Butler, Josephine E.
Truth Before Everything:
(Portrayer Publishers, March 2003 reprint of the work of 1897).
No 7 in the Open Archive Occasional Series. Booklet. New book, fine. 38pp. Order No. NSBK-C6502
Keywords: B001C3VRLA, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, new title, Josephine E. Butler, social history, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, equality, gender roles, working women, prostitution, prostitutes, State Regulation of Vice, Contagious Diseases Act, social purity, Liverpool, reprints, working girls, philanthropy, philanthropists, Open Archive Occasional Series, Truth Before Everything, booklet
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St John Ambulance Association, .
First Aid: the Authorised Manual of the St. John Ambulance Association
(St. John Ambulance Association, 2nd edition, 3rd impression, 1970).
Card covers. Paperback. Light soiling to front cover, otherwise good+. 272pp. Order No. NSBK-A7293
Keywords: St. John Ambulance Association, first aid, health, social history, twentieth century, ambulances, Britain, British, England, English, sickness, injured, injuries, caring for the sick, patients, advice books, philanthropy, bandages, 1960s, advice books, manuals
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Cobbe, Frances Power.
Life of Frances Power Cobbe: by Herself
(Richard Bentley, 1894).
In two volumes. Scarce. With illustrations. Gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to front board. Hardback. Edges rubbed and corners worn, some foxing to endpapers and title pages, otherwise very good, fairly bright, solid copies. 332pp. Order No. NSBK-C7265
Keywords: Frances Power Cobbe, Cobbe, set, feminist, feminism, feminists, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, antiquarian, autobiography, autobiographies, women, women writer, women writers, woman, woman writers, journalist, journalists, journalism, women journalist, women journalist, woman journalists, women journalists, women's rights, The Claims Of Women, gender, women's movement, women's movements, Miss Power Cobbe, women's history, history, woman, womanhood, letters, letter, correspondence, women's suffrage, woman's suffrage, suffrage, suffragette, suffragettes, enfranchisement, Votes for Women, suffragist, suffragists, right, rights, philanthropist, philanthropy, philanthropists, philanthropic, volumes
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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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Carpenter, J. Estlin.
The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter:
(Macmillan, 2nd edition, 1881).
Hardback. Original cloth with spine ends and corners worn. Spine sunned, otherwise a very good, solid copy. xiv + 391pp. Order No. NSBK-A13865
Keywords: B000WSPERO, Mary Carpenter, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, biography, biographies, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, ragged schools, education, Bristol, social reform, reformatories for girls, poverty, teaching, teachers, reformatory schools, children, charity, philanthropy, childhood, Indian, India, female education, women's education
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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
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Fletcher, Winston.
Keeping the Vision Alive: The Story of Barnado's 1905-2005
(Barnado's, 2005).
Richly illustrated with photographs. Paperback. Near fine. 157pp. Order No. NSBK-A12615
Keywords: 190465911X, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Barnado's, charity, charities, philanthropy, children, child, twentieth century, 20th
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Sturge, Elizabeth.
Reminiscences Of My Life: and Some Account Of The Children Of William And Charlotte Sturge And Of The Sturge Family Of Bristol
(J. W. Arrrowsmith, for private circulation, 1928).
Presentation copy from the writer. Hardback. Family charts all present though with tearing to spine. Some wear and light marking to blue cloth, and fraying at spine and spine edges. Light foxing, but a good solid copy. 202pp. Order No. NSBK-A15096
Keywords: B00088VGWA, Sturge, Bristol, history, biography, reminiscences, memoirs, Elizabeth Sturge, Sturges, family, William Sturge, Charlotte Sturge, Mary Carpenter, Quaker, Quakers, Quakerism, Victorian, Edwardian, philanthropy
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Loane, Marcus.
From Their Point of View:
(Garland Publishing, 1980).
Hardback. Ex library but with no visible stamps and stickers. 309pp. Order No. NSBK-A12661
Keywords: 0824001133, social commentary, Marcus Loane, poor, poverty, charity, charitable, poverty, philanthropy, philanthropists, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Sutherland, John.
Mrs Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-eminent Edwardian
(OUP Clarendon, 1990).
A biography of Mary Ward: novelist; anti-suffragist; philanthropist; founder of Somerville College for women in Oxford; journalist during World War I. Hardback. Dustwrapper slightly faded and creased at spine, otherwise very good. ix + 432pp. Order No. NSBK-C6392
Keywords: 9780198185871, women writers, novels, novelists, literature, Victorian, Edwardian, Somerville College, Oxford, Oxford University, biography, biographies, Mary Ward, women journalists, journalism, anti-suffrage, philanthropy, women philanthropists
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