Hayle, Felicity.
Our Brother Nick and the Tolling Bell:
(Sampson Low, 1958).
With black and white etchings. Original dustwrapper present though it's slightly soiled, faded at spine and a little torn / worn at edges. Hardback. Ex library with markings left by usual library stamps & stickers. Creasing to front board, edges browned & some splitting internally at spine. A good working copy. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A13982
Keywords: B0000CK65M, children's books, child, children, Felicity Hayle, Our Brother Nick books, fiction, post-war
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Ross, James.
The Power I Pledge: Being a Centenary Study of the Life of William Quarrier and the Work he Pioneered
(Robert MacLehose, 1971).
Hardback. Very good. 118pp. Order No. NSBK-A5303
Keywords: 0950203408, William Quarrier, Glasgow, children, child, philanthropy, Scotland, Scottish, Scotch, Scots, Homelea, history, nineteenth century, Victorian, Quarrier's homes
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Stallard, Patricia Y.
Glittering Misery: Dependents of the Indian Fighting Army
(Oklahoma UP, rpt., 1992).
With a foreword by Darlis A. Miller. Illustrated with more than 60 photographs. Paperback. Very good+. 159pp. Order No. NSBK-C13254
Keywords: 0806124741, Civil War, Indian Fighting Army, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, children, child
Price £15.00.
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Anderson, Michael.
Approaches to the History of the Western Family, 1500-1914:
(Macmillan, 1980).
Studies in Economic and Social History. Paperback. Covers browned, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A7186
Keywords: 0333240650, family, motherhood, fatherhood, marriage, conjugal, families, illegitimate, illegitimacy, parenthood, domesticity, sex, children, child, conceptions, extramarital, spouses, population, demography, demographic, households, economy, economics, inheritance, Studies in Economic and Social History
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Hobhouse, Emily.
The Brunt of War and Where it Fell:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007 facsimile of the 1902 edition).
A facsimile edition of a very scarce book. Complete with a map and all illustrations. Hardback. Good in blue cloth. xvi + 357pp. Order No. NSBK-C13227
Keywords: 0954476131, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs, self history, self histories, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, Boer War, Boers, South Africa, Africa, African, wars, South African War, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, century, Emily Hobhouse, camps, war camp, war camps, concentration camps, camp, POW, prisoners of war, enemy, enemies, soldiers, soldier, Cape, Cape Colony, children, child, Chamberlain, homes, housing, deprivation, starvation, Britain, British, England, English, troop, troops, battle, battles, battallions, propaganda, battallion, living conditions, Southern Africa, Southern African, Afrikaan, Afrikaans, Veld, scorched earth policy, charity, philanthropy, Portrayer Publishers
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Mace, Jane.
Playing with Time: Mothers and the Meaning of Literacy
(UCL Press, 1998).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, otherwise very good. xiii + 185pp. Order No. NSBK-C8834
Keywords: 1857288912, mothers, motherhood, women, children, child, literacy, education, educational, maternal, reading, writing, grandmothers, domestic, adult literacy, family, families
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Mayhew, Henry.
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts. Volume 3
(Caliban Books, 1981).
Paperback. Spine lightly browned, otherwise very good. 277pp. Order No. NSBK-A13116
Keywords: 0904573222, Victorian, 1850, 19th century, nineteenth century, labour, poor, poverty, Henry Mayhew, social surveys, social investigations, sanitation, oral history, wages, sweated labour, poor law, employment, work, thieves, theft, robbery, London, tramps, vagrancy, lodging houses, housing, food, earnings, child labour, boot and shoe trade, beggars, asylums, clothes, boot and shoe makers
Price £19.95.
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Fletcher, Sheila.
Women First: The Female Tradition in English Physical Education, 1880-1980
(The Athlone Press, 1984).
Paperback. Very good. 194pp. Order No. NSBK-C6593
Keywords: 0485120461, female tradition, England, English, Britain, British, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century, sports, sporting, physical, Sheila Fletcher, women's sports, teaching, PE, P.E., Bedford High Schools, children, childhood, Bedford Physical Training College, child, girlhood, girls
Price £12.00.
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Dorr, Rheta Childe.
What Eight Million Women Want:
(Craus, 1971 rpt of 1910 edit).
Hardback. Ex library, very good. xii + 339pp. Order No. NSBK-C2588
Keywords: B0006VUHP6, women's history, suffrage, United States, America, votes for women, suffragettes, women's rights,women's politics, Rheta Childe Dorr, culture clubs, salic law
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Poor Law Commissioners, .
Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners: on the Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture, 1843
(Frank Cass, 1968 impression of 1843 text).
Hardback. Some pencil annotation mainly to endpapers, front endpaper has small piece cut-out, otherwise good+, a solid copy. 378pp. Order No. NSBK-C15750
Keywords: 9780714622149, poor law, poverty, reports, commissioners, women, children, history, agriculture, agricultural, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, work, employment
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