Holbrook-Jones, Mike.
Supremacy and Subordination of Labour: The Hierarchy of Work in the Early Labour Movement
(Heinemann Educational, 1982).
Hardback. Very good in spine-faded dustwrapper. xi + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A8640
Keywords: 0435824171, class, classes, class structure, heirarchy, social, society, working-class, working-class, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian, work, workers, employers, employees, employment, jobs, labour, labor, miners, coal, spinners, engineers, men, man, Maxist, Marxism, industrial revolution, labour history, labor history, Britain, British, England, English, history, sociology, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists
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Harman, Chris; Clark, Dave, et al.
Education, Capitalism and the Student Revolt:
(International Socialism, 1968).
Booklet. Some browning to covers, minor annotation, otherwise good. 72pp. Order No. NSBK-A15986
Keywords: B001KJSU0W, education, protest, student revolts, social history, capitalism, pamphlets, students, higher education
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Symes, R. A.
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings: a Guide for Family Historians
(Pen and Sword, 2016).
Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle sat down and wrote a poem, or a memoir? Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together and managing their collective affairs. With industrialisation, improved education, and far more geographical mobility, British people of all classes were writing for new purposes, with new implements, in new styles, using new modes of expression and new methods of communication (e.g. telegrams and postcards). Our ancestors had an itch for scribbling from the most basic marks (initials, signatures and graffiti on objects as varied as trees, rafters and window ledges), through more emotionally-charged kinds of writing such as letters and diaries, to more creative works such as poetry and even fiction. This book shows family historians how to get the most out of documents written by their ancestors and, therefore, how better to understand the people behind the words. Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-A15529
Keywords: 9781473855434, family, geneaology, family trees, geneaological, diaries, social history, family historians, ancestors, literacy, correspondence, journals, autobiographies, signatures, commonplace books
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Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
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Berry, Mary Frances.
Why ERA Failed: Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution
(Indiana UP, 1986).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in dw. ix + 142pp. Order No. NSBK-C6126
Keywords: 0253365376, ERA, women's rights, politics, USA, America, American, USA, United States, women's history, women's movement, Constitution, suffrage, social reform, congress, Equal Rights Amendment, black history, Civil rights, child labour, labor, woman suffrage
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Ghilchik, Margaret.
The Fellowship of Women: Two Hundred Surgical Lives
(Smith-Gordon & Co Ltd, 2011).
The Fellowship of Women recounts the struggle of women to be accepted as surgical Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In describing the professional careers and private lives of the first two hundred women to become Fellows from 1911 to 1970 - their practice continuing into that of their successors on into the present - Margaret Ghilchik, herself one of the number, adds a dimension to the social and medical history of the period and to the inspiring story of women's emancipation in the face of male surgeon's obstinacy. The author emphasizes the effect of the World Wars, when the role of women as surgeons could not be checked, but suggests that in modern times the numbers of women Fellows may have been less than expected. Paperback. New book, fine. xiv + 323pp. Order No. NSBK-C15241
Keywords: 9781854632463, women surgeons, women and work, professional women, medicine, medical, history, social history, Margaret Ghilchik, occupations, higher education, surgery, training, surgical, Fellows, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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John, Angela V.
The Actors' Crucible: Port Talbot and the Making of Burton, Hopkins, Sheen and All the Others
(Parthian, 2015).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xvi + 205pp. Order No. NSBK-D15434
Keywords: 9781910409947, Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Sheen, Port Talbot, history, acting, drama, actors, Wales, Welsh, dramatic, social history
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Rowbotham, Judith.
Good Girls Make Good Wives: Guidance for Girls in Victorian Fiction
(Blackwell, 1989).
Paperback. Some sunfading to covers, otherwise good+. viii + 301pp. Order No. NSBK-C4162
Keywords: 0631163964, wives, wife, girls, education, fiction, literature, Judith Rowbotham, Victorian, nineteenth century, childhood, middle class, middle classes, reading habits, domesticity, private sphere, separate spheres, femininity, feminine, novels, L.T. Meade, history, social control, Charlotte Mary Yonge, women
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Bell, E. Moberly.
Josephine Butler: Flame of Fire
(Constable, 1962).
Hardback. Some marking / soiling to cloth and rubbing to edges, otherwise good in soiled, worn and incomplete dustwrapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-C187
Keywords: B0000CLMAE, social reform, prostitution, women's history, Josephine Butler, social purity, Contagious Diseases Act, Victorian, nineteenth century, Ladies' National Association, Liverpool, Winchester, Henry Wilson, J.B. Stansfeld, W.T. Stead
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Phelps, Humphrey, ed.
Forest of Dean: England of One Hundred Years Ago. Photograph Collection
(Alan Sutton, 1992).
Paperback. Oversized book. A little wear to edges, otherwise very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A13331
Keywords: 0750903031, Forest of Dean, history, sepia, photographs, photography, images, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 19th century, prints, Gloucestershire, rural, Cinderford, Coleford, Littledean, social history
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