Phillips, Janet and Peter.
Victorians at Home and Away:
(Croom Helm, 1978).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A8407
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Maurice, C. Edmund, ed.
Life of Octavia Hill: as Told in her Letters
(Macmillan, rpt, 1914).
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Fraser, Derek.
The Evolution of the British Welfare State: A History of Social Policy Since the Industrial Revolution
(Macmillan, Second edit., rpt, 1985).
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Deacon, Bob, et al.
The New Eastern Europe: Social Policy, Past, Present and Future
(Sage, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. ix + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A9468
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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
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Cherry, Steven.
Medical Services and the Hospitals in Britain, 1860-1939:
(CUP, 1996).
News Studies in Economic and Social History. Paperback. Very good+. vii + 93pp. Order No. NSBK-A7715
Keywords: 0521577845, medical, medicine, health, hospitals, sickness, disabled, disablement, nurses, doctors, mortality, voluntary, poor law, local authority, local authorities, wars, First World War, Great War, World War 1, I, National Health Service, population, deaths, death rates, infant mortality
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Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
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Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, ed.
Woman's Mission: a Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women by Eminent Writers
(Portrayer Publishers, 2002 facsimile of 1893 ed).
For the Chicago International Exhibition of Women's Work, 1893. Paperback. Light soiling to page edges, spine slightly creased, otherwise very good. viii + 485pp. Order No. NSBK-C4894
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Rubinstein, David.
School Attendance in London, 1870 - 1904: A Social History
(University of Hull, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969).
Scarce. University of Hull Occasional Papers in Economic and Social History No. 1. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings, good+ in smart crimson binding. viii + 137pp. Order No. NSBK-A8542
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Hammond, J.L. & Hammond, Barbara.
The Town Labourer:
(Longman, 1978).
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