Hill, Octavia.
Our Common Land:
(Macmillan, 1877).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, some wear to spine, spine ends, edges and corners. Cloth a little marked / rubbed -else good / solid. vi + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-C6431
Keywords: B001P1SGF4, housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, town planning, urban history, open spaces, countryside, Britain, England, British, English, history, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment, district visiting, volunteer visitors, commons, charity, charities, COS, C.O.S., Charity Organisation Society
Price £120.00.
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Johnson, A. H.
The Disappearance of the Small Landowner: Ford Lectures 1909
(Oxford University Press/ Merlin, rpt., 1963).
Introduction by Dr Joan Thirsk. Includes fold out maps. Hardback. Godd + in tatty and torn dustwrapper. xiii + 164pp. Order No. NSBK-A13453
Keywords: B0000CLS2A, land, landowners, agriculture, agricultural, fields, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, seventeenth, sixteenth, fifteenth, fourteenth, medieval, mediaeval
Price £8.00.
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Naylor, Olive.
Kambi Bolongo: The Land of Roots
(Anchor, 1985).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly discoloured dustwrapper. 163pp. Order No. NSBK-A5702
Keywords: 0948016388, Kambi Bolongo, Bathurst, banjul, The Gambia, Africa, African, Methodist Mission, steamers, Kunte Kinte, Juffure, twentieth century
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Scott, Philippa.
Lucky Me:
(Kenilworth Press, 1990).
Illustrated by more than 90 photographs. The book is an evocation of the early life of Philippa Scott (nee Talbot-Ponsonby's) - her childhood in South Africa, school, climbing holidays, her time in the Land Army in World War II and a spell in Yugoslavia during the Cold War. She married Peter Scott in Reykjavik in 1951. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C5734
Keywords: 1872082114, Lucky Me, Philippa Scott, Philippa Talbot-Ponsonby, Land Army, Peter Scott, South Africa, World War Two, wars, Second World War, World War II, Britain, British, history, england, English, autobiography, autobiographical, memoirs, memoir, autobiographies, life history, life histories, women writers, Severn Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, Thjorsaver Expedition, Reykjavik
Price £6.00.
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Goodman, Philomena.
Women, Sexuality and War:
(Palgrave, 2002).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to front endpapers, a little rubbing to dustwrapper, otherwise very good+. xii + 180pp. Order No. NSBK-C4987
Keywords: 0333760867, war, women, woman, sex, sexuality, history, femininity, morals, social history, World War II, Second World War, morale, Home Front, British, Britain, England, English, gender roles, female identity, social relations, gender relations, separate spheres, public, private, services, wartime, Mass Observation, patriotism, conscription, Women's Land Army, WLA, Women's Royal Air Force, WRAF, Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, ATS, Women's Auxiliary Airforce, WAAF, Women's Voluntary Services, WVS, war effort
Price £45.00.
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Hunter, Guy.
Modernizing Peasant Societies: A Comparative Study in Asia and Africa
(OUP, 1969).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, edges rubbed, otherwise good. x + 324pp. Order No. NSBK-A8461
Keywords: 0192181831, peasants, peasant societies, society, Asia, Africa, Asian, African, poverty, poor, agriculture, agricultural, land, Tanzanian, education, educational, schools, schooling
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Petavel, J. W.
Administrative Efficiency and What it Might Give Us: Reduced Military Expenditure with Increased Army Reserves, and the Solution of the Problems of the Unemployed, of Rehousing, and of Technical Education
(Swan Sonnenschein, 1906).
The Towns of the Future and Self-Supporting Armies. Hardback. Pages browned and a little brittle with age. First page detached. Ex-library with usual lib stamps, in library binding. Good. 58pp. Order No. NSBK-A13365
Keywords: B0006F9FZU, Edwardian, army, army reserves, militarism, military expenditure, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, unemployment, unemployed, rehousing, housing, technical education, administrative efficiency, conscription, social reform, houses, military, labour, land, towns, town planning
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Stock, Catherine McNichol and Johnston, R., eds.
The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America
(Cornell UP, 2001).
Paperback. Fine. xii + 335pp. Order No. NSBK-A9517
Keywords: 0801487714, country, countryside, state, America, American, politics, political rural, countryside, country, state, land, African Americans, Victorian, twentieth century, nineteenth, 20th, 19th, USA
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Summerfield, Penny.
Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives:
(MUP, 1998).
Hardback. Very good. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C14460
Keywords: 071904460X, wartime, women's history, women's work, World War II, Second World War, World War Two, social history, oral history, popular culture, war effort, home front, domestic front, gender relations, gender roles, cultural representations, films, magazines, media, Women's Land Army, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, WAAF, Women's Royal Navy Service, WRNS
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Raybould, T.J.
The Economic Emergence of the Black Country: A Study of the Dudley Estate
(David and Charles, 1973).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 272pp. Order No. NSBK-A3044
Keywords: 0715359959, economy, Black Country, Dudley, Dudley estate, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Earl of Dudley, land, Britain, British, England, English, history
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