Walker, Martyn A.
Examinations for the Underprivileged in Victorian Times: the Huddersfield Mechanics' Institution and the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
(William Shipley Group for RSA History, 2008).
WSG Research Paper 1. Paperback. Fine. 68pp. Order No. NSBK-A14127
Keywords: B001P4AQIQ, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, history, education, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, William Shipley Group for RSA History, poor, poverty, adult education, working classes, working men, working class education, self-improvement, literacy, illiteracy, self improvement, class, mechanics' institutions
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Roberts, Robert.
A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum
(Fontana, 2nd impression, 1979).
Paperback. Light creasing to covers, newspaper article pasted to front endpaper, otherwise good. 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A10160
Keywords: 0006348947, education, schools, schooling, slums, housing, urban, cities, Britain, British, England, English, social history, Edwardian, industry, industrial, terraces, poverty, poor, cobbles, By Joe, cinema, magic lantern, railways, canals, Manchester, North West, Salford, Robert Roberts, apprentices, labour, labor, Labour party, Esperanto, TB, tuberculosis, working class, working classes, Charles de Gaulle
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Brydon, Lynne & Chant, Sylvia.
Women in the Third World: Gender Issues in Rural and Urban Areas
(Edward Elgar, rpt, 1993).
Paperback. Very good. 327pp. Order No. NSBK-C6810
Keywords: 1852781904, gender, rural, countryside, Third World, development, developing countries, women, urban, towns, urban planning, town planning, women's issues, household, reproduction, migration, rural development policy, Brazil, South America, South East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, African, East Africa, poverty, poor
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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
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
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Ignatieff, Michael.
A Just Measure of Pain: the Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850
(Pantheon Books, New York, 1978).
Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiii + 257pp. Order No. NSBK-A7723
Keywords: 0394410416, crime, penitentiary, prison, Industrial Revolution, prisoners, Michael Ignatieff, poor, criminals, punishment, solitary confinement, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, 18th, 19th, prisons, gaols, gaol, imprisonment, rehabilitation, history, prison reform
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Donald, Joyce.
The Letters of Thomas Hayton: Vicar of Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire. 1821 - 1887
(Buckinghamshire Record Society, No 20, 1979).
Buckinghamshire Record Society. No 20. 1979. Hardback. A little soiling to cloth, otherwise very good. xx + 185pp. Order No. NSBK-A13330
Keywords: 0901198161, vicars, religion, religious, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, Buckinghamshire Record Society, 19th century, nineteenth century, Victorian, history, letters, Thomas Hayton, church, village life, agrarian, charity commissioners, poor law, social history, correspondence, curate, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Hill, Octavia.
House Property and its Management: Some Papers on the Methods of Management Introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and Adapted to Modern Conditions
(George Allen & Unwin, 1921).
Intro. by I. G. Gibbon. Presented by M.M. Jeffery and Edith Neville. Scarce original. Hardback. Pages and boards browned with age, spine split a little at top end, and internally at binding, else a good copy. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C6430
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, tenants, town planning, urban history, Britain, England, British, English, history, house property, house management, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, cottages, model dwellings, letters to fellow workers, women managers, Amsterdam, municipal, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment
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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).
Paperback. Spine creased, edges soiled. Minor annotation, a good working copy. xxxii + 326pp. Order No. NSBK-A4420
Keywords: 0333359992, Britain, British, Welfare State, history, social policy, Industrial Revolution, factory, factories, Poor Law, public health, education, laissez-faire, state intervention, poverty, poor, war, warfare
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Kent, Graeme.
Poverty:
(B.T. Batsford, 1968).
Past into Present Series. Illustrated in black and white with pictures and photographs. Hardback. Spine ends rubbed, otherwise good in tatty dustwrapper. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-A12995
Keywords: 0713417544, poverty, poor, towns, urban, cities, workers, instituitions, Poor law, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, images, pictures
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Phillips, Janet and Peter.
Victorians at Home and Away:
(Croom Helm, 1978).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A8407
Keywords: 0856646881, Victorians, England, English, Britain, British, nineteenth century, 19th, Crystal Palace, Christian Soldiers, music, queens, royalty, monarchs, Queen Victoria, businessmen, professionals, shopkeepers, manners, fashions, women, the poor, poverty, soldiers, soccer, racing, cricket, public schools, missionary, missionaries
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