Walker, Martyn A.
Examinations for the Underprivileged in Victorian Times: the Huddersfield Mechanics' Institution and the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
(William Shipley Group for RSA History, 2008).
WSG Research Paper 1. Paperback. Fine. 68pp. Order No. NSBK-A14127
Keywords: B001P4AQIQ, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, history, education, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, William Shipley Group for RSA History, poor, poverty, adult education, working classes, working men, working class education, self-improvement, literacy, illiteracy, self improvement, class, mechanics' institutions
Price £10.50.
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Shuttleworth, J.K.
Thoughts and Suggestions on Certain Social Problems: Contained Chiefly in Addresses to Meetings of Workmen in Lancashire
(E.J. Morten, 1973 rpt of 1873 text).
Hardback. Back cover board slightly marked, otherwise very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 332pp. Order No. NSBK-A964
Keywords: 0901598739, Lancashire, social problems, workmen, labour, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, James Kay Shuttleworth
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Pinchbeck, Ivy.
Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750 - 1850:
(George Routledge, 1930).
Hardback. A little splitting / weakening internally at spine, edges slightly worn and cloth a little rubbed - otherwise a good copy. x + 342pp. Order No. NSBK-C9033
Keywords: B001P165SY, women workers, women and work, industry, industrialisation, Industrial Revolution, labour, working class, occupations, factories, mines, Ivy Pinchbeck, history, 18th century, eighteenth century, 19th century, nineteenth century, mining, hand loom weavers, domestic industries, trade, labor, labourers, textiles, women's history, factory, factories, economy, economic
Price £24.00.
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Rowbotham, Judith.
Good Girls Make Good Wives: Guidance for Girls in Victorian Fiction
(Blackwell, 1989).
Paperback. Some sunfading to covers, otherwise good+. viii + 301pp. Order No. NSBK-C4162
Keywords: 0631163964, wives, wife, girls, education, fiction, literature, Judith Rowbotham, Victorian, nineteenth century, childhood, middle class, middle classes, reading habits, domesticity, private sphere, separate spheres, femininity, feminine, novels, L.T. Meade, history, social control, Charlotte Mary Yonge, women
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Rubinstein, David.
Victorian Homes:
(David and Charles, 1974).
Hardback. Boards lightly soiled, otherwise very good. 287pp. Order No. NSBK-A8040
Keywords: 071536765X, Victorian, homes, houses, nineteenth, 19th, century, residences, residential, class, architecture, architectural, classes, slums, housing, terraces, planning, sanitation, hot water, heating, lighting, flats, tenements, society
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Walton, John K. & Walvin, James, eds.
Leisure in Britain, 1780-1939:
(MUP, 1983).
Out-of-print. Very scarce. 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
Price £32.00.
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Tazawa, Yutaka, et al.
Japan's Cultural History: A Perspective
(Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, rpt., 1988).
Paperback. Very good. 120pp. Order No. NSBK-A9063
Keywords: B000B3DYKE, Japan, Japanese, culture, art, Buddhists, warrior class, archaic age, Orient, Buddhism, history
Price £5.00.
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Foot, Michael and Highet, Alison.
Isaac Foot: A Westcountry Boy - Apostle of England
(Politico's, 2006).
Hardback. Slight bump top spine end, otherwise very good+ and clean in dustwrapper. 352pp. Order No. NSBK-A15652
Keywords: 9781842751817, Isaac Foot, the Foot family, politics, class, Liberal Party, Liberals, Plymouth, methodism, Free Church, Bodmin, Second World War, history, West Country
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Crompton, Rosemary and Mann, Michael, eds.
Gender and Stratification:
(Polity Press, 1986).
Paperback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, spine browned, otherwise good. viii + 271pp. Order No. NSBK-A14574
Keywords: 0745601685, class, gender, social status, sex roles, employment, class analysis, occupations
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Burn, James Dawson.
The Autobiography of a Beggar Boy:
(Europa Publications, 1978).
Edited by David Vincent. Hardback. Good in slightly creased / torn / browned dustwrapper. v + 205pp. Order No. NSBK-A2992
Keywords: 090511826X, poverty, nineteenth-century, working-class autobiographies, autobiography, beggars, trade unionism, radicalism, Oddfellows movement, Britain, British, England, English, history
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