Porter, Valerie.
Yesterday's Countryside: Country Life as it Really Was
(David & Charles, rpt, 2003).
Hardback. Slight bump top edge, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. Large format. 319pp. Order No. NSBK-A15126
Keywords: 0715309684, countryside, country, history, agrarian, rural, farming, farms, country markets, social history
Price £17.99.
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Mackenzie, Norman and Jeanne, eds.
The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Volume Two, 1892-1905: All the Good Things of Life
(Virago, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xv + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-C6087
Keywords: 0860682102, Beatrice Webb, Sidney Webb, the Webbs, social reform, Edwardian, Victorian, LSE, London School of Economics, poor, poverty, trade unionism, local government, state, women's history, woman, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, diaries, diary, Virago
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Butterworth, Neil.
Haydn: His Life and Times
(Midas, 2nd impress., 1978).
Paperback. Very good. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A4395
Keywords: 0859361284, Haydn, music, history of music, musical, composer, Vienna, Mozart, eighteenth century, composers, classical
Price £7.00.
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Armstrong, Robin.
The Painted Stream: A River Warden's Life
(J. M. Dent and Sons, rpt., 1985).
Foreword by Sir Michael Hodern. Hardback. Very good+ in slightly torn and creased dustwrapper. 158pp. Order No. NSBK-A10432
Keywords: 0460047027, rivers, water, streams, river wardens, fish, fishing, angling, anglers, fishermen, fisherman, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, 20th, conservation, conservationists, bailiffs, wardens
Price £3.00.
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Forster, Canon Leslie John.
Through a Glass Darkly: Notes on the Life of a Parish Priest
(St Helen's Church, 1998).
Edited by Paul Catcheside. Paperback. Covers lightly marked, otherwise very good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A14047
Keywords: 095328560X, priests, priest, religious, religion, history, parish priests, Canon Leslie John Forster, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, St Helen's Church, church, churches, Liverpool, ordination, blind, blindness, sight, Hollinfare Church, Great Budworth, Cheshire, Antrobus, Merseyside, autobiographies, autobiography
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Sackett, Terence.
British Life a Century Ago: Images from the Francis Frith Collection
(Frith Book Co, rpt, 2001).
Paperback. Very good. 137pp. Order No. NSBK-A13972
Keywords: 1859372139, Francis Firth collection, photography, photograph, images, image, pictures, social history, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, work, shops, recreation, leisure, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Edwardian
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Chisholm, Kate.
Fanny Burney: her Life, 1752 - 1849
(Chatto & Windus, 1998).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xi + 347pp. Order No. NSBK-C2834
Keywords: 070116378X, Fanny Burney, Evelina, blue stockings, women writers, King's Lynn, George III, the novel, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Troubridge, Laura.
Life Amongst the Troubridges: Journals of a Young Victorian 1873-1884
(John Murray, 1966).
Edited by Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson. Hardback. A little foxing to page edges, otherwise good in soiled, edge-worn dw. 195pp. Order No. NSBK-C6914
Keywords: 0719514282, Laura Troubridge, women writers, woman writer, women's writing, literature, literary, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, journals, Colonel Sir Thomas St Vincent Troubridge, Runcton, Norfolk, Britain, British, England, English, pastelists, painters, artists, Queen Victoria, history
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Hareven, Tamara K. and Langenbach, Randolph.
Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City in New England
(Methuen, 1979).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xiii + 395pp. Order No. NSBK-A3210
Keywords: 0416721605, city, industrial, Amoskeag, America, American, American history, labour history, labor history, Amoskeag, United States, USA manufacturing company, textile, Merrimack, New Hampshire, factory, immigration, oral history
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Peabody, Francis Greenwood.
Education for Life: The Story of Hampton Institute
(Doubleday, Page and Co, 1920).
Told in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the school. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, boards rather worn and frayed, splitting internally at spine (front and back); a good reading copy only. xxiv + 393pp. Order No. NSBK-A6598
Keywords: B00088UQU8, Hampton Institute, education, educational, twentieth century, Samuel Chapman Armstrong, nineteenth century, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, social history, schools
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