Wojtczak, Helena.
Mary Raleigh Richardson: The Suffragette Arsonist Who Slashed the Rokeby Venus
(Hastings Press, 2025).
Signed by the author. This first book-length biography of the militant suffragette Mary Raleigh Richardson reveals for the first time her true identity, ancestry, childhood and education, as well as her surprising - and exciting - international travels before she became embroiled in the suffrage struggle. During her time as a militant Mary was arrested nine times. Prepared to die for the cause, she adopted the hunger strike each time she was imprisoned, and was forcibly fed countless times. Her hunger strike medal boasted more bars than that of any other suffragette - something of which she remained proud for the rest of her life. Her most infamous deed was to use a cheap meat cleaver to inflict several gashes into Velasquez's Rokeby Venus, a world-famous and priceless painting. In a lesser-known and yet equally sensational attack she burned down a historic mansion near Hampton Court. During the war she continued to work for the vote, allying herself with both Sylvia Pankhurst's ELFS and the United Suffragists. Having joined the Labour Party she twice stood for Parliament, and in 1933 was briefly a member of Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Finding it did not align with her values she returned to socialism for the rest of her life. In retirement she penned Laugh a Defiance, a memoir of her suffrage days. The work is essential reading for suffrage scholars and those keen to explore the lives of the individual personalities within the militant movement. Paperback. Fine. 320pp. Order No. NSBK-C15912
Keywords: 9781904109600, signed by the author, suffragettes, Votes for Women, biography, biographies, social history, women's history, Mary Raleigh Richardson, hunger strikes, militancy,suffragette, Canada, Canadian politics, arson, militant
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Irish University Press, .
Focal Aspects of the Industrial Revolution, 1825-1842:
(Irish UP, 1971).
Hardback. Very good+. 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A10859
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Powell, C.G.
An Economic History of the British Building Industry, 1815-1979:
(The Architectural Press, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. ix + 211pp. Order No. NSBK-A13527
Keywords: 085139194X, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, building society, building societies
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Hadfield, Charles.
British Canals: An Illustrated History
(David and Charles, 1974).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, ex library with usual library markings. pages 279-290 partially detached, otherwise good in faded dustwrapper. 356pp. Order No. NSBK-A7982
Keywords: 0715367005, Britain, British, canals, waterways, water, eighteenth century, 18th, 19th, transport, goods, Birmingham, Basingstoke, Pontcysyllte, canal mania, seas, ports, railways, Manchester Ship Canal, borrowed by RAS
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Davies, A. J.
To Build a New Jerusalem: The Labour Movement from the 1880s to the 1990s
(Michael Joseph, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in faded dustwrapper. vi + 344pp. Order No. NSBK-A8529
Keywords: 0718133943, labour labor, politics, political, Labour Party, Britain, British, England, English, history, organisations, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 19th, 20th, socialism, socialists
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Reynolds, Stephen.
A Poor Man's House: with an introduction by Roy Hatterseley
(OUP, 1982).
Paperback. Good. xviii + 205pp. Order No. NSBK-A15501
Keywords: 0192813269, poverty, Sidmouth, Devon, fishermen, fisherman, cottage, cottages, Britain, British, England, English, Edwardian
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Sinclair, Catherine.
Modern Society: or, The March of Intellect. The Conclusion of Modern Accomplishments
(William Whyte, Edinburgh, rpt, 1838).
Hardback. Original leather with gilt embossed decoration, and all edges gilt. Some wear to edges, especially at spine. A little shakey internally at spine but overall good, solid. viii + 470pp. Order No. NSBK-C15843
Keywords: Catherine Sinclair, accomplishments, ninteenth century, women's history, antiquarian, novel, morality, novels, literature, Scotland, Scottish
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Weintraub, Stanley.
The Last Great Cause: the Intellectuals and the Spanish Civil War
(W.H. Allen, 1968).
Hardback. Page edges and dustwrapper slightly soiled, otherwise very good, a sturdy copy. x + 340pp. Order No. NSBK-A15831
Keywords: 9780491001212, Spanish Civil War, Spain, Orwell, Auden, Hemingway, intellectuals
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Seaton, Jamie and Jessie.
The Seaton Collection: Exclusive Knitting Designs by Jamie and Jessie Seaton
(Century, 1989).
Photography by Frank Herholdt. Hardback. Spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-G10511
Keywords: 0712623671, knitting, sweaters, jumpers, knitters, designs, Jamie Seaton, Jessie Seaton, Britain, British, England, English, history, patterns, twentieth century, 20th
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Thompson, Laurence.
The Enthusiasts: A Biography of John and Katharine Bruce Glasier
(Victor Gollancz, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in rubbed and faded dustrwapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A312
Keywords: 9780575006553, John Bruce Glasier, Katharine Bruce Glasier, socialism, biography, biographies, labour movement, labor, socialists, history, Scotland, Scottish, ILP, Independent Labour Party, Britain, British, nineteenth century, twentieth century, poltics, political, Keir Hardie, Ramsay MacDonald
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