Tames, Richard.
Life with the Pioneers:
(Reader's Digest, 1996).
Hardback. Covers lightly soiled, otherwise very good. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A9696
Keywords: 0276421353, pioneers, American, America, USA, US, nineteenth century, Victorian, immigration, American West
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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
Price £28.00.
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Arundell, Lucy.
Living with Grandma: a Hull Woman Recalls Her Childhood in Monmouth and the Rhondda
(Highgate Publications, 1987).
Paperback. Covers slightly faded, otherwise very good. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-C15904
Keywords: 9780948929069, Hull, social history, women, childhood, Rhondda Valley, Monmouth, Welsh, Wales, girlhood, autobiography
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Hennessey, Thomas.
Hunger Strike: Margaret Thatcher's Battle with the IRA 1980-1981
(Irish Academic Press, 2013).
Paperback. With a newspaper review pasted to title page, otherwise very good. viii + 488pp. Order No. NSBK-C16030
Keywords: 9780716531760, B00HAM6N7U, Irish, Ireland, Irish politics, IRA, Margaret Thatcher, 1980s, eighties, history, hunger strikes, Bobby Sands
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Gonzales, Pancho and Rice, Cy.
Man with a Racket: The Autobiography of Pancho Gonzales
(Thomas Yoseloff, 1959).
Hardback. Dustwrapper rather browned, lightly soiled and chipped, internally good, a solid copy. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A14934
Keywords: B000XEME16, tennis players, Wimbledon, Pancho Gonzales, sports, sport, tennis, autobiography, autobiography, playing tennis
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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
Price £14.00.
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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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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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Heydon, Peter N., & Kelley Philip, eds.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Letters to Mrs David Ogilvy, 1849-1861: With Recollections by Mrs Ogilvy
(Quadrangle, 1973).
Hardback. Very good in sl worn dustwrapper. xxxv + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-C2124
Keywords: 0812902874, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Mrs Oglivy, poet, Victorian, poetry, woman writer, women writers, women's history, literature, correspondence, poets, British, Britain
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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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