Allsop, Gladys.
Reminiscences: Reminiscences of a Manchester Woman
(Janice Owen, 1987).
Paperback. Top spine end damaged (torn and bumped), newspaper review pasted to front endpaper, a good working copy. 61pp. Order No. NSBK-C14871
Keywords: 0951240609, Manchester, North West, history, autobiographies, autobiography, social history, women, Gladys Allsop, Wythenshawe Park, May Day, Whit Monday
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O'Brien, P.
Warrington Academy, 1757-86: its Predecessors & Successors
(Owl Books, 1989).
Hardback. Very good in slightly dented dustwrapper. 164pp. Order No. NSBK-A1889
Keywords: 095143330X, Britain, British, England, English, history, Warrington, Lancashire, education, rational education, Warrington Academy, nonconformity, nonconformists, Dissent, North West, Lucy Aikin, John Aiken, Anna Laetitia Aikin, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Dissenters, Unitarian, Unitarians, Unitarianism, theology, Joseph Priestley, John Aikin, Lucy Aikin, Anna Laetitia Aikin, Mrs Barbauld, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Manchester
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Gedge, Peter S and Louden, M. R.
S. Martin's College, Lancaster, 1964-89:
(Centre for North-West Regional Studies, 1993).
Paperback. Fine. 75pp. Order No. NSBK-A13018
Keywords: 0901800279, higher education, education, educational, university, universities, colleges, academia, academe, twentieth century, 20th, Centre for North-West Regional Studies, Lancaster
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Cunningham, Anne; Irvine, Isobel; et al, eds.
Lightyears: the First Collection of Merseyside Women's Writing
(Headland, 1992).
Paperback. Edges slightly soiled, otherwise good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-C4108
Keywords: 0903074710, Merseyside, Liverpool, women's writing, literature, fiction, prose, poetry, poems, North West England, English, Britain, British, Anne Cunningham, Isobel Irvine, Pauline Lavercombe, Tracy Ryan, Flora Small, Ruth Symes, Clare Rush, Rose Ryan, Dora Kennedy, Jean Barlow, Women's Anthology Group, poets, women
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Clulow, Derek A.
No Tides to Stem: A History of the Manchester Pilot Service
(Countyvise Ltd, 1998).
Volume 2 only. Paperback. Edges soiled, otherwise very good. x + 276pp. Order No. NSBK-A8073
Keywords: 1901231062, Manchester Ship Canal, boats, ships, maritime, canals, North-West, Manchester, pilots, Manchester Pilot Service, pilotage, Helmsman Service, vessels, work, working conditions, seas, navigation
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Baines, Thomas.
History of the Town and Commerce of Liverpool: and of the Rise of Manufacturing Industry in the Adjoining Counties
(Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, London, Liverpool, 1852).
Small library markings to spine and front endpaper. Frontispiece plan of Liverpool damaged and repaired with sellotape. Another plan, of Royalist Fortifications, torn in two but complete. A little rubbing / bumping to corners, but a very nice copy indeed, sound and tight. Hardback. Full leather nicely repaired. Gilt decoration front & back, raised gilt bands & titles to spine, all edges gilt. Ex library, but library markings minimal. Very good, attractive. xvi + 844 + 13pp. Order No. NSBK-A6861
Keywords: B000K40UBA, towns, cities, urban, city, commerce, commercial, manufacturing, manufacture, Liverpool, Merseyside, North West, England, Britain, British, English, counties, Lancashire, history, urbanisation, antiquarian, industry, industrial, Thomas Baines, Industrial Revolution, industrialisation, town, Mersey, Victorian, nineteenth century, Liverpool Docks, trade, exports, imports, economic, economy, ports, port
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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
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Ayers, Pat.
Women at War: Liverpool Women, 1939 - 45
(Liver Press, 1988).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, stickers and markings, fly leaf clipped. Minor pencil annotation, otherwise good. 58pp. Order No. NSBK-C15624
Keywords: Liverpool, oral history, World War II, women, wartime, the Home Front, munitions, the Blitz, Britain, British, England, English, history, Merseyside, North West, stored by piano
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Graham, J.A. & Phythian, B.A., eds.
The Manchester Grammar School, 1515 - 1965:
(MUP, 1965).
Hardback. Front board soiled, otherwise good in chipped and torn dustwrapper. ix + 201pp. Order No. NSBK-A2576
Keywords: B0000CMU02, education, Manchester Grammar School, schools, British, Britain, North West England, England, English, school, schooling, grammar schools, grammar school, the north, north
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Roberts, Robert.
A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum
(Fontana, 2nd impression, 1979).
Paperback. Light creasing to covers, newspaper article pasted to front endpaper, otherwise good. 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A10160
Keywords: 0006348947, education, schools, schooling, slums, housing, urban, cities, Britain, British, England, English, social history, Edwardian, industry, industrial, terraces, poverty, poor, cobbles, By Joe, cinema, magic lantern, railways, canals, Manchester, North West, Salford, Robert Roberts, apprentices, labour, labor, Labour party, Esperanto, TB, tuberculosis, working class, working classes, Charles de Gaulle
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