Stocks, Mary.
My Commonplace Book: an Autobiography
(Peter Davies, rpt, 1970).
Women's suffrage; the welfare state; the L.S.E.; adult education; the Great Depression in Manchester; social work in London; a variety of government assignments. Hardback. X Library with usual library stamps. Lacks flyleaf, otherwise good. ix + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C779
Keywords: 0432157506, suffrage, suffragette, women's rights, L.S.E., the Great Depression, adult education, Manchester, London, social work, welfare state, England, Britain, history, English, British
Price £4.99.
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Simon, Sir John.
Portrait of My Mother:
(Hodder & Stoughton, reprint, 1936).
Illustrated. Hardback. Some brown speckling / foxing to boards, otherwise good in slightly torn, soiled dw. 30pp. Order No. NSBK-C6084
Keywords: B000866SHU, women's history, Sir John Simon, mothers, mother, maternal, motherhood, Fanny Allsebrook Simon, Victorian, Victorian, women, biography, biographies, Britain, British, England, English, Manchester
Price £7.00.
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John, Angela V.
Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869 - 1955
(MUP, 2009).
Paperback. Fine, as new. xv + 281pp. Order No. NSBK-D14266
Keywords: 9780719080159, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, politics, political, rights, women's rights, women's movement, Votes for Women, woman, women's history, women's studies, women's suffrage, Evelyn Sharp, biography, biographies, children's authors, women writers, Henry W. Nevinson, schoolgirl fiction, Manchester Guardian, Weimar Germany, famine, Soviet Russia, journalists, journalism, Victorian, Edwardian, nineteenth century, 19th, Rebel Women, Angela V. John
Price £13.99.
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Sigwart, E.E.
Royal Fleet Auxiliary: its Ancestry and Affiliations
(Adlard Coles, 1969).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, some browning to page edges, otherwise a good copy in slightly creased and chipped dustwrapper. vii + 221pp. Order No. NSBK-A15795
Keywords: 9780229985814, nay, naval, maritime, history, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, supplies, ships, shipping, British, Royal Navy
Price £22.00.
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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
Price £5.99.
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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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Gladwin, D.D.
The Waterways of Britain: a Social Panorama
(B.T. Batsford, 1976).
Illustrated. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A4271
Keywords: 0713431598, social history, canals, canal, waterways, transport, Britain, British, England, English, family, families, navigation, canal boats, canal people, boat people, boat men, boat women, navvies, inland waterways, rivers, carriers, river, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, twentieth century, travelling people, travellers, travelers, traveller, traveller
Price £9.00.
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MacDonagh, Oliver.
A Pattern of Government Growth, 1800-60: the Passenger Acts and their Enforcement
(Macgibbon Kee, 1961).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, including cancellation stamps, otherwise a good solid copy. 368pp. Order No. NSBK-A15848
Keywords: passenger acts, travel, transport, history, nineteenth century, colonial, Liverpool, ships, shipping, laws, Victorian
Price £14.00.
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Simon, E.D.
The Anti-Slum Campaign:
(Longmans, 2nd Impression, 1933).
Very scarce. Hardback. Cloth sun faded and worn at edges, internally good. viii + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A4069
Keywords: B000KYQ3D4, Manchester, slums, anti-slum campaign, housing, cities, urban history, North West, England, English, Britain, British, Addison Act, rents, Greenwood Act, town planning, urbanisation, conurbation, dwellings, houses, building, city, local government, local authorities, Chamberlain Act, Wheatley Act, Hilton Young Acts, slum clearance, housing shortage, tenants, Homes for Heroes, Simons, E.D. Simon, Ernest Simon, poverty, poor
Price £12.00.
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Starkey, H.F.
Schooner Port: Two Centuries of Upper Mersey Sail
(G.W. and A. Hesketh, 1983).
Paperback. Fine. x + 228pp. Order No. NSBK-A10733
Keywords: 0905777344, waterways, Merseyside, Upper Mersey, Liverpool, history, transport, rivers, River Mersey, ships, local history, ports, Runcorn, shipbuilding, maritime, 18th, 19th, century, eighteenth century, nineteenth century
Price £11.00.
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