Carpenter, Mary.
Reformatory Schools: For the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes and for Juvenile Offenders
(Woburn Press, Augustus M. Kelley, new impression, 1969).
A re-issue of the 1851 text. Hardback. Very good in spine-faded, lightly soiled dustwrapper. xi + 353pp. Order No. NSBK-C13605
Keywords: B0010Y287S, crime, reformatory schools, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, childhood, education, children, schooling, Mary Carpenter, juvenile offenders, poverty, destitution, social history, free day schools, ragged schools, gaols, prisons
Price £32.00.
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Jenkins, Keith.
Re-Thinking History:
(Routledge, rpt., 1991).
Paperback. With newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good. ix + 77pp. Order No. NSBK-A9452
Keywords: 0415067782, history, historical, history of ideas, methodology, Britain, British, England, English, theory, historians
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Three Modern Pankhurst Badges, .
The Pankhursts: Photographic Images of Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst on Three Attractive Plated Badges
(Portrayer Publisher, 2004).
3 X badges with a high gloss finish and secure safety-pin fittings to the rear. Featuring period images (photographic) of the faces of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst and daughters Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst. Circular-shaped. 25mm diameter. Presented inside a small poly-bag. Badges. New, in fine condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-C8753
Keywords: Votes For Women, suffrage, woman suffrage, pin, badge, pin back, pinback, pins, suffragette, suffragettes, suffragist, suffragists, women, women's history, social history, Britain, British, England, English, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, jewellery, Sylvia Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, Christabel Pankhurst, the Pankhursts, Pankhurst, badges, Edwardian, Portrayer Publishers, suffragette ephemera
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Mitchell, David.
The Pankhursts:
(Edito-Service, 1970).
Hardback. Spine rubbed, otherwise very good. xi + 341pp. Order No. NSBK-C4185
Keywords: B0006C1KNI, Christabel Pankhurst, Sylvia Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, history, Edwardian, twentieth century, Votes for Women, suffrage, biography, biographies, English, England, Britain, British, politics, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU, Charlotte Despard, suffragettes, Pethick-Lawrence, socialism
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Nicholson, Mavis.
What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?: Women in World War II
(Chatto & Windus, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 264pp. Order No. NSBK-A8523
Keywords: 0701133562, war, Second World War, women, history, women's, World War II, Home Front, twentieth century, domestic front, land army, land girls, oral history, WAAF, wartime, wartime brides, widows, war effort, woman, female, social history
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Maurice, C. Edmund, ed.
Life of Octavia Hill: as Told in her Letters
(Macmillan, rpt, 1914).
Hardback. Some foxing to early pages, minor yellow highlighting to text, rubbing to edges and spine ends, otherwise a good solid copy. vii + 591pp. Order No. NSBK-C4485
Keywords: B01M9FUK1S, Octavia Hill, biography, biographies, autobiographies, autobiography, letters, housing, Victorian social reformers, reform, philanthropy, town planning, open spaces, settlements, dwellings, poverty, poor, paupers, pauperism, Britain, England, English, British, National Trust, commons, working class, working classes
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Waugh, Thomas.
The Clarion or the Bible:
(Charles H. Kelly, 2nd edit., n.d.).
In this scarce period source, Thomas Waugh attacks the Clarion Movement and in particular Robert Blatchford himself, whom he describes as "The Infidel". In the name of "Christian workers who have in the past sympathised with pure socialism", Waugh sets out to win back the hearts and minds of working men "whom 'The Clarion' has hit". Hardback. Small, some ink scorings on pg edges & 1st page of chapter 1 only, otherwise very good with gilt decorated boards. 136pp. Order No. NSBK-A5246
Keywords: B0008BTIQS, Clarion Club, Clarion Clubs, history, social history, bible, religious, scripture, temperance, socialism, socialist, socialists, Britain, British, England, English, Clarion Movement, socialist movements, Robert Blatchford, religion, Thomas Waugh, Rev Thomas Waugh, workers, working classes, Christian, Christian socialism, Christians, Christian socialists, infidelity, atheism
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Lillington, Kenneth, ed.
For Better For Worse: an Anthology of Courtship and Marriage
(Angus & Robertson, 1979).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. 157pp. Order No. NSBK-C3428
Keywords: 0207958262, courtship, marriage, social history, anthology, poems, prose, engagement, betrothal, literature, extracts, marital relations, weddings
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Walter, John.
Crowds and Popular Politics in Early Modern England:
(Manchester UP, 2006).
Hardback. Good in slightly faded dustwrapper. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A14499
Keywords: 0719074754, crowd studies, crowds, popular politics, history, social history, early modern, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, food riots, grain riots, Maldon, protest, English Civil War, enclosure, harvests, Midlands Rising, 16th century, seventeenth century, 17th century, sixteenth century
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Booth, Charles, ed.
Life and Labour of the People of London:
(Macmillan, 1892).
Volume III (3, Three): Blocks of Buildings, Schools and Immigration. Original edition. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, gilt lettering to spine, good+ condition, firm. 306pp. Order No. NSBK-A16073
Keywords: London, streets, Charles Booth, Charles Booth's London, metropolitan, social history, poverty, poor, class, population, demography, demographic, occupations, working classes, working class, working-class, neighbourhood, Britain, British, England, English, Booths, Booth, social investigations, surveys, urban history, labor, labour, life and labour, towns, town, city, cities, urbanisation, classification, statistical, statistics, school boards, education, housing, neighbours, inhabitants, respectability, blocks, London, antiquarian, buildings, schools, immigration, schooling, Victorian, nineteenth century
Price £42.00.
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