Peabody, Francis Greenwood.
Education for Life: The Story of Hampton Institute
(Doubleday, Page and Co, 1920).
Told in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the school. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, boards rather worn and frayed, splitting internally at spine (front and back); a good reading copy only. xxiv + 393pp. Order No. NSBK-A6598
Keywords: B00088UQU8, Hampton Institute, education, educational, twentieth century, Samuel Chapman Armstrong, nineteenth century, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, social history, schools
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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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Macmillan, Hugh.
Roman Mosaics or Studies in Rome and its Neighbourhood:
(Macmillan, 1892).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Blue boards soiled / darkened with some wear to corners, and spine ends. Otherwise, a good solid copy. xv + 397pp. Order No. NSBK-A14440
Keywords: B002FZXMUI, ancient, Rome, Roman, mosaics, history, Egyptian, marbles, ancient world, Vatican
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Chancellor, Valerie E.
History for their Masters: Opinion in the English History Textbook, 1800-1914
(Adams & Dart, 1970).
Hardback. Very good in yellowed dustwrapper. 153pp. Order No. NSBK-A2653
Keywords: 0239000684, English History, textbook, education, schooling, school, education, History, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Senjen, Rye, and Guthrey, Jane.
The Internet for Women:
(Spinifex, 1996).
Paperback. Fine. xiii + 285pp. Order No. NSBK-C9528
Keywords: 1875559523, internet, computers, women, woman, female, twentieth century, 20th, technological, technology, online, gender, email
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Clark, Anna.
The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class
(Rivers Oram, 1995).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xv + 416pp. Order No. NSBK-C2179
Keywords: 9781854890757, gender, British, Britain, class, working class, marriage, courtship, Glasgow, Lancashire, London, factories, textiles, artisans, labour, labor, factory, social history
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Moss, Les.
Live and Learn: A Life and Struggle for Progress
(QueenSpark Books, 1979).
Paperback. Good. 137pp. Order No. NSBK-A12911
Keywords: 0904733068, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Les Moss, Queenspark
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Beik, Mildred Allen.
The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization
(Pennsylvania University Press, 1996).
Paperback. Near fine. xxx + 447pp. Order No. NSBK-A10290
Keywords: 0271015675, immigrants, immigration, America, American, USA, US, United States, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, unionization, unionisation, Pennsylvania, Windber, miners, mining, coal, coalminers, coalmining, Berwind-White Coal Mining Company, New Deal, United Mine Workers, ethnicity, ethnic
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Fairfield, Helen.
Patchwork: Over 20 New and Original Projects for You to Make
(Octopus, rpt, 1982).
Hardback. Good+, large format. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-G14297
Keywords: 070641344X, sewing, needlework, patchwork, patchwork quilts, technique
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Bennett, H.S.
The Pastons and Their England: Studies in an Age of Transition
(CUP, 1968).
Paperback. Covers lightly soiled and worn, otherwise a good copy. xvi + 260pp. Order No. NSBK-A12136
Keywords: 0521095131, Paston letters, letters, epistles, epistolary, fifteenth century, Renaissance, Early Modern, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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