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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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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 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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Demos, John & Boocock, Sarane Spence, eds.
Turning Points: Historical and Sociological Essays on the Family
(Chicago UP, 1978).
American Journal of Sociology. Vol 84, Supplement, 1978. Paperback. Covers browned and slightly soiled, internally good. xi + 413pp. Order No. NSBK-C4613
Keywords: 0226142868, family, families, sociology, sociological, history, American Journal of Sociology, social change, demography, America, Americas, United States, USA, Canada, Canadian, Tamara K. Hareven, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
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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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Cheshire History, .
Cheshire History: Autumn 1983, No 12
(Chesh Comm Council Loc Hist Comm, 1983).
Pamphlet. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, card covers, otherwise good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A11205
Keywords: B000HC1N8O, local history, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Cheshire, Macclesfield, Sir Giles Overreach, ridge, furrow, Trailbaston, pamphlet, journal
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Women's Studies International Forum, .
Women's Studies International Forum:
(Pergamon/Elsevier, 2003-5).
7 issues. Vol 24 (2001) No 6; Vol 26 (2003) No 5; Vol 27 (2004) Nos 4 and 5-6; Vol 28 (2005) Nos 1, 4 and 5. Journals. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A11419
Keywords: Women's Studies International Forum, journal, journals
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Bulletin Conference Socialist Economists, .
Capital and Class:
(Spring, 1979).
No 7. Articles by Wickham, Manson, Fano, Elger, Ball, Massey, Taylor and others. Hardback. Covers slightly cresaed and yellowed, otherwise good. 155pp. Order No. NSBK-A6786
Keywords: 03098168, capital and class, capitalism, journal, journals, Bulletin of the Conference of Socialist Economists, Marxist, Marxists, Marxism, economy, economic history
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Feminist Studies, .
Feminist Studies:
(University of Maryland, 1989-1996).
7 issues. Vol 15 (1989) No 2; Vol 22 (1996) Nos 1, 2 and 3; Vol 27 (2001) No1; Vol 30 (2004) No 2; Vol 31 (2005) No 2. Journals. Soiling to page edges, otherwise good+. pp. Order No. NSBK-A11400
Keywords: Feminist Studies, feminism, feminists, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, journals, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States
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Turnbull, Jean, ed.
Lancaster University Centre for North-West Regional Studies: Regional Bulletin
(Lancaster University, 2001).
Booklet. New Series No 15, 2001. Paperback. Very good. 117pp. Order No. NSBK-A15045
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