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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Chrisp, Peter.
The Blitz:
(University of Sussex Library, 1987).
Scarce. Based on papers held at the Mass Observation Archive, University of Sussex. Spiral-boundbooklet. Good. 26pp. Order No. NSBK-A13031
Keywords: 0850870186, Mass Observation, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, Blitz, Mass-Observation, Peter Chrisp, University of Sussex, 1940s, forties, home front, domestic front, London Blitz, Coventry, Birmingham, Portsmouth, Hull, bombing, social history, Croydon Raid, air raids
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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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St. John Ambulance Association, .
First Aid to the Injured: the Authorised Textbook of the St. John Ambulance Association
(St. John Ambulance Association, 39th edition, 9th impression, 1939).
Hardback. Spine damaged (part of cloth peeled away & a small hole to spine edge), otherwise a good firm copy with a little rubbing to edges. 294pp. Order No. NSBK-A7231
Keywords: St. John Ambulance Association, first aid, health, social history, twentieth century, ambulances, Britain, British, England, English, sickness, injured, injuries, caring for the sick, patients, advice books
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Mayhew, Henry.
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts. Volume 3
(Caliban Books, 1981).
Paperback. Spine lightly browned, otherwise very good. 277pp. Order No. NSBK-A13116
Keywords: 0904573222, Victorian, 1850, 19th century, nineteenth century, labour, poor, poverty, Henry Mayhew, social surveys, social investigations, sanitation, oral history, wages, sweated labour, poor law, employment, work, thieves, theft, robbery, London, tramps, vagrancy, lodging houses, housing, food, earnings, child labour, boot and shoe trade, beggars, asylums, clothes, boot and shoe makers
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Walvin, James.
Victorian Values:
(Andre Deutsch, 1987).
A Companion to the Granada Television Series. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xi + 171pp. Order No. NSBK-A7200
Keywords: 0233981063, Victorian, social history, nineteenth century, society, Britain, British, England, English, James Walvin, Jim Walvin, values, morality, paternalism, laissez faire, health, education, poverty, public health
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Symes, Ruth A.
Family First: Tracing Relationships in the Past
(Pen and Sword, 2015).
Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents - these are the relationships that structure the family tree and fascinate the family historian. But how much do we really know about how our ancestors lived out these multiple roles? Buffeted this way and that by economic developments, legal changes, medical advances, Two World Wars, the rise of the Welfare State, women's emancipation and many other factors, relationships between members of our family in the past were subtly different to those of today and continually transforming. This book is both a social history of the period 1800-1950 and a practical guide on how to set about tracing and better understanding the relationships between members of your own family. What did it mean to be a father in this period, but also, how might you discover the father of an ancestor if his name is not mentioned on the birth certificate? What common ideas were held about the role of wives and mothers, but also, how were multiple births, stillbirths, abortions and infanticides dealt with in the records? What factors might have influenced the size of your ancestor's family, but also why were its children named as they were? Did pecking order in a family matter, but also, was it legal to marry a cousin, or the sister of a deceased wife? How long could people expect to live, but also what records can tell you more about the circumstances of your ancestors' last years? A final chapter considers relationships with neighbours, friends and club associates. Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C15530
Keywords: 9781473833883, family relationships, family trees, geneaology, geneaological, social history, ancestors, tracing ancestors, fathers, mothers, siblings, cousins, women, welfare state, infants, clubs, grandparents
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Forbes, Robert.
Sixty Years of Medical Defence:
(Medical Defence Union, 1948).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, wear to boards and damage to spine & fly leaf, but a good solid working copy. 92pp. Order No. NSBK-A6579
Keywords: B0000CJA05, medical claims, medical defence, history, health, social history, law, legal, 1940s, post war, post-war, Medical Defence Union, medicine, doctors, Britain, British, England, English, prosecutions, legal action
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Suffragette Poster, Modern Reproduction.
Votes for Women Wanted Everywhere:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007).
Paper: SRA3 = 320mm by 450mm. Image: A3 = 297mm by 420mm. 300 GMS gloss art high quality poster paper, coated and treated. Reproduction of an attractive suffragette poster advertising "Votes for Women", the Pethick-Lawrence edited newspaper, founded in October 1907. The colours are green, grey, purple and white and the image depicts a suffragette in contemporary dress standing in a field and holding aloft a copy of the newspaper. Poster. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C13071
Keywords: B000UZVP7M, Portrayer Publishers, suffragettes, suffragette poster, suffragette posters, Votes for Women, woman suffrage, history, women, enfranchisement, franchise, women's movement, politics, England, English, illustrations, suffrage, politics, images, imagery, women, women's, representations, pictures, poster, posters, enfranchisement, the franchise, reproductions, modern reproductions, print, prints, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, Britain, British, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera, newspapers, new design
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Barker, A.J.
Redcoats:
(Gordon & Cremonesi, 1976).
Hardback. Page edges slightly foxed, otherwise very good in torn dustwrapper. 156pp. Order No. NSBK-A4113
Keywords: 0860330079, America, American, Redcoats, military history, social history, eighteenth century
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