Symes, Ruth A.
Family First: Tracing Relationships in the Past
(Pen and Sword, 2015).
Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents - these are the relationships that structure the family tree and fascinate the family historian. But how much do we really know about how our ancestors lived out these multiple roles? Buffeted this way and that by economic developments, legal changes, medical advances, Two World Wars, the rise of the Welfare State, women's emancipation and many other factors, relationships between members of our family in the past were subtly different to those of today and continually transforming. This book is both a social history of the period 1800-1950 and a practical guide on how to set about tracing and better understanding the relationships between members of your own family. What did it mean to be a father in this period, but also, how might you discover the father of an ancestor if his name is not mentioned on the birth certificate? What common ideas were held about the role of wives and mothers, but also, how were multiple births, stillbirths, abortions and infanticides dealt with in the records? What factors might have influenced the size of your ancestor's family, but also why were its children named as they were? Did pecking order in a family matter, but also, was it legal to marry a cousin, or the sister of a deceased wife? How long could people expect to live, but also what records can tell you more about the circumstances of your ancestors' last years? A final chapter considers relationships with neighbours, friends and club associates. Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C15530
Keywords: 9781473833883, family relationships, family trees, geneaology, geneaological, social history, ancestors, tracing ancestors, fathers, mothers, siblings, cousins, women, welfare state, infants, clubs, grandparents
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Cohen, Jon and Federico, Giovanni.
The Growth of the Italian Economy, 1820-1960:
(CUP, 2001).
New Studies in Economic and Social History. Hardback. Fine. viii + 133pp. Order No. NSBK-A10332
Keywords: 0521661501, Italy, Italian, economy, economics, money, nineteenth century, nineteenth, Victorian, twentieth century, Europe, European, history
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Poor Law Commissioners, .
Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners: on the Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture, 1843
(Frank Cass, 1968 impression of 1843 text).
Hardback. Some pencil annotation mainly to endpapers, front endpaper has small piece cut-out, otherwise good+, a solid copy. 378pp. Order No. NSBK-C15750
Keywords: 9780714622149, poor law, poverty, reports, commissioners, women, children, history, agriculture, agricultural, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, work, employment
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Silver, Harold.
English Education and the Radicals, 1780-1850:
(RKP, 1975).
Hardback. Very good in browned dustwrapper. x + 134pp. Order No. NSBK-A2207
Keywords: 0710082126, education, radicalism, radicals, English, England, Britiain, British, social history, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Chartism, Chartists, utilitarianism, utilitarians, Benthamism, Benthamites
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Adams, Carol; Bartley, P; Lown, J.; Loxton C.
Under Control: Life in a Nineteenth-Century Silk Factory
(CUP, rpt, 1985).
Paperback. Covers slightly yellowed, otherwise very good. 44pp. Order No. NSBK-C15108
Keywords: B004IGIH2K, silk industry, silk workers, history, factory, factories, nineteenth century, 19th century, Victorian, women workers
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Bowman, Gerald.
The Lamp and the Book: The Story of the Rcn, 1916-1966
(The Queen Anne Press, 1967).
Hardback. Page edges foxed, a little spotting to cloth, otherwise good. 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A3936
Keywords: 0362000220, Royal College of Nursing, nurse, nursing, medicine, medical, health, doctor, women's work, twentieth century, Nightingale Training School, hospital, National Council of Nurses, nursing profession, Nurses Act
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Muir, Richard.
The Villages of England:
(BCA, 1992).
With many photographs. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A4547
Keywords: 0500015295, village, village life, villages, countryside, rural, history, community, communities, farming, farms, Britain, British, England, English, social history
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Miller, Hugh.
My Schools and Schoolmasters: the Story of My Education
(Edinburgh, 29th edition. W.P. Nimmo, 1881).
Hardback. Ex library, some soiling / marking to embossed boards, otherwise a good copy. xi + 562pp. Order No. NSBK-A8603
Keywords: B0008A80KY, evangelical Christians, Christianity, religion, religious, evangelicalism, Cromarty, education, autobiographies, autobiography, history, life history, life histories, Scots, Scotland, Scottish, Hugh Miller, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, self improvement, memoirs, geology, geologists
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Royal Historical Society, .
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society:
(CUP, 2004).
Sixth Series. XIV. Hardback. Very good. 359pp. Order No. NSBK-A12295
Keywords: 0521849950, transactions, Royal Historical Society, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Backhouse, Janet.
The Lindisfarne Gospels:
(Phaidon, rpt., 1991).
Paperback. Very good. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A11935
Keywords: 0714824615, Linisfarne, Holy Island, Lindisfarne Gospels, religion, religious, Christians, Christianity, church, churches, Northumbria, illuminated manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon, St Cuthbert, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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