French, J. O.
Plumbers in Unity, 1865-1965: History of the Plumbing Trades Union, 1865-1965
(Co-operative Printing Society Ltd, 1965).
Hardback. Very good+. 171pp. Order No. NSBK-A11042
Keywords: B0037QE5QE, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, plumbers, plumbing, water
Price £30.00.
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Gladwin, D. D.
The Canals of Britain:
(B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1973).
With illustrations by J. K. Ebblewhite. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some staining to top page edges, otherwise good in faded dustwrapper. 254pp. Order No. NSBK-A7037
Keywords: 07134049292, canals, rivers, water, waterways, Britain, British, history, England, English, Bridgewater, canal companies, company, boats, boatmen, lock-keepers, navvy, navvies, Waterways Research Centre, borrowed by RAS
Price £6.00.
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Colloms, Brenda.
Charles Kingsley: The Lion of Eversley
(Constable, 1975).
Hardback. Light foxing to dustwrapper and endpapers, otherwise very good. 400pp. Order No. NSBK-A9238
Keywords: 0094600201, Charles Kingsley, Eversley, men, biography, biographical life, history, lives, life histories, biographies, nineteenth century, Victorian, novels, fiction, poets, poetry, novelists, clergymen, social reformers, clergyman, Tories Radicals, Westward Ho, The Water Babies, Working Men's College, writers, literary, literature
Price £5.00.
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Hadfield, Charles.
British Canals: An Illustrated History
(David and Charles, 1974).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, ex library with usual library markings. pages 279-290 partially detached, otherwise good in faded dustwrapper. 356pp. Order No. NSBK-A7982
Keywords: 0715367005, Britain, British, canals, waterways, water, eighteenth century, 18th, 19th, transport, goods, Birmingham, Basingstoke, Pontcysyllte, canal mania, seas, ports, railways, Manchester Ship Canal, borrowed by RAS
Price £8.00.
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Henny, E. and Byett, J. D.
Modern Home Laundrywork:
(J.M. Dent and Sons, rpt., 1948).
Illustrated with photographs and drawings of different types of laundry equipment, methods of folding items of clothing etc. Hardback. Good. x + 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A10644
Keywords: women, women's history, homes, Britain, British, homekeeping, housekeeping, housewifery, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, laundry, washing, stains, cotton, linen, fabrics, cleaning, rayon, nylon, family wash, domestic, domesticity, laundrywork, reagents, equipment, water, soap, women's work, textiles, housewife, housewives, clothes, clothing
Price £7.00.
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Morris, R. J.
Cholera, 1832: the Social Reponse to an Epidemic
(Croom Helm, 1976).
General editors: J. F. C. Harrison and Stephen Yeo. Scarce. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in faded, chipped, lightly soiled dustwrapper. 228pp. Order No. NSBK-A13440
Keywords: 0856643777, cholera, epidemics, diseases, water, water supplies, sanitation, 19th century, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, sanitary, urban, urbanisation, medical, medicine, science, morality, class, Sunderland, Manchester, hospitals, Edinburgh, quarantine, public health, illness, sickness, towns, cities, town, city
Price £45.00.
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Lawrie, Alistair; Matthews, H.; Ritchie, D, eds.
Glimmer of Cold Brine: A Scottish Sea Anthology
(Aberdeen UP, 1988).
Paperback. Very good. xiv + 233pp. Order No. NSBK-A6172
Keywords: 0080365795, Scotland, Scots, Scotch, Scottish, anthology, sea, marine, water, coasts, boats, ships, maritime, women, childhood, history, fishing, whales, whaling, widowmaker, poetry, poems, short stories, prose
Price £5.00.
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Minett, E. P. and Severn, A. G. M.
Practical Tropical Sanitation: A Pocket Book for Sanitary Inspectors in the Tropics
(Balliere, Tindall and Cox, 1927).
Hardback. Boards slightly soiled, otherwise good. 180pp. Order No. NSBK-A13464
Keywords: sanitary inspectors, sanitation, public health, water, tropics, sewage, refuse disposal, rubbish, abbatoirs, food, markets
Price £32.00.
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Smith, Alice E.
Millstone and Saw: The Origins of Neenah-Menasha
(Wisconsin Historical Society, 1967).
Hardback. Good in rather soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. vii + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A14936
Keywords: 0870200968, urban, history, America, United States of America, city, cities, water mills, industry, industrial growthFox River, Neenah-Menasha, manufacturing, ninetenth century, American West
Price £15.99.
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Rubinstein, David.
Victorian Homes:
(David and Charles, 1974).
Hardback. Boards lightly soiled, otherwise very good. 287pp. Order No. NSBK-A8040
Keywords: 071536765X, Victorian, homes, houses, nineteenth, 19th, century, residences, residential, class, architecture, architectural, classes, slums, housing, terraces, planning, sanitation, hot water, heating, lighting, flats, tenements, society
Price £12.00.
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