National Trust, .
Dunham Massey:
(The National Trust, rpt., 1999).
Paperback. Good+. 65pp. Order No. NSBK-A11997
Keywords: Dunham Massey, houses, stately homes, Cheshire, aristocrats, aristocracy
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Walvin, James.
English Urban Life, 1776-1851:
(Hutchinson, 1984).
Paperback. Covers slightly browned, otherwise good. vii + 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A7558
Keywords: 0091561515, James Walvin, England, English, history, Britain, British, towns, cities, city, urban, metropolitan, metropolis, population, demographic, demography, housing, homes, houses, streets, machinery, social class, classes, poverty, urbanisation, urbanization, poor, public order, law enforcement
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Lummis, Trevor and Marsh, Jan.
The Woman's Domain: Women and the English Country House
(Viking, 1990).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xii + 221pp. Order No. NSBK-C13893
Keywords: 0670816809, Hardwick Hall, women's history, women, Trevor Lummis, Jan Marsh, Arlington Court, Wallington, Belton House, Saltram, English country houses, Bess of Hardwick, domestic servants, domestic service
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Eckford, E. Stoddart and Fitzgerald, M. S.
Household Management: A Handbook of Domestic Economy and Hygiene
(Sir Isaac Pitman, 1927).
Fourth Impression. Hardback. Covers and spine slightly soiled, otherwise good. iv + 432pp. Order No. NSBK-A11853
Keywords: B000HC1SD4, E. Stoddart Eckman, M. S. Fitzgerald, domestic economy, hygiene, houses, households, household management, housewives, housewifery, homes
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Partington, Jim.
The Two-Up and Two-Downer (With a Taste for Honey): the Crowded Life of a Lancashire Lad
(Fabians Publishers, 1972).
Autobiography. Leftist reminiscences of self-made Lancashire man, born 1908, dedicated to Lord Brockway of ILP. "I attended meetings in Bradford [where] he showed me the Political Path I should follow. Although I have devoted much of my life to the acquisition of material possessions, I have never deviated from his Philosophy". Hardback. Very good in slightly worn and slightly chipped dustwrapper. xiv + 257pp. Order No. NSBK-A1550
Keywords: B000HBVSLC, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Lancashire, lads, boys, homes, houses, terraces, twentieth century, 20th, Jim Partington, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories
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Grigg, John.
Nancy Astor: A Revealing New Portrait of a Woman who Made History
(Hamlyn, 1980).
Illustrated with exclusive pictures from the Astor family album. Paperback. Covers slightly browned, otherwise very good. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A3947
Keywords: 0600205940, Nancy Astor, politics, politician, M. P., women and politics, Plymouth Sutton, Conservative party, Tory, party politics, House of Commons, Houses of Parliament, Britain, British, history, England, English, biography, women's history, twentieth century, Tories
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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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Raitz, Karl, ed.
A Guide to the National Road:
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
Illustrated with more than 300 maps and photographs. Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. xxiv + 392pp. Order No. NSBK-A10360
Keywords: 0801851564, National Road, highways, roads, traffic, American, America, USA, United States, Chesapeake Bay, Mississippi River, Congress, Maryland, Cumberland, National Historic Register, travel, motor courts, road houses, gas stations, diners, transport
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Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, and Roger Leech.
Early Industrial Housing: the Trinity Area of Frome
(HMSO, 1981).
Supplementary Series. Paperback. Covers lightly rubbed, otherwise very good. viii + 44pp. Order No. NSBK-A7705
Keywords: 0117009075, Frome, Trinity Area, industrial housing, housing, houses, social history, architecture, architectural, buildings, homes, surveys, plans, streets, neighbourhood, town planning, regional studies, Britain, British, England, English, Somerset, urban, urbanisation, urban development, growth, 18th century, eighteenth century
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Eden, Frederic Morton.
The State of the Poor: or, an History of the Labouring Classes in England from the Conquest to the Present Period
(Thoemmes Continuum, 2001 facsimile edition of 1797 edition).
PLEASE NOTE: TWO VOLUMES ONLY OF THREE (Vol I and Vol II). Hardbacks. Very good condition. Set sadly lacks vol 3. xxxi + 632; viii + 692pp. Order No. NSBK-A13850
Keywords: 1855062623, poverty, poor, poor relief, friendly societies, friendly society, labouring classes, working classes, pauperism, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Frederic Morton Eden, parochial reports, diet, dress, habitation, domestic economy, philanthropy, poor houses, workhouses, 18th century, eighteenth century
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