Burnett, John, ed.
Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly soiled and browned dustwrapper. 364pp. Order No. NSBK-A2267
Keywords: 0713906820, working class, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, working classes, autobiographies, men, women, women's, labour, labor, labouring classes, laboring classes, domestic servants, housemaids, domestic service, skilled workers, labour aristocracy, John Burnett
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Burnett, John, ed.
Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Penguin, rpt, 1984).
Paperback. Spine slightly sun-faded, otherwise very good. 345pp. Order No. NSBK-A1481
Keywords: 9780140073454, autobiography, childhood, education, Victorian, social history, England, Britain
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Burnett, John, ed.
Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, 1982).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise good+ in browned, slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. 345pp. Order No. NSBK-A7533
Keywords: 9780713912142, autobiography, childhood, education, Victorian, social history, England, Britain, autobiographies, 19th century, nineteenth century, children, family, families, schooling, working class, working classes, working-class, literature, John Burnett
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Metcalfe, Jean.
Sunnylea: a 1920s Childhood Remembered
(Michael Joseph, 1980).
With beautiful watercolour prints. Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly soiled dustwrapper. 60pp. Order No. NSBK-A3735
Keywords: 0718119231, Jean Metcalfe, watercolours, autobiography, memoirs, child, childhood, autobiographies
Price £4.00.
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Dyment, Clifford.
The Railway Game: an Early Autobiography
(Readers Union, rpt, 1963).
Hardback. Very good in browned, slightly worn dustwrapper. 218pp. Order No. NSBK-A4710
Keywords: B0000EERAV, British, Britain, England, English, autobiographies, autobiography, railway, steam, railway game, Clifford Dyment, autobiography, child, boy, children, childhood, 1920s, 1930s, interwar, inter-war, inter war, history, boyhood, youth, poems, poet, poets, poetry
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Malan, J. R.
The Re-organisation of Rural Education: in the Cape Province of the Union of South Africa
(Teachers College, Columbia University, 1922).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, bumping to corners, minor pencil annotation, not affecting legibility, otherwise good. vi + 167pp. Order No. NSBK-A13853
Keywords: B0014M2BCS, schools, education, South African, South Africa, rural education, 1920s, twenties, Cape, Cape Province, teachers, teaching, children, training, community, history
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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Kineton/The Roundwood Press, 1974).
Hardback. Covers slightly soiled, marginal pencil annotation not affecting legbility, otherwise very good. xvi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C11001
Keywords: 0900093307, women, woman, gender, 1920s, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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Pollard, Sidney, ed.
The Gold Standard and Employment Policies Between the Wars:
(Methuen, 1970).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stickers, otherwise good. viii + 164pp. Order No. NSBK-A1588
Keywords: 0416299504, interwar, inter war, inter-war, Gold Standard, money, employment, economy, economics, history, Sidney Pollard, finance, unemployment, deflation, 1920s, twenties, thirties, 1930s
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Simon, John.
Three Speeches on the General Strike:
(Macmillan, 1926).
With an introduction, diary of events, and appendices. Hardback. Boards sunned, otherwise very good in soiled, torn, incomplete dustwrapper. xxv + 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A1964
Keywords: General Strike, strike, labour, trade union, union, 1926, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century, 1920s
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Ainsworth, Jim.
Accrington 1926: a Comprehensive History of the General Strike as it Affected Accrington and District
(Hyndburn Trades Union Council, 1994).
Paperback. Fine. v + 219pp. Order No. NSBK-A14008
Keywords: 0952349604, Accrington, Lancashire, General Strike, history, strikes, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Labour Party, socialism, socialist, labour, trade unions, trade unionism, 1920s, twenties
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