McKenny, Helen G.
A City Road Diary, 1885-1888: the Record of Three Years in Victorian London
(WMHS, 1978).
Edited by Alfred Binney and John A. Vickers. Paperback. A little light brown spotting / soiling to covers, otherwise very good. viii + 111pp. Order No. NSBK-A3503
Keywords: 0950555916, Helen G. McKenny, Methodism, Victorian London, diary, Methodist, Wesleyan, mission, poor, poverty
Price £6.00.
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Thompson, Thea.
Edwardian Childhoods:
(RKP, reprint, 1982).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers and a little waviness to a few pages, otherwise good. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A6236
Keywords: 0710093357, child, children, Edwardian, infancy, family, Britain, British, England, English, history, childhood, reminiscences, memories, memory, autobiographies, autobiography, autobiographical, class, povert, poor, paupers, working class, working classes, lower orders
Price £5.50.
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Manton, Jo.
Mary Carpenter and the Children of the Streets:
(Heinemann, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly yellowed dustwrapper creased at edges. 268pp. Order No. NSBK-C13437
Keywords: 9780435325695, children, childhood, Mary Carpenter, streets, poverty, poor, crime, criminals, child abuse, juvenile delinquency, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, beggars, begging, prisons, Bristol, India
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Perry, Matt.
Prisoners of Want: The Experience and Protest of the Unemployed in France, 1931-45 (Studies in Labour History)
(Ashgate, 2007).
Hardback. Very good. xiv + 296pp. Order No. NSBK-A15276
Keywords: 9780754656074, employment, labour, unemployment, France, French, history, poor, protest, Lille to Paris Hunger March, unemployed, interwar
Price £35.00.
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Mayhew, Henry.
Mayhew's Characters:
(Spring Books, 1967).
Edited with a note on the English character by Peter Quennell. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper which is rather torn and tatty at edges. xix + 360pp. Order No. NSBK-A5010
Keywords: B0000CNF5P, Henry Mayhew, nineteenth century, Victorian, povery, poor, London, oral history, Britain, British, England, english, interviews, people, popular, working-class, working class, work, labor, labour, mayhew's characters, mayhew's, mayhew, characters
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Mackenzie, Norman and Jeanne, eds.
The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Volume Two, 1892-1905: All the Good Things of Life
(Virago, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xv + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-C6087
Keywords: 0860682102, Beatrice Webb, Sidney Webb, the Webbs, social reform, Edwardian, Victorian, LSE, London School of Economics, poor, poverty, trade unionism, local government, state, women's history, woman, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, diaries, diary, Virago
Price £9.00.
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Hill, Octavia.
House Property and its Management: Some Papers on the Methods of Management Introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and Adapted to Modern Conditions
(George Allen & Unwin, 1921).
Intro. by I. G. Gibbon. Presented by M.M. Jeffery and Edith Neville. Scarce original. Hardback. Pages and boards browned with age, spine split a little at top end, and internally at binding, else a good copy. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C6430
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, tenants, town planning, urban history, Britain, England, British, English, history, house property, house management, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, cottages, model dwellings, letters to fellow workers, women managers, Amsterdam, municipal, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment
Price £30.00.
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Hill, Octavia.
Our Common Land:
(Macmillan, 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 £120.00.
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Ramsay, Esther, M.E. & Maddock, Alison, J., eds.
The Churchwardens' Accounts of Walton-On-The-Hill, Lancashire, 1627 - 1667:
(Record Society Lancashire Cheshire, 2005).
No 141 in the Series. Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled, lightly creased dustwrapper. xxxix + 191pp. Order No. NSBK-C14480
Keywords: 0902593684, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, religion, religious, Walton-On-The-Hill, 17th century, seventeenth century, Liverpool, church, church buildings, churchwardens' accounts, poor relief, charity, church finance, church maintenance, school
Price £25.00.
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Hunter, Guy.
Modernizing Peasant Societies: A Comparative Study in Asia and Africa
(OUP, 1969).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, edges rubbed, otherwise good. x + 324pp. Order No. NSBK-A8461
Keywords: 0192181831, peasants, peasant societies, society, Asia, Africa, Asian, African, poverty, poor, agriculture, agricultural, land, Tanzanian, education, educational, schools, schooling
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