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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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Arlott, John.
Island Camera: The Isles of Scilly in the photography of the Gibson Family
(David and Charles, 1972).
Written in collaboration with Rex Cowan and Frank Gibson. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Hardback. Boards and fly leaf slightly soiled, otherwise good + in torn dustwrapper. 110pp. Order No. NSBK-A10434
Keywords: 0715357743, Isles of Scilly, Gibson family, families, islands, photos, photography, photographs, Scillonians, ships, shipping, coasts, coastal, sea birds, Victorian, twentieth century, Edwardian, nineteenth century, 19th
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Abrams, Lynn & Harvey, Elizabeth, eds.
Gender Relations in German History: Power, Agency and Experience from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
(UCL, 1996).
Hardback. With newspaper review pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good. x + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-A15090
Keywords: 9781857284843, Germany, German, history, Europe, European, gender, gender norms, gender relations, body, sexuality, power, public, private, separate spheres, abortion, morality, sexual morality, femininity, masculinty, gender roles, conformity, nonconformity, racial policy, propaganda, feminism, fertility, illegitimacy, women, female
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Symes, Ruth A.
Family First: Tracing Relationships in the Past
(Pen and Sword, 2015).
Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents - these are the relationships that structure the family tree and fascinate the family historian. But how much do we really know about how our ancestors lived out these multiple roles? Buffeted this way and that by economic developments, legal changes, medical advances, Two World Wars, the rise of the Welfare State, women's emancipation and many other factors, relationships between members of our family in the past were subtly different to those of today and continually transforming. This book is both a social history of the period 1800-1950 and a practical guide on how to set about tracing and better understanding the relationships between members of your own family. What did it mean to be a father in this period, but also, how might you discover the father of an ancestor if his name is not mentioned on the birth certificate? What common ideas were held about the role of wives and mothers, but also, how were multiple births, stillbirths, abortions and infanticides dealt with in the records? What factors might have influenced the size of your ancestor's family, but also why were its children named as they were? Did pecking order in a family matter, but also, was it legal to marry a cousin, or the sister of a deceased wife? How long could people expect to live, but also what records can tell you more about the circumstances of your ancestors' last years? A final chapter considers relationships with neighbours, friends and club associates. Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C15530
Keywords: 9781473833883, family relationships, family trees, geneaology, geneaological, social history, ancestors, tracing ancestors, fathers, mothers, siblings, cousins, women, welfare state, infants, clubs, grandparents
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Huggett, Frank E.
The Land Question: and European Society since 1650
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975).
Paperback. Light foxing to pages, otherwise good+. 179pp. Order No. NSBK-A9849
Keywords: 0155490052, land, agriculture, Europe, European, society, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, century, 18th, 19th, 20th, land tenure, farming, farms, enclosures, collectivization, factory farming
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Rowbotham, Judith.
Good Girls Make Good Wives: Guidance for Girls in Victorian Fiction
(Blackwell, 1989).
Paperback. Some sunfading to covers, otherwise good+. viii + 301pp. Order No. NSBK-C4162
Keywords: 0631163964, wives, wife, girls, education, fiction, literature, Judith Rowbotham, Victorian, nineteenth century, childhood, middle class, middle classes, reading habits, domesticity, private sphere, separate spheres, femininity, feminine, novels, L.T. Meade, history, social control, Charlotte Mary Yonge, women
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Helm, Sarah.
If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
(Little Brown, 2015).
Hardback. Minor sun-tanning to base of pages, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xviii + 748pp. Order No. NSBK-C15689
Keywords: 9780349120034, Nazi Germany, concentration camps, women, Ravensbruck
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Maclean, Mavis.
Surviving Divorce: Women's Resources After Separation
(Macmillan, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. viii + 151pp. Order No. NSBK-A14114
Keywords: 0333465342, divorce, marriage, family, separation, women, economic, welfare, remarriage, labour market, splitting up, single women, sociology
Price £8.00.
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Folbre, Nancy, et al eds.
Women's Work in the World Economy:
(Macmillan, 1992).
Paperback. Small stain to front cover, otherwise good. xxx + 264pp. Order No. NSBK-C13489
Keywords: 0333592948, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, work, employment, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial
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Stott, Mary.
Organization Woman: the Story of the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds
(Heinemann, 1978).
Hardback. Ex lib with usual lib stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-C1256
Keywords: 434748005, Mary Stott, National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, women, history, women's rights, women's movement, England, Britain, British, English
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