Smith, Captain Alexander.
A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen: Footpads, Shoplifts and Cheats of Both Sexes
(Routledge, rpt, popular edition, 1933).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings, wear to edges, otherwise good and solid in red library binding. xxii + 607pp. Order No. NSBK-A14952
Keywords: B00087RZMQ, robbery, highwaymen, history, crime, thieves,
Price £45.00.
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Wright, Thomas.
The Romance of the Lace Pillow: Being The History Of Lace-Making In Bucks, Beds, Northants And Neighbouring Counties, Together With Some Account Of The Lace Industries of Devon And Ireland
(Olney, Bucks, 2nd edition, 1930).
Volume II only of two. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings. Minor wear to edges, otherwise good+. ii + 125 + 271pp. Order No. NSBK-A15131
Keywords: B0018Y07WI, lace, lace-making, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, history, lace-makers, Devon, Ireland, Irish, bobbins, crochet, sewing, crafts
Price £16.00.
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Perry, Matt.
Prisoners of Want: The Experience and Protest of the Unemployed in France, 1931-45 (Studies in Labour History)
(Ashgate, 2007).
Hardback. Very good. xiv + 296pp. Order No. NSBK-A15276
Keywords: 9780754656074, employment, labour, unemployment, France, French, history, poor, protest, Lille to Paris Hunger March, unemployed, interwar
Price £35.00.
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McKay, Sinclair.
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the World War II Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Worked There
(Aurum, 2010).
Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled dustwrapper. vi + 336pp. Order No. NSBK-A15737
Keywords: 9781845135393, codes, war, Second World War, wartime, code-breaking, history, Bletchley Park
Price £10.00.
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Stanley, Oliver; Buchan, John, Bressey, C. H.
British Bridges: an Illustrated Technical and Historical Record
(Public Works, Roads, Transport Congress, 1933).
With many photographic illustrations. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Splitting / cracking damage to exterior of spine, with some wear to all edges. Otherwise overall good. xxiv + 498pp. Order No. NSBK-A14968
Keywords: B000RZAQPW, bridges, history, technical, transport, history, technology, roads, infrastructure, public works, bridge, towns, crossing points, photos, photographs, pictures, illustrations
Price £35.00.
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Milne, Gordon.
The Sense of Society: A History of the American Novel of Manners
(Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1977).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 305pp. Order No. NSBK-A3222
Keywords: 0838619274, manners, America, American, novel, novelist, literature, history, James, Howells, Wharton, Glasgow, Marquand, Auchincloss, Cooper, Kennedy, sedgwick, Tarkington, Lewis, Cozzens, Cheever, Knowles
Price £8.00.
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Simon, Rita J. and Danziger, Gloria.
Women's Movements in America: Their Successes, Disappointments and Aspirations
(Praeger / Greenwood Press, 1991).
Paperback. Spine faded, light soiling to back cover, otherwise very good. 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C13281
Keywords: 0275939499, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's movements, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, suffragettes, voting, votes for women, politics, women's rights
Price £11.00.
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Bruley, Sue.
The Women and Men of 1926: A Gender and Social History of the General Strike and Miners' Lockout in South Wales
(University of Wales Press, 2010).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. ix + 202pp. Order No. NSBK-A15263
Keywords: 9780708322758, trade unions, radicalism, women, men, gender, Miners' Lockout, South Wales, Welsh, trade unionism, history, mines, colliers, collieries, 1926 Strike, General Strike, valleys, militancy, militancy
Price £38.95.
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Gibson, Peter.
Southwick-on-Wear: an Illustrated History
(Southwick, 1985).
With a page of revisions pasted to inner card cover, dated 1990. Volume 1 of the series. Richly illustrated. Booklet. Some wear to card covers, otherwise very good. 58pp. Order No. NSBK-A16110
Keywords: stored with booklets, booklets, social history, Southwick-on-Wear, Sunderland, North East, Southwick, Newcastle, shipbuilding, photos, photographs
Price £24.95.
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Truth, Sojourner.
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her Book of Life
(OUP, 1991).
Edited by Jeffrey C. Stewart. Paperback. Very good. xii + 320pp. Order No. NSBK-C16038
Keywords: 9780195090512, Jeffrey C. Stewart, Sojourner Truth, history, women, slavery, slaves, ethnicity, USA, America, American, abolitionism, abolitionists
Price £13.99.
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