Phillips, C. B. and Smith, J. H. editors.
Stockport Probate Records, 1578 - 1619:
(Record Society of Lancashire Cheshire, 1985).
No 124 in the Series. Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly marked dustwrapper. xxiii + 151pp. Order No. NSBK-A14538
Keywords: 0902593145, Stockport, probate, legal, early modern, history, Manchester, 16th century, sixteenth century, seventeenth century, 17th century, wills, market towns, inheritance
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Anon, .
Life at the Cape A Hundred Years Ago:
(Centaur (Pty) Ltd, 1983).
With contemporary illustrations selected from the work of Thomas Bowler. Covers the years 1861-2 in a series of vignettes which first appeared in the Cape Monthly magazine. Chapters include first impressions of people and scenery, Camps Bay, excursion on Table Mountain, Christmas festivities at Wynberg and Newlands, hospitality at Constantia, a picnic at Kalk Bay, a State Ball, Stellenbosch, Wellington and the Paarl. Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly worn dustwrapper. 119pp. Order No. NSBK-C3900
Keywords: 0908379471, Cape Town, South Africa, Table Mountain, autobiographies, autobiography, women, woman, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Wynberg, Newlands, Constantia, Kalk Bay, Stellenbosch, Wellington, Paarl, Berg River
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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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Orman, Richard A Van.
A Room for the Night: Hotels of the Old West
(Bonanza Books, 1967).
Hardback. Good in worn dustwrapper. xiii + 162pp. Order No. NSBK-A12716
Keywords: 025317600X, West, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, hotels, hospitality, catering, history, mining, miners, food, Cow Towns, towns, shacks, palaces, Western hotels, cowboys
Price £11.00.
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Raistrick, Arthur.
West Riding of Yorkshire:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1979).
The Making of the English Landscape. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise a good copy in dustwrapper. 191pp. Order No. NSBK-A10560
Keywords: 340023724, West Riding, Yorkshire, landscapes, country, countryside, rural, enclose, vernacular, towns, cities, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English
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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
Price £17.99.
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Swift, Roger, ed.
Victorian Chester: Essays in Social History, 1830-1900
(Liverpool UP, 1996).
Paperback. Very good+. xii + 251pp. Order No. NSBK-A13457
Keywords: 0853236615, Chester, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, cities, city, towns
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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
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Sandys, Celia.
Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive:
(HarperCollins Publishers, 1999).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xvi + 233pp. Order No. NSBK-A13173
Keywords: 0002570173, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history , Winston Churchill, Boer War, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Prime Minister, South Africa, Cape Town
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Brydon, Lynne & Chant, Sylvia.
Women in the Third World: Gender Issues in Rural and Urban Areas
(Edward Elgar, rpt, 1993).
Paperback. Very good. 327pp. Order No. NSBK-C6810
Keywords: 1852781904, gender, rural, countryside, Third World, development, developing countries, women, urban, towns, urban planning, town planning, women's issues, household, reproduction, migration, rural development policy, Brazil, South America, South East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, African, East Africa, poverty, poor
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