Woloch, Isser, ed.
The Peasantry in the Old Regime: Conditions and Protests
(Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970).
Paperback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and sticker, some light creasing / edge wear to covers - otherwise good. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-A13347
Keywords: 0030798302, ancien regime, old regime, history, peasants, peasantry, class, society, protest, poverty, peasant uprisings, riots, 18th century, eighteenth century, popular protest, agrarian, village, peasant revolution of 1789, France, French
Price £11.00.
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Phillips, Janet and Peter.
Victorians at Home and Away:
(Croom Helm, 1978).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A8407
Keywords: 0856646881, Victorians, England, English, Britain, British, nineteenth century, 19th, Crystal Palace, Christian Soldiers, music, queens, royalty, monarchs, Queen Victoria, businessmen, professionals, shopkeepers, manners, fashions, women, the poor, poverty, soldiers, soccer, racing, cricket, public schools, missionary, missionaries
Price £8.00.
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Chinn, Carl.
They Worked All Their Lives: Women of the Urban Poor in England, 1880-1939
(MUP, 1988).
Hardback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good in faded dustwrapper. xi + 187pp. Order No. NSBK-A15085
Keywords: 9780719024368, urban poor, poverty, Carl Chinn, working class, women's history, social history, British, English, England, Britain, Birmingham, Midlands, charity, mothers, motherhood, Reports, women's work, trade unions, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, twentieth century, self-help, community, communities, debt, Clementina Black, working women
Price £10.00.
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Snowden, Philip.
The Living Wage:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1912).
Hardback. Bright red boards slightly blotched / soiled at back, otherwise very good. xvi + 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A13340
Keywords: B00085I7GG, Philip Snowden, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, living wage, wages, economy, politics, living wage, poverty, cost of living, industry, employment, strikes, conciliation, labour, twentieth century, before the first world war, economics
Price £18.00.
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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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Rubinstein, David.
School Attendance in London, 1870 - 1904: A Social History
(University of Hull, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969).
Scarce. University of Hull Occasional Papers in Economic and Social History No. 1. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings, good+ in smart crimson binding. viii + 137pp. Order No. NSBK-A8542
Keywords: 0900480009, London, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, education, schools, Edwardian, school attendance, schooling, social history, truancy, truants, elementary education, David Rubinstein, Britain, British, England, English, London School Board, poverty, poor, school boards, 1870 Education Act, Forster's Education Act, magistrates, voluntary schools, state education, policy, University of Hull Occasional Papers in Economic and Social History
Price £35.00.
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Pearson, R.A.
The Guardian Book of the Welfare State:
(Wildwood House, 1988).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. xiv + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-A7656
Keywords: 0704530848, 20th, twentieth century, welfare state, social history, social welfare, poor, poverty, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, debates, housing, education, health, social security, health, post-war, post war
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Maurice, C. Edmund, ed.
Life of Octavia Hill: as Told in her Letters
(Macmillan, rpt, 1914).
Hardback. Some foxing to early pages, minor yellow highlighting to text, rubbing to edges and spine ends, otherwise a good solid copy. vii + 591pp. Order No. NSBK-C4485
Keywords: B01M9FUK1S, Octavia Hill, biography, biographies, autobiographies, autobiography, letters, housing, Victorian social reformers, reform, philanthropy, town planning, open spaces, settlements, dwellings, poverty, poor, paupers, pauperism, Britain, England, English, British, National Trust, commons, working class, working classes
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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
Price £28.95.
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Loane, Marcus.
From Their Point of View:
(Garland Publishing, 1980).
Hardback. Ex library but with no visible stamps and stickers. 309pp. Order No. NSBK-A12661
Keywords: 0824001133, social commentary, Marcus Loane, poor, poverty, charity, charitable, poverty, philanthropy, philanthropists, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
Price £25.00.
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