Brittain, Vera.
Poems of the War and After:
(Victor Gollancz, first edition, 1934).
Ex-Wigan Free Public Library. A signed first edition copy. Inscription reads: 'With best wishes to Wigan, and Wigan Public Library from Vera Brittain. Wigan, December 7th, 1936'. Scarce, for the collector. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps.(Wigan Library). Cream cloth soiled, lacks spine cover, but contents firm, solid. Collectible though a working copy. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-C16020
Keywords: Vera Brittain, First World War, Great War, poems, verse, poetry, signed, women, women's history, social history, grief, mourning, signed editions, first editions, first edition, World War I, Wigan, Wigan Free Public Library, Lancashire, interwar, inter war, 1930s, thirties, antiquarian, collectible, literature, women writers, pacifism, pacifists
Price £150.00.
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Clark, Anna.
The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class
(Rivers Oram, 1995).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xv + 416pp. Order No. NSBK-C2179
Keywords: 9781854890757, gender, British, Britain, class, working class, marriage, courtship, Glasgow, Lancashire, London, factories, textiles, artisans, labour, labor, factory, social history
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Addy, John, ed.
The Diary of Henry Prescott, LLB., Deputy Registrar of Chester Diocese: Volume 1, 28 March 1704 - 24 March 1711
(Alan Sutton Publishing, 1987, Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire).
Hardback. Very good in slightly torn, slightly faded dustwrapper. xxx + 303pp. Order No. NSBK-A10989
Keywords: 0902593161, diary, diaries, Henry Precott, lawyer, LLB, eighteenth century, 18th, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
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Crompton, Samuel.
Samuel Crompton Centenary: Bolton, June 7th- 10th 1927. Official Souvenir
(Tillotsons, Bolton, 1927).
Hardback. Original pictorial boards darkened and a little soiled, spine ends and edges worn, otherwise good and firm. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A16063
Keywords: Bolton, social history, Samuel Crompton, Lancashire, textiles, mills, cotton industry, production, North West, industry, spinning mule, stored under Crompton
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O'Brien, P.
Warrington Academy, 1757-86: its Predecessors & Successors
(Owl Books, 1989).
Hardback. Very good in slightly dented dustwrapper. 164pp. Order No. NSBK-A1889
Keywords: 095143330X, Britain, British, England, English, history, Warrington, Lancashire, education, rational education, Warrington Academy, nonconformity, nonconformists, Dissent, North West, Lucy Aikin, John Aiken, Anna Laetitia Aikin, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Dissenters, Unitarian, Unitarians, Unitarianism, theology, Joseph Priestley, John Aikin, Lucy Aikin, Anna Laetitia Aikin, Mrs Barbauld, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Manchester
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Roberts, Elizabeth, ed.
A History of Linen in the North West:
(Centre for North West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster, 1998).
Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 118pp. Order No. NSBK-A2955
Keywords: 1862200645, flax, linen, cloth, factory industry, factory, Manchester, North Lancashire, Cumbria, Kirkham, Langdale, _UL, Britain, British, England, English, history, Lancaster University, Centre for North West Regional Studies
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Williams, Peter and Hayes, Janice, eds.
Warrington as it Was:
(Hendon Publishing Co Ltd, 5th impression, 1986).
Paperback. Very good. 40pp. Order No. NSBK-A14121
Keywords: 086067052X, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Warrington, Lancashire, Cheshire, North West England, industry, shops, retail, old photographs, retailing
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Parkinson, Anne C.
A History of Catholicism in the Furness Peninsula, 1127-1997:
(Centre for North-West Regional Studies, 1998).
Paperback. New book, fine. xiii + 114pp. Order No. NSBK-A5409
Keywords: 1862200556, Catholicism, Catholic, Catholics, religion, religious, regional, Furness Peninsula, Centre for North West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancashire North of the Sands, Cartmel, Lake District, Irish immigration, faith, The Society of Jesus, English Catholic Heirarchy, Britain, British, England, English, history, Cumbria, John Christopherson, Ulverston, Marian, Bishop of Chester, John Hiddleston, Thomas West, S. J., Dr Everard
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Hanley, Keith and Milbank, eds.
From Lancaster to the Lakes: The Region in Literature
(CNWRS, 1992).
Paperback. Fine. vii + 111pp. Order No. NSBK-A12878
Keywords: 0901800031, Centre for North West Regional Studies, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors, Lancaster, Lancashire, regions, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Roberts, Elizabeth.
Women and Families: an Oral History, 1940-1970
(Blackwell, 1995).
Paperback. Spine creased, minor pencil annotation, otherwise good. xi + 277pp. Order No. NSBK-C1563
Keywords: 9780631196136, women's history, oral history, women, North-West Regional Studies Centre, families, Lancaster, Barrow, Preston, Lancashire, social history, working class, domesticity, neighbourhood, community, Britain, British, England, English, history, family
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