Hill, Octavia.
Our Common Land:
(Macmillan, 1877).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, some wear to spine, spine ends, edges and corners. Cloth a little marked / rubbed -else good / solid. vi + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-C6431
Keywords: B001P1SGF4, housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, town planning, urban history, open spaces, countryside, Britain, England, British, English, history, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment, district visiting, volunteer visitors, commons, charity, charities, COS, C.O.S., Charity Organisation Society
Price £120.00.
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Johnson, A. H.
The Disappearance of the Small Landowner: Ford Lectures 1909
(Oxford University Press/ Merlin, rpt., 1963).
Introduction by Dr Joan Thirsk. Includes fold out maps. Hardback. Godd + in tatty and torn dustwrapper. xiii + 164pp. Order No. NSBK-A13453
Keywords: B0000CLS2A, land, landowners, agriculture, agricultural, fields, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, seventeenth, sixteenth, fifteenth, fourteenth, medieval, mediaeval
Price £8.00.
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Naylor, Olive.
Kambi Bolongo: The Land of Roots
(Anchor, 1985).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly discoloured dustwrapper. 163pp. Order No. NSBK-A5702
Keywords: 0948016388, Kambi Bolongo, Bathurst, banjul, The Gambia, Africa, African, Methodist Mission, steamers, Kunte Kinte, Juffure, twentieth century
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Scott, Philippa.
Lucky Me:
(Kenilworth Press, 1990).
Illustrated by more than 90 photographs. The book is an evocation of the early life of Philippa Scott (nee Talbot-Ponsonby's) - her childhood in South Africa, school, climbing holidays, her time in the Land Army in World War II and a spell in Yugoslavia during the Cold War. She married Peter Scott in Reykjavik in 1951. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C5734
Keywords: 1872082114, Lucky Me, Philippa Scott, Philippa Talbot-Ponsonby, Land Army, Peter Scott, South Africa, World War Two, wars, Second World War, World War II, Britain, British, history, england, English, autobiography, autobiographical, memoirs, memoir, autobiographies, life history, life histories, women writers, Severn Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, Thjorsaver Expedition, Reykjavik
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Petavel, J. W.
Administrative Efficiency and What it Might Give Us: Reduced Military Expenditure with Increased Army Reserves, and the Solution of the Problems of the Unemployed, of Rehousing, and of Technical Education
(Swan Sonnenschein, 1906).
The Towns of the Future and Self-Supporting Armies. Hardback. Pages browned and a little brittle with age. First page detached. Ex-library with usual lib stamps, in library binding. Good. 58pp. Order No. NSBK-A13365
Keywords: B0006F9FZU, Edwardian, army, army reserves, militarism, military expenditure, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, unemployment, unemployed, rehousing, housing, technical education, administrative efficiency, conscription, social reform, houses, military, labour, land, towns, town planning
Price £28.00.
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Butt, J. and Clarke, I.F. eds.
The Victorians and Social Protest: A Symposium
(David and Charles/Archon, 1973).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 249pp. Order No. NSBK-A13449
Keywords: 071535776X, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, social protest, Robert Owen, O'Connor, Ireland, Irish, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Dickens, Self-Help, William Morris, Bernard Shaw, class, land
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Kerr, R. B.
Is Britain Over-Populated?:
(R. B. Kerr, 1927).
Paperback. Front cover detached. Spine chipped but contents firm, otherwise good. 118pp. Order No. NSBK-A14169
Keywords: B000866LDG, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, demographic, demography, resources, emigration, birth control, land, economy
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Baldwin, Nick.
An Old Motor Kaleidoscope of Farm Tractors:
(Marshall, Harris and Baldwin, 1977).
Illustrated with black and white photographs. Hardback. Spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A12183
Keywords: 906116015, motors, tractors, vehicles, twentieth century, technology, farms, farming, farmers, agricultural, land, agrarian, agriculture, country, countryside, rural
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Homans, George Caspar.
English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century:
(Harvard UP, 2nd printing, 1942).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, edges and corners worn and bumped, otherwise good and solid. xiv + 478pp. Order No. NSBK-A14534
Keywords: B0006EUAM8, English villagers, villages, thirteenth century, 13th century, medieval, mediaeval, Middle Ages, field system, fields, land, inheritance, open field system, enclosure, strips, parishes
Price £28.95.
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Brown, G. Sutton.
A Preliminary Plan for Lancashire:
(Lancashire County Council/Percy Lund, 1950).
With a preface by County Alderman, A. Bates and a foreword by County Councillor A. E, Higham. Includes three sets of planning maps in torn envelopes. (Land Availability: 4 maps, Land Use: 4 maps; Development Proposals: 2 maps - appear to be 2 maps missing?). Hardback. Ex library, boxed edition, some wear to cloth and fraying at spine, a good working copy. xv + 222pp. Order No. NSBK-A10083
Keywords: Lancashire, Lancashire County Council, preliminary plan, regions, Britain, British, England, English, geography, maps, plans, development, twentieth century, 20th, land use, land availability, development proposals
Price £18.00.
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