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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Porter, Valerie.
Yesterday's Countryside: Country Life as it Really Was
(David & Charles, rpt, 2003).
Hardback. Slight bump top edge, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. Large format. 319pp. Order No. NSBK-A15126
Keywords: 0715309684, countryside, country, history, agrarian, rural, farming, farms, country markets, social history
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Boguet, Henri.
An Examen of Witches: Discours Execrable Des Sourciers
(Portrayer Publishers, 2002 facs. rpt of 1929 ed).
First published 1602. Edited by Montague Summers. Translated by E. Allen Ashwin. A well-presented facsimile of a hitherto scarce title. Paperback. Minor marking to page edges, otherwise very good+. 328pp. Order No. NSBK-C5096
Keywords: 0954263227, witch, witches, witchcraft, magic, Henry Boguet, Henri Boguet, history, persecution, trials, judges, courts, magistrates, priests, early modern history, Burgundy, torture, social history, Europe, European, seventeenth century, 17th century, Montague Summers, E. Allen Ashwin, occult, magick, sorcery, sourcier, sourciers, superstition, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, sorcerers, incantations
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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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Wojtczak, Helena.
Women of Victorian Sussex: their Status, Occupations,and Dealings With The Law, 1830-1870
(Hastings Press, 2003).
Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-C7234
Keywords: 1904109055, Victorian, Hastings, women, woman, nineteenth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English, provinces, provincial, regional studies, seaside, seaside towns, women's history, occupations, neighbourhood, community, communities, urban, urban history, St Leonards, gender, Sussex, Victorian prostitution, prostitutes, prostitute, infanticide, liquor, liquor trade. trade, motherhood, mothers, mother, occupation, occupations, infant murder, infant killing, infant killings, brothel, brothels, milliners, milliner, midwives, midwife, midwifery, drunkenness, drunkard, drunkards, drink, drinking, drinker, drinkers, 19th Century, Lewes, Brighton, status, law, laws, Hailsham, Helena Wojtczak, Chichester, Class, Classes
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Jones, Samuel, ed.
The Enduring Relevance of Octavia Hill: To the Utmost of her Power
(Demos, 2012).
Paperback. Covers slightly faded, otherwise very good. 181pp. Order No. NSBK-C15632
Keywords: Octavia Hill, housing, history, social planning, National Trust, social housing
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Stewart, Alexander P. & Jenkins, Edward.
The Medical and Legal Aspects of Sanitary Reform:
(Leicester UP, 1969 rpt of 1867 2nd edit).
Intro by M.W. Flinn. Hardback. Very good in soiled dustwrapper. 100pp. Order No. NSBK-A4851
Keywords: 718550072, medical, history, M. W. Flinn, social history, welfare, Britain, British, England, English, legal, sanitary reform, public health, sanitary conditions, Public Health Acts, nineteenth century, Victorian, social improvements, social reforms, Royal Sanitary Commissions, Disraeli, Disraelian Conservatism, Alexander P. Stewart, Edward Jenkins
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Mayhew, Henry.
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts. Volume 2
(Caliban Books, 1981).
Paperback. Spine a little browned. A few light marks to card covers, otherwise very good. 335pp. Order No. NSBK-A13115
Keywords: 0904573214, Victorian, 1840s, forties, 19th century, nineteenth century, labour, poor, poverty, Henry Mayhew, social surveys, social investigations, sanitation, oral history, wages, sweated labour, poor law, employment, hucksters, alcohol, drinking, housing, coal, pawn-broking, tailoring, pubs, publicans, public houses, London
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Flinn, M.W.
British Population Growth, 1700-1850:
(Macmillan, 1970).
Paperback. Good. 68pp. Order No. NSBK-A1384
Keywords: 0333109902, population, demography, demographic, history, social history, population growth, Britain, British, England, English, M. W. Flinn, economy, economic, fertility, mortality, birth rate, population trends, eighteenth century, nineteenth century
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Powell, Edgar and Trevelyan, G. M., eds.
The Peasant's Rising and the Lollards: A Collection of Unpublished Documents Forming an Appendix to England in the Age of Wycliffe
(Longmans, Green, 1899).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, minor rubbing to corners & fraying / splitting to spine ends, otherwise good. xiii + 81pp. Order No. NSBK-A14970
Keywords: B001NK2LEE, Lollards, Lollardy, Dissent, Wycliffe, peasants' rising, history, nonconformity, religion, religious, 14th century, fourteenth century, early modern, peasantry, documents, sources, Church, social disturbances, antiquarian
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