Maurice, C. Edmund, ed.
Life of Octavia Hill: as Told in her Letters
(Macmillan, rpt, 1914).
Hardback. Some foxing to early pages, minor yellow highlighting to text, rubbing to edges and spine ends, otherwise a good solid copy. vii + 591pp. Order No. NSBK-C4485
Keywords: B01M9FUK1S, Octavia Hill, biography, biographies, autobiographies, autobiography, letters, housing, Victorian social reformers, reform, philanthropy, town planning, open spaces, settlements, dwellings, poverty, poor, paupers, pauperism, Britain, England, English, British, National Trust, commons, working class, working classes
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Silver, R & Brandenburger, Caroline.
Establishment Wives:
(W.H.Allen, 1989).
Hardback. Ex library, well used, good. vii + 240pp. Order No. NSBK-C2765
Keywords: 1852271418, wife, marriage, the Establishment, business, professions, law, academia
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Hill, Octavia.
House Property and its Management: Some Papers on the Methods of Management Introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and Adapted to Modern Conditions
(George Allen & Unwin, 1921).
Intro. by I. G. Gibbon. Presented by M.M. Jeffery and Edith Neville. Scarce original. Hardback. Pages and boards browned with age, spine split a little at top end, and internally at binding, else a good copy. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C6430
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, tenants, town planning, urban history, Britain, England, British, English, history, house property, house management, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, cottages, model dwellings, letters to fellow workers, women managers, Amsterdam, municipal, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment
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Ramsay, Esther, M.E. & Maddock, Alison, J., eds.
The Churchwardens' Accounts of Walton-On-The-Hill, Lancashire, 1627 - 1667:
(Record Society Lancashire Cheshire, 2005).
No 141 in the Series. Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled, lightly creased dustwrapper. xxxix + 191pp. Order No. NSBK-C14480
Keywords: 0902593684, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, religion, religious, Walton-On-The-Hill, 17th century, seventeenth century, Liverpool, church, church buildings, churchwardens' accounts, poor relief, charity, church finance, church maintenance, school
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Burton, Hester.
Barbara Bodichon, 1827-1891:
(John Murray, 1949).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings. Some sun-fading and cracking intermally at spine, and a little wear to corners, otherwise good. xii + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-C1250
Keywords: B0006D73UQ, Barbara Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, women's rights, Pre-Raphaelite, law, marriage, Britain, England, British, English, history, women's history education, suffrage, marriage reform, biography, biographies, Hitchin, Girton, women's movement, Victorian, nineteenth century, Votes for Women, antiquarian
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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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Manton, Jo.
Mary Carpenter and the Children of the Streets:
(Heinemann, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly yellowed dustwrapper creased at edges. 268pp. Order No. NSBK-C13437
Keywords: 9780435325695, children, childhood, Mary Carpenter, streets, poverty, poor, crime, criminals, child abuse, juvenile delinquency, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, beggars, begging, prisons, Bristol, India
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Lyons, Lewis.
The History of Punishment:
(Amber Books, 2003).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A7967
Keywords: 0954435621, history, crime, world, criminals, punishment, retribution, deterrence, reform, incapacitation, laws, law, legal, imprisonment, prisons, gaols, jails, corporal punishment, death penalty, Sharia Law, Manu, tang code, shaming, medieval, mediaeval, prison reform, open prisons, community service, hannurabi, the pilliory, flogging, hanging, drawing, quartering, guillotines, bastinado, crucifixion, lethal injection, electric chair, torture
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Thomis, Malcolm I.
The Town Labourer and the Industrial Revolution:
(B.T. Batsford, 1974).
Paperback. Spine faded, otherwise very good. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-A5486
Keywords: 0713428333, town labourers, Industrial Revolution, social history, Britain, British, England, English, workers, work, industry, urban, urbanisation, towns, factory, factories, trade unions, trade unionism, trade union, collectives, combinations, Combination Laws, factory system, handloom weavers
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Gordon, Linda, ed.
Women, the State and Welfare:
(Wisconsin UP, 1992).
Paperback. Light creasing to spine and rubbing to edges, otherwise very good. 311pp. Order No. NSBK-C5459
Keywords: 9780299126643, welfare, social welfare, race, class, America, American, United States of America, USA, women's, women, woman, social security, twentieth century, state, state welfare, state support, unemployment, welfare programmes, public welfare, poor women, poverty, social policy, Linda Gordon
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