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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Ogden, Annegret S. Ogden.
The Great American Housewife: From helpmate to wage earner, 1776-1986
(Greenwood Press, 1986).
Hardback. Good in slightly chipped dustwrapper, with some pencil annotation on opening pages. xxiiii + 255pp. Order No. NSBK-C15514
Keywords: 0313247528, American, America, United States, US, United States of America, housewife, housewives, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century, women's work, women and work
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Barron, Hal S.
Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930
(The University of North Carolina Press, 1997).
Paperback. Very good+. xiv + 301pp. Order No. NSBK-A12559
Keywords: 0807846597, north, farms, farming, farmers, agricultural, land, agrarian, agriculture, country, countryside, rural, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, industry, work
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Mackenzie-Grieve, Averil.
The Great Accomplishment: The Contribution of Five English Women to 18th Century Colonisation
(Geoffrey Bles, 1953).
Hardback. Very good in worn and faded dustwrapper. xiii + 290pp. Order No. NSBK-C3122
Keywords: B0000CIHIY, Empire, Mrs Pinckney, South Carolina, Mrs Macarthur, New South Wales, Mrs Simcoe, Canada, Mrs Falconbridge, Sierra Leone, Mrs Brodbelt, Jamaica, West Indies, America, Australia, colonialism
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Farwell, Byron.
The Great Boer War:
(Wordsworth Editions, rpt, 1999).
Paperback. Light edge wear, otherwise very good. xiv + 495pp. Order No. NSBK-A13907
Keywords: 1840222174, Boer War, South Africa, South African
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Hurley, Jennifer A, ed.
Women's Rights: Great Speeches in History
(Greenhaven Press, 2002).
Hardback. Library sticker to front board, a little waviness to later pages caused by damp, otherwise good. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-C15663
Keywords: 9780737707731, women's speeches, feminism, USA, women's rights, suffragettes, human rights, civil rights
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Anon, .
Enumeration and Parish Registers, 1811: Abstract of the Answers and Returns made Pursuant to an Act, Passed in the Fifty-first Year of His Majesty King George III. An Act for Taking Into Account of the Population of Great Britain, and of the Increase or Diminution Thereof
(House of Commons, 1812).
Preliminary Observations, Enumeration Abstract, Parish-Register Abstract. Hardback. Outsized book, front and back boards loose / detached and rather worn / battered (poor), lacking spine cover. A few rear pages loose also. A good working copy. xxxi + 511 + 148pp. Order No. NSBK-A11784
Keywords: B000HC1RTE, enumeration, parish registers, population, demography, demographic, people, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, nineteenth century, census, head count, parish register, legal, laws, census, 1811, Georgian
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Becke, A. F.
History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions: The Regular British Divisions Part 1
(Sherwood Press, 1990).
Based on Official Documents. The Regular British Divisions Part 1. By Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, a little curling to edges, covers soiled, internally good. ix + 130pp. Order No. NSBK-A14883
Keywords: 0948983019, First World War, World War I, history, battles, army, divisions, British, fighting, Western Front, order of battle
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Shaw, Frank & Joan.
We Remember Dunkirk: Over 100 Personal Accounts
(Echo Press, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, otherwise good in slightly torn dustwrapper. xiii + 231pp. Order No. NSBK-A2903
Keywords: 1872779 00X, Dunkirk, British Legion, war, Second World War, World War II, Britain, British, England, English, history
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McKenna, Paul.
Great Golf:
(Paul McKenna, 1999).
VHS video. VHS video. Very good+. pp. Order No. NSBK-A15759
Keywords: B00004CXY7, hypnosis, sports, sport, playing golf, Paul McKenna
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