Hill, Octavia.
Thirty Years' Work:
(Privately Printed).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow Workers were printed for private circulation to her supporters. She preferred to write to supporters individually, but by the 1870s the scope and scale of her work made this impossible. The importance of the Letters is that they cover the whole range of her activities: housing (including her work for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners), open spaces (including the founding of the National Trust), cultural philanthropy, the Women's University Settlement, the Poor Law Commission and the founding of the Cadets. Octavia disliked publicising her work, except in so far as she had to appeal for funds. The Letters therefore contain detailed information about way in which she handled the various aspects of her work that are not available elsewhere. The volume Thirty Years' Work is a bound collection of all of Octavia Hill's Letters to her Fellow Workers between 1872 (the first letter) and 1900. There are twenty-eight letters as one letter covers 1884 and 1885. All letters contain the accounts for the year apart from that for 1877. Also included in the volume are the two accounts of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment (1871 & 1872). Copies of the Letters are extremely rare and copies of the reports of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment even rarer. The letters take the form of simple paper pamphlets of between eight and twenty pages. A number of the letters are inscribed in Octavia's hand to her sister Gertrude who in 1875 had married Charles Lewes, the son of George Henry Lewes and stepson of George Eliot. Page size: 185mm x 120mm. Volume bound in attractive blue boards 190mm x 120mm. Further details and images available on request. Hardback. A small number of sheets - three or four - have become detached from the stitching. Internally, the spine is pulling away / partially detached - otherwise good, in blue boards. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15626
Keywords: social history, housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, town planning, urban history, open spaces, Britain, England, British, English, history, Octavia Hill's letters, nineteenth century, papers, works, garden cities, period sources, pamphlets, booklets, Women's University Settlement, Cadets, Poor Law Commission, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, Gertrude Hill, Gertrude Lewes, inscribed, inscriptions, association items, antiquarian
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Pearce, Joseph P.
A Popular Excursion Through Ancient Liverpool:
(Philip, Son and Nephew, 3rd enlarged edition, 1946).
Illustrated. Booklet. Paperback. Some creasing / soiling to covers and small stain to spine area, a slight tear to rear map, otherwise good. 34pp. Order No. NSBK-A14744
Keywords: B0017D0ND8, Liverpool, Liverpudlian, history, excursion, old Liverpool, Merseyside, pictures, booklet
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Royal College of Nursing, Molly Case.
Album: It May Be for Sometime, it May be Forever
(RCN, 2017).
Poetry anthology inspired by ten nurses who kept scrapbooks during World War I. Paperback. Very good. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-C15688
Keywords: Molly Case, Royal College of Nursing, World War I, First World War, nursing, medicine, nurses, women and work, history, booklets
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Butler, Josephine E.
The Education and Employment of Women:
(Portrayer, 2003 reprint of May 1868 text).
No 6 in the Open Archive Occasional Series. Booklet. New book, fine. 37pp. Order No. NSBK-A5503
Keywords: B001C3XFSI, Josephine E. Butler, education, employment, governesses, governess, social history, labour, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, employees, women teachers, women's rights, Britain, British, England, English, equal pay, equality, gender roles, working women, women workers, wages, labor, schools, school, schooling, low pay, inequality, patriarchy, spinsters, spinsterhood, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, new title, workers, Open Archive Occasional Series, booklet
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Shaw, Jenny.
Intellectual Property, Representative Experience and Mass-Observation:
(Uni Sussex, 1998).
Booklet. Good. 12pp. Order No. NSBK-A5235
Keywords: 0850870402, Mass Observation, Mass-Observation, social investigations, surveys, twentieth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English, sociology, Mass Observation team, working classes, working class, 20th century, social research, Mass-Observation Archive, methodology, research, methodological, Sussex University, Occasional Papers, group experience, Jenny Shaw, groups, booklet
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Lemmen, Hans Van.
Victorian Tiles:
(Shire Publications Ltd, rpt., 1986).
In booklet form. Paperback. Good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A6018
Keywords: 0852635486, Victorian, tiles, tiling, art, artists, buildings, architecture, urban, decorative, decoration, history, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, interior design, designs, cities, city, towns, booklet
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Ministry of Information, Roof over Britain.
The Official Story of Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences, 1939-1942:
(HMSO, 1943).
In booklet form. Paperback. Light edge wear, otherwise good. 88pp. Order No. NSBK-A6072
Keywords: B000HKR8Q2, Britain, British, England, English, wars, warfare, anti-aircraft, planes, aircraft, aeroplanes, defences, Second World War, World War II, World War Two, airforce, booklet
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Christian, Roy.
Well-Dressing in Derbyshire:
(Derbyshire Countryside Ltd, 1983).
Booklet. Slight bumping to edges, sun-fading & wear to spine area, otherwise good+. 24pp. Order No. NSBK-A13313
Keywords: 0851000843, well dressing, village wells, rituals, popular art, popular culture, religion, community, communal, Derbyshire, history, wells, well-dressing, drought, religious, booklet
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Joint Foreign Committee Board Deputies, British Jews, Anglo-Jewish Association.
The Persecution of the Jews in Germany:
(Board British Jews, 1933).
Booklet. Paperback. Covers soiled and chipped at edges, otherwise good. 51pp. Order No. NSBK-A15047
Keywords: B0014L7FZW, booklets, booklet, Joint Foreign Committee of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and Anglo Jewish Association, antisemitism, persecution, Hitler, Nazi Germany, Third Reich
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Hill, John M. ed.
Canal Boats: A Short Guide
(BCNS, n.d).
In booklet form. Paperback. Covers slightly yellowed, otherwise good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A6119
Keywords: canals, waterways, transport, boats, ships, shipping, travel, rivers, water, canal boats, booklet
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