Hill, Octavia.
House Property and its Management: Some Papers on the Methods of Management Introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and Adapted to Modern Conditions
(George Allen & Unwin, 1921).
Intro. by I. G. Gibbon. Presented by M.M. Jeffery and Edith Neville. Scarce original. Hardback. Pages and boards browned with age, spine split a little at top end, and internally at binding, else a good copy. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C6430
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, tenants, town planning, urban history, Britain, England, British, English, history, house property, house management, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, cottages, model dwellings, letters to fellow workers, women managers, Amsterdam, municipal, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment
Price £30.00.
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Brittain, Vera.
Envoy Extraordinary: A Study of Vijaya Pandit and her Contribution to Modern India
(George Allen and Unwin, 1965).
Hardback. Ex library with marks left by usual library stickers, otherwise good. 178pp. Order No. NSBK-C6260
Keywords: B0000CMONA, women's history, Vera Brittain, India, Indian, Vijaya Pandit, woman, Nehru, Gandhi, politics, Asia, Asian, ethnicity, women and politics. twentieth century
Price £7.49.
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Rowntree, Maurice.
Social Freedom: A Study in the Application of the Ethics of Jesus to Modern Social and Industrial Problems
(Committee on War and Social Order, 1921).
Hardback. Covers soiled, otherwise good+. 172pp. Order No. NSBK-A10189
Keywords: B00087R6UM, Maurice Rowntree, Jesus, religion, Christianity, Christians, religion, religious, ethics, social freedom, twentieth century, 20th, industry, industrial
Price £17.00.
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Oakley, Ann.
Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents Early Years
(Flamingo, 1997).
Paperback. Spine creased and cover edges worn, otherwise good. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C10416
Keywords: 0006550134, parents, Richard Titmuss, Kay Titmuss, Kay Miller, welfare state, biography, biographies, autobiography, autobiographies, feminism, feminists, family, social history, families, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, 20th
Price £2.00.
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Owens, W. R., ed.
Seventeenth-Century England: A Changing Culture. Volume 2: Modern Studies
(Ward Lock Educational/Open University, 1980).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good+. iv + 337pp. Order No. NSBK-A11337
Keywords: 0706240898, seventeenth century, 17th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, civil war, history of science, Royal Society
Price £6.00.
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Concannon, Dale.
Golf The Early Days: Royal and Ancient Game from its Origins to 1939
(Salamander, 1995).
Hardback. Large book, very good in dustwrapper. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A13178
Keywords: 0861018044, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, golf, golfing, golfers, sports, sportsmen, sporting, games
Price £9.00.
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Seddon, Laura.
British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music: in the Early Twentieth Century
(Ashgate, 2013).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly creased but very good dustwrapper. xvii + 229pp. Order No. NSBK-C15701
Keywords: 9781409439455, composing, composers, women, female, chamber music, twentieth century, musicians, Briitsh, Britain
Price £45.00.
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Duby, Georges.
The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France
(Allen Lane, 1st Eng ed., 1984).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps/stickers, otherwise good in faded dustwrapper. xx + 311pp. Order No. NSBK-A14327
Keywords: 0713915838, marriages, weddings, medieval, mediaeval, mentalites, middle ages, France, French, history, Europe, European, church, religion, religious, ladies, priests, knights, family, feudal, feudalism, eleventh century, twelfth century, thirteenth century
Price £8.99.
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Scott, A. F.
The Early Hanoverian Age, 1714-1760: Commentaries on an Era
(Croom Helm, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in spine-faded dustwrapper. 175pp. Order No. NSBK-A9097
Keywords: 0709904153, Hanover, Hanoverian, Britain, British, England, English, history, eighteenth, century, 18th, writings, paintings, engravings, drawings, cockfighting, coffee houses, highwaymen, South Sea Bubble, Black Hole of Calcutta, Richardson, Pope
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Henny, E. and Byett, J. D.
Modern Home Laundrywork:
(J.M. Dent and Sons, rpt., 1948).
Illustrated with photographs and drawings of different types of laundry equipment, methods of folding items of clothing etc. Hardback. Good. x + 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A10644
Keywords: women, women's history, homes, Britain, British, homekeeping, housekeeping, housewifery, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, laundry, washing, stains, cotton, linen, fabrics, cleaning, rayon, nylon, family wash, domestic, domesticity, laundrywork, reagents, equipment, water, soap, women's work, textiles, housewife, housewives, clothes, clothing
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