Mackenzie-Grieve, Averil.
The Great Accomplishment: The Contribution of Five English Women to 18th Century Colonisation
(Geoffrey Bles, 1953).
Hardback. Very good in worn and faded dustwrapper. xiii + 290pp. Order No. NSBK-C3122
Keywords: B0000CIHIY, Empire, Mrs Pinckney, South Carolina, Mrs Macarthur, New South Wales, Mrs Simcoe, Canada, Mrs Falconbridge, Sierra Leone, Mrs Brodbelt, Jamaica, West Indies, America, Australia, colonialism
Price £6.99.
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Scott, A. F.
The Early Hanoverian Age, 1714-1760: Commentaries on an Era
(Croom Helm, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in spine-faded dustwrapper. 175pp. Order No. NSBK-A9097
Keywords: 0709904153, Hanover, Hanoverian, Britain, British, England, English, history, eighteenth, century, 18th, writings, paintings, engravings, drawings, cockfighting, coffee houses, highwaymen, South Sea Bubble, Black Hole of Calcutta, Richardson, Pope
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Scott, Philippa.
Lucky Me:
(Kenilworth Press, 1990).
Illustrated by more than 90 photographs. The book is an evocation of the early life of Philippa Scott (nee Talbot-Ponsonby's) - her childhood in South Africa, school, climbing holidays, her time in the Land Army in World War II and a spell in Yugoslavia during the Cold War. She married Peter Scott in Reykjavik in 1951. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C5734
Keywords: 1872082114, Lucky Me, Philippa Scott, Philippa Talbot-Ponsonby, Land Army, Peter Scott, South Africa, World War Two, wars, Second World War, World War II, Britain, British, history, england, English, autobiography, autobiographical, memoirs, memoir, autobiographies, life history, life histories, women writers, Severn Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, Thjorsaver Expedition, Reykjavik
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Cookson, Catherine.
My Land of the North: Memories of a Northern Childhood
(Headline, 1999).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C10761
Keywords: 0747274444, Catherine Cookson, North-East, women, woman, women writers, women's writing, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, lives, North, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, East Jarrow, Jarrow, South Shields
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St. Barbe Baker, Richard.
The Brotherhood of Trees:
(Figurehead, no date).
Illustrated. With a Working Men's College Library bookplate to inner board. Hardback. Ex-Working Men's College Library stamps throughout. White cloth spine soiled, some scratching to green suede boards. Internally good. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-B7658
Keywords: B0006DHAX6, trees, tree planters, forest, forests, woods, history, Africa, African, N'gai
Price £8.00.
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Pelham, R. A..
The Old Mills of Southampton:
(City of Southampton, 1963).
Southampton Papers No 3. Paperback. Crease to front cover, otherwise good. 39pp. Order No. NSBK-A13112
Keywords: Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Southampton, mills, watermills, Southampton Papers
Price £6.80.
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Cushing, P.H.
University Extension in Southport, 1874-1974:
(Liverpool, 1974).
Pamphlet. Good. 12pp. Order No. NSBK-A12294
Keywords: 0950426407, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students, university, university extension, Southport, twentieth cnetury, Edwardian, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, pamphlet
Price £5.00.
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Ouvry, Elinor Southwood.
Extracts from Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1864 - 1911:
(Adelphi Book Shop, London, 1933).
Foreword by Neville Chamberlain. Card covers. Spine darkened, edges of covers slightly chipped / slightly curled, some chipping to spine, internally very good. iii + 64pp. Order No. NSBK-C4295
Keywords: B001QVTYT0, open spaces, housing, housing management, house, houses, Octavia Hill, London, philanthropy, women, woman, philanthropist, philanthropists, town planning, social history, welfare, towns, city, cities, fellow workers, fellow-workers, housing reformers, housing reformer, slum, slums, property, poor, poverty, nineteenth century, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century
Price £26.50.
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Black, Naomi and Brandt, Gail Cuthbert.
Feminist Politics on the Farm: Rural Catholic Women in Southern Quebec and Southwestern France
(McGill-Queen's UP, 1999).
Hardback. Light blemishing to base of front board, otherwise very good. xii + 295pp. Order No. NSBK-C8212
Keywords: 0773518282, agrarian, rural, country, countryside, women, women's history, woman, Catholic, Catholicism, religion, religious, Canada, Canadian, Quebec, France, French, farms, farming, farm, demography, demographic, farm women, feminism, feminist, mass, twenieth century, 20th, farming, farmers
Price £8.00.
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Gmelch, George and Saddlemyer, Ann.
J. M. Synge: In Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara
(Rowman and Littlefield, 1980).
Illustrated with black and white photographs by George Gmelch. Hardback. Near fine in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. 166pp. Order No. NSBK-A10120
Keywords: 0847662608, J. M. Synge, theatre, drama, dramatists, playwrights, stage, theatrical, Ireland, Connemara, West Kerry, Irish, Wicklow, country, countryside, rural, peasants, consciousness, anthropology, folklore, Irish folklore, Eire, Southern Ireland
Price £16.00.
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