Gordon, Eleanor & Breitenbach, Esther, eds.
The World is Ill-Divided: Women's Work in Scotland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
(Edinburgh UP, 1990).
Paperback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpaper, slight crease to front cover, otherwise very good. viii + 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C15722
Keywords: 9780748602124, women and work, Scotland, Victorian, Edwardian, Glasgow, waged work, agriculture, prostitution, domestic labour, printing trade, sweated trades, textile industry, Edinburgh, Scottish women's history, Scottish history, working women, scots
Price £16.95.
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Conway, Edward S.
Post-war Employment:
(Jonathan Cape, 1943).
Hardback. Spine faded, corners bumped. Ex library with minimal library stamps, otherwise good. 143pp. Order No. NSBK-A13925
Keywords: B000WULES0, employment, work, post war, post-war, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, ex-service men, army, training, youth, unemployed, unemployment, labour, demobilisation, demobilization
Price £9.50.
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Warner, George Townsend.
How Wars Were Won: a Short Study of Napoleon's Times
(Blackie and Son, 1915).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Cloth darkened and slightly marked, otherwise good and solid. 236pp. Order No. NSBK-A15186
Keywords: B001623AL2, wars, Napoleon, Napoleonic wars, armies, Wellington, revolutionary, France, French
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Gilbey, Walter.
The Old English War-horse: Or the Great Horse as it Appears, at Intervals, in Contemporary Coins and Pictures During the Centuries of its Development into the Shire-horse. With Notes
(Vinton, 1888).
Two dates in the margins of the book have sadly been crossed out in ink. Text is otherwise not annotated, but there is some light foxing / soiling on some pages, not affecting legibility. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. Boards darkened / thumbed, with fraying to spine edges. A little cracking internally at spine, else good. 23pp. Order No. NSBK-A14314
Keywords: B000875WPI, horses, shire-horses, shires, war-horses, equestrian, history, rural, Victorian, coins, illustrations, agriculture, antiquarian
Price £48.00.
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Hunt, Leigh.
Captain Sword and Captain Pen: A Poem. With a Preface, Remarks on War and Notes Detailing the Horrors on Which the Poem is Founded
(Charles Gilpin, 3rd edition, 1849).
All edges gilt. Hardback. Small. Ex library with usual library stamps. Original decorated boards sunned, damage to spine ends, light wear to edges. A little splitting internally at binding, otherwise good. 101pp. Order No. NSBK-A14261
Keywords: B0014HXZ3C, poems, poetry, Leigh Hunt, nineteenth century, war, wars, military, 19th century
Price £17.50.
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Bruce, Colin John.
War on the Ground: 1939-1945
(Constable, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in slightly creased dustwrapper. 318pp. Order No. NSBK-A9380
Keywords: 0094724903, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, army, armies, guns, military, navy, RAF
Price £5.99.
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Thompson, E.P.
Beyond the Cold War:
(Merlin Press, 1982).
Paperback. Good+. 36pp. Order No. NSBK-A13085
Keywords: 0850362865, Cold War, twentieth century, 20th, wars, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Europe, European
Price £3.00.
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Hobhouse, Emily.
The Brunt of War and Where it Fell:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007 facsimile of the 1902 edition).
A facsimile edition of a very scarce book. Complete with a map and all illustrations. Hardback. Good in blue cloth. xvi + 357pp. Order No. NSBK-C13227
Keywords: 0954476131, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs, self history, self histories, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, Boer War, Boers, South Africa, Africa, African, wars, South African War, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, century, Emily Hobhouse, camps, war camp, war camps, concentration camps, camp, POW, prisoners of war, enemy, enemies, soldiers, soldier, Cape, Cape Colony, children, child, Chamberlain, homes, housing, deprivation, starvation, Britain, British, England, English, troop, troops, battle, battles, battallions, propaganda, battallion, living conditions, Southern Africa, Southern African, Afrikaan, Afrikaans, Veld, scorched earth policy, charity, philanthropy, Portrayer Publishers
Price £25.95.
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Neillands, Robin.
The Wars of the Roses:
(Cassell, rpt, 1993).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, showing signs of use but good in slightly worn dustwrapper. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-A3600
Keywords: 0304340804, Wars of the Roses, Plantagenet, Lancaster, York, medieval, Renaissance, royal, royalty, monarchy, history, fifteenth century, England, English, Britain, British
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Barnett, Anthony.
Iron Britannia: Why Parliament Waged Its Falklands War
(Allison and Busby, 1982).
Paperback. Good. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A12028
Keywords: 0850314933, Falklands, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, wars, warfare
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