Bayly, Mary.
Ragged Homes: and How to Mend Them
(James Nisbet & Co, 1859).
Possibly a first edition. Impossible to be sure as one intro page is missing - the page between the preface and the opening of the text. Frontispiece also lacking. Ex library (Royal Edinburgh Infirmary) with usual library stamps and markings. Hardback. Ex library with usual stamps and markings, a firm copy. Original embossed royal blue boards, with attractive gilt decoation to the spine & front. Edges & corners worn. Good. viii + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-C16052
Keywords: poverty, poor, Victorian, social history, antiquarian, housing, homes, domesticitiy, nineteenth century
Price £95.00.
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Squire, Rose E.
Thirty Years in the Public Service: An Industrial Retrospect
(Nisbet and Co., 1927).
With a foreword by Sir Edward Troup. Hardback. Good+ in worn and rubbed boards. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A15550
Keywords: Britain, Britishm history, Rose E. Squire, industry, industrial, autobiography, letters, self-history, autobiographical, memoir, public service, civil seervice factory inspectors, female factory inspectors, women's history, woman, women factory inspectors, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, B000865E84, industry, industrial
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Mayhew, Henry.
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts. Volume 3
(Caliban Books, 1981).
Paperback. Spine lightly browned, otherwise very good. 277pp. Order No. NSBK-A13116
Keywords: 0904573222, Victorian, 1850, 19th century, nineteenth century, labour, poor, poverty, Henry Mayhew, social surveys, social investigations, sanitation, oral history, wages, sweated labour, poor law, employment, work, thieves, theft, robbery, London, tramps, vagrancy, lodging houses, housing, food, earnings, child labour, boot and shoe trade, beggars, asylums, clothes, boot and shoe makers
Price £19.95.
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Barnett, Anthony.
Iron Britannia: Why Parliament Waged Its Falklands War
(Allison and Busby, 1982).
Paperback. Good. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A12028
Keywords: 0850314933, Falklands, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, wars, warfare
Price £4.00.
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Morris, R. J.
Class and Class Consciousness in the Industrial Revolution, 1780 - 1850:
(Macmillan, rpt, 1988).
Paperback. Ex library with minimal library stamps, otherwise good. 79pp. Order No. NSBK-A6234
Keywords: 0333154541, class, class consciousness, industry, industrial, social history, Industrial Revolution, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Regency, Georgian, status, social theory, R.J. Morris, 18th century, 19th century
Price £5.00.
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Weightman, Gavin.
The Seaside:
(Collins & Brown, 1991).
Pictures from the Past Series. Paperback. Sticky mark to rear inner cover, wrinkling to base of rear pages, otherwise good. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A2949
Keywords: 185648131X, seaside, holidays, social history, photographs, sea, coast, resort, holiday, Britain, British, England, English, history, Scarborough, Brighton, Blackpool, day trips
Price £9.00.
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Hawkins, Kevin.
British Industrial Relations, 1945-1975:
(Barrie and Jenkins, 1976).
Hardback. Good with very minor ink annotation. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-A9909
Keywords: 0214202739, Britain, British, twentieth century, post war, trade unions, trade unionists, labour, labor, work, wages
Price £3.00.
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Lyster, Robert A.
A First Course in Hygiene:
(University Tutorial Press, rpt, 1946).
Hardback. Blue cloth darkened and marked in places, corners worn, otherwise good. viii + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-A6371
Keywords: health, hygiene, social welfare, social hygiene, history, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, Robert A. Lyster, body, ventilation, text books, foods, digestion, cooking, nervous system, dwellings, housing, heating, water supply, diseases, infection, houses, diets
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Cleland, John.
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure: Fanny Hill
(Mayflower Paperback, rpt, 1970).
Unexpurgated. Paperback. Spine creased, pages browned, otherwise good. 222pp. Order No. NSBK-C1403
Keywords: 0583116833, memoir, women's history, novel, literature, women's history, sexuality, eighteenth century
Price £2.00.
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Janiewski, Dolores E.
Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender, and Class in a New South Community
(Temple UP, 1985).
Class & Culture. Paperback. Very good. xvii + 248pp. Order No. NSBK-A15893
Keywords: 9781566390064, race, gender, class, New South, history, USA, America, American, race, ethncity, cotton, tobacco, labour, labor, women, Durham, textiles, industry, unions, unionism
Price £28.95.
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