Brittain, Vera.
Poems of the War and After:
(Victor Gollancz, first edition, 1934).
Ex-Wigan Free Public Library. A signed first edition copy. Inscription reads: 'With best wishes to Wigan, and Wigan Public Library from Vera Brittain. Wigan, December 7th, 1936'. Scarce, for the collector. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps.(Wigan Library). Cream cloth soiled, lacks spine cover, but contents firm, solid. Collectible though a working copy. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-C16020
Keywords: Vera Brittain, First World War, Great War, poems, verse, poetry, signed, women, women's history, social history, grief, mourning, signed editions, first editions, first edition, World War I, Wigan, Wigan Free Public Library, Lancashire, interwar, inter war, 1930s, thirties, antiquarian, collectible, literature, women writers, pacifism, pacifists
Price £150.00.
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Woloch, Isser, ed.
The Peasantry in the Old Regime: Conditions and Protests
(Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970).
Paperback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and sticker, some light creasing / edge wear to covers - otherwise good. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-A13347
Keywords: 0030798302, ancien regime, old regime, history, peasants, peasantry, class, society, protest, poverty, peasant uprisings, riots, 18th century, eighteenth century, popular protest, agrarian, village, peasant revolution of 1789, France, French
Price £11.00.
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Langan, Mary and Schwarz, Bill, eds.
Crises in the British State, 1880-1930:
(Hutchinson, 1985).
Paperback. Coverschipped and slightly dented, otherwise good+. 288pp. Order No. NSBK-A8083
Keywords: 0091546818, state, Britain, British, England, English, history, nineteenth century, twentieth century, society, suffrage, feminism, child welfare, class, schooling, education, economy, imperialism, unemployment, labour, labor
Price £4.00.
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Wardlaw, C. W.
A Quiet Talent: Jessie Wardlaw, 1903 - 1971. A Brief Biographical Note on her Artistic Accomplishments
(Manchester, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in soiled, faded and slightly chipped dustwrapper. vii + 28pp. Order No. NSBK-C6565
Keywords: 0950215600, Jessie Wardlaw, women, twentieth century, women artists, art, artistic, paintings, English, British, Britain, Britain, Trinidad, Belgian Congo, Bramhall, Cheshire, Manchester, Bapende, Kundu, Topoke, the Congo, 20th century, portraits, black history, biography, biographies, life histories, life history
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Madams, Julia P.
The Story Re-Told: An Intermediate Text-Book on Co-operation
(Co-op Union Ltd, 2nd edit., 1921).
Hardback. Dark blue cloth slightly marked/mottled interior good, illustrated. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A3439
Keywords: B000KZKRB2, C.W.S., Co-operative Wholesale Society, CWS, co-operation, Robert Owen, co-operative, Christian Socialism, Co-operative Movement, Christian Socialist, Rochdale Pioneers, New Lanark, Julia Madams, utopia, cooperation
Price £11.00.
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Strachan, Will R.
Knutsford Historical and Archaeological Association:
(Knutsford Historical and Archaeological, Association, Spring 1978).
Volume 1. Number 1. Booklet. Cream card covers slightly discoloured with age, otherwise good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A15967
Keywords: booklets, history, Cheshire, Knutsford Historical and Archaeological Association, archaeology, Peover, local history, Knutsford, Manchester
Price £12.50.
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Cox, Jack.
Take a Cold Tub, Sir!: The Story of the Boy's Own Paper
(Lutterworth Press, 1982).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A5386
Keywords: 0718825055, Boy's Own Paper, boys', boys, boy, childhood, children, magazine, magazines, media, reading, Victorian, nineteenth century, gender, masculinity, Britain, British, England, English, Religious Tract Society, Jack Cox, editors, G. A. Hutchinson, A. L. Haydon, G. R. Pocklington, illustrations, comics, entertainment, leisure
Price £8.00.
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Heron, Liz.
Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties
(Virago, rpt, 1985).
Paperback. With newspaper review pasted inside front cover, back cover slightly browned, otherwise a good copy. viii + 248pp. Order No. NSBK-C2389
Keywords: 0860685969, fifties, growing up, education, history, girls, women, post-war, welfare state, feminism, society, social, careers, childhood, child, girlhood
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Garratt, Morris.
Samuel Bamford: Portrait of a Radical
(George Kelsall, 1992).
Paperback. Brand new book, fine. 101pp. Order No. NSBK-A8672
Keywords: 0946571201, Samuel Bamford, British radicals, Britain, England, English, British, radicalism, Middleton, Lancashire, politics, history, 19th century, nineteenth century, Peterloo, weavers, textiles, weaving, Hampden Club, corresponding societies, parliamentary reform
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Crompton, Samuel.
Samuel Crompton Centenary: Bolton, June 7th- 10th 1927. Official Souvenir
(Tillotsons, Bolton, 1927).
Hardback. Original pictorial boards darkened and a little soiled, spine ends and edges worn, otherwise good and firm. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A16063
Keywords: Bolton, social history, Samuel Crompton, Lancashire, textiles, mills, cotton industry, production, North West, industry, spinning mule, stored under Crompton
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