Petavel, J. W.
Administrative Efficiency and What it Might Give Us: Reduced Military Expenditure with Increased Army Reserves, and the Solution of the Problems of the Unemployed, of Rehousing, and of Technical Education
(Swan Sonnenschein, 1906).
The Towns of the Future and Self-Supporting Armies. Hardback. Pages browned and a little brittle with age. First page detached. Ex-library with usual lib stamps, in library binding. Good. 58pp. Order No. NSBK-A13365
Keywords: B0006F9FZU, Edwardian, army, army reserves, militarism, military expenditure, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, unemployment, unemployed, rehousing, housing, technical education, administrative efficiency, conscription, social reform, houses, military, labour, land, towns, town planning
Price £28.00.
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Aronson, Hugh.
Our Village Homes: Present Conditions and Suggested Remedies
(Thomas Murby, 1913).
With a preface by Lord Henry Bentinck. Hardback. Cloth rather soiled, some rubbing / fraying to extremities, otherwise a good solid copy. x + 150pp. Order No. NSBK-A13844
Keywords: B001IVIPUM, villages, village, history, town planning, housing, houses, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, housing schemes, social history, housing conditions, homes, rural areas, countryside, health, rural depopulation, agriculture, labourers' cottages, cottage, Hugh Aronson, social conditions, architecture, house building
Price £70.00.
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Simon, E.D.
The Anti-Slum Campaign:
(Longmans, 2nd Impression, 1933).
Very scarce. Hardback. Cloth sun faded and worn at edges, internally good. viii + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A4069
Keywords: B000KYQ3D4, Manchester, slums, anti-slum campaign, housing, cities, urban history, North West, England, English, Britain, British, Addison Act, rents, Greenwood Act, town planning, urbanisation, conurbation, dwellings, houses, building, city, local government, local authorities, Chamberlain Act, Wheatley Act, Hilton Young Acts, slum clearance, housing shortage, tenants, Homes for Heroes, Simons, E.D. Simon, Ernest Simon, poverty, poor
Price £12.00.
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Reece, S.
Guide to Manchester and Salford:
(St Ann's Press, 2nd edit., 1948).
Card covers. Spine loose, boards soiled and worn otherwise good. 159pp. Order No. NSBK-A12079
Keywords: B000J32PLK, Manchester, Salford, North-West, North West, towns, city, cities, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, guides
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Phillips, C. B. and Smith, J. H, editors.
Stockport Probate Records, 1620 - 1650:
(Record Society of Lancashire Cheshire, 1992).
No 131 in the Series. Hardback. Very good in chipped, slightly creased dustwrapper. xxviii + 393pp. Order No. NSBK-A14539
Keywords: 0902593226, Stockport, probate, legal, early modern, history, Manchester, seventeenth century, 17th century, wills, market towns, inheritance, debts
Price £15.00.
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Treble, J.H.
Urban Poverty in Britain, 1830 - 1914:
(Batsford Academic, 1979).
Hardback. Front cover creased, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A6432
Keywords: 9780815398400, urban, poverty, Britain, British, towns, cities, town, city, poor, nineteenth century, twentieth century, industry, industrialisation, industrialization, low pay, casual labour, unemployment, sickness, widowhood, family, familes, economy, economics, history, England, English, paupers, pauper, pauperism
Price £20.00.
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Scrase, Tony.
Wells: A Pictorial History
(Phillimore, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. pp. Order No. NSBK-A7823
Keywords: 085033814X, Wells, Britain, Britsih, England, English, Somerset, towns, cities, city, cathedrals
Price £5.00.
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Stanley, Oliver; Buchan, John, Bressey, C. H.
British Bridges: an Illustrated Technical and Historical Record
(Public Works, Roads, Transport Congress, 1933).
With many photographic illustrations. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Splitting / cracking damage to exterior of spine, with some wear to all edges. Otherwise overall good. xxiv + 498pp. Order No. NSBK-A14968
Keywords: B000RZAQPW, bridges, history, technical, transport, history, technology, roads, infrastructure, public works, bridge, towns, crossing points, photos, photographs, pictures, illustrations
Price £35.00.
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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
Price £22.00.
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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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