Elkin, Winifred A.,

THE ENGLISH PENAL SYSTEM.

Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1957, 1st edn., paperback original, A384, 288pp, 'the treatment of the law-breaker after sentence is passed and the claim (then) of the English Penal System to be a re-educating force...'lightly rubbed at extrems., wrappers a little sunned, edges tanned, ink name/date inside upper wrapper, very good,

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Book number: 40227

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: crime law sentence rehabilitation penal prison borstal offender social history

Erickson, Carolly,

OUR TEMPESTUOUS DAY - A History of Regency England.

Robson Books, London, 1996, 1st edn. UK, 302pp incl. 12pp half tone ills., maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the age of opulence and fashion in Regency Society, and of political radicalism, popular unrest and social upheaval amongst the lower orders of early 19th century England, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, fine in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 28764

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british royalty biography regency social history

Firstbrook, Peter,

SURVIVING THE IRON AGE.

BBC Worldwide, London, 2001, 1st edn., 192pp, coloured photo ills., line drawing and maps in text, tv tie-in, large format (10 x 8 inches approx.), red cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, published to accompany the BBC tv series of the same name, an experiment in living history when seventeen volunteers spent seven weeks living in an iron-age encampment of reconstructed roundhouses, working together as a community but limited the tools of the era and mastering the skills of smelting iron, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43001

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history iron age wales celts

Fletcher, Sheila,

VICTORIAN GIRLS - Lord Lyttelton's Daughters.

The Hambledon Press, London, 1997, 1st edn., xii, 249pp, 8pp photo ills., family tree in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, based on the diaries and letters of the Lyttelton, Talbot and Gladstone families in the second half of the nineteenth century, an account of the daughters of the fourth Lord Lyttelton, Meriel, Lucy, Lavinia and May, the first three in turn having the responsibility of running Hagley Hall in Worcestershire after the death of their mother in 1857, lightly rubbed at spine ends, dustwrapper: unpriced, very lightly rubbed, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32130

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history lyttelton gladstone talbot victoria victorian social

Froude, James Anthony,

ENGLISH SEAMEN in the Sixteenth Century.

George Harrap, London, 1925, 1st in imprint, 255pp, half tone frontis port. of the author by S. J. Robbins, previously published by Longmans Green, navy blue full leather lettered and decorated in gilt at spine, lettered, decorated and bordered in gilt upper board, upper edge gilt with decorative headband, marbled endpapers, fore-and lower edges uncut, in 'The Harrap Library' series, the text of 9 lectures delivered at Oxford 1893/4, on John Hawkins, Drake's circumnavigation, the West Indies Expedition, the Attack on Cadiz, etc., a little rubbed at extrems., spine sunned and sl. nicked at tail, fore and lower edges foxed, presentation plate on front pastedown, somew faint foxing to prelims., no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 29924

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history maritime hawkins slavery cadiz drake armada

Fulford, Roger,

GEORGE THE FOURTH.

Duckworth, London, 1949, revised and enlarged edition, 240pp, col'd frontis portrait, royal blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, the original 1935 edition expanded by reference to Professor Aspinall's letters and papers of George IV from the Royal Archives, in three sections covering his time as Prince of Wales, as Prince Regent and King, heavily bumped at upper and lower edges of boards, edges foxed, light foxing to prelims., no dustwrapper, good,

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Book number: 28767

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: social british history regency regent royalty

Fulford, Roger,

VOTES FOR WOMEN - The Story of the Struggle.

Readers Union, London, 1958, club edn., 285pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, col'd lettered dustwrapper, a history of women's suffrage in Great Britain, lightly bumped at extrems., dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems with several short nicks at edges, spine sl. sunned, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 28960

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: women vote suffrage emancipation militant suffragette pankhurst electoral reform parliament

Giles, F. T.,

THE MAGISTRATES COURTS - What They Do How They Do It And Why.

Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1949, 1st edn., paperback original, 222pp, coloured lettered wrappers, an outline of the law and practice of the Magistrates Courts, presided over by laymen they are used by more of the population than any other court in administering aspects of the law from criminal to licensing, matrimonial to contract, etc., incoporates the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act of 1948, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 40827

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british social history magistrates courts law

Golby, J. M. (ed.),

CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN BRITAIN 1850-1890 - A Source Book of Contemporary Writings.

Oxford University Press in assoc. with The Open University, Oxford, 1986, paperback, xiv, 342pp, half tone photo ills. in text, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an Open University set book for the Arts Foundation course (A102), an anthology of late Victorian contemporary writings about how the arts, philosphy, religion, social and political history were viewed at the time, well rubbed with creasing to wrappers, corners inclined to curl, highlighting in text, reading copy,

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Book number: 40828

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british social history

Graves, Robert and Hodge, Alan,

THE LONG WEEK-END - A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939.

Readers' Union, London, 1941, club edn., 472pp, red buckram lettered and ruled in silver at spine with publishers device in blind, an early almost contemporary social history of Great Britain between the wars, covering such topics as the armistice, averting revolution, emancipation of women (abandonment of the whalebone, short hair and short skirts, the vote, the flapper), sex (mainly as considered by Freud and Marie Stopes), amusements (dances, motoring picnics, rambling), etc., a little rubbed at extrems., some sunning to cloth, edges tanned, repaired nick fore-edge front free endpaper, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 40829

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british social history week-end armistice politics amusements performing arts literature religion education sport depression fitness

Hackett, Frances,

HENRY THE EIGHTH.

Reprint Society, London, 1946, club edn., 503pp, 12pp half tone ills., black cloth with dark brown title label lettered in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, col'd lettered dustwrapper, biography King Henry the Eighth, from his early boyhood to his death, including the political manoeuverings, religious allegiances and multiple marriages, a little rubbed and lightly bumped at extrems., edges tanned and faintly foxed, repaired crack to final endpapers at hinge, dustwrapper: well rubbed at extrems., spine sunned, some loss at spine ends and cnrs., very good in a good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32003

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history henry eighth anne bolyn cleves katherine katheryn catherine howard parr aragon jane seymour thomas more

Harvey, Nancy Llenz,

ELIZABETH OF YORK - Tudor Queen.

Arthur Barker, London, ND (copyright 1973), 1st edn., xiv inc. 3 pedigrees, 241pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., grey cloth lettered in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, pictorial dustwrapper, biography of the daughter and heir to the throne of Edward IV, Elizabeth of York married Henry VIIb by doing so uniting the two houses of York and Lancaster and founding the Tudor dynasty, edges tanned, olarge old felt-tip price front free endpaper, some light foxing to plates, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41439

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: biography yorkshire lancashire roses tudor henry british history

Hibbert, Christopher,

KING MOB - The Story of Lord George Gordon and the Riots of 1780.

Readers Union, London, 1959, club edn., 192pp inc. 7pp bibliog., 8pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, top edge col'd, pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the life of Lord George Gordon, MP and President of the Protestant Association, and of the anti-Catholic riots which followed the passing of the Catholic Relief Act of 1778, a little bumped at cnrs. upper board, lightly rubbed at extrems., dustwrapper: sunned at spine, a little rubbed at extrems., several short closed edge tears, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 29926

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history catholic relief act

Hobsbawm, E. J.,

INDUSTRY AND EMPIRE - An Economic History of Britain since 1750.

The History Book Club, London, 1968, club edn., [xiv], 336pp, 38pp maps and diagrams in text, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decoration in gilt upper board, top edge coloured, decorative head and tail bands, an account of the origins of the Industrial Revolution in 18thC, the Industrialisation, the effect on agriculture and domination of the world economy of 19thC and the decline from WW1 in the 20thC, lightly bumped at spine ends, a few faint marks to cloth, light foxing front endpapers, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 30760

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history economic industrial revolution agriculture industrialization war

Hole, Christina,

ENGLISH CUSTOM AND USAGE.

B. T. Batsford, London, 1950, 3rd edn., 152pp, col'd frontis and 56pp half tone ills., pictorial dw, covers such diverse customs as May Day to Maundy Money, Beating the Bounds to Morris Dancers, etc., boards sunned, top edges of boards sunned, dustwrapper: pc and rubbed at extrems., chipped along top edge front panel, very good in a good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 11671

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: britain topography social history