Crawshaw, A., Garrard, P.J., and Blockley, J.
Learn to Paint with Watercolours, Oils, Pastels and Acrylics:
(Guild Publishing, rpt., 1985).
Hardback. Spine worn in places, otherwise a good clean copy. 191pp. Order No. NSBK-J13429
Keywords: B000R023US, art, artists, painters, paintings, watercolours, oils, pastels, acrylics, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th
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Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
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Wilson, Charles.
First With the News: The History of W. H. Smith, 1792-1972
(Guild Publishing, 1985).
Hardback. Very good. xiv + 510pp. Order No. NSBK-A12029
Keywords: 0224021567, W. H. Smith, news, newspapers, companies, company, business, businesses, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, eighteenth, twentieth, 18th, 20th, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Barnes, H. Gorell and Montmorency, J. E. G. de.
The Divorce Commission: The Majority and Minority Reports Summarised, with Appendices on the History of Divorce; Foreign and Colonial Divorce Laws; Proposed Divorce Circuits in England and Wales; Names of Women after Divorce
(P. S. King, 1912).
Prefaces by Guthrie and Dibdin. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers, some wear to edges, otherwise good. xvi + 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A13882
Keywords: B000WFGD0O, divorce, marriage, break-down of marriage, Divorce Commission, reports, social history, divorce circuits, legal, law, family, twentieth century
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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
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Stodart, M. A.
Principles of Education Practically Considered: with an Especial Reference to the Present State of Female Education in England
(Photocopy only of Seeley edition of 1844).
Hardback. Library photocopy only, not an original. In good, sturdy, slightly scuffed sturdy library binding. 281pp. Order No. NSBK-C14002
Keywords: B0018D7MB8, M. A. Stodart, education, female education, women's education, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, teaching, moral training, femininity, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, propriety
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Froude, James Anthony.
My Relations with Carlyle:
(Longmans, Green and Co, 1903).
Together with a Letter from the Late Sir James Stephen Bart., K.C.S.I, dated December 9, 1886. Hardback. Good+. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-A12565
Keywords: 0836957660, Froude, Carlyle, James Anthony Froude, Thomas Carlyle, literary, literature, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Edwardian, writers, authors
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Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Dept, .
Education and Training for the Cotton and Rayon Industry: Papers and Dicussions at a Conference in Manchester in September 1946 Organized by the Cotton Board With the Collaboration of the British Rayon Federation, the Textile Institute and the Textile Teachers' Association
(Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Dept, 1946).
A series of essays from different contributors. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly browned, edge worn dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A7704
Keywords: post war, post-war industry, cotton, textiles, rayon, training, industries, textile, Britain, British, England, English, Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Department, industrial training, production, technical colleges, teach, teachers, teaching, technical education, history
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Robinson, Jane.
A Force To Be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute
(Virago, 2011).
Hardback. WIth newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 294pp. Order No. NSBK-C15840
Keywords: 9781844086597, women's institute, history, WI
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Gilbey, Walter.
The Old English War-horse: Or the Great Horse as it Appears, at Intervals, in Contemporary Coins and Pictures During the Centuries of its Development into the Shire-horse. With Notes
(Vinton, 1888).
Two dates in the margins of the book have sadly been crossed out in ink. Text is otherwise not annotated, but there is some light foxing / soiling on some pages, not affecting legibility. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. Boards darkened / thumbed, with fraying to spine edges. A little cracking internally at spine, else good. 23pp. Order No. NSBK-A14314
Keywords: B000875WPI, horses, shire-horses, shires, war-horses, equestrian, history, rural, Victorian, coins, illustrations, agriculture, antiquarian
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