English Tourist Board, Planning and Research Services Branch.
Scarborough District Tourism Study:
(English Tourist Board, 1981).
With statistical diagrams. Ringbound booklet. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, otherwise good. 59pp. Order No. NSBK-A8355
Keywords: Scarborough, tourists, Yorkshire, tourism, history, coast, Yorkshire coast, leisure, holidays, holiday, social history, Britain, British, England, English, towns, English Tourist Board
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Place, Francis.
Illustrations and Proofs of the Principle of Population: Including an Examination of the Proposed Remedies of Mr Malthus, and a Reply to the Objections of Mr Godwin. Together with Unpublished Letters of Place on Birth Control & Coleridge's Criticisms of Malthus's Views on Birth Control
(G.A. & Unwin, rpt, 1967).
Notes by Norman E. Himes. Hardback. Front cover board slightly blotched, but generally very good. 63 + xv + 354pp. Order No. NSBK-A168
Keywords: 0043120059, population, Francis Place, Mathus, Malthusian, Godwin, birth control, contraception, family planning, Britain, British, England, English, history, mortality, fertility, sexuality, sex, procreation, Coleridge, Malthusian, economic history, economics, , Sweden, Scandinavia, immigration, immigrants, immigrant, parliamentary returns, breeding, emigration, migrants, emigrant's emigrants' immigrants' immigrant's
Price £7.00.
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Neale, Douglas.
Guide For Husbands and Wives or A Manual Of Wisdom:
(William Lovett, revised edition, 1938).
Paperback. Very good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A13675
Keywords: B00126A4I4, advice books, 1930s, thirties, husbands, wives, marriage, family, sex, birth control, family planning, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, family limitation, mothers, motherhood, maternity, contraception, contraceptives, inter-war, interwar, inter war, confinement, babies, health
Price £13.00.
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Hill, Octavia.
Homes of the London Poor:
(Macmillan, first edition, 1875).
Rare first edition copy. Hardback. Leather spine worn / scuffed. Cloth, which is a little patchy with sun-fading, has light marking, spotting. Fly leaf split at spine and last page loose, else a good solid copy. pp. Order No. NSBK-C16068
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, town planning, urban history, open spaces, countryside, Britain, England, British, English, history, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment, district visiting, volunteer visitors, commons, charity, charities, COS, C.O.S., Charity Organisation Society, London, women
Price £135.00.
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Brydon, Lynne & Chant, Sylvia.
Women in the Third World: Gender Issues in Rural and Urban Areas
(Edward Elgar, rpt, 1993).
Paperback. Very good. 327pp. Order No. NSBK-C6810
Keywords: 1852781904, gender, rural, countryside, Third World, development, developing countries, women, urban, towns, urban planning, town planning, women's issues, household, reproduction, migration, rural development policy, Brazil, South America, South East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, African, East Africa, poverty, poor
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Banks, J. A.
Victorian Values: Secularism and the Size of Families
(Gregg Revivals, rpt., 1994).
Hardback. Near fine. 203pp. Order No. NSBK-C7998
Keywords: 075120269X, contraception, family planning, children, Victorian, secularism, middle class, sexual habits, motherhood, fatherhood, health, nineteenth century, families, family, family size, birth control, history, middle classes, Britain, British, England, English, sexuality, birth rate, sexual morality, standard of living, social conditions, fertility, morals, moral code
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Malpass, Peter.
Work of the Century: the Origins and Growth of the Octavia Hill Housing Trust in Notting Hill
(Octavia Hill Housing Trust, 1999).
Paperback. Sporadic yellow highlighting and red underlining to text, a little yellowing to covers, a good working copy. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A15989
Keywords: 9780953604609, Octavia Hill, housing trust, Notting Hill, history, houses, town planning, urban, London, poverty, Victorian, Edwardian
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McCormick, Leanne.
Regulating Sexuality: Women in Twentieth-century Northern Ireland
(Manchester University Press, 2009).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xiii + 249pp. Order No. NSBK-C14610
Keywords: 9780719076640, sexuality, women, women's history, Irish, Ireland, twentieth century, history, gender, US troops, family planning, abortion, prostitution, Catholic, Protestant, Protestantism, Catholicism, pregnancy, Northern Ireland, Ulster
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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
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Clark, Peter, ed.
The Early Modern Town: A Reader
(Longman & Open UP, 1976).
Paperback. Covers yellowed, a little creasing to spine, otherwise good. 332pp. Order No. NSBK-A5313
Keywords: 0582484057,Early Modern, town, towns, planning, urban, pre-industrial, English, England, Britain, British, history, economics, economy, London, Norwich, Sheffield
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