Heron, Liz.
Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties
(Virago, rpt, 1985).
Paperback. With newspaper review pasted inside front cover, back cover slightly browned, otherwise a good copy. viii + 248pp. Order No. NSBK-C2389
Keywords: 0860685969, fifties, growing up, education, history, girls, women, post-war, welfare state, feminism, society, social, careers, childhood, child, girlhood
Price £5.99.
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Meade, L.T..
The Darling of the School:
(W. & R. Chambers, no date).
With 6 illustrations, of which one is loose. Hardback. Some rather heavy white blotching / fading to soiled cloth, a good reading copy only. Some splitting to spine internally at back. 271pp. Order No. NSBK-A8605
Keywords: B000J2M4IK, girls, girls' school stories, history, education, girlhood, childhood, children, Britain, British, England, English, schools, schooling, L.T. Meade, fiction
Price £6.00.
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Taylor, Jane and Ann.
Little Ann and Other Poems: Illustrated by Kate Greenaway
(Frederick Warne, 1917).
With beautiful Greenaway illustrations. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps & markings. Cover boards browned with some staining and soiling, corners worn, but internally good. Boards are original, illustrated ones. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-K14291
Keywords: B000UYPTGQ, children's books, education, childhood, history, Kate Greenaway's illustrations, Kate Greenaway, child, villages, Jane Taylor, Ann Taylor
Price £18.00.
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Dodge, Mary Mapes.
Hans Brinker: or, the Silver Skates
(Children's Press, new impression, 1976).
Hardback. A little rubbing to edges and corners, otherwise very good with pictorial front cover depicting skaters. 124pp. Order No. NSBK-A14168
Keywords: children's books, Hans Brinker, Silver Skates, Dutch, Holland, children's stories, childhood, Netherlands
Price £6.00.
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Lawrie, Alistair; Matthews, H.; Ritchie, D, eds.
Glimmer of Cold Brine: A Scottish Sea Anthology
(Aberdeen UP, 1988).
Paperback. Very good. xiv + 233pp. Order No. NSBK-A6172
Keywords: 0080365795, Scotland, Scots, Scotch, Scottish, anthology, sea, marine, water, coasts, boats, ships, maritime, women, childhood, history, fishing, whales, whaling, widowmaker, poetry, poems, short stories, prose
Price £5.00.
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Wyatt, Charles Henry.
Gardening for Children and Others:
(Thomas Wyatt, 1910).
Hardback. Spine loose / partly detached. Original pictorial boards worn / darkened, otherwise a good working copy. 92pp. Order No. NSBK-A14932
Keywords: B002096PDA, childhood, education, history, children, gardening, gardens, Edwardian, garden plots, seeds, soil, flowers
Price £9.00.
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Young, Robert, ed.
Memoirs of a Family: 1822 - 1944
(Oxford, 1983).
Paperback. Light soiling, otherwise very good. viii + 93pp. Order No. NSBK-A15567
Keywords: 9780950899107, pamphlet, family, families, memoirs, booklets, pamphlets, childhood, autobiography
Price £14.95.
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Kamm, Josephine.
Indicative Past: a Hundred Years of the Girls' Public Day School Trust
(G.A. & Unwin, 1971).
Hardback. Spine of dustwrapper faded, otherwise very good. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-C1363
Keywords: 0043730027, education, Girls' Public Day School Trust, childhood, women's history, women, history, Britain, British, England, English, girlhood
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Sandys, Celia.
The Young Churchill: The Early Years of Winston Churchill
(Dutton, rpt., 1995).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A12522
Keywords: 0525940480, Winston Churchill, politics, political, politicians, government, Prime Ministers, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, children, childhood, infancy, twentieth century, 20th
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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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