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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Cunningham, W.
True Womanhood:
(Thomas Y. Crowell, 1896).
Hardback. White leather covers embossed with figure of tree in gold, - slightly soiled, otherwise good. 44pp. Order No. NSBK-C13667
Keywords: B000WV7VOK, W. Cunningham, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, True Womanhood, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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McDougall, Linda.
Cherie: The Perfect Life of Mrs Blair
(Politico's, 2001).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. xii + 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C11225
Keywords: 1902301870, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's work, women and work, politics, political, politicians, government, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history
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Janosik, Edward G.
Constituency Labour Parties in Britain:
(Pall Mall Press, 1968).
Hardback. Good+. vii + 222pp. Order No. NSBK-A12529
Keywords: 0269992944, labour, labor, party, parties, politics, political, politicians, government, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th
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Blair, Anna, ed.
Miss Cranston's Omnibus: Recollections of Glasgow Life
(Lomond Books, 1991).
Illustrated by Bill Taylor. Includes Tea at Miss Cranston's and More Tea at Miss Cranston's. Paperback. Good. xiv + 447pp. Order No. NSBK-C3170
Keywords: 0947782443, Miss Cranston, omnibus, Glasgow, Scotland, social history, oral history, poverty
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Harries-Jenkins, Gwyn.
The Army in Victorian Society:
(RKP, 1977).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps. Overall very good in dustwrapper. xi + 320pp. Order No. NSBK-A7247
Keywords: 0710084471, army, wars, warfare, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, history, England, English, military, soldiers, colonial, colonialists, Waterloo, officers, professionalism, professionals, fighting, social history, army ranks, 19th century
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Hobson, O. R.
A Hundred Years of the Halifax:
(Batsford/Clowes, 1953).
Hardback. Boards soiled, in torn dustwrapper, otherwise good. x + 190pp. Order No. NSBK-A12743
Keywords: B0000CIFPZ, Halifax, building society, societies, banking, money, finance, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Butler, Josephine E.
Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2002 facsimile reprint of 1910 edition).
A well-presented facsimile of a hitherto scarce title. Paperback. New book, fine. 268pp. Order No. NSBK-C581
Keywords: 0954263219, Josephine E. Butler, education, social history, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, equality, gender roles, working women, women workers, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade, prostitution, prostitutes, State Regulation of Vice, Contagious Diseases Act, social purity, Liverpool, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical
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McPhail, Helen.
The Long Silence: the Tragedy of Occupied France in World War I
(I.B. Tauris, rpt, 2014).
Illustrated. Paperback. Very good. x + 235pp. Order No. NSBK-A16079
Keywords: 9781784530532, France, French, history, occupied France, Nazis, World War II, Second World War
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Butler, Rupert.
As They Saw Her: Emmeline Pankhurst
(George G. Harrap, 1970).
Hardback. Ex library, lacks fly leaf. Small tea stain to page edges, otherwise good in browned, slightly creased dustwrapper. 143pp. Order No. NSBK-C74
Keywords: 0245599703, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, politics, political, rights, women's rights. womens' movement, Votes for Women, woman, women's history, women's studies, women's suffrage, woman's suffrage, Emmeline Pankhurst, Edwardian, biographies, Pankhursts
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