Rossiter, Jenny.
Nobler and Better Things: Octavia Hill's Life and Work
(Octavia, 2012).
Paperback. Light edgewear, otherwise very good. 66pp. Order No. NSBK-C15628
Keywords: 9780957307308, Octavia Hill, booklets, housing, urban, open spaces, Victorian, London, slums, social history, women's history
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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
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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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Leinarte, Dalia, ed.
Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality: Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945 - 1970
(Rodopi, 2010).
On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, & Moral Imagination in the Baltics. Paperback. Very good. 234pp. Order No. NSBK-A15105
Keywords: 9789042030626, Lithuanian Women, Lithuania, Baltics, history, women, Soviet, Russian, Russia
Price £35.00.
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Anon, .
Life at the Cape A Hundred Years Ago:
(Centaur (Pty) Ltd, 1983).
With contemporary illustrations selected from the work of Thomas Bowler. Covers the years 1861-2 in a series of vignettes which first appeared in the Cape Monthly magazine. Chapters include first impressions of people and scenery, Camps Bay, excursion on Table Mountain, Christmas festivities at Wynberg and Newlands, hospitality at Constantia, a picnic at Kalk Bay, a State Ball, Stellenbosch, Wellington and the Paarl. Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly worn dustwrapper. 119pp. Order No. NSBK-C3900
Keywords: 0908379471, Cape Town, South Africa, Table Mountain, autobiographies, autobiography, women, woman, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Wynberg, Newlands, Constantia, Kalk Bay, Stellenbosch, Wellington, Paarl, Berg River
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Peabody, Francis Greenwood.
Education for Life: The Story of Hampton Institute
(Doubleday, Page and Co, 1920).
Told in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the school. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, boards rather worn and frayed, splitting internally at spine (front and back); a good reading copy only. xxiv + 393pp. Order No. NSBK-A6598
Keywords: B00088UQU8, Hampton Institute, education, educational, twentieth century, Samuel Chapman Armstrong, nineteenth century, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, social history, schools
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Wilson, Barbara Ker, ed.
Everyone Mattered: The Life and Times of Dame Kitty Anderson
(The Chandos Press, 2003).
Paperback. New book, fine. 198pp. Order No. NSBK-C6864
Keywords: 0954531108, Dame Kitty Anderson, education, educational, schools, schooling, NCLS, Royal Holloway College, headmistress, headmistresses, teaching, teachers, women and work, women's work, childhood, children, twentieth century, Dames, Founder's Day, Margaret Ghilchik, Joan Clanchy, Olive Mellor, Erica Brostoff, schooldays, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, Kay Moore, Caroline M Barron, Katharine McMahon, Ann Thomas, Janet Sondheimer, women's education
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Huggett, Frank E.
Life Below Stairs: Domestic Servants in England from Victorian Times
(Book Club, 1977).
Many illustrations. Hardback. Good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C1822
Keywords: 0719533813, domestic service, servant, service, women's work, women's history, Britain, British, history, England, English, Victorian
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Troubridge, Laura.
Life Amongst the Troubridges: Journals of a Young Victorian 1873-1884
(John Murray, 1966).
Edited by Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson. Hardback. A little foxing to page edges, otherwise good in soiled, edge-worn dw. 195pp. Order No. NSBK-C6914
Keywords: 0719514282, Laura Troubridge, women writers, woman writer, women's writing, literature, literary, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, journals, Colonel Sir Thomas St Vincent Troubridge, Runcton, Norfolk, Britain, British, England, English, pastelists, painters, artists, Queen Victoria, history
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Rooper, T.G.
School and Home Life: Essays and Lectures on Current Educational Topics
(A. Brown and Sons, 1899).
Hardback. Light wear to edges and a few splashes to back board, otherwise a good+ copy with minor annotation, mainly to margins. 479pp. Order No. NSBK-A7695
Keywords: B00088SERU, education, educational, essays, T. G. Rooper, social history, schools, schooling, teachers, teaching, training, elementary schools, children, child, childhood, Britain, British, England, English, Yorkshire, school boards, inspectors, schools inspectors, school inspector, technical schools, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th
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