ADRIAN REDMOND

That Was Then, This is Now : Change in Ireland 1949-1999

Dublin, Stationery Office. 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 0707619343) Soft Cover, 10 x 7 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 166pp. A wealth of data showing how Ireland has developed over the last half of the 20th century. Published to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Irish Central Statistics Office. Well illustrated. Near Fine.

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Book number: 018531

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Ireland, Development, Statistics, 20th Century 0707619343

REEVES, A.C.

Pleasures and Pastimes in Later Medieval England (Social History)

Stroud, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing Ltd. 1995, First Edition. (ISBN: 075090089X) Hard Cover, 10 x 7 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor creasing to upper edge and light indenting. 228pp. The story of the entertainments and pursuits of the people from the 14th and 15th centuries. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 015345

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Social History, 14th Century, 15th Century 075090089x

RING, ANNE

The Story of Princess Elizabeth (Told with the Sanction of Her Parents)

London, John Murray. 1930. Hard Cover, 8 x 5.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight sunning around spine, dusty page edges, front end paper missing and a little bumping to lower corners. 126pp. An account of the life of Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) as Princess up to the age of four and a half years. Very well illustrated with photographs. The author was formerly attached to the Duchess of York's household. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Very Good (-)/As New.

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Book number: 026573

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Elizabeth, Queen, Princess, Qe 2nd, Royalty

BRIAN ROBERTS

Kimberley: Turbulent City

Claremont, South Africa, David Philip Publishers. 1984. (ISBN: 0949968625) Soft Cover, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, single crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, well-rubbed rear and no bumping to corners. 413pp. The well-researched and well-written history of South Africa's most extraordinary city. The author deals with Diamond City as the womb of modern industrial Africa. Illustrated. Very Good.

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Book number: 022007

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: South Africa, Diamonds, Mining, Social History 0949968625

ROBERTS, ELIZABETH

Women's Work 1840 - 1940

Basingstoke, Macmillan Education. 1988. (ISBN: 0333366107) Soft Cover, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean bright covers with no bumping to corners. A clean crisp tight copy. 85pp. Fine.

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Book number: 000914

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: 0333366107

ROBERTSON, A. F.

Beyond the Family : The Social Organization of Human Reproduction

Cambridge, England, Polity Press. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0745608868) Soft Cover, 9 x 6 inches. Inscription on front end paper. No other marks, no creasing to covers or to slightly faded spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 231pp. A study which puts together the political-economic and reproductive processes so we may understand and perhaps influence such important issues in modern life as the gender and generation gaps, the economic and political implications of increased longevity, and the moral challenges posed by technical interventions in human fertility. Very Good (+).

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Book number: 013518

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Sociology, Reproductive Processes, Society Sociology 0745608868

MICHAEL W. ROYDEN

Pioneers and Perseverance: History of the Royal School for the Blind, Liverpool, 1791-1991 - A Bicentennial Celebration (Signed By Author)

Countyvise Ltd. 1991. (ISBN: 0907768393) Soft Cover, 8.25 x 5.75 inches. Inscription signed Michael W Royden on title page. No other marks or inscriptions. Faint creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked sunned boards, small ink line to lower page edges and no bumping to corners. 320pp. This is the story of the setting up and development through the years of the Royal School for the Blind in Liverpool, the oldest school of its kind in the world. Very Good. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 018716

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Liverpool, Social History, Education, Health Education Health / Exercise / Fitness 0907768393

RUSSELL, THE RIGHT HON, G. W. E.

A Londoner's Log-Book

London, John Murray. 1910. Hard Cover, 7 x 4.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges, minor rubbing to spine ends and slight softening to corners. 306pp. Social history from London around 1900, told as a detailed diary. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 019120

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: London, Diary, 1900

SADLER, JOHN

They Made Tyneside Great

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Project North East. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 1855570068) Soft Cover, 8 x 8.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Scarce. 48pp. The story of some of the pioneers from Tyneside who halped shape the world, including railway development, the electric lightbulb, armaments, shipping, coal, soap powder, gas and the abolition of slavery. Near Fine.

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Book number: 007717

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Local History, North East England, Newcastle, Tyne 1855570068

DE LA SALE, ANTOINE & ALDINGTON, RICHARD (TRANSLATOR)

The Fifteen Joys of Marriage

London, George Routledge & Sons Ltd. 1927. Hard Cover, 7.5 x 5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, half cream vellum, dusty page edges, dusty sunned spine and no bumping to corners. 241pp. Describes the unhappy mysogenistic position of women in society in the Middle Ages and how the man can get the better. Authorship ascribed to Antoine De La Sale (1388-1462). Translated from the french. Undated but publisher's list at rear 1926-7. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 018506

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Social History, Psychology Psychology

MEG SCHNEIDER

New York Yesterday and Today

Minneapolis, Voyageur Press Inc.U.S. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 0760330654) Hard Cover, 11 x 9.5 Inches. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight creasing to upper edge. 144pp. Scenes from modern New York set alongside depictions of the same place long ago plus descriptions of each setting and their history. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 020228

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: America, Usa, Social History, New York 0760330654

SEABROOK, JEREMY

In the Cities of the South : Scenes from a Developing World

London, Verso. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 1859840817) Soft Cover, 9.25 x 6 inches. Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, single crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 301pp. The lived experience of people from the ever-expanding cities of South Asia including Bangkok, Bombay, Dhaka, Manila, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh and Kuala Lumpur. The stories have uncanny echoes of life in Britain in the early industrial and urban era. Very Good (+).

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Book number: 013767

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: South Asia, Ueban Life Anthropology 1859840817

SEABROOK, JEREMY

The Leisure Society

Oxford, Basil Blackwell. 1988. (ISBN: 0631163654) Soft Cover, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 195pp. A powerful study of how the leisure society evolved but how it imposes rigours of its own on those who service it. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor Peter Townsend of Bristol University and the London School of Economics, Founding Professor of the University of Essex and founder of the Child Poverty Action Group. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Townsend's Collection including many of his signed and authored works. Fine.

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Book number: 012811

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Work, Employment, Leisure Sociology Employment / Work 0631163654

EDWARD HUBBARD; MICHAEL SHIPPOBOTTOM

A Guide to Port Sunlight Village

Liverpool, Liverpool University Press. 2000. (ISBN: 0853231168) Soft Cover, 11.75 x 8.25 inches. Book in mint unread condition. 70pp. The story of the model industrial village founded in 1888 by soap manufacturer (and philanthropist) WH Lever for the factory workers of Lever Brothers. Well illustrated. Reprint with corrections and amendments. As New.

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Book number: 019056

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Wirral, Cheshire, Lever Brothers, 0853231168

SITWELL, OSBERT

Tales My Father Taught Me

London, Readers Union. 1963. Hard Cover, 8 x 4.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with sunning to spine. 137pp. The author's stories, from London, the country or from Italy, many about his father and his 'above stairs' life in Edwardian England, which are always extraordianary, sometimes fantastic and often achingly funny. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 016520

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Edwardian England, Above Stairs