Gladwin, D.D.
The Waterways of Britain: a Social Panorama
(B.T. Batsford, 1976).
Illustrated. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A4271
Keywords: 0713431598, social history, canals, canal, waterways, transport, Britain, British, England, English, family, families, navigation, canal boats, canal people, boat people, boat men, boat women, navvies, inland waterways, rivers, carriers, river, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, twentieth century, travelling people, travellers, travelers, traveller, traveller
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John, Augustus.
Finishing Touches:
(Readers Union, 1966).
With black and white photographs. Edited and introduced by Daniel George. Hardback. Spine ends slightly soiled, otherwise good. 156pp. Order No. NSBK-A12128
Keywords: B0000CMCW9, Augustus John, Finishing Touches, art, artists, painters, paintings, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories
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Pearson, R.A.
The Guardian Book of the Welfare State:
(Wildwood House, 1988).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. xiv + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-A7656
Keywords: 0704530848, 20th, twentieth century, welfare state, social history, social welfare, poor, poverty, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, debates, housing, education, health, social security, health, post-war, post war
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Clive, John.
Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History
(Collins Harvill, 1990).
Paperback. Near fine. xiv + 334pp. Order No. NSBK-A10012
Keywords: 0002720604, essays, history, reading, writing, Macaulay, Gibbon, Carlyle, Victorians, Michelet, De Tocqueville, Trevelyan, historiography, historians, nineteenth, twentieth, century, 19th, 20th
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Pack of 10 Suffragette Greeting Cards, .
Convicts, Lunatics and Women: Have No Vote for Parliament!
(Portrayer Publishers, 2009).
Pack of 10 greetings cards (all featuring the same design). Card measurements are 6 inches high by 4 inches wide and each card is complete with cellophane wrapper and envelope. Blank interiors for your own message or for any occasion. The image is printed in vibrant lithographic colours and is taken from a suffragette poster by artist Emily J. Harding Andrews. (Originally published by the Artists' Suffrage League). Image (in brown, gold and cream sepia) shows an educated woman, wearing cap and gown, and standing inside locked gates with a convict and a "lunatic". Two books lean against the gates from the outside. Please note that the sample electronic image, unlike the cards themselves, is watermarked and reduced in quality, to prevent image theft). Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C14449
Keywords: suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, women's rights, Votes for Women, women and politics, women's politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, greeting card, greeting cards, cards, suffragette images, suffragettes, propaganda, envelopes, suffrage imagery, card, picture, pictures, cartoons, art, artist, artists, suffragette art, art, arts, artistry, illustration, illustrations, twentieth century, 20th century, twentieth centuries, portrayer, portrayer publishers, suffragette greetings cards, greetings card, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera, new
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Butler, R.F and Prichard, M. H., eds.
The Society of Oxford Home-Students: Retrospects and Recollections (1879-1921)
(The Oxonian Press, 1921 ?).
Hardback. Very good. 141pp. Order No. NSBK-A12649
Keywords: B00088FGQC, The Society of Oxford Home Students, higher education, education, educational, university, universities, colleges, academia, academe, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, women's education
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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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Toussant-Samat, Maguelonne.
History of Food:
(Blackwell, 1992).
Translated by Anthea Bell. Hardback. Pages edges slightly soiled and spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise very good. 801pp. Order No. NSBK-A11961
Keywords: 0631177418, food, feeding eating, nourishment, menus, recipes, foodstuffs, animals, crops, world, medieval, Early Modern, Renaissance, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, fruit, meat, vegetables, pulses, wine
Price £18.00.
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Fuller, Ken.
Radical Aristocrats: London Busworkers from the 1880s to the 1980s
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1985).
Paperback. Spine faded, otherwise good+. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A13451
Keywords: 0853156492, buses, transport, vehicles, London, twentieth century, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action
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Sharp, Evelyn.
Rebel Women:
(Portrayer, 2003 facsimile of the 1st edit. of 1910).
A special edition of this highly sought-after work of suffragette fiction, in smart bespoke binding. Walnut finish boards with blue & green head and tail bands. Coloured endpapers. A series of descriptive sketches about the suffragette movement. Hardback. Fine condition. 135pp. Order No. NSBK-C6498
Keywords: 0954476107, suffragettes, suffrage, women's history, Rebel Women, Edwardian, New Woman, Votes for Women, Evelyn Sharp, Britain, British, England, English, enfranchisement, woman suffrage, woman, women writers, fiction, social protest, political women, politics, collector's editions, literature, twentieth century, 20th century, Portrayer, Portrayer's, Portrayer Publishers, fictional, writing, stories, sketches
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