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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Arlott, John.
Island Camera: The Isles of Scilly in the photography of the Gibson Family
(David and Charles, 1972).
Written in collaboration with Rex Cowan and Frank Gibson. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Hardback. Boards and fly leaf slightly soiled, otherwise good + in torn dustwrapper. 110pp. Order No. NSBK-A10434
Keywords: 0715357743, Isles of Scilly, Gibson family, families, islands, photos, photography, photographs, Scillonians, ships, shipping, coasts, coastal, sea birds, Victorian, twentieth century, Edwardian, nineteenth century, 19th
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Yonge, Charlotte.
The Clever Woman of the Family:
(Macmillan, 4th edition, 1875).
Hardback. Very good in worn leather boards. viii + 437pp. Order No. NSBK-C13692
Keywords: B00085IDW4, Charlotte Yonge, The Clever Woman of teh Family, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, literature, fiction, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Austin, Frances, ed.
The Clift Family Correspondence, 1792-1846:
(Centre for English Cultural Tradition, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. xv + 265pp. Order No. NSBK-A13814
Keywords: 0907426034, Clift family, letters, correspondence, epistles, epistolary, Cornwall, miller, eighteenth century, 18th
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Seccombe, Wally.
A Millennium of Family Change: Feudalism to Capitalism in Northwestern Europe
(Verso, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. vii + 343pp. Order No. NSBK-C11822
Keywords: 0860913325, family, families, feudalism, capitalism, capitalists, Europe, European, Northwestern, politics, political, economic, economy, economies
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Lynch, Katherine A.
Family, Class and Ideology in Early Industrial France: Social Policy and the Working-Class Family, 1825 - 1848
(Wisconsin UP, 1988).
Paperback. Fine. xii + 272pp. Order No. NSBK-A5913
Keywords: 0299117944, social policy, family, families, social history, class, working class, working-class, working classes, France, French, Europe, Europeans, European, nineteenth century, industry, industrial, social policy, workers, demography, demographic, population, labour, labor
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Soliday, Gerald L.; Hareven, Tamara K.; et al eds.
History of the Family and Kinship: a Select International Bibliography
(Kraus International, 1980).
Hardback. Ex library, lacks front & back endpapers, marks left by library stickers on spine, otherwise very good. xxi + 410pp. Order No. NSBK-C2305
Keywords: 0527844519, family, kinship, relationship, kin, bibliography, history, families, relationships, bibliographies, international, Soliday, Hareven
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Shorter, E.
The Making of the Modern Family:
(Collins, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 369pp. Order No. NSBK-C436
Keywords: 0002115425, family, domesticity, motherhood, fatherhood, parenthood, families, history, kinship, kin
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Edwards, Rosalind.
Mature Women Students: Separating or Connecting Family and Education
(Taylor and Francis, 1993).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. v + 179pp. Order No. NSBK-A14087
Keywords: 0748400869, mature students, female, women, women's education, adult education, family, academic, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, higher education, university, universities, colleges
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Dyhouse, Carol.
Feminism and the Family in England, 1880-1939:
(Basil Blackwell, 1989).
Out-of-print paperback. Paperback. Scattered ink annotation not affecting legibility, otherwise good. vi + 204pp. Order No. NSBK-C5789
Keywords: 0631167366, feminism, women, history, family, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, twentieth century, domestic, domesticity, marriage, sexuality, private sphere, separate spheres, economic, reproduction, childbirth, childcare, families
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