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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Mackenzie, Suzanne.
Visible Histories: Women and Environments in a Post-War British City
(McGill-Queen's UP, 1989).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 217pp. Order No. NSBK-C12005
Keywords: 0773507124, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, work, women's work, women and work, employment, city, cities, towns, environments, Brighton
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Uglow, Jenny.
A Little History of British Gardening:
(Chatto and Windus, 2004).
Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled dustwrapper. 342pp. Order No. NSBK-A8592
Keywords: 0701169281, gardens, gardening, Britain, British, England, English, Jenny Uglow, history, gardeners, flowers, plants, ornamental, social history, horticulture, horticultural
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Pack of 10 Suffragette Greeting Cards, .
Handicapped: Votes
(Portrayer Publishers, 2009).
Pack of 10 greetings cards (all featuring the same design). Image is taken from a suffragette poster and, in yellow, green and orange colours, depicts a woman in a rowing boat, struggling against the onslaught of a huge wave, whilst on the crest, a man sails along leisurely in a sail boat, without effort. (Sails are marked "Votes"). Houses of Parliament in the background. The image is printed in vibrant lithographic colours and is watermarked to prevent image theft. Card measurements are 6 inches high by 4 inches wide and each card is complete with cellophane wrapper and envelope. Blank interiors for your own message or for any occasion. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C14451
Keywords: suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, women's rights, Votes for Women, women and politics, women's politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, greeting card, greeting cards, cards, suffragette images, suffragettes, propaganda, envelopes, suffrage imagery, card, picture, pictures, cartoons, art, artist, artists, suffragette art, art, arts, artistry, illustration, illustrations, twentieth century, 20th century, twentieth centuries, portrayer, portrayer publishers, suffragette greetings cards, greetings card, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera, new
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Radner, Hilary.
Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure
(Routledge, 1995).
Paperback. With very minor pencil annotation not affecting legibility, otherwise very good. xiv + 216pp. Order No. NSBK-C12426
Keywords: 0415905400, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, pleasure, shopping, consumption, feminism, feminists
Price £17.00.
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Thompson, Ann and Wilcox, Helen, eds.
Teaching Women: Feminism and English Studies
(MUP, 1989).
Paperback. Good, with newspaper review pasted to back endpaper. vi + 211pp. Order No. NSBK-A15104
Keywords: 9780719026041, feminist, feminism, teaching, teacher, women's studies
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Yalom, Marilyn.
A History of the Wife:
(Pandora, 2001).
Hardback. With newspaper articles pasted to inside front cover, otherwise good. xix + 441pp. Order No. NSBK-C13651
Keywords: 0863584268, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, wives, women, housewives, Renaissance, mediaeval, medieval, Early Modern, eighteenth, seventeenth, sixteenth
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Kent, Susan Kingsley.
Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918 - 1931
(Palgrave, 2009).
Hardback. Covers slightly rubbed, otherwise very good+. ix + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A15716
Keywords: 9781403993335, politics, trauma, psyche, emotions, emotional, inter-war, inter war, twenties, psychology, social history, post World War I, Great War
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Wilbur, Sibyl.
The Life of Mary Baker Eddy:
(The Christian Science Publishing Company, 1941).
Hardback. A very good copy, brown boards with gilt lettering, in torn and worn dustwrapper. xvi + 406pp. Order No. NSBK-C10298
Keywords: B0000E7O0W, Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, American, America, women, woman, women's history, religion, religious, Christians, Christianity, biography, biographical, biographies, lives, life history, life histories
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Douglass, Frederick.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass:
(Dover, 1995).
Paperback. Very good. xvii + 76pp. Order No. NSBK-A6204
Keywords: 0486284999, Frederick Douglass, autobiography, memoir, Tuckahoe, slave, slavery, United States, USA, history, America, nineteenth century, Maryland, Massachusetts, abolition, women's rights, black rights, anti-slavery, freedom, emancipation, slaves
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