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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Loney, Martin, ed.
The State or the Market: Politics and Welfare in Contemporary Britain
(Open UP, 1987).
Paperback. Spine faded, otherwise very good. vii + 264pp. Order No. NSBK-A14683
Keywords: 0803981058, welfare, politics, welfare state, social policy, social work
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Gordon, Linda, ed.
Women, the State and Welfare:
(Wisconsin UP, 1992).
Paperback. Light creasing to spine and rubbing to edges, otherwise very good. 311pp. Order No. NSBK-C5459
Keywords: 9780299126643, welfare, social welfare, race, class, America, American, United States of America, USA, women's, women, woman, social security, twentieth century, state, state welfare, state support, unemployment, welfare programmes, public welfare, poor women, poverty, social policy, Linda Gordon
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Stocks, Mary.
My Commonplace Book: an Autobiography
(Peter Davies, rpt, 1970).
Women's suffrage; the welfare state; the L.S.E.; adult education; the Great Depression in Manchester; social work in London; a variety of government assignments. Hardback. Very good in soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. ix + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C779
Keywords: 0432157506, suffrage, suffragette, women's rights, L.S.E., the Great Depression, adult education, Manchester, London, social work, welfare state, England, Britain, history, English, British
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Thistlethwaite, William.
Four Lectures on the Rise, Progess and Past Proceedings: of the Society of Friends in Great Britain
(A. W. Bennett, 1865).
With brief historical notices of some preceding and contemporary events. Hardback. Spine and corners ends slightly split, worn, light marking to boards, a small library sticker on spine, otherwise good. vi + 152pp. Order No. NSBK-A6068
Keywords: B000HC4R5U, Society of Friends, Quakers, religion, religious, nonconformity, non-conformity, nonconformism, non-conformism, dissenters, nonconformists, non-conformists, dissent, Victorian, nineteenth century, societies, associations, Quakerism
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Boucherett, Jessie and Blackburn, Helen.
The Condition of Working Women and the Factory Acts:
(Elliot Stock, photocopy of 1896 edition).
Please note: this is a photocopy of the original text only in a blue library binding. Hardback. Photocopy in blue library binding, good condition. 174pp. Order No. NSBK-C16015
Keywords: Victorian, labour, working women, woman, working class, industry, economy, factories, factory acts, nineteenth century, history
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Davis, Lance E and Cull, Robert J.
International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820-1914:
(CUP, 1994).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. vii + 166pp. Order No. NSBK-A13196
Keywords: 0521460549, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, Edwardian
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NUWSS Supporters' Badge, Suffragist Suffragette.
Enamel Reproduction NUWSS Suffragist Suffragette Stick-Pin Badge / Brooch:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2018).
NUWSS Supporters' Badge. Enamel Reproduction NUWSS Suffragette Stick-Pin Badge / Brooch, a Faithful Replica of the Original By Portrayer Publishers. High-quality modern reproduction enamel badge, brand new. Size: Badge circle diameter: 22mm. Length - badge and stick pin together -55mm. This badge is a replica of an original of the period, an enamel badge issued by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, NUWSS, displaying the organisation's official colours of red, white and green. The text reads: National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies Constitutional Non Party. Attaches to clothes safely by the stick-pin, the bottom of which - the bell cap - pushes on firmly. The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, NUWSS, also known as the Suffragists, was an organisation of women's suffrage societies in the United Kingdom. The organisation was democratic, and devoted itself to achieving women's suffrage - the Vote for Women - through peaceful and legal means. The badge / brooch comes with a free attractive purple velvet gift pouch. Presented within a lovely gift bag which is clear at the front and shiny silver at the rear. Brand new, excellent condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15560
Keywords: Christmas gifts, jewellery, jewelry, woman suffrage, button badge, pin back, badges, pinback, suffragette era, pins, suffragettes, suffragist activity, suffragists, women, women's history, woman, history, social history, Britain, British history, England, English history, NUWSS, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, enamel badges, suffragette jewellery, suffragette jewelry, brooch, brooches, women's movement, Portrayer Publishers, suffragette ephemera, replica, reproduction
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Barker-Benfield, G.J. and Clinton, Catherine.
Portraits of American Women: From the Civil War to the Present
(St Martin's Press, 1991).
Paperback. Very good+. 301 - 619pp. Order No. NSBK-C11929
Keywords: 0312024312, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, The Reform Era,
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Mathias, Peter.
The First Industrial Nation: an Economic History of Britain, 1700-1914
(Routledge, 2nd edition, 1990).
Paperback. Front cover rather creased, otherwise good. xiv + 522pp. Order No. NSBK-A1036
Keywords: 041502756X, economic history, Britain, industrialisation, industry, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, twentieth century
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