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Life at the Cape A Hundred Years Ago:
(Centaur (Pty) Ltd, 1983).
With contemporary illustrations selected from the work of Thomas Bowler. Covers the years 1861-2 in a series of vignettes which first appeared in the Cape Monthly magazine. Chapters include first impressions of people and scenery, Camps Bay, excursion on Table Mountain, Christmas festivities at Wynberg and Newlands, hospitality at Constantia, a picnic at Kalk Bay, a State Ball, Stellenbosch, Wellington and the Paarl. Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly worn dustwrapper. 119pp. Order No. NSBK-C3900
Keywords: 0908379471, Cape Town, South Africa, Table Mountain, autobiographies, autobiography, women, woman, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Wynberg, Newlands, Constantia, Kalk Bay, Stellenbosch, Wellington, Paarl, Berg River
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Powell, Lyman P.
Mary Baker Eddy: A Life Size Portrait
(Nisbet and Co, 1930).
Hardback. Leather boards worn and marked especially at edges, otherwise internally good. xii + 364pp. Order No. NSBK-C2584
Keywords: B000I1TOGM, Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science, America, United States, American women, USA, American women's history
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Wilson, Barbara Ker, ed.
Everyone Mattered: The Life and Times of Dame Kitty Anderson
(The Chandos Press, 2003).
Paperback. New book, fine. 198pp. Order No. NSBK-C6864
Keywords: 0954531108, Dame Kitty Anderson, education, educational, schools, schooling, NCLS, Royal Holloway College, headmistress, headmistresses, teaching, teachers, women and work, women's work, childhood, children, twentieth century, Dames, Founder's Day, Margaret Ghilchik, Joan Clanchy, Olive Mellor, Erica Brostoff, schooldays, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, Kay Moore, Caroline M Barron, Katharine McMahon, Ann Thomas, Janet Sondheimer, women's education
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Bamford, Samuel.
Passages in the Life of a Radical:
(OUP, 1984 rpt of 1884 text).
Preface by Tim Hilton. Paperback. Back cover slightly soiled, otherwise good. 368pp. Order No. NSBK-A814
Keywords: 0192814133, radical, Britain, British, England, English, history, radicals, radicalism, samule banford, autobiography, autobiographies, working class, working classes, hampden clubs, peterloo massacre, manchester, weavers, nineteenth century, 19th century
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Despard, Annabelle, ed.
A Woman's Place: Women, Domesticity and Private Life
(Agder College, Faculty of Arts, Kristiansand, Norway, 1998).
Signed by the author. Paperback. Minor soiling to covers, otherwise very good. 219pp. Order No. NSBK-C15171
Keywords: 9788271173753, domesticity, women, private sphere, domestic, Agder College, Faculty of Arts, essays, Kristiansand, Norway, Norwegian, history
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Blair, Anna, ed.
Miss Cranston's Omnibus: Recollections of Glasgow Life
(Lomond Books, 1991).
Illustrated by Bill Taylor. Includes Tea at Miss Cranston's and More Tea at Miss Cranston's. Paperback. Good. xiv + 447pp. Order No. NSBK-C3170
Keywords: 0947782443, Miss Cranston, omnibus, Glasgow, Scotland, social history, oral history, poverty
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Thomas, Caitlin.
Caitlin: Life with Dylan Thomas
(Henry Holt and Company, 1986).
With George Tremlett. Paperback. Very good+. xii + 212pp. Order No. NSBK-C10669
Keywords: 0805007695, Dylan Thomas, Caitlin Thomas, poets, poetry, alcohol, alcoholism, Britain, British, Welsh, Wales, history, death, bereavement, twentieth century, literature, 20th, literary, writers, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical
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Hazlewood, Nick.
Savage: the Life and Times of Jemmy Button
(Hodder & Stoughton, 2000).
Paperback. Very good - book proof. 363pp. Order No. NSBK-A3606
Keywords: B000HBXL7G, Jemmy Button, Tierra del Fuego, Fuegian, Fuegians, history, Charles Darwin, Darwinianism, nineteenth century
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McKay, Sinclair.
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the World War II Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Worked There
(Aurum, 2010).
Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled dustwrapper. vi + 336pp. Order No. NSBK-A15737
Keywords: 9781845135393, codes, war, Second World War, wartime, code-breaking, history, Bletchley Park
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Moss, Michael; Elson, S. & Hume, John, eds.
A Plumber's Pastime: Photographs of Victorian Life in the West of Scotland by Matthew Morrison
(Turner and Earnshaw, 1974).
Paperback. Very good. 84pp. Order No. NSBK-A3686
Keywords: 0904358011, Victorian, nineteenth century, photograph, photography, camera, picture, Matthew Morrison, plumber, Scotland, West of Scotland, Paisley
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