Plowden, Alison.
The Case of Eliza Armstrong: "a Child of 13 Bought for £5"
(BBC, 1974).
Hardback. Good+ in slightly browned, slightly edgeworn, slightly torn dustwrapper, with a newspaper review pasted to front endpaper. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-C1033
Keywords: 9780563108733 prostitution, children child abuse, Victorian, white slave trade, prostitutes, BBC, nineteenth century, crime, women, history, prostitute, vice-trade, vice trade, vice, 19th century, child prostitute
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Rowntree, Amy.
The Early Settlement of Sandy Bay:
(Mercury Press, 1959).
Beautifully illustrated by Fearn Rowntree. Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled, slightly chipped dustwrapper. 60pp. Order No. NSBK-A13848
Keywords: B000W1X9PA, Australia, Australian, settlement, settlers, history, Sandy Bay, Queenborough, Norfolk Island, Hobart, 19th century, nineteenth century
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Carpenter, J. Estlin.
The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter:
(Macmillan, 2nd edition, 1881).
Hardback. Original cloth with spine ends and corners worn. Spine sunned, otherwise a very good, solid copy. xiv + 391pp. Order No. NSBK-A13865
Keywords: B000WSPERO, Mary Carpenter, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, biography, biographies, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, ragged schools, education, Bristol, social reform, reformatories for girls, poverty, teaching, teachers, reformatory schools, children, charity, philanthropy, childhood, Indian, India, female education, women's education
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Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
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James, Louis.
Fiction for the Working Man, 1830 - 50: A Study of the Literature Produced for the Working Classes in Early Victorian Urban England
(Penguin, rpt, 1974).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. xviii + 261pp. Order No. NSBK-A8755
Keywords: 014060037X, fiction, class, working class, working classes, nineteenth century, 19th century, workers, working men, social history, class consciousness, reading habits, reading matter, Britain, British, England, English, popular literature, Victorian, popular fiction, publishing, popular culture, history, urbanisation
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Abramovitz, Mimi.
Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present
(South End Press, 1989).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. x + 406pp. Order No. NSBK-C13061
Keywords: 9780896083295, social welfare policy,US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, twentieth century, 20th, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Thompson, Francis.
The Poems of Francis Thompson:
(Hollis and Carter, 1946).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some (streaky) fading to cloth, otherwise good. ix + 388pp. Order No. NSBK-A9168
Keywords: B000MFNT24, Francis Thompson, poets, poetry, poems, literature, literary, twentieth century, 20th, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian
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Wedin, Carolyn.
Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of the NAACP
(John Wiley & Sons, 1998).
Foreword by David Levering Lewis. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xv + 367pp. Order No. NSBK-C10243
Keywords: 0471168386, American, USA, United States, USA, Civil Rights Movement, civil rights, black history, Mary White Ovingham, NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, feminism, feminists, race, racism, slavery, class
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Knights, Peter R.
The Plain People of Boston, 1830-1860: A Study in City Growth
(OUP, 1971).
With a handwritten note from the author. Hardback. Good+ in spine sunfaded and slightly worn dustwrapper. xv + 204pp. Order No. NSBK-A13198
Keywords: 019501488X, population, economics, cities, urban, city, Boston, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, statistics, demography, demographics
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Midwinter, E. C.
Social Administation in Lancashire, 1830-1860: Poor Law, Public Health and Police
(MUP, 1969).
Hardback. Very good in soiled dustwrapper. vi + 193pp. Order No. NSBK-A8082
Keywords: 0719003695, poor law, public health, police, policeman, policemen, law, legal, laws, nineteenth, century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, law and order, Lancashire Unions, Lancashire Boards of Health, water supply, sanitation, policing
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