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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Muggeridge, Kitty and Adam, Ruth.
Beatrice Webb: A Life, 1858-1943
(Academy Chicago, rpt, 1983).
Paperback. Marginal ink notation (very marginal), otherwise good. 271 + vipp. Order No. NSBK-C5304
Keywords: 0897330889, Beatrice Webb, Webb, Webbs, biography, biographies, life histories, life history, women's history, Fabian society, left, Sudney Webb, London School of Economics, The New Statesman, social reform, Modern Welfare State, journals, diary, diaries, socialists, socialism, Stalin, Russia, women's movement, feminism, feminist, Herbert Spencer, Balfour, Haldane, G. B. Shaw
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Pottle, Frederick A.
Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763:
(William Heinemann, rpt., 1951).
Now first published from the original manuscript prepared for the press with an introduction and notes by Frederick A. Potttle. Hardback. Covers soiled and spine edges slightly torn, otherwise good+. xiii + 370pp. Order No. NSBK-A12438
Keywords: B000HGIENM, Boswell, diary, diaries, eighteenth century, 18th, journals
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Exwood, Maurice and Lehmann, H. L., eds.
The Journal of William Shellinks' Travels in England, 1661-1663:
(Royal Historical Society, 1993).
Camden Fifth Series, Volume I. Translated from the Dutch. Hardback. Very good. 196pp. Order No. NSBK-A13452
Keywords: 0861931351, Dutch, Netherland, seventeenth century, travel, traveller, traveler, William Shellinks, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, journals, diaries
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Cobbett, William.
Journal of a Year's Residence in the United States of America:
(Alan Sutton, rpt, 1983).
Paperback. Very good. 327pp. Order No. NSBK-A4594
Keywords: 0862991005, USA, United States of America, American, history, British, Britain, English, England, radicals, nineteenth century, radicalism, North Hempstead, Long Island, countryside, William Cobbett, journals
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Roberts, Elizabeth, editor. Lancaster University.
Centre for North-West Regional Studies: Regional Bulletin
(Centre for North-West Regional Studies, 1995).
New Series No 9. Summer 1995. Booklet. Paperback. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A14706
Keywords: C.N.W.R.S, Centre for North-West Regional Studies, bulletin, bulletins, journals, Lancaster University, booklet, booklets
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Feminist Studies, .
Feminist Studies: Volume 30: Number 3
(Feminist Studies, Fall 2004).
pp 561-807. Journal. Fine. 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C10634
Keywords: journals, feminism, feminist, women's studies, women, woman, gender, twentieth century, 20th
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Feminist Studies, .
Feminist Studies: Volume 28 Number 2
(Feminist Studies, Summer 2002).
Paperback. Near fine. 251-457pp. Order No. NSBK-C10087
Keywords: feminism, feminists, women, woman, gender, Volume 28, journals, twentieth century, 20th
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Boyd, A. W.
The Country Diary of a Cheshire Man:
(Collins, 1946).
Hardback. Minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise very good copy in slightly tatty, soiled dustwrapper. 320pp. Order No. NSBK-A14052
Keywords: B0012IVEOA, diary, diaries, Cheshire, natural history, birds, journals, history, insects, flowers, Northern England, A. W. Boyd
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Feminist Studies, .
Feminist Studies: Volume 29: Number 1. Spring 2003
(Feminist Studies, 2003).
Journal. Fine. 233pp. Order No. NSBK-C10633
Keywords: journals, feminism, feminist, women's studies, women, woman, gender, twentieth century, 20th
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