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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Cobbett, William.
Advice to Young Men: and (incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters Addressed to a Youth, A Bachelor, A Lover, A Husband, A Father, A Citizen, or a Subject
(Ward, Lock and Co, ?).
With notes and a life of the author. Hardback. Red decorated boards worn and spine ends torn, internally good. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A13089
Keywords: William Cobbett, advice, men, males, masculinity, boys, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Ministry of Education, .
Health Education: A Handbook of Suggestions for the Consideration of Teachers and Others Concerned in the Health and Education of Children and Young People
(Her Majesty's Stat. Off., 1958 rpt of 1956 text).
Pamphlet no. 31. Part I: The Development and Scope of Health Education; Part 2: The Provision of Health Education. Paperback. Covers slightly yellowed with age, spine ends worn, otherwise good+. viii + 184pp. Order No. NSBK-A1520
Keywords: health, education, health education, teacher, child, children, Britain, British, England, English, history, pamphlet
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Lapping, Brian and Radice, Giles.
More Power to the People: Young Fabian Essays on Democracy in Britain
(Longmans, rpt., 1968).
Paperback. Good+. viii + 196pp. Order No. NSBK-A12928
Keywords: B0000CO5MI, Fabians, essays, socialism, socialists, people, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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MacKnight, Nancy, ed.
Dearest Andrew: Letters from V. Sackville-West to Andrew Reiber, 1951-1962
(Michael Joseph, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 127pp. Order No. NSBK-C5058
Keywords: 0718118235, Vita Sackville-West, Andrew Reiber, women writers, correspondence, letters, twentieth century, woman, women's history, 1950s, 1960s, literary, literature, friendship,
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Alschuler, Rose H. and Hattwick, La Berta Weiss.
Painting and Personality: a Study of Young Children. Volume II
(Chicago University Press, 1947).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, boards worn at spine, edges and corners, otherwise good. 265 - 590pp. Order No. NSBK-A13899
Keywords: B00140SOJO, childhood, painting, personality, psychology, children, art, easel painting
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Garcia, J., Kilpatrick, R., & Richards, M., eds.
The Politics of Maternity Care: Services for Childbearing Women in Twentieth-Century Britain
(OUP, 1990).
Paperback. Newspaper reviews pasted to fly leaf and endpaper, spine faded, otherwise good. viii + 346pp. Order No. NSBK-C8124
Keywords: 0198272871 maternity, mothers, motherhood, childbirth, hospitals, babies, Britain, British, England, English, history, baby, women, women's history, health, fathers, midwives, midwifery, doctors, nurses, nursing, obstetrics, twentieth century, 20th, childbearing, pregnancy, pregnant
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Bigwood, Rosemary.
The Scottish Family Tree Detective: Tracing Your Ancestors in Scotland
(Manchester University Press, 2006).
Paperback. Brand new, fine. xiv + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-C14639
Keywords: 9780719071850, family tree, geneaology, geneaological, history, Scotland, Scottish, ancestors, Scots, archives, population, demography, parish registers, census, research, birth, marriage, death
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Aikin, Dr, & Barbauld, Mrs.
Evenings at Home: Consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces, for the Instruction and Amusement of Youth
(Ward, Lock, rpt, no date).
Illustrated by the brothers Dalziel. Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, corners rubbed & spine ends slightly split, some white staining at base of boards, otherwise good. viii + 456pp. Order No. NSBK-C349
Keywords: B001KG3N20, children's literature, amusement, instruction, Britain, British, England, English, history, Juvenile Budget Opened, Evenings at Home, Warrington, North West England, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Dr Aikin, education, educational, children's stories, Dissent, nonconformity, nonconformists, antiquarian
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Barrie, J.M.
Margaret Ogilvy:
(Hodder and Stoughton, rpt., 1941).
Hardback. Covers patchy and sunned, otherwise good in torn dustwrapper. 184pp. Order No. NSBK-A11657
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