James, Louis.
Fiction for the Working Man, 1830 - 50: A Study of the Literature Produced for the Working Classes in Early Victorian Urban England
(Penguin, rpt, 1974).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. xviii + 261pp. Order No. NSBK-A8755
Keywords: 014060037X, fiction, class, working class, working classes, nineteenth century, 19th century, workers, working men, social history, class consciousness, reading habits, reading matter, Britain, British, England, English, popular literature, Victorian, popular fiction, publishing, popular culture, history, urbanisation
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Thompson, E.P. and Yeo, Eileen.
The Unknown Mayhew: Selections from the "Morning Chronicle" 1849 - 50
(Penguin, rpt, 1984).
Paperback. Light creasing to spine, covers slightly yellowed. Newspaper review pasted to inside of cover, else good. 592pp. Order No. NSBK-A14943
Keywords: 0140432302, Henry Mayhew, Morning Chronicle, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, social investigations, poor, poverty, London, working class, working-class, classes, trades
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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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Proud, E. Dorothea.
Welfare Work: Employers' Experiments for Improving Working Conditions in Factories
(G. Bell, 3rd edition, 1918).
Foreword by David Lloyd-George. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers. some wear to edges, otherwise good. xx + 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C6760
Keywords: B000856JQQ, welfare, Great War, First World War, World War I, workers, working, factory system, factories, working conditions, women and work, working women, David Lloyd-George, social experiments, history, Catherine Helen Spence, E. Dorothea Proud, pay, wages, economic, economy, industry, industrial, twentieth century, antiquarian, factory legislation, factory labour, factory girls, labor
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Butler, Josephine E.
The Education and Employment of Women:
(Portrayer, 2003 reprint of May 1868 text).
No 6 in the Open Archive Occasional Series. Booklet. New book, fine. 37pp. Order No. NSBK-A5503
Keywords: B001C3XFSI, Josephine E. Butler, education, employment, governesses, governess, social history, labour, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, employees, women teachers, women's rights, Britain, British, England, English, equal pay, equality, gender roles, working women, women workers, wages, labor, schools, school, schooling, low pay, inequality, patriarchy, spinsters, spinsterhood, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, new title, workers, Open Archive Occasional Series, booklet
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Buckley, V. C.
Good Times: At Home and Abroad Between the Wars
(Thames and Hudson, 1979).
With 197 illustrations. Paperback. Very good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A5740
Keywords: 050027178X, wras, interwar, homes, abroad, leisure, entertainment, schooldays, schools, schooling, London, motors, motoring, pastimes, hobbies, dining, First World War, Great War, World War One, World War Two, World War Two, World War II, twentieth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English
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Walton, John K. & Walvin, James, eds.
Leisure in Britain, 1780-1939:
(MUP, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, otherwise good+ in slightly faded, slightly creased dustwrapper. 241pp. Order No. NSBK-A2320
Keywords: 071900912X, leisure, entertainment, social history, recreation, Victorian, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, twentieth century, England, English, Britain, British, hobbies, working class, working classes, middle class, middle classes, class, John Walton, Jim Walvin, James Walvin, Walton, Leisure in Britain
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Corporation of Nottingham, .
Records of the Borough of Nottingham: Being a Series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corporation of Nottingham. Vol IX. 1836 - 1900
(Corporation of Nottingham, 1956).
Hardback. Light mottling to cloth, otherwise very good in chipped, slightly worn, lightly soiled dustwrapper. 462pp. Order No. NSBK-A14074
Keywords: B001M5CF0U, records, volume nine, 9, IX, Nottingham, borough, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Nottinghamshire, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th century, social history, housing, town, urban, urbanisation, towns, markets, Nottinghamshire, schools, public health, sewers, police, buildings, Midlands
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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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Phillips, Barbara.
A Tottenham Childhood:
(Barbara Phillips, Mapro Publishing, rpt, 1991).
Booklet. Very good. 40pp. Order No. NSBK-C15809
Keywords: booklet, booklets, Tottenham Childhood, girlhood, girls, children, London, schools, education, schooling, autobiography, autobiographies, social history, stored with booklets
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