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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Heron, Liz.
Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties
(Virago, rpt, 1985).
Paperback. With newspaper review pasted inside front cover, back cover slightly browned, otherwise a good copy. viii + 248pp. Order No. NSBK-C2389
Keywords: 0860685969, fifties, growing up, education, history, girls, women, post-war, welfare state, feminism, society, social, careers, childhood, child, girlhood
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Stocks, Mary.
My Commonplace Book: an Autobiography
(Peter Davies, rpt, 1970).
Women's suffrage; the welfare state; the L.S.E.; adult education; the Great Depression in Manchester; social work in London; a variety of government assignments. Hardback. Very good in soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. ix + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C779
Keywords: 0432157506, suffrage, suffragette, women's rights, L.S.E., the Great Depression, adult education, Manchester, London, social work, welfare state, England, Britain, history, English, British
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Mee, Graham.
Aristocratic Enterprise: The Fitzwilliam Industrial Undertakings, 1795-1857
(Blackie, 1975).
Hardback. Very good in slightly rubbed dustwrapper protected by cellophane. 222pp. Order No. NSBK-A5332
Keywords: 0216900506, aristocrat, aristocrats, aristocratic, class, enterprise, Fitzwilliam undertakings, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, industry, coal-mining, coal mining, iron foundries, Wentworth estates, Earls Fitzwilliam, welfare, co-operation, cooperation, unionism, mines, foundries, trade unionism, trade unions, Elsecar, Milton, ironworks, collieries, colliery, paternalism, paternalist
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Proud, E. Dorothea.
Welfare Work: Employers' Experiments for Improving Working Conditions in Factories
(G. Bell, 3rd edition, 1918).
Foreword by David Lloyd-George. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers. some wear to edges, otherwise good. xx + 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C6760
Keywords: B000856JQQ, welfare, Great War, First World War, World War I, workers, working, factory system, factories, working conditions, women and work, working women, David Lloyd-George, social experiments, history, Catherine Helen Spence, E. Dorothea Proud, pay, wages, economic, economy, industry, industrial, twentieth century, antiquarian, factory legislation, factory labour, factory girls, labor
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Neu, Charles E.
The Troubled Encounter: The United States and Japan
(Robert E. Kreiger, rpt., 1981).
Paperback. Covers and spine slightly worn, otherwise good+. x + 257pp. Order No. NSBK-A11233
Keywords: 0882759515, Japan, Japanese, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Pacific War, twentieth century, 20th
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Cooper, Davina.
Power in Struggle: Feminism, Sexuality and the State
(Open UP, 1995).
Paperback. Light fading to spine, minor pencil annotation, otherwise very good. viii + 182pp. Order No. NSBK-A14796
Keywords: 9780335192113, feminism, power, state, sexuality, poststructuralism, power relations
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Jenkin, Michael.
British Industry and the North Sea: State Intervention in a Developing Industrial Sector
(Macmillan, 1981).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings, otherwise very good in slightly wavy dustwrapper. xiii + 251pp. Order No. NSBK-A7525
Keywords: 0333256069, Britain, British, England, English, history, state intervention, economy, economics, North Sea, seas, oil, gas, companies, business, twentieth century, 20th
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Wootton, Graham.
Workers, Unions and the State:
(RKP, 1966).
Hardback. Good in soiled dustwrapper. xi + 173 + 13pp. Order No. NSBK-A7961
Keywords: 0710034792, workers, trade unions, trade unionists, the State, politics, trade unionism, employees, employers, work, laboor, labor, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, factories, factory, civic
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Stock, Catherine McNichol and Johnston, R., eds.
The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America
(Cornell UP, 2001).
Paperback. Fine. xii + 335pp. Order No. NSBK-A9517
Keywords: 0801487714, country, countryside, state, America, American, politics, political rural, countryside, country, state, land, African Americans, Victorian, twentieth century, nineteenth, 20th, 19th, USA
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