Clark, Anna.
The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class
(Rivers Oram, 1995).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xv + 416pp. Order No. NSBK-C2179
Keywords: 9781854890757, gender, British, Britain, class, working class, marriage, courtship, Glasgow, Lancashire, London, factories, textiles, artisans, labour, labor, factory, social history
Price £13.95.
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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
Price £19.95.
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Sanderson, Michael, ed.
The Universities in the Nineteenth Century:
(RKP, 1975).
Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-A8079
Keywords: 0710080611, universities, university, Britain, British, history, England, English, academic, higher education, academia, students, lecturers, Oxbridge, Oxford, Cambridge, nineteenth century, Victorian, 19th, provincial universities, University of London, Scottish universities, vocationalism
Price £7.00.
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Mayhew, Henry.
Mayhew's Characters:
(Spring Books, 1967).
Edited with a note on the English character by Peter Quennell. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper which is rather torn and tatty at edges. xix + 360pp. Order No. NSBK-A5010
Keywords: B0000CNF5P, Henry Mayhew, nineteenth century, Victorian, povery, poor, London, oral history, Britain, British, England, english, interviews, people, popular, working-class, working class, work, labor, labour, mayhew's characters, mayhew's, mayhew, characters
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Bray, Maurice I.
Railway Picture Postcards:
(MPC, rpt., 1991).
Paperback. Spine and front cover creased, otherwise good. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A6230
Keywords: 0861903137, railways, steam trains, trains, transport, engines, vehicles, travel, postcards, pictures, nineteenth century, twentieth century, railway ships, docks, royal trains, bridges, tunnels, viaducts, Great Western Railway, locomotives, trams, traffic, The London and North Western Railway, photographs, photography, collectors, hobbies, hobby, entertainment, leisure, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Pettitt, Stephen J.
Philharmonia Orchestra: A Record of Achievement, 1945 - 1985
(Robert Hale, 1985).
Illustrated. Hardback. Very good in sun-faded, slightly creased dustwrapper. 285pp. Order No. NSBK-A15017
Keywords: 0709023715, music, Philharmonia Orchestra, orchestral, history, post war, post-war, performances, Arts Council, EMI Records, London
Price £45.00.
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Cundall, H. M.
The Life and Work of Birket Foster:
(Bracken Books, 1986 rpt of 1906 edit.).
Illustrated. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xx + 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A3320
Keywords: 1851700331, Birket Foster, art, artist, painter, biography, Myles Birket Foster, Quaker, North Shields, Northumberland, London, Ebenezer Landells, engraving, edmund Evans, Victorian, watercolour, watercolorist
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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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Allen, Vivien.
Lady Trader: A Biography of Mrs Sarah Heckford
(Collins, 1979).
Hardback. Very good in soiled and chipped dustwrapper. 243pp. Order No. NSBK-C4496
Keywords: 0002160730, Mrs Sarah Heckford, women travellers, woman traveller, women travelers, woman traveler, The East London Hospital, Childrens' Hospital, Nathaniel Heckford, India, South Africa, Transvaal, Pretoria, Rain Queen, Loboda, Modjadje, Boer War, biography, biographies, women's history, British, Britain nineteenth century
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Silver, Pamela & Harold.
The Education of the Poor: the History of a National School, 1824-1974
(RKP, 1974).
Hardback. Good in slightly soiled / browned dustwrapper. x + 197pp. Order No. NSBK-A2261
Keywords: 0710078048, england, English, Britain, British, education, poor, poverty, educator, National School, school, schools, schooling, Kennington National Schools, Revised Code, child, children, childhood, board school, board schools, state school, state schools, voluntary schools, voluntary school, Church, Church school, Church schools, monitor, monitors, monitorial system, London, south London, Lambeth, London County Council, Teachers, Teacher, Teaching, Teach
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