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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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
Price £10.99.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Robinson, Jane.
Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote
(Doubleday, 2018).
Hardback. Ex library, dustwrapper slightly browned, otherwise good+. xx + 374pp. Order No. NSBK-C15657
Keywords: 9780857523914, Votes for Women, women's suffrage, suffragettes, history
Price £8.99.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Finer, S. E.
Anonymous Empire: A Study of the Lobby in Great Britain
(Pall Mall Press, rpt., 1966).
Paperback. Lacks fly leaf, covers browned, otherwise good. xiii + 173pp. Order No. NSBK-A6073
Keywords: B0000CMY6T, political, politics, twentieth century, lobby, lobbying, lobbies, Resale Price Maintenance Bill, Finance Bill, Race Relations Bill, Bills, governments, Parliaments, Britain, British, England, English, history, laws, legal
Price £5.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Shaw, Frank & Joan.
We Remember Dunkirk: Over 100 Personal Accounts
(Echo Press, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, otherwise good in slightly torn dustwrapper. xiii + 231pp. Order No. NSBK-A2903
Keywords: 1872779 00X, Dunkirk, British Legion, war, Second World War, World War II, Britain, British, England, English, history
Price £8.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Wilson, Neil.
Great Sea Disasters:
(Parragon, 1998).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A11654
Keywords: sea, ocean, maritime, history, seas
Price £10.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Thistlethwaite, William.
Four Lectures on the Rise, Progess and Past Proceedings: of the Society of Friends in Great Britain
(A. W. Bennett, 1865).
With brief historical notices of some preceding and contemporary events. Hardback. Spine and corners ends slightly split, worn, light marking to boards, a small library sticker on spine, otherwise good. vi + 152pp. Order No. NSBK-A6068
Keywords: B000HC4R5U, Society of Friends, Quakers, religion, religious, nonconformity, non-conformity, nonconformism, non-conformism, dissenters, nonconformists, non-conformists, dissent, Victorian, nineteenth century, societies, associations, Quakerism
Price £16.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Mackenzie-Grieve, Averil.
The Great Accomplishment: The Contribution of Five English Women to 18th Century Colonisation
(Geoffrey Bles, 1953).
Hardback. Very good in worn and faded dustwrapper. xiii + 290pp. Order No. NSBK-C3122
Keywords: B0000CIHIY, Empire, Mrs Pinckney, South Carolina, Mrs Macarthur, New South Wales, Mrs Simcoe, Canada, Mrs Falconbridge, Sierra Leone, Mrs Brodbelt, Jamaica, West Indies, America, Australia, colonialism
Price £6.99.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Rogers, Pat, ed.
Daniel Defoe: A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
(Webb and Bower, abridged version, 1989).
Abridged, illustrated. Hardback. Light soiling to dustwrapper, otherwise very good. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-Z14701
Keywords: 0863502903, Daniel Defoe, tour, eighteenth century
Price £12.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Weintraub, Stanley.
The Last Great Cause: the Intellectuals and the Spanish Civil War
(W.H. Allen, 1968).
Hardback. Page edges and dustwrapper slightly soiled, otherwise very good, a sturdy copy. x + 340pp. Order No. NSBK-A15831
Keywords: 9780491001212, Spanish Civil War, Spain, Orwell, Auden, Hemingway, intellectuals
Price £15.50.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Gaisford, John, ed.
Times Gone By: A Photographic Record of Great Britain 1856-1956
(Select Editions, 1977).
Hardback. Very good. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-A2886
Keywords: 085685316X, photographs, Britain, British, England, English, history
Price £8.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
|
|
