Chinn, Carl.
They Worked All Their Lives: Women of the Urban Poor in England, 1880-1939
(MUP, 1988).
Hardback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good in faded dustwrapper. xi + 187pp. Order No. NSBK-A15085
Keywords: 9780719024368, urban poor, poverty, Carl Chinn, working class, women's history, social history, British, English, England, Britain, Birmingham, Midlands, charity, mothers, motherhood, Reports, women's work, trade unions, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, twentieth century, self-help, community, communities, debt, Clementina Black, working women
Price £10.00.
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Pennington, Shelley & Westover, Belinda.
A Hidden Workforce: Homeworkers in England, 1850 - 1985
(Macmillan, 1989).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+ in browned dustwrapper. xi + 191pp. Order No. NSBK-C15640
Keywords: 9780333432969, homeworker, labour work, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, workforce, domestic, domesticity, working women, pennington, westover, sweated labour, housework, tailoring, tailor, tailoring industry, 19th century
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Hewitt, Graily.
The Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of the Diseases of Women: Including a Diagnosis of Pregnancy
(Longmans, Green, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged, 1868).
With numerous illustrations. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps. Boards darkened with rubbing to edges. One page loose, otherwise a good solid copy, though with a little marginal pencil annotation. xxxii + 700pp. Order No. NSBK-C13522
Keywords: B001009LFY, medical, medicine, pregnancy, women, women's history, health, illness, gynaecology, gynaecological, maternity, motherhood, pathology, diseases, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, uterus, uterine medicine, social history
Price £78.00.
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Ponting, K. G., ed.
Baines's Account of the Woollen Manufacture of England:
(David and Charles, 1970).
The text of Edward Baines's Account of the Woollen Manufacture of England is reprinted from Thomas Baines's Yorkshire, Past and Present (1875). Hardback. Spine ends bumped, otherwise very good. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-A10291
Keywords: 0715347543, Edward Baines, woollen, manufacture, manufacturing, England, English, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, production
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Hastings, George W.
Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science: London Meeting, 1862
(John W. Parker, 1863).
Hardback. Original cloth faded, with a little wear to extremities, otherwise very good and solid. 922pp. Order No. NSBK-A15307
Keywords: B00EBVYDJI, Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, antiquarian, Victorian, social history, 19th, nineteenth century
Price £32.00.
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Fletcher, Sheila.
Victorian Girls: Lord Lyttelton's Daughters
(Hambledon Press, 1997).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. x + 249pp. Order No. NSBK-H2364
Keywords: 1852851503, Victorian, girls, girlhood, Lyttleton, Britain, British, history, English, England, 19th century, nineteenth, Cavendish, Lytteltons, Lyttelton family
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Mayhew, Henry.
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts. Volume 1
(Caliban Books, 1980).
Paperback. Spine a little browned. A few light marks to card covers, otherwise very good. 276pp. Order No. NSBK-A13114
Keywords: 0904573206, Victorian, 1840s, forties, 19th century, nineteenth century, labour, poor, poverty, Henry Mayhew, social surveys, social investigations, cholera, Bermondsey, sanitation, oral history, wages, sweated labour, workhouses, diet, clothes, poor law, employment, London
Price £19.95.
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Orr, Emily C.
Our Working Boys: Suggestions for Their Teachers
(SPCK, 1900).
Hardback. Boards and spine worn, internally good. 128 + 8pp. Order No. NSBK-A11911
Keywords: B000HC7CKM, SPCK, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, boys, working boys, Emily C. Orr, work
Price £11.00.
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Humphries, Steve, Mack, Joanna and Perks, Robert.
A Century of Childhood:
(Sidgwick and Jackson/ Channel Four, rpt., 1988).
A Channel Four Book. Hardback. With newspaper cuttings pasted to inside front cover, otherwise good in slightly edgeworn dustwrappe. 176pp. Order No. NSBK-A12932
Keywords: 0283997559, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th
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Thomas, David St John.
The Country Railway:
(Penguin Books, 1976).
Paperback. Covers creased, a little brown marking/staining to a few pages not affecting legibility, otherwise good. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A8295
Keywords: 0140048278, railways, railway, trains, transport, country, countryside, transport, technology, platforms, bridges, embankments, viaducts, architecture, ninetenth, century, 19th, twentieth, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, steam
Price £5.00.
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