keywords: 0851243096, peace, Europe, European, twentieth century, 20th, nuclear war, nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation treaty, Polaris, disarmament
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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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Minett, E. P. and Severn, A. G. M.
Practical Tropical Sanitation: A Pocket Book for Sanitary Inspectors in the Tropics
(Balliere, Tindall and Cox, 1927).
Hardback. Boards slightly soiled, otherwise good. 180pp. Order No. NSBK-A13464
Keywords: sanitary inspectors, sanitation, public health, water, tropics, sewage, refuse disposal, rubbish, abbatoirs, food, markets
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Green, Joyce M. Conyngham.
Period Costumes and Settings for the Small Stage:
(George G. Harrap, 1936).
With illustrations by the author. Hardback. Spine ends and corners rubbed, otherwise good. 166pp. Order No. NSBK-A6141
Keywords: B000865L1O, period costumes, fashion, stage, theatre, acting, actors, twentieth century, scenery, settings, theatres, clothes, clothing, costume
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Matthews, Mike.
Alf Cobb: Mugsborough Rebel. The Struggle for Justice in Edwardian Hastings
(Hastings Press, rpt, 2003).
Paperback. Fine. 143pp. Order No. NSBK-A6675
Keywords: 190410911X, Hastings, history, social history, Sussex, Britain, British, England, English, Alf Cobb, Robert Tressell, Social Democratic Federation, socialist, socialists, socialism, mob orators, rebels, Mugsborough, working class, working classes, political rebels, radicalism, Edwardian, twentieth century, labour movement, politics, local politics, local government, oratory, local councils, local corporations, local councillors
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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
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