Raitz, Karl, ed.
A Guide to the National Road:
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
Illustrated with more than 300 maps and photographs. Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. xxiv + 392pp. Order No. NSBK-A10360
Keywords: 0801851564, National Road, highways, roads, traffic, American, America, USA, United States, Chesapeake Bay, Mississippi River, Congress, Maryland, Cumberland, National Historic Register, travel, motor courts, road houses, gas stations, diners, transport
Price £22.00.
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Mayhew, Henry.
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts. Volume 3
(Caliban Books, 1981).
Paperback. Spine lightly browned, otherwise very good. 277pp. Order No. NSBK-A13116
Keywords: 0904573222, Victorian, 1850, 19th century, nineteenth century, labour, poor, poverty, Henry Mayhew, social surveys, social investigations, sanitation, oral history, wages, sweated labour, poor law, employment, work, thieves, theft, robbery, London, tramps, vagrancy, lodging houses, housing, food, earnings, child labour, boot and shoe trade, beggars, asylums, clothes, boot and shoe makers
Price £19.95.
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Jones, Stephen G.
Workers at Play: a Social and Economic History of Leisure, 1918 - 1939
(RKP, 1986).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. viii + 286pp. Order No. NSBK-A4346
Keywords: 0710206356, leisure, recreations, recreation, social history, interwar, inter war, inter-war, hobbies, sport, gambling, boxing, men, women, economic, holidays, drinking, pub, pubs, public houses, popular culture, cinema, working class, working classes, pastimes, voluntary organisations, clubs, working men's clubs, labour, entertainment, Britain, British, England, English
Price £6.00.
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Eckford, E. Stoddart and Fitzgerald, M. S.
Household Management: A Handbook of Domestic Economy and Hygiene
(Sir Isaac Pitman, 1927).
Fourth Impression. Hardback. Covers and spine slightly soiled, otherwise good. iv + 432pp. Order No. NSBK-A11853
Keywords: B000HC1SD4, E. Stoddart Eckman, M. S. Fitzgerald, domestic economy, hygiene, houses, households, household management, housewives, housewifery, homes
Price £12.00.
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Dawson, Keith and Wall, Peter.
Public Health and Housing:
(OUP, 1970).
Society and Industry in the Nineteenth Century No 6. A Documentary Approach. Booklet. Mark to cover and first page marked with library stamp, otherwise good. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-H14307
Keywords: 0199130221, publich health, health, houses, housing, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, booklet
Price £14.00.
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Braithwaite, Brian and Walsh, Noelle, eds.
Home Sweet Home: The Best of Good Housekeeping, 1922-1939
(Ebury Press, 1992).
Hardback. Good+ in torn and soiled dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A12608
Keywords: 0091774888, homes, houses, Good Housekeeping, magazines, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, readers, Rebecca West, ldy Violet Bonham-Caretr, E.F. Benson, Vera Brittain, Evelyn Waugh
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Partington, Jim.
The Two-Up and Two-Downer (With a Taste for Honey): the Crowded Life of a Lancashire Lad
(Fabians Publishers, 1972).
Autobiography. Leftist reminiscences of self-made Lancashire man, born 1908, dedicated to Lord Brockway of ILP. "I attended meetings in Bradford [where] he showed me the Political Path I should follow. Although I have devoted much of my life to the acquisition of material possessions, I have never deviated from his Philosophy". Hardback. Very good in slightly worn and slightly chipped dustwrapper. xiv + 257pp. Order No. NSBK-A1550
Keywords: B000HBVSLC, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Lancashire, lads, boys, homes, houses, terraces, twentieth century, 20th, Jim Partington, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories
Price £6.00.
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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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Scott, A. F.
The Early Hanoverian Age, 1714-1760: Commentaries on an Era
(Croom Helm, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in spine-faded dustwrapper. 175pp. Order No. NSBK-A9097
Keywords: 0709904153, Hanover, Hanoverian, Britain, British, England, English, history, eighteenth, century, 18th, writings, paintings, engravings, drawings, cockfighting, coffee houses, highwaymen, South Sea Bubble, Black Hole of Calcutta, Richardson, Pope
Price £7.99.
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National Trust, .
Dunham Massey:
(The National Trust, rpt., 1999).
Paperback. Good+. 65pp. Order No. NSBK-A11997
Keywords: Dunham Massey, houses, stately homes, Cheshire, aristocrats, aristocracy
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