Chinn, Carl.
They Worked All Their Lives: Women of the Urban Poor in England, 1880-1939
(MUP, 1988).
Hardback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good in faded dustwrapper. xi + 187pp. Order No. NSBK-A15085
Keywords: 9780719024368, urban poor, poverty, Carl Chinn, working class, women's history, social history, British, English, England, Britain, Birmingham, Midlands, charity, mothers, motherhood, Reports, women's work, trade unions, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, twentieth century, self-help, community, communities, debt, Clementina Black, working women
Price £10.00.
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Treble, J.H.
Urban Poverty in Britain, 1830 - 1914:
(Batsford Academic, 1979).
Hardback. Front cover creased, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A6432
Keywords: 9780815398400, urban, poverty, Britain, British, towns, cities, town, city, poor, nineteenth century, twentieth century, industry, industrialisation, industrialization, low pay, casual labour, unemployment, sickness, widowhood, family, familes, economy, economics, history, England, English, paupers, pauper, pauperism
Price £20.00.
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James, Louis.
Fiction for the Working Man, 1830 - 50: A Study of the Literature Produced for the Working Classes in Early Victorian Urban England
(Penguin, rpt, 1974).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. xviii + 261pp. Order No. NSBK-A8755
Keywords: 014060037X, fiction, class, working class, working classes, nineteenth century, 19th century, workers, working men, social history, class consciousness, reading habits, reading matter, Britain, British, England, English, popular literature, Victorian, popular fiction, publishing, popular culture, history, urbanisation
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Hoffert, Sylvia D.
Private Matters: American Attitudes toward Childbearing and Infant Nurture in the Urban North, 1800-1860
(Illinois UP, 1989).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 229pp. Order No. NSBK-C7735
Keywords: 0252015479, American, America, USA, United States, children, child, infants, nurture, babies, motherhood, maternal, mothers, North America, nineteenth century, 19th, attitudes, baby, breastfeeding, childhood, maternity
Price £16.00.
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Hill, Octavia.
Our Common Land:
(Macmillan, 1877).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, some wear to spine, spine ends, edges and corners. Cloth a little marked / rubbed -else good / solid. vi + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-C6431
Keywords: B001P1SGF4, housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, town planning, urban history, open spaces, countryside, Britain, England, British, English, history, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment, district visiting, volunteer visitors, commons, charity, charities, COS, C.O.S., Charity Organisation Society
Price £120.00.
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Morris, R. J.
Cholera, 1832: the Social Reponse to an Epidemic
(Croom Helm, 1976).
General editors: J. F. C. Harrison and Stephen Yeo. Scarce. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in faded, chipped, lightly soiled dustwrapper. 228pp. Order No. NSBK-A13440
Keywords: 0856643777, cholera, epidemics, diseases, water, water supplies, sanitation, 19th century, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, sanitary, urban, urbanisation, medical, medicine, science, morality, class, Sunderland, Manchester, hospitals, Edinburgh, quarantine, public health, illness, sickness, towns, cities, town, city
Price £45.00.
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Ryan, Mary P.
Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880
(Johns Hopkins, 1990).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. xii + 202pp. Order No. NSBK-C4021
Keywords: 9780801839085, suffrage, women, civic, urban politics, history, America, United States, USA, Louisiana, New Orleans, nineteenth century, public sphere, New York, California, San Francisco, private sphere, separate spheres, gender
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Graham, Frank.
The Geordie Netty: A Short History and Guide
(Howe Brothers, 1980).
Northern History Booklet No.1001. Paperback. Good+. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A11321
Keywords: B000RJVMEW, geordies, netty, netties, nettys, toilets, urination, W.C.s, water closets, urban, cities, city, towns, Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North-East, North East, history, booklet
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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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Kaufman, M.
The Housing of the Working Classes and of the Poor:
(EP Publishing/Rowman and Littlefield, 1975 rpt of 1907 text).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 146pp. Order No. NSBK-A2577
Keywords: 0715811347, housing, working classes, history, poor, poverty, Britain, England, urban, urbanisation, British, English, houses, paupers
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