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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Kinnear, Mary.
Margaret McWilliams: An Interwar Feminist:
(McGill-Queen's UP, 1991).
Signed by the author. Hardback. Very good in faded dustwrapper. xviii + 210pp. Order No. NSBK-C3899
Keywords: 0773508570, Margaret McWilliams, feminism, feminist, women, women's history, woman, biography, Canada, Canadian, First World War, World War 1, Great War, Canadian Federation of University Women, academic, interwar, biographies, biography
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Clifford, Geraldine Joncich, ed.
Lone Voyagers: Academic Women in Coeducational Institutions, 1870 - 1937
(Feminist Press, 1989).
Paperback. Fine. xii + 311pp. Order No. NSBK-C7908
Keywords: 0935312854, academic, women, female, education, women's education, coeducational institutions, college, colleges, USA, America, American, United States of America, 19th, 20th, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Canada, Canadian, higher education, university, universities, educated women, academia
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Spaull, Hebe.
The Co-operative Movement in the World Today:
(Barrie and Rockliff, 1965).
With an introduction by W. P. Watkins. Hardback. Good in slightly soiled/worn dustwrapper. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A5038
Keywords: B0000CMR1N, Co-operative Movement, co-op, co-operative, Britain, British, Europe, European, USA, Canada, America, Southern Asia, Far East, Middle East, Northern Africa, Caribbean, South America, Australasia, government, work, labour, labor, British Commonwealth, devloping countries, twentieth century, world
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Stacey, C.P.
The Canadian Army, 1939-1945: an Official Historical Summary
(King's Printer, 1948).
Maps drawn by C.C.J. Bond. Paintings by Army War Artists. Light soiling to red cloth and page edges. Some splitting internally at rear spine. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Some damage to spine at top and base, repaired by sellotape, but overall good and firm with maps in place. xv + 354pp. Order No. NSBK-A16048
Keywords: B000P1FYJQ, Canada, Canadian, history, army, military, war, Second World War, campaigns, operations, armies, plans, maps
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Gorman, Daniel.
Imperial Citizenship: Empire and the Question of Belonging
(Manchester University Press, 2006).
Hardback. Brand new, fine in dustwrapper. xi + 243pp. Order No. NSBK-A14636
Keywords: 9780719075292, imperial citizenship, Empire, history, belonging, imperialism, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, colonies, colonialism, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, national identity, Great War, Boer War, Lionel Curtis, John Buchan, Arnold White, Richard Jebb, Thomas Sedgwick, India, emigration, immigration
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Morton, Desmond & Granatstein, J. L.
Victory, 1945: Canadians from War to Peace
(Phyllis Bruce, Harper Collins, 1995).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A2856
Keywords: 0002550695, Canada, war, World War II, Second World War, military, military history, victory, peace, WW II, WW 2
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Gillen, Mollie.
The Wheel of Things: A Biography of L. M. Montgomery. Author of Anne of Green Gables
(Harrap, 1976).
Hardback. Good in edge-worn slightly torn dustwrapper. 200pp. Order No. NSBK-C6472
Keywords: 0245529713, L. M. Mongomery, biography, biographies, life histories, life history, biographical, women writers, women's writing, Canada, Canadian, literature, literary, fiction, Maud Montgomery, Clifton, Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Ephraim Weber, Saskatchewan, George Boyd MacMillan, women writers, women's writing, women's history, Ewan Macdonald
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Walsh, Margaret, ed.
Motor Transport:
(Ashgate, 1997).
Studies in Transport History. Hardback. Fine. xxiii + 212pp. Order No. NSBK-A10253
Keywords: 1859283454, motors, motor industry, cars, automobiles, markets, marketing, bus, buses, transport, Locomobile, Britain, British, England, English, history, American, USA, United States, Canada, Canadian, twentieth century, 20th, travel
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