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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Loane, M.
The Queen's Poor: Life As They Find it in Town in Country
(Middlesex UP, 1998).
Introduction by Susan Cohen and Clive Fleay. Paperback. Slightly soiled, otherwise good. liii + 312pp. Order No. NSBK-A12701
Keywords: 1898253226, The Queen's Poor, poor, poverty, M. Loane, social investigations, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, towns, country, nurses, nursing. The Queen's Poor, working class, working-class, Martha Jane Loane
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King, Steven.
A Fylde Country Practice: Medicine and Society in Lancashire, c.1760-1840
(Centre NW Regional Studies, 2001).
Paperback. New book, fine. xiv + 110pp. Order No. NSBK-A4649
Keywords: 186220117X, Fylde, country practice, country practices, Lancashire, Britain, British, England, English, Lancaster University, history, medicine, medical, society, medicinal, doctors, doctor, dr, drs, doctoring, care, poor law, poverty, welfare, Centre for North West Regional Studies, prescription, prescriptions, medical profession, health, ill-health, illness, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Dr Loxham, Poulton, illnesses, Centre for North West Regional Studies, university of lancaster
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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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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
Keywords: 0900480009, London, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, education, schools, Edwardian, school attendance, schooling, social history, truancy, truants, elementary education, David Rubinstein, Britain, British, England, English, London School Board, poverty, poor, school boards, 1870 Education Act, Forster's Education Act, magistrates, voluntary schools, state education, policy, University of Hull Occasional Papers in Economic and Social History
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Snowden, Philip.
The Living Wage:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1912).
Hardback. Bright red boards slightly blotched / soiled at back, otherwise very good. xvi + 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A13340
Keywords: B00085I7GG, Philip Snowden, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, living wage, wages, economy, politics, living wage, poverty, cost of living, industry, employment, strikes, conciliation, labour, twentieth century, before the first world war, economics
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Chinn, Carl.
They Worked All Their Lives: Women of the Urban Poor in England, 1880-1939
(MUP, 1988).
Hardback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good in faded dustwrapper. xi + 187pp. Order No. NSBK-A15085
Keywords: 9780719024368, urban poor, poverty, Carl Chinn, working class, women's history, social history, British, English, England, Britain, Birmingham, Midlands, charity, mothers, motherhood, Reports, women's work, trade unions, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, twentieth century, self-help, community, communities, debt, Clementina Black, working women
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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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Barnett, Henrietta.
Canon Barnett: His Life, Work and Friends
(John Murray, 1918).
With newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, plus a typed and signed letter by Henrietta Barnett. Complete in two volumes. Hardbacks. Minor yellow highlighting, lacking spine covers.Good working copies, vol I firm; vol II firm also though with splitting inside at spine. xxiv + 302; xii + 415pp. Order No. NSBK-A15635
Keywords: Henrietta Barnett, Canon Barnett, Samuel Augustus Barnett, housing, social conditions, Octavia Hill, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, Victorian, Edwardian, biography, biographies, social reform, philanthropy, Toynbee, state relief, social problems, poverty
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Eden, Frederic Morton.
The State of the Poor: or, an History of the Labouring Classes in England from the Conquest to the Present Period
(Thoemmes Continuum, 2001 facsimile edition of 1797 edition).
PLEASE NOTE: TWO VOLUMES ONLY OF THREE (Vol I and Vol II). Hardbacks. Very good condition. Set sadly lacks vol 3. xxxi + 632; viii + 692pp. Order No. NSBK-A13850
Keywords: 1855062623, poverty, poor, poor relief, friendly societies, friendly society, labouring classes, working classes, pauperism, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Frederic Morton Eden, parochial reports, diet, dress, habitation, domestic economy, philanthropy, poor houses, workhouses, 18th century, eighteenth century
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