King, Peter.
Women Rule the Plot: The Story of the 100 Year Fight to Establish Women's Place in Farm and Garden
(Duckworth, 1999).
Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C5406
Keywords: 0715629492, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, gardens, gardening, plots, unions, unionists, Women's Farm and Garden Union, earth, land, World War 1, World War One, Great War, wars, First World War, rural, country, countryside, agrarian, Lady Warwick, Gertrude Jekyll, Brend Colvin, Madeline Agar, suffrage, suffragettes, Women's Farm and Garden Association, associations, organisations, feminism, feminists, WFGA, Folly Farm, Highgrove, Chenies Manor, women and work, women's work, farming
Price £8.00.
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Arnold, Eleanor, ed.
Voices of American Homemakers:
(Indiana UP, 1985).
Paperback. Very good. 295pp. Order No. NSBK-C11859
Keywords: 0253207991, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, oral history, States, homemakers, family, families, family values, rural, oral histories, education, courtship, marriage, child rearing, farms, farming, farmers, agricultural, land, agrarian, agriculture, country, countryside, rural
Price £5.00.
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Wordsworth, Dorothy.
Illustrated Lakeland Journals: Complete Edition
(Collins, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C8864
Keywords: 0004122631, Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, literature, poetry, nineteenth century, journals, woman writer, women writers, Lake District, Britain, British, England, English, history, Grasmere, countryside, rural, William Wordsworth, journals, Dorothy Wordsworth's journals, Cumbrian, Cumbria, nineteenth century, Georgian, regency, diaries, diary, diarists, women
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Westall, Oliver M., ed.
Windermere in the Nineteenth Century:
(CentreNW Regional Studies, Lancaster Uni, new and revised edition, 1991).
Paperback. New book, fine. 62pp. Order No. NSBK-A4730
Keywords: 0901272884, Windermere, Britain, British, England, English, social history, Lakes, Lake District, Cumbria, nineteenth century, Victorian, tourism, tourist, tourists, holidays, day-trips, outings, outing, tourist trade, rural society, Lancaster University, Centre for North West Regional Studies, Lakeland, the lakes, Cumbrian
Price £2.50.
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Porter, Valerie.
Yesterday's Countryside: Country Life as it Really Was
(David & Charles, rpt, 2003).
Hardback. Slight bump top edge, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. Large format. 319pp. Order No. NSBK-A15126
Keywords: 0715309684, countryside, country, history, agrarian, rural, farming, farms, country markets, social history
Price £17.99.
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Hilton, R.H.
The Decline of Serfdom in Medieval England:
(Macmillan, rpt, 1970).
Studies in Economic History Series. Paperback. Good. 72pp. Order No. NSBK-A5116
Keywords: serfs, serfdom, peasant, peasants, peasantry, unfree, land, landholding, strip farming, medieval, Middle Ages, Britain, British, England, English, class, tenure, tenures, leasehold, demography, demographic, farms, rural
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Stinchcombe, Owen.
Lucky to Survive: Centenary History of Gotherington School
(Chameleon Press, 1981).
Paperback. Some soiling / light splattering to covers, a small tear to base of front cover, otherwise good condition. 119pp. Order No. NSBK-A14098
Keywords: B000QIWPJ0, Gotherington School, schools, Gloucestershire, rural, education, elementary schools, school histories, primary schools, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, board schools, Cheltenham, primary education, Victorian, twentieth century, teaching
Price £19.99.
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Aronson, Hugh.
Our Village Homes: Present Conditions and Suggested Remedies
(Thomas Murby, 1913).
With a preface by Lord Henry Bentinck. Hardback. Cloth rather soiled, some rubbing / fraying to extremities, otherwise a good solid copy. x + 150pp. Order No. NSBK-A13844
Keywords: B001IVIPUM, villages, village, history, town planning, housing, houses, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, housing schemes, social history, housing conditions, homes, rural areas, countryside, health, rural depopulation, agriculture, labourers' cottages, cottage, Hugh Aronson, social conditions, architecture, house building
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Gilbey, Walter.
The Old English War-horse: Or the Great Horse as it Appears, at Intervals, in Contemporary Coins and Pictures During the Centuries of its Development into the Shire-horse. With Notes
(Vinton, 1888).
Two dates in the margins of the book have sadly been crossed out in ink. Text is otherwise not annotated, but there is some light foxing / soiling on some pages, not affecting legibility. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. Boards darkened / thumbed, with fraying to spine edges. A little cracking internally at spine, else good. 23pp. Order No. NSBK-A14314
Keywords: B000875WPI, horses, shire-horses, shires, war-horses, equestrian, history, rural, Victorian, coins, illustrations, agriculture, antiquarian
Price £48.00.
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Sutton, Alan, ed.
Cotswold Tales:
(Alan Sutton, ?).
Illustrated. Hardback. Ex library, lacks publishing details page, very good in dustwrapper. xiv + 242pp. Order No. NSBK-A2593
Keywords: 0862999618, Cotswold, Cotswolds, agrarian history, rural life, village life, rural, Victorian, tales, Britain, British, England, English, history
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