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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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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Carpenter, Mary.
Reformatory Schools: For the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes and for Juvenile Offenders
(Woburn Press, Augustus M. Kelley, new impression, 1969).
A re-issue of the 1851 text. Hardback. Very good in spine-faded, lightly soiled dustwrapper. xi + 353pp. Order No. NSBK-C13605
Keywords: B0010Y287S, crime, reformatory schools, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, childhood, education, children, schooling, Mary Carpenter, juvenile offenders, poverty, destitution, social history, free day schools, ragged schools, gaols, prisons
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Walvin, James.
Victorian Values:
(Andre Deutsch, 1987).
A Companion to the Granada Television Series. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xi + 171pp. Order No. NSBK-A7200
Keywords: 0233981063, Victorian, social history, nineteenth century, society, Britain, British, England, English, James Walvin, Jim Walvin, values, morality, paternalism, laissez faire, health, education, poverty, public health
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Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, ed.
Woman's Mission: a Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women by Eminent Writers
(Portrayer Publishers, 2002 facsimile of 1893 ed).
For the Chicago International Exhibition of Women's Work, 1893. Paperback. Light soiling to page edges, spine slightly creased, otherwise very good. viii + 485pp. Order No. NSBK-C4894
Keywords: 9781378684542, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropy, philanthropic, women, woman, women's history, woman's, woman's mission, women and work, Britain, British, England, English, poor, poverty, Victorian, nineteenth century, societies, temperance, organisations, friendly societies, friendly society, Florence Nightingale, sisterhood, charity, charities, Sarah Ponsonby, working class, working classes, needlework, poor laws, ragged schools, education, welfare, social welfare, social history, women's work, missions, women workers, rescue work, Portrayers, Portrayer Publishers, philanthropic institutions, Chicago International Exhibition of Women's Work, 1893, victoriana, Portrayer's, women's work, woman worker, woman workers
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Cage, R. A. ed.
The Working Class in Glasgow, 1750 - 1914:
(Croom Helm, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xix + 203pp. Order No. NSBK-A15275
Keywords: 9780709934158, Glasgow, poor, working classes, Scotland, Scottish, history, social history, Victorian, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Edwardian, housing, poverty, public health
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Mackenzie, Norman and Jeanne, eds.
The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Volume Two, 1892-1905: All the Good Things of Life
(Virago, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xv + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-C6087
Keywords: 0860682102, Beatrice Webb, Sidney Webb, the Webbs, social reform, Edwardian, Victorian, LSE, London School of Economics, poor, poverty, trade unionism, local government, state, women's history, woman, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, diaries, diary, Virago
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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
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Midwinter, E.C.
Victorian Social Reform:
(Longman, 10th impress., 1982).
Paperback. Ex-library. Covers browned, otherwise good. vii + 112pp. Order No. NSBK-A10050
Keywords: 0582313856, Victorian, social reform, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, history, poverty
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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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