Ouvry, Elinor Southwood.
Extracts from Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1864 - 1911:
(Adelphi Book Shop, London, 1933).
Foreword by Neville Chamberlain. Card covers. Spine darkened, edges of covers slightly chipped / slightly curled, some chipping to spine, internally very good. iii + 64pp. Order No. NSBK-C4295
Keywords: B001QVTYT0, open spaces, housing, housing management, house, houses, Octavia Hill, London, philanthropy, women, woman, philanthropist, philanthropists, town planning, social history, welfare, towns, city, cities, fellow workers, fellow-workers, housing reformers, housing reformer, slum, slums, property, poor, poverty, nineteenth century, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century
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Anderson, Mosa.
Henry Joseph Wilson: Fighter for Freedom, 1833 - 1914
(James Clarke, 1953).
Foreword by Lord Pethick-Lawrence. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings. A little wear to edges, otherwise very good. 86pp. Order No. NSBK-A13638
Keywords: B000W6QBW8, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, biographies, biography, Henry Joseph Wilson, Josephine Butler, reformers, social reform, Holmfirth, social welfare, Ireland, Opium Commission, Home Rule, Contagious Diseases Acts, Lord Pethick-Lawrence, politics, political, Victorian, Edwardian, 19th century, nineteenth century
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Hill, Octavia.
Our Common Land:
(Macmillan, first edition, 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 £95.00.
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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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Working Man's Friend Periodical, .
The Working Man's Friend and Family Instructor:
(John Cassell).
14 unbound pamphlets / issues. Weeks ending: March 16th 1850; July 13th 1850; July 20th 1850; July 27th 1850; October 5th 1850; October 26th 1850; January 4th 1851; February 15th 1851; February 22nd 1851; March 1st 1851; March 8th 1851; March 15th 1851; March 22nd 1851; March 29th 1851. Disbound pamphlets. Darkened / browned with natural ageing, some soiling, otherwise good. Unbound issues of the magazine. pp. Order No. NSBK-A13130
Keywords: class, Britain, British, England, English, working class, working classes, magazines, magazine, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, working men, literacy, knowledge, periodicals, working class consciousness, Exhibition of 1851, pamphlets
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Porter, Susan L. ed.
Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts
(Mass UP, 1996).
Paperback. Very good. viii + 240pp. Order No. NSBK-C8449
Keywords: 1558490051, women, woman, women's history, Commonwealth, American, USA, United States, family, children, social changes, nineteenth century, Victorian, womanhood, gender, ethnicity, race, class, jobs, employment, employees, employers, families, sisterhood, women's studies, Massachusetts, Boston, Bostonians
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Garden, Graeme.
A Sense of the Past:
(Ward Lock, 1985).
With Graham Nown. Hardback. Very good in slightly worn dustwrapper. 124pp. Order No. NSBK-A6479
Keywords: 0706363450, history, photographs, shops, buildings, local, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, swimming baths, graveyards, pubs, packaging, advertising, popular, Victorian, shopping, food, spas, family, Portsmouth, railways, commericals
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Bolt, Rodney.
As Good as God, As Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson
(Atlantic Books, 2011).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xxii + 362pp. Order No. NSBK-C16028
Keywords: 9781843548614, hall, Mary Benson, biography, biographies, Bensons, literature, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, history
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Neale, R. S.
Class in English History, 1680-1850:
(Basil Blackwell, 1981).
Paperback. Very good+. vi + 250pp. Order No. NSBK-A12541
Keywords: 0631130489, class, class system, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, classes, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, Victorian, century
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Roby, John.
Traditions of Lancashire: Volume II
(John Heywood, 6th edit.).
Illustrated.With an introduction by George Milner. Volume II only. Hardback. Boards worn and soiled, otherwise good+. 443pp. Order No. NSBK-D13733
Keywords: B002UA2PJ2,Lancashire, traditions, heritage, county, counties, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, eighteenth, seventeenth, Volume II only, 6th edition
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