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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Waites, Bernard; Bennett, Tony & Martin, Graham.
Popular Culture: Past and Present
(Croom Helm / Open UP, 1982).
Paperback. A little wear to edges and light creasing to covers, otherwise good. 326pp. Order No. NSBK-A625
Keywords: 0709919093, popular culture, Ian Fleming, football, Jackie magazine, H.G. Wells, BBC, cultural, motor bike culture, history, bikes, John K. Walton, Gareth Stedman Jones, Hugh Cunnigham, Robert Malcolmson
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Mednick, Martha T. Shuch, et al.
Women and Achievement:
(Hemisphere Publishing, 1975).
Paperback. Good+. xiii + 447pp. Order No. NSBK-C11449
Keywords: 0470590254, women, careers
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Urwin, Derek W.
Western Europe since 1945: A Political History
(Longman, rpt., 1990).
Paperback. Spine faded, top corner bumped, otherwise good. xii + 415pp. Order No. NSBK-A8433
Keywords: 0582495113, Western Europe, European, politics, political, twentieth century, 20th, economy, economics, postwar reconstruction, welfare state, inflation, unemployment, terrorism, student protest, green movement, feminism, regional nationalism
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Elliot, Faith Robertson.
The Family: Change or Continuity:
(Macmillan Education, 1989).
Paperback. Spine faded, otherwise very good. xi + 235pp. Order No. NSBK-C9678
Keywords: 0333329708, family, families, women's studies, feminism, feminists, women, woman, women's movement, children, twentieth century, 20th, child, abortion, marriage, parenthood, parents
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Baker, Kenneth.
The Turbulent Years: My Life in Politics
(Faber and Faber, 1993).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly worn, slightly creased dw. xiii + 498pp. Order No. NSBK-A6031
Keywords: 0571170773, Kenneth Baker, autobiography, autobiographical, life history, life histories, memoir, politics, political, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, Tory Party, Tories, Conservatives, Margaret Thatcher, Party Chairman, Cabinet, Poll tax, Education, British Telecom, ILEA, GLC
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Marwick, Arthur, Emsley, C., and Simpson, W., eds.
Total War and Historical Change: Europe 1914-1955
(Open UP, 2001).
Paperback. Very good. viii + 299pp. Order No. NSBK-A9526
Keywords: 0335207936, wars, warfare, Europe, European, history, twentieth century, 20th, military, social, political, First World War, Second World War
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Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
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Whyte, Judith.
Girls into Science and Technology:
(RKP, 1986).
Hardback. With reviews pasted to endpapers and light spotting to cloth, otherwise very good in creased dustwrapper. xi + 290pp. Order No. NSBK-A14750
Keywords: 0710203640, science, technology, careers, women's education, gender roles, sexual difference, teaching
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Forty, George.
Tank Action: From the Great War to the Gulf
(Alan Sutton, 1995).
Supported by more than 170 black and white photographs and over 50 maps and line drawings. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some thumbing to page edges, otherwise good in creased dustwrapper. xvi + 296pp. Order No. NSBK-A7416
Keywords: 0750904798, transport, tanks, Great War, wars, warfare, First World War, World War I, World War 1, One, Second World War, World War Two, 2, II, Gulf War, military, action, technology, Heavy Mk 1, Challenger, Korea, Vietnam, Arab-Israeli, Kohima, Royal Tank Regiment, world history, tank warfare
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