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Wojtczak, Helena.
Mary Raleigh Richardson: The Suffragette Arsonist Who Slashed the Rokeby Venus
(Hastings Press, 2025).
Signed by the author. This first book-length biography of the militant suffragette Mary Raleigh Richardson reveals for the first time her true identity, ancestry, childhood and education, as well as her surprising - and exciting - international travels before she became embroiled in the suffrage struggle. During her time as a militant Mary was arrested nine times. Prepared to die for the cause, she adopted the hunger strike each time she was imprisoned, and was forcibly fed countless times. Her hunger strike medal boasted more bars than that of any other suffragette - something of which she remained proud for the rest of her life. Her most infamous deed was to use a cheap meat cleaver to inflict several gashes into Velasquez's Rokeby Venus, a world-famous and priceless painting. In a lesser-known and yet equally sensational attack she burned down a historic mansion near Hampton Court. During the war she continued to work for the vote, allying herself with both Sylvia Pankhurst's ELFS and the United Suffragists. Having joined the Labour Party she twice stood for Parliament, and in 1933 was briefly a member of Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Finding it did not align with her values she returned to socialism for the rest of her life. In retirement she penned Laugh a Defiance, a memoir of her suffrage days. The work is essential reading for suffrage scholars and those keen to explore the lives of the individual personalities within the militant movement. Paperback. Fine. 320pp. Order No. NSBK-C15912
Keywords: 9781904109600, signed by the author, suffragettes, Votes for Women, biography, biographies, social history, women's history, Mary Raleigh Richardson, hunger strikes, militancy,suffragette, Canada, Canadian politics, arson, militant
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Oldham, J.H..
Florence Allshorn and the Story of St. Julian's:
(SCM Press, 1951).
Early twentieth-century trainer of missionaries. Hardback. Spine slightly faded & corners worn, otherwise very good. 168pp. Order No. NSBK-C34
Keywords: B0000CI2NA, missionary, missionaries, history, Florence Allshorn, St Julian's Community, women, twentieth century, biographies, biography, Uganda, Ugandan, Africa, African
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Kahn, Albert.
Days with Ulanova:
(Collins, 1962).
With an Introduction by Arnold L. Haskell. Hardback. Large format, good in slightly edge worn dustwrapper. 235pp. Order No. NSBK-C5310
Keywords: B0000CLJYI, Galina Ulanova, ballet, ballerina, prima ballerina, Bolshoi Ballet, Covent Garden, dancing, dance, dances, dancers, Soviet Union, Russia, biography, biographies, life history, life histories, women's history, Russian
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Goodman, Dave.
No Thanks to Lloyd George: The Forgotten Story - How the Old Age Pension Was Won
(D Goodman, 1987).
Paperback. Covers slightly rubbed, otherwise good+. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A13521
Keywords: 0951279408, pensions, old age pension, history, Lloyd George, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, welfare, old age, state welfare, national insurance, pensioners, retirement, Edwardian, economy
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Clay, Trevor.
Nurses: Power and Politics
(Heinemann Nursing, rpt., 1987).
In association with Alison Dunn and Neil Stewart. Foreword by Virginia Henderson. Paperback. Spine sun faded, otherwise very good. vii + 165pp. Order No. NSBK-C6638
Keywords: 0433060050, nurses, nursing, medicine, health, medical, hospitals, Health Service, NHS, National Health Service, patients, students, women's work, women and work, Britain, British, England, English
Price £5.00.
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Elliot, Faith Robertson.
The Family: Change or Continuity:
(Macmillan Education, 1989).
Paperback. Spine faded, otherwise very good. xi + 235pp. Order No. NSBK-C9678
Keywords: 0333329708, family, families, women's studies, feminism, feminists, women, woman, women's movement, children, twentieth century, 20th, child, abortion, marriage, parenthood, parents
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Cockburn, John.
The Hungry Heart: a Romantic Biography of James Keir Hardie
(Jarrolds, 1956).
Hardback. Very good. 286pp. Order No. NSBK-A14364
Keywords: B0012LEKWU, James Keir Hardie, Labour, ILP, Labour Party, biography, biographies, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, labour movement, politics
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Shaw, Marion, ed.
Man Does, Woman Is: an Anthology of Work and Gender
(Fab. & Fab., 1995).
Hardback. Very good in edgeworn dustwrapper. xiii + 256pp. Order No. NSBK-C753
Keywords: 0571165583, work, women and work, gender, labour, women's work, sexual equality, sex disrimination, jobs, women workers, working women, woman worker, woman workers, 20th century, twentieth century, labour, labor, gender roles, division of labour, gender division of labour
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Adams, Carol; Bartley, P; Lown, J.; Loxton C.
Under Control: Life in a Nineteenth-Century Silk Factory
(CUP, rpt, 1985).
Paperback. Covers slightly yellowed, otherwise very good. 44pp. Order No. NSBK-C15108
Keywords: B004IGIH2K, silk industry, silk workers, history, factory, factories, nineteenth century, 19th century, Victorian, women workers
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Deacon, Bob, et al.
The New Eastern Europe: Social Policy, Past, Present and Future
(Sage, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. ix + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A9468
Keywords: 0803984391, social policy, history, Europe, Eastern Europe, East Europe, European, Soviet Union, communism, communist, market economy, democracy, welfare, childcare, working women, unemployed, poor, twentieth century, 20th
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