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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Jones, Huw.
Population Geography:
(Paul Chapman, 2nd edition, 1990).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 321pp. Order No. NSBK-J13884
Keywords: 1853960713, population, demography, geography, fertility, migration, text books
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Brainy Baby, DVD.
Brainy Baby: 123s
(Gaiam, 2004).
Running time: 45 mins. Ages 2 - 5 days. DVD. Used but in good condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-A16075
Keywords: Brainy Baby, children's, DVD, babies, education, teaching, 123s, numbers, teaching numbers, learning numbers, numbering
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John, Angela V.
Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869 - 1955
(MUP, 2009).
Paperback. Fine, as new. xv + 281pp. Order No. NSBK-D14266
Keywords: 9780719080159, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, politics, political, rights, women's rights, women's movement, Votes for Women, woman, women's history, women's studies, women's suffrage, Evelyn Sharp, biography, biographies, children's authors, women writers, Henry W. Nevinson, schoolgirl fiction, Manchester Guardian, Weimar Germany, famine, Soviet Russia, journalists, journalism, Victorian, Edwardian, nineteenth century, 19th, Rebel Women, Angela V. John
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Black, George F.
A Gypsy Bibliography:
(Privately Printed, Provisional Issue, 1909).
Printed Privately for the Members of the Gypsy Lore Society, 6 Hope Place, Liverpool, by T. & A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press. Card covers. Ex library in tweed-effect library card covers. Usual library stamps / markings, with some taped repair work to inner hinges. Title page torn, otherwise good. 139pp. Order No. NSBK-A8467
Keywords: B00178HJBM, gypsy, gypsies, romany, romanies, bibliography, books, history, literature, travelling people, ethnography, Gypsy Lore Society, gipsy, gipsies, reference, travellers, travelers
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Kent, Charles.
The Ballad of the Babes in the Wood and all About Them:
(SPCK, 1914).
Illustrated. Hardback. Covers soiled and slightly stained, internally good. 22pp. Order No. NSBK-A10096
Keywords: B000HC1G68, babes in the wood, children's stories, tales, twentieth century, nineteenth century, Victorian, literature, childhood, fiction
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Stodart, M.A.
Hints on Reading: Addressed to a Young Lady
(Photocopy only of R.B. Seeley edition, 1839).
Hardback. Library photocopy only, not an original. In slightly marked, good, sturdy, black library binding. viii + 175pp. Order No. NSBK-A14324
Keywords: B0018D1TV2, Victorian, women, A. A. Stodart, 19th century, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, reading habits, manners, reading, education, childhood, girls, advice books
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Plunket, Irene L.
Sally Cocksure: a School Story
(OUP, rpt, 1929).
Girls' school story. Hardback. Slight foxing, otherwise very good with illustrations by G. Browne. 190pp. Order No. NSBK-C1162
Keywords: Sally Cocksure, school story, children's writing, girls' story, Britain, British, England, English, history, school, schooling
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Hilton, Mary, Styles, Morag, & Watson, Victor ed.
Opening the Nursery Door: Reading, Writing and Childhood, 1600 - 1900
(Routledge, 1997).
Paperback. Minor chipping top spine end, otherwise very good. x + 242pp. Order No. NSBK-C15301
Keywords: 9780415148993, childhood, children, child, reading, writing, Jane Johnson, women educators, education, children's literature
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Shelley, Mary.
Maurice: or the Fisher's Cot
(Viking, 1998).
Intro. by Claire Tomalin. Hardback. Near fine in dustwrapper. xiv + 152pp. Order No. NSBK-C2308
Keywords: 0670881724, Mary Shelley, Shelley, Fisher's Cot, Maurice, woman writer, women writers, literature, children's writing, Romanticism
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