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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Measor, Lynda and Sikes, Patricia J.
Gender and Schools:
(Cassell, 1992).
Paperback. Fine. viii + 184pp. Order No. NSBK-C10926
Keywords: 0304323977, gender, education
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Speed, P.F.
Police and Prisons:
(Longman, 12th impression, 1988).
Then and There Series. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good. iv + 106pp. Order No. NSBK-A13586
Keywords: 0582204127, gaols, prisons, prison, crime, criminals, criminal, police, policemen, policeman, history, transportation, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, 19th century, Victorian, nineteenth century, Robert Peel, John Howard
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Chaplin, Sid.
The Watchers and the Watched:
(Scorpion, rpt, 1989).
Paperback. Spine creased, small dent to top edge, otherwise good. 320pp. Order No. NSBK-A14916
Keywords: 0905906748, Sid Chaplin novels, Sid Chaplin's novels, masculinity, literature, fiction, post-war
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Lethaby, W. R.
Leadwork: Old and Ornamental and For The Most Part English
(Macmillan, 1893).
Illustrated. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Some ink stains to cloth, top half of spine cover lacking. Spine and edges worn. Internally good and solid. viii + 148pp. Order No. NSBK-A14960
Keywords: B002PEAQY4, lead, leadwork, antiquarian, buildings, decoration, history, architecture, roofs, gutters, fountains, craftsmanship, statues
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Beresford, John, ed.
The Diary of a Country Parson: the Reverend James Woodforde. Volume III, 1788 - 1792
(OUP, 1927).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings, a little rubbing to cloth, and bumping to edges and corners, otherwise good, solid. xiv + 423pp. Order No. NSBK-A15993
Keywords: James Woodforde, diary, diaries, parsons, vicars, religion, history, journals, eighteenth century
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Lewis, Peter, and Jones, Philip N.
Industrial Britain: The Humberside Region
(David and Charles, 1970).
Paperback. Ex lib with marks left by lib stickers, lacks flyleaf, otherwise good. 235pp. Order No. NSBK-A3830
Keywords: 0715348973, Britain, British, England, English, history, Humberside, Humber estuary, Hull, industry, industrial, port, economy, economic, Grimsby, regional, factory, dock, docklands
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Dundee Municipal Statutes, .
Dundee Municipal Statutes: Being Acts of Parliament Administered by the Corporation of Dundee Relating to The Town Council as Such, and also as Coming in Place of the Commissioners of Police; and Including Recent Amendment of Acts (Separately Printed) of Dundee Gas and Dundee Water Commissioners, 1872-1898
(Winter, Duncan & Co, n.d).
Hardback. Spine ends and corners slightly worn, slight bubbling to cloth, otherwise very good. 471pp. Order No. NSBK-A5663
Keywords: B001EVRYBW, Dundee, Scotland, Scots, Scottish, history, Britain, British, towns, cities, city, Corporation, Acts of Parliament, government, local government, political, politics, statutes, gas, water, commissioners, public health, municipal facilities, urban, laws, legal, police, policemen, Victorian, nineteenth century, municipal corporations, Dundee Municipal Statutes
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Lowe, A.E. Lawson.
Historical Record of the Royal Sherwood Foresters: Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia
(W. Mitchell, 1872).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Some soiling to endpapers and darkening to cloth, small tear to top of spine - otherwise good, solid. 83pp. Order No. NSBK-A14953
Keywords: B0014LHXUE, military, history, Nottinghamshire Regiment, Royal Sherwood Foresters, militia, army, armies
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Thackeray, W. M.
Vanity Fair:
(Marshall Cavendish Partworks, 1987).
From the Series: The Great Writers' Library. Hardback. Very good. 601pp. Order No. NSBK-A9747
Keywords: Great Writers Library, Thackeray, nineteenth century, 19th, literature, William Makepeace Thackeray, novels, fiction, Becky Sharp, Britain, British, England, English, history
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