Aronson, Hugh.
Our Village Homes: Present Conditions and Suggested Remedies
(Thomas Murby, 1913).
With a preface by Lord Henry Bentinck. Hardback. Cloth rather soiled, some rubbing / fraying to extremities, otherwise a good solid copy. x + 150pp. Order No. NSBK-A13844
Keywords: B001IVIPUM, villages, village, history, town planning, housing, houses, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, housing schemes, social history, housing conditions, homes, rural areas, countryside, health, rural depopulation, agriculture, labourers' cottages, cottage, Hugh Aronson, social conditions, architecture, house building
Price £70.00.
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Kingsley, Charles.
Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life
(Macmillan and Co, 1908).
Edited by his Wife. Hardback. Light edge wear, otherwise very good. xv + 364pp. Order No. NSBK-A11306
Keywords: B000HC5HIQ, Charles Kingsley, letters, memories, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors, children's literature
Price £12.00.
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Cheshire Federation Women's Institutes, .
The Cheshire Village Book:
(Countryside Books, 1990).
Paperback. Spine creased, a little coffee staining and creasing to rear pages, otherwise good. 254pp. Order No. NSBK-A14317
Keywords: 1853060755, Cheshire Federation Women's Institutes, Cheshire, villages, rural, countryside, farms, Cheshire Plain
Price £5.00.
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Partington, Jim.
The Two-Up and Two-Downer (With a Taste for Honey): the Crowded Life of a Lancashire Lad
(Fabians Publishers, 1972).
Autobiography. Leftist reminiscences of self-made Lancashire man, born 1908, dedicated to Lord Brockway of ILP. "I attended meetings in Bradford [where] he showed me the Political Path I should follow. Although I have devoted much of my life to the acquisition of material possessions, I have never deviated from his Philosophy". Hardback. Very good in slightly worn and slightly chipped dustwrapper. xiv + 257pp. Order No. NSBK-A1550
Keywords: B000HBVSLC, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Lancashire, lads, boys, homes, houses, terraces, twentieth century, 20th, Jim Partington, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories
Price £6.00.
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Gilbert, W. Stephen.
Fight and Kick and Bite: The Life and Work of Dennis Potter
(Hodder & Stoughton, 1995).
Illustrated with black and white photographs. Hardback. Near fine in dustwrapper. xvi + 382pp. Order No. NSBK-A10136
Keywords: 0340640472, Dennis Potter, life, lives, playwrights, stage, theatres, literature, twentieth century, 20th, dramatists, writers, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Bonnard, Georges A.
Edward Gibbon: Memoirs of My Life
(Nelson, 1966).
Hardback. Good+ in edgeworn dustwrapper. xxxv + 346pp. Order No. NSBK-A12544
Keywords: B000IMLF2M, Edward Gibbon, historians, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history , Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, memoirs, eighteenth century, 18th
Price £25.00.
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Muggeridge, Kitty and Adam, Ruth.
Beatrice Webb: A Life, 1858-1943
(Academy Chicago, rpt, 1983).
Paperback. Marginal ink notation (very marginal), otherwise good. 271 + vipp. Order No. NSBK-C5304
Keywords: 0897330889, Beatrice Webb, Webb, Webbs, biography, biographies, life histories, life history, women's history, Fabian society, left, Sudney Webb, London School of Economics, The New Statesman, social reform, Modern Welfare State, journals, diary, diaries, socialists, socialism, Stalin, Russia, women's movement, feminism, feminist, Herbert Spencer, Balfour, Haldane, G. B. Shaw
Price £6.00.
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Griffith, Elisabeth.
In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(OUP, 1984).
Paperback. Pages slightly browned, otherwise good. xx + 268pp. Order No. NSBK-C15772
Keywords: 9780195037296, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, biography, biographies, life histories, life history, America, American, American women, United States, USA, feminism, suffrage, suffragists, reformers, votes for women, American suffrage, women's rights, women's movement, property rights, divorce reform, education, birth control, equality, Susan B. Anthony, feminists, Victorian, nineteenth century, Elisabeth Griffith
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Owen, Frank.
Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George His Life and Times
(Hutchinson, 1954).
Hardback. Spine ends bumped, otherwise good+ in heavily worn and torn dustwrapper. 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A13053
Keywords: B0000CJ0TW, Lloyd George, politics, political, politicians, government, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, Prime Ministers, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history
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British Museum, Department of Greek & Roman Antiquities.
A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life:
(Trustees of the British Museum, 1908).
With a frontispiece and two hundred and forty-two illustrations. Hardback. A little spliiting internally at spine, some soiling & chipping to exteriors, but a good solid working copy. xvi + 242pp. Order No. NSBK-A13045
Keywords: Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life, British Museum, Romans, Roman, Greek, Greeks, history, ancient, illustrations, images, Roman coins, archaeology, Edwardian, exhibitions, museum, museums, curatorial, London
Price £14.00.
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