Hill, Octavia.
Thirty Years' Work:
(Privately Printed).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow Workers were printed for private circulation to her supporters. She preferred to write to supporters individually, but by the 1870s the scope and scale of her work made this impossible. The importance of the Letters is that they cover the whole range of her activities: housing (including her work for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners), open spaces (including the founding of the National Trust), cultural philanthropy, the Women's University Settlement, the Poor Law Commission and the founding of the Cadets. Octavia disliked publicising her work, except in so far as she had to appeal for funds. The Letters therefore contain detailed information about way in which she handled the various aspects of her work that are not available elsewhere. The volume Thirty Years' Work is a bound collection of all of Octavia Hill's Letters to her Fellow Workers between 1872 (the first letter) and 1900. There are twenty-eight letters as one letter covers 1884 and 1885. All letters contain the accounts for the year apart from that for 1877. Also included in the volume are the two accounts of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment (1871 & 1872). Copies of the Letters are extremely rare and copies of the reports of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment even rarer. The letters take the form of simple paper pamphlets of between eight and twenty pages. A number of the letters are inscribed in Octavia's hand to her sister Gertrude who in 1875 had married Charles Lewes, the son of George Henry Lewes and stepson of George Eliot. Page size: 185mm x 120mm. Volume bound in attractive blue boards 190mm x 120mm. Further details and images available on request. Hardback. A small number of sheets - three or four - have become detached from the stitching. Internally, the spine is pulling away / partially detached - otherwise good, in blue boards. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15626
Keywords: social history, housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, town planning, urban history, open spaces, Britain, England, British, English, history, Octavia Hill's letters, nineteenth century, papers, works, garden cities, period sources, pamphlets, booklets, Women's University Settlement, Cadets, Poor Law Commission, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, Gertrude Hill, Gertrude Lewes, inscribed, inscriptions, association items, antiquarian
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Weeks, Jeffrey.
Sex, Politics and Society: the Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800
(Longman, 2nd edition, 1989).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, with newspaper cutting pasted to front endpaper, a good working copy only. xi + 306pp. Order No. NSBK-C893
Keywords: 9780582023833, sex, sexuality, Jeffrey Weeks, history, society, social history, politics, femininity, masculinity, family, birth control, social purity, morality, social attitudes, Britain, British, England, English
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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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Blatchford, Robert.
Not Guilty: a Defence of the Bottom Dog
(Clarion Press, 1906).
Hardback. Spine edges and corners worn, otherwise good. 261pp. Order No. NSBK-A5491
Keywords: B0006DAEK2, Robert Blatchford, labour movement, Clarion Clubs, Clarion Movement, social history, Britain, British, England, English, Edwardian, labour history, class, heredity, working class, working classes, working-class, punishment, environment, influence of environment, period sources, contemporary comment, antiquarian
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Mayer, Philip.
A Tram Ride to Dingle:
(Bluecoat Press, 1996).
Paperback. Very good. 79pp. Order No. NSBK-A13926
Keywords: 1872568343, Liverpool, Merseyside, Dingle, trams, tramways, city, cities, transport, history, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, social history
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Hollis, Patricia, ed.
Class and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century England, 1815-1850:
(RKP, 1973).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, otherwise good in faded, chipped dustwrapper. xxvii + 372pp. Order No. NSBK-A606
Keywords: 0710074190, class, conflict, Victorian, nineteenth-century, England, Britain, English, British, conflict, social protest, history, Chartism, Chartists, protest, radical, radicals, radicalism, radicalist, radicalists
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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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NUWSS Supporters' Badge, Suffragist Suffragette.
Enamel Reproduction NUWSS Suffragist Suffragette Stick-Pin Badge / Brooch:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2018).
NUWSS Supporters' Badge. Enamel Reproduction NUWSS Suffragette Stick-Pin Badge / Brooch, a Faithful Replica of the Original By Portrayer Publishers. High-quality modern reproduction enamel badge, brand new. Size: Badge circle diameter: 22mm. Length - badge and stick pin together -55mm. This badge is a replica of an original of the period, an enamel badge issued by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, NUWSS, displaying the organisation's official colours of red, white and green. The text reads: National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies Constitutional Non Party. Attaches to clothes safely by the stick-pin, the bottom of which - the bell cap - pushes on firmly. The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, NUWSS, also known as the Suffragists, was an organisation of women's suffrage societies in the United Kingdom. The organisation was democratic, and devoted itself to achieving women's suffrage - the Vote for Women - through peaceful and legal means. The badge / brooch comes with a free attractive purple velvet gift pouch. Presented within a lovely gift bag which is clear at the front and shiny silver at the rear. Brand new, excellent condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15560
Keywords: Christmas gifts, jewellery, jewelry, woman suffrage, button badge, pin back, badges, pinback, suffragette era, pins, suffragettes, suffragist activity, suffragists, women, women's history, woman, history, social history, Britain, British history, England, English history, NUWSS, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, enamel badges, suffragette jewellery, suffragette jewelry, brooch, brooches, women's movement, Portrayer Publishers, suffragette ephemera, replica, reproduction
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Blatchford, Robert.
Spangles of Existence:
(John Lane, Bodley Head, 1921).
Hardback. A little light patching to cloth, and wear to spine ends and corners, otherwise good+. viii + 229pp. Order No. NSBK-A8958
Keywords: B000H3YQUA, Robert Blatchford, labour movement, social history, Britain, British, England, English, fiction, literature
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Miles, Caroline.
Lancashire Textiles: a Case Study of Industrial Change
(CUP, 1968).
National Institute of Economic and Social Research. Paperback. Slight browing to covers and wear to spine edges, otherwise good+. x + 124pp. Order No. NSBK-A13321
Keywords: 0521072867, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Lancashire, mills, textiles, textile, cotton, history, textile industry, cotton, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, North West, 1940s, 1950s, post war, post-war
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