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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Coates, Tim, ed.
Florence Nightingale and the Crimea, 1854-55:
(TSO, 2000).
Part of the "Uncovered Editions" series, which presents historic official papers in a popular form. Moments of History Series. Paperback. Very good. 184pp. Order No. NSBK-C4110
Keywords: 0117024252, Florence Nightingale, nursing, Crimea, Crimean War, Victorian history, nineteenth century, medicine, female pioneers, nurses, official papers, hospitals, Moments of History Series
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Goodman, Anthony.
The New Monarchy: England, 1471 - 1534
(Basil Blackwell, 1988).
Paperback. Some wear and light creasing to covers, minor pencil annotation, otherwise good. 89pp. Order No. NSBK-A14353
Keywords: 0631149279, new monarchy, Tudor, Tudors, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, renaissance, Yorkists, crown, household, parliament
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Hamilton, Mary Agnes.
The Labour Party Today: What it is, and How it Works
(Labour Book Service, 1939).
Scarce. With a section on women. Hardback. Some foxing, otherwise very good. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A1948
Keywords: B000LE439Y, Mary Agnes Hamilton, Hamilton, trade union, Labour party, party politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, trade unionism, women and work , women's work, labor, labour, trade unions
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Heron, Liz.
Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties
(Virago, rpt, 1985).
Paperback. With newspaper review pasted inside front cover, back cover slightly browned, otherwise a good copy. viii + 248pp. Order No. NSBK-C2389
Keywords: 0860685969, fifties, growing up, education, history, girls, women, post-war, welfare state, feminism, society, social, careers, childhood, child, girlhood
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Rex, John & Moore, Robert.
Race, Community and Conflict: a Study of Sparkbrook
(OUP, rpt + corrections, 1974).
Paperback. Covers slightly worn, small stain at top of front endpapers, otherwise good. xvi + 304pp. Order No. NSBK-A1555
Keywords: 0192181629, Sparkbrook, race, ethnicity, community, conflict
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Worthen, John.
D.H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912
(CUP, rpt., 1992).
Paperback. Crease to front cover, some foxing / soiling to page edges - a good working copy. xviii + 626pp. Order No. NSBK-A12540
Keywords: 0521437725, D. H. Lawrence, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, biography, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, Edwardian
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Rothschild, Emma.
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
(Princeton UP, 2021).
An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations. Hardback. Very good in slightly creased, lightly soiled dustwrapper. 448pp. Order No. NSBK-A15944
Keywords: 9780691200309, French, France, economy, families, family, economic, history, French Revolution, Angouleme, stored in hall
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Townsend, Henry.
Robert Wilson Black:
(Carey Kingsgate Press, 1954).
Temperance worker; President of the United Kingdom Alliance, 1932-52. Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled / chipped dustwrapper. 222pp. Order No. NSBK-A3230
Keywords: B0000CIX5B, Baptism, Baptist, Robert Wilson Black, Free Churches, temperance, Baptist Union, evangelicalism, United Kingdom Alliance, religion, baptists, dissent, dissenters, nonconformists, nonconformity, nonconformist
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Schofield, A. T.
Nerves in Order: or the Maintenance of Health
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1905).
Hardback. Boards slightly worn and spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise a good copy. xix + 291pp. Order No. NSBK-A10426
Keywords: B00088LI3W, nerves, nervousness, health, medical, medicine, mental, heart, lungs, ill-health, circulation, psychology, psychological, Edwardian, A. T. Schofield
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