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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Roberts, Elizabeth, editor. Lancaster University.
Centre for North-West Regional Studies: Regional Bulletin
(Centre for North-West Regional Studies, 1995).
New Series No 9. Summer 1995. Booklet. Paperback. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A14706
Keywords: C.N.W.R.S, Centre for North-West Regional Studies, bulletin, bulletins, journals, Lancaster University, booklet, booklets
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Ostroff, Eugene.
Photographing The Frontier:
(Smithsonian Institution, 1976).
An exhibition researched and organized by Eugene Ostroff, Curator of Photography, National Museum of History and Technology. Developed and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1975-1978. Booklet. Covers soiled, otherwise good. 31pp. Order No. NSBK-A11145
Keywords: B000GKEHS0, photography, photographic, photos, cameras, frontier,US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, twentieth century, 20th, booklet
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Wheeler, Barry, ed.
Spare the Rod: Journal of a Victorian Schoolmaster in Dorset, 1863 - 64
(Winterbourne Press, 1988).
Booklet. Spine faded, covers lightly soiled, otherwise good. 36pp. Order No. NSBK-A13308
Keywords: 0950828947, Dorset, Victorian, 19th, century, nineteenth, history, schools, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, education, 1860s, journals, teachers, diaries, booklet
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Cobbe, Frances Power and Bryan, Benjamin.
Vivisection in America: I: How it is Taught; II: How it is Practised
(Portrayer, 2002 reprint of 4th edition of 1890).
No 4 in the Open Archive Occasional Series. Booklet. New booklet, fine. 44pp. Order No. NSBK-C6301
Keywords: vivisection, Vivisection in America, USA, American, America, United States of America, social history, Frances Power Cobbe, Benjamin Bryan, anti vivisection, anti-vivisection, antivivisection, Victorian, nineteenth century, vivisectionists, vivisectionist, women, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, animals, animal cruelty, cruelty to animals, medical, medicine, science, philanthropy, philanthropists, letters, women's rights, women's movement, suffrage, woman suffage, women's suffrage, London National Society for Women's Suffrage, experiments on animals, animal experimentation, Victoria Street Society, feminists, feminist, feminism, protest, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Open Archive Occasional Series, new title, booklet
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White, R. F. and Iles, R.
Archaeology in National Parks:
(Yorkshire Dales National Park, 1991).
National Parks Staff Association. Paperback. A little yellowing to covers, otherwise very good. 68pp. Order No. NSBK-Z14715
Keywords: 0905455312, National Parks Staff Association, National Parks, Yorkshire Dales National Park, booklets, booklet, archaeology, archaeological
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Kushner, Tony.
Observing the "Other": Mass-Observation and "Race"
(Uni of Sussex, 1995).
Mass-Observation and "Race". Mass-Observation Archive, Occasional Paper No 2. Booklet. Paperback. New book, fine. 15pp. Order No. NSBK-A5119
Keywords: 0415064988, Mass Observation, Mass-Observation, social investigations, surveys, twentieth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English, sociology, Mass Observation team, working classes, working class, 20th century, social research, Mass-Observation Archive, methodology, research, methodological, Sussex University, World War II, Second World War, wartime, Occasional Papers, Tony Kushner, Jews, Judaism, Jewish, Jew, ethnicity, race, racism, racial, antisemitism, 1930s, inter-war, interwar, inter war, booklet
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Chamberlain, M. E.
The New Imperialism:
(The Historical Association, 1970).
Historical Association [G.73]. Booklet. Covers browned, otherwise good. 46pp. Order No. NSBK-A9802
Keywords: 0852780192, imperial, Empire, imperialism, Britain, British, England, English, history, Historical Association, Europe, European, booklet
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Montgomery, W. A. and Weightman, M. Scott.
Grace Darling:
(M. S. Weightman, rpt, 1999).
Booklet. Paperback. Very good. 24pp. Order No. NSBK-A15035
Keywords: B0042Q183Q, Grace Darling, history, women heroines, Northumbria, social history, Victorian, booklets
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White, Florence, ed.
How to Wash Clothes at Home: Containing Simple and Complete Instructions
(Florence White, 1901).
An advice book, recommending the best methods of carrying out laundry work. A very interesting one of its kind, with illustrations and lots of detail of interest to the social historian. Paperback. Original covers slightly soiled and creased at edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C15121
Keywords: clothes, clothing, washing clothes, laundry, laundry work, working women, domesticity, antiquarian, social history, ironing, starching, booklets, boiling, advice books, linen, booklet, booklets
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