Wingfield-Stratford, Esme.
Before the Lamps Went Out:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1945).
Hardback. Some light soiling/mottling to cloth, mainly at top edges, otherwise good. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A6206
Keywords: B0007J1DVY, technology, wartime, autobiographical, autobiography, autobiographies, twentieth century, life history, life histories, Esme Wingfield-Stratford
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Watson, Mrs Sydney.
A Village Maiden's Career: Life Story of Mrs Sydney Watson
(S. W. Partridge, second edit. n.d).
Authoress of 'Old Home on the Hill', 'Hubert Grantham's Atonement,' 'Kenneth St Clair,' etc., etc. Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, blue cloth rubbed along edges, gilt titles, pages browned, otherwise a good working copy. 392pp. Order No. NSBK-C7509
Keywords: Mrs Sydney Watson, nineteenth century, 19th, woman writer, women writers, Britain, British, England, English, history, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, lives, life history, life histories, memoirs, novelists, literature, novels, fiction, Wiltshire, religion, religious
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Carter, Mark Bonham and Pottle, Mark.
Lantern Slides: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xiii + 461pp. Order No. NSBK-C12987
Keywords: 0297816497, Violet Bonham Carter, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, letters, diaries, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, diary, epistles, epistolary
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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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Morley, Ken.
Knowledge is Power: My Life on Coronation Street
(Blake Publishing, 1995).
With Charles Yates. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. 252pp. Order No. NSBK-A10326
Keywords: 1857821521, Coronation Street, Ken Morley, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, self history, self histories, lives, life history, life histories, TV, television, actors, acting, Coronation Street, Granada, Britain, British, England, English, 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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Partington, Jim.
The Two-Up and Two-Downer (With a Taste for Honey): the Crowded Life of a Lancashire Lad
(Fabians Publishers, 1972).
Autobiography. Leftist reminiscences of self-made Lancashire man, born 1908, dedicated to Lord Brockway of ILP. "I attended meetings in Bradford [where] he showed me the Political Path I should follow. Although I have devoted much of my life to the acquisition of material possessions, I have never deviated from his Philosophy". Hardback. Very good in slightly worn and slightly chipped dustwrapper. xiv + 257pp. Order No. NSBK-A1550
Keywords: B000HBVSLC, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Lancashire, lads, boys, homes, houses, terraces, twentieth century, 20th, Jim Partington, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories
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Addy, John and McNiven, Peter, eds.
The Diary of Henry Prescott, LLB., Deputy Registrar of Chester Diocese: Volume 2, 25 March 1711 - 24 May 1719
(Alan Sutton Publishing, 1994, ety of Lancashire & Cheshire).
Hardback. Very good in creased, faded dustwrapper. xiv + 696pp. Order No. NSBK-A14546
Keywords: 0902593234, diary, diaries, Henry Prescott, 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, Chester
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Scott, Philippa.
Lucky Me:
(Kenilworth Press, 1990).
Illustrated by more than 90 photographs. The book is an evocation of the early life of Philippa Scott (nee Talbot-Ponsonby's) - her childhood in South Africa, school, climbing holidays, her time in the Land Army in World War II and a spell in Yugoslavia during the Cold War. She married Peter Scott in Reykjavik in 1951. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C5734
Keywords: 1872082114, Lucky Me, Philippa Scott, Philippa Talbot-Ponsonby, Land Army, Peter Scott, South Africa, World War Two, wars, Second World War, World War II, Britain, British, history, england, English, autobiography, autobiographical, memoirs, memoir, autobiographies, life history, life histories, women writers, Severn Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, Thjorsaver Expedition, Reykjavik
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Mitchison, Naomi.
All Change Here: Girlhood and Marriage
(Bodley Head, 1975).
The 2nd part of her autobiography. HB. Ex lib, good in sl soiled dw with newspapers pasted in at end. 159pp. Order No. NSBK-C716
Keywords: 0370104854, Naomi Mitchison, girlhood, marriage, autobiography, autobiographical, twentieth century,
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