Youngson, A. J.
Urban Development and the Royal Fine Arts Commissions:
(Edinburgh U.P, 1990).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. 186pp. Order No. NSBK-A4925
Keywords: 0748601147, urban development, Royal Fine Arts Commission, arts, artists, art, Edinburgh, fine arts, history, Britain, Scotland, Scots, Scottish, architecture, organisations, architects, town planners, city, cities, urban, towns, technology, authorities, capital, twentieth century, Edinburgh University, universities, bicentenary, eighteenth century, Scottish Enlightenment, Robert Adams, William Playfair
Price £12.99.
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Jansen, Harry.
The Construction of an Urban Past: Narrative and System in Urban History
(Berg, 2001).
Hardback. Light soiling to back board, otherwise very good+. vii + 374pp. Order No. NSBK-A13326
Keywords: 9781859734377, towns, city, town, cities, urban history, historiography, geography
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Bass Ratcliff and Gretton Limited, .
Excursion to Scarborough: Friday July 24th, 1914
(Bass Museum, reprint, 1977).
A charming booklet. On the very eve of the First World War, this detailed guide prepares Bass employees and their families for their day excursion to Scarborough by train. Illustrated. Booklet. Fine. 40pp. Order No. NSBK-A6872
Keywords: B000IZA06Q, Scarborough, seaside, holidays, outings, Britain, British, England, English, Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, towns, spa towns, working classes, working class, excursions, working class excursions, leisure, entertainment, recreation, train journeys, trains, railways, days out, day out, days-out, day-out, tramways, amusements, Bass, industrial workers, Bass Ratcliff and Gretton Limited, Ratcliff, Gretton, stations, twentieth century, World War I, Great War, First World War, pre-war, Bass Museum, Bass outings, booklet
Price £12.00.
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Kent, Graeme.
Poverty:
(B.T. Batsford, 1968).
Past into Present Series. Illustrated in black and white with pictures and photographs. Hardback. Spine ends rubbed, otherwise good in tatty dustwrapper. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-A12995
Keywords: 0713417544, poverty, poor, towns, urban, cities, workers, instituitions, Poor law, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, images, pictures
Price £6.00.
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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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Simon, E.D.
The Anti-Slum Campaign:
(Longmans, 2nd Impression, 1933).
Very scarce. Hardback. Cloth sun faded and worn at edges, internally good. viii + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A4069
Keywords: B000KYQ3D4, Manchester, slums, anti-slum campaign, housing, cities, urban history, North West, England, English, Britain, British, Addison Act, rents, Greenwood Act, town planning, urbanisation, conurbation, dwellings, houses, building, city, local government, local authorities, Chamberlain Act, Wheatley Act, Hilton Young Acts, slum clearance, housing shortage, tenants, Homes for Heroes, Simons, E.D. Simon, Ernest Simon, poverty, poor
Price £12.00.
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Cronwright-Schreiner, S. C., ed.
The Letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876 - 1929:
(T. Fisher Unwin, 2nd impression, 1924).
Illustrated. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings. Boards worn with some fraying / loss to cloth at edges, and spine ends - otherwise a good solid working copy. xiii + 410pp. Order No. NSBK-C13859
Keywords: B0017X528E, Olive Schreiner, letters, correspondence, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, South Africa, South African, Havelock Ellis, Boer War, South African War, Emily Hobhouse, Edward Carpenter, Cape Town
Price £25.00.
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Creighton, John.
Cheshire: a Portrait in Words and Pictures
(Sigma Press, 1987).
Paperback. Good. 156pp. Order No. NSBK-A14071
Keywords: 1850580928, Cheshire, illustrations, photographs, history, towns, mills, stately homes
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Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, and Roger Leech.
Early Industrial Housing: the Trinity Area of Frome
(HMSO, 1981).
Supplementary Series. Paperback. Covers lightly rubbed, otherwise very good. viii + 44pp. Order No. NSBK-A7705
Keywords: 0117009075, Frome, Trinity Area, industrial housing, housing, houses, social history, architecture, architectural, buildings, homes, surveys, plans, streets, neighbourhood, town planning, regional studies, Britain, British, England, English, Somerset, urban, urbanisation, urban development, growth, 18th century, eighteenth century
Price £9.00.
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Darling, Jen.
Portrait of Warrington:
(Sigma Leisure, 1989).
Paperback. Ex Librrary with usual library stamps and stickers. viii + 88pp. Order No. NSBK-A15377
Keywords: 1850582076, Warrington, towns, Britain, British, England, English, history
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