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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Shepherd, R. G.
Gathered Leaves:
(West Lancashire Evening Gazette, 1978).
Paperback. A little wear covers, a few pages partially detached, otherwise good. 104pp. Order No. NSBK-A14396
Keywords: 0900421231, autobiography, history, Preesall, Fylde, history, rural, villages, agricultural, agrarian, Lancashire, village life
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Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, ed.
Woman's Mission: a Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women by Eminent Writers
(Portrayer Publishers, 2002 facsimile of 1893 ed).
For the Chicago International Exhibition of Women's Work, 1893. Paperback. Light soiling to page edges, spine slightly creased, otherwise very good. viii + 485pp. Order No. NSBK-C4894
Keywords: 9781378684542, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropy, philanthropic, women, woman, women's history, woman's, woman's mission, women and work, Britain, British, England, English, poor, poverty, Victorian, nineteenth century, societies, temperance, organisations, friendly societies, friendly society, Florence Nightingale, sisterhood, charity, charities, Sarah Ponsonby, working class, working classes, needlework, poor laws, ragged schools, education, welfare, social welfare, social history, women's work, missions, women workers, rescue work, Portrayers, Portrayer Publishers, philanthropic institutions, Chicago International Exhibition of Women's Work, 1893, victoriana, Portrayer's, women's work, woman worker, woman workers
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Showler, Brian & Sinfield, Adrian, eds.
The Workless State: Studies in Unemployment
(Martin Robertson, 1981).
Foreword by Peter Townsend. Paperback. Spine creased, light soiling to edges, otherwise good. xvii + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-A6512
Keywords: 0855203404, unemployment, employment, work, labor, labour, twentieth century, poverty, men, politics, political economy, economics, Britain, British, England, English, Keynes, government, society, tax, taxation, history
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Baines, Thomas.
History of the Town and Commerce of Liverpool: and of the Rise of Manufacturing Industry in the Adjoining Counties
(Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, London, Liverpool, 1852).
Small library markings to spine and front endpaper. Frontispiece plan of Liverpool damaged and repaired with sellotape. Another plan, of Royalist Fortifications, torn in two but complete. A little rubbing / bumping to corners, but a very nice copy indeed, sound and tight. Hardback. Full leather nicely repaired. Gilt decoration front & back, raised gilt bands & titles to spine, all edges gilt. Ex library, but library markings minimal. Very good, attractive. xvi + 844 + 13pp. Order No. NSBK-A6861
Keywords: B000K40UBA, towns, cities, urban, city, commerce, commercial, manufacturing, manufacture, Liverpool, Merseyside, North West, England, Britain, British, English, counties, Lancashire, history, urbanisation, antiquarian, industry, industrial, Thomas Baines, Industrial Revolution, industrialisation, town, Mersey, Victorian, nineteenth century, Liverpool Docks, trade, exports, imports, economic, economy, ports, port
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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
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Collins, Desmond; Macdonald, Jean; et al.
Archaeology of the London Area: Current Knowledge and Problems
(London & Middx.Archaeol.Soc., 1976).
Special Paper No 1. Paperback. Ex library with minimal library markings, covers worn at edges, otherwise good+. 67pp. Order No. NSBK-A13885
Keywords: 0903290146, London, Middlesex, Archaeological, archaeology, history, London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, archaeological excavations
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Holbrook-Jones, Mike.
Supremacy and Subordination of Labour: The Hierarchy of Work in the Early Labour Movement
(Heinemann Educational, 1982).
Hardback. Very good in spine-faded dustwrapper. xi + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A8640
Keywords: 0435824171, class, classes, class structure, heirarchy, social, society, working-class, working-class, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian, work, workers, employers, employees, employment, jobs, labour, labor, miners, coal, spinners, engineers, men, man, Maxist, Marxism, industrial revolution, labour history, labor history, Britain, British, England, English, history, sociology, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists
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Wrigley, Ammon.
Those Were the Days:
(Whittaker and Sons, Stalybridge, 1937).
Illustrated reminiscences. Hardback. Some heavy staining to spine. Original cloth worn at edges and slightly marked, internally a good working copy. xi + 288pp. Order No. NSBK-A14066
Keywords: B0018IK3LE, Lancashire, Blackpool, Saddleworth, moors, Holmfirth, Yorkshire, mills, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, social history, memories, industrial history
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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
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