Hareven, Tamara K. and Langenbach, Randolph.
Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City in New England
(Methuen, 1979).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xiii + 395pp. Order No. NSBK-A3210
Keywords: 0416721605, city, industrial, Amoskeag, America, American, American history, labour history, labor history, Amoskeag, United States, USA manufacturing company, textile, Merrimack, New Hampshire, factory, immigration, oral history
Price £11.99.
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Guinness, Alec.
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor
(Hamish Hamilton, 1996).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. x + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A9009
Keywords: 0241136679, actors, acor, Alec Guiness, autobiography, life, life history, lives, life histories, theatre, stage, twentieth century, Britain, British, history, England, English
Price £6.00.
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Adams, Carol; Bartley, P; Lown, J.; Loxton C.
Under Control: Life in a Nineteenth-Century Silk Factory
(CUP, rpt, 1985).
Paperback. Covers slightly yellowed, otherwise very good. 44pp. Order No. NSBK-C15108
Keywords: B004IGIH2K, silk industry, silk workers, history, factory, factories, nineteenth century, 19th century, Victorian, women workers
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Krass, Peter.
Sojourner Truth: Antislavery Activist
(Melrose Square Publishing, 1990).
Paperback. Very good. 169pp. Order No. NSBK-A5779
Keywords: 0870675591, slavery slaves, activist, activism, politics, political, black rights, black history, women's history, woman's history, Sojourner Truth, nineteenth century, America, American, USA, United States, Civil War, female, slaveowner, slavetrade, biography, biographer, biographical
Price £5.00.
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Gardner, Viv, editor.
Sketches from the Actresses' Franchise League:
(Nottingham Drama Texts, Nottingham University, 1985).
Paperback. Ex library. Covers soiled, usual library stamps and markings, minor scorings to text, otherwise good. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C13914
Keywords: 0906129095, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, politics, political, rights, women's rights, women's movement, Votes for Women, woman, women's history, women's studies, women's suffrage, woman's suffrage, theatre, plays, theatrical, suffragette writers, playwrights, Edwardian, Pankhursts, actresses, acting, Actresses' Franchise League, Beatrice Harraden, Cicely Hamilton, Gertrude Jennings, Bessie Hatton, Inez Bensusan
Price £40.00.
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Costello, Cynthia B.
We're Worth It!: Women and Collective Action in the Insurance Workplace.
(Illinois UP, 1991).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. 154pp. Order No. NSBK-C13148
Keywords: 0252018036, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, insurance, collective action, feminism, feminists
Price £11.00.
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Fang, Hsien-T'ing.
The Triumph of the Factory System in England:
(Porcupine Press, rpt., 1978).
Hardback. Very good+. 310pp. Order No. NSBK-A11524
Keywords: factory, factories, factory system, industry
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Eissler, M.
The Cyanide Process for the Extraction of Gold: And Its Practical Application on the Witwatersrand Gold Fields in South Africa
(Crosby Lockwood, 1895).
Hardback. Edges worn, some splitting internally at spine, front and back, otherwise good. 93 + 48 + 16pp. Order No. NSBK-A12665
Keywords: B0008A692U, cyanide, South Africa, Witwatersrand, gold, alchemical, alchemy, golden, extraction, gold mining
Price £32.00.
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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
Price £60.00.
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Hastings, George W.
Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science: London Meeting, 1862
(John W. Parker, 1863).
Hardback. Original cloth faded, with a little wear to extremities, otherwise very good and solid. 922pp. Order No. NSBK-A15307
Keywords: B00EBVYDJI, Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, antiquarian, Victorian, social history, 19th, nineteenth century
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