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

SKULTANS, VIEDA

English Madness : Ideas on Insanity 1580-1890

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1979, First Edition. (ISBN: 0710003293) Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.5 inches. Inscription on front end paper. No other marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked green cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with fading to spine and margins. 158pp. This study builds on the author's previous work covering only the nineteenth century, with extracts from English writers and including psychiatry, social values, the spleen and vapours, masturbational insanity, women and pauper lunacy. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 008400

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Social History, Lunacy, Gender Studies 0710003293

SNOOKS, GRAEME DONALD (EDITOR)

Was the Industrial Revolution Necessary?

London, Routledge. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0415108691) Soft Cover, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 157pp. A study in essays from six academic authors considering the Industrial Revolution in a new light, with an emphasis on economics, social history and gender politics. Very Good.

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Book number: 023014

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Social History, Gender Politics Gender Studies Finance 0415108691

ROBERT SOBEL

Machines and Morality:The 1850s

New York, Crowell. 1973, First Edition. (ISBN: 0690002661) Hard Cover, 10 x 7 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spine and front and no bumping to corners. Untrimmed page fore-edges. Faux leather slipcase in excellent condition with very minor traces of storage. 332pp. Commissioned by Dun & Bradstreet Companies, this study focuses on the significant socioeconomic events and trends of past decades and their effect on business, in this case the 1850s. Illustrated. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 021063

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Socioeconomics, America, Social History, Business Business Finance 0690002661

SPRING, MARTIN (EDITOR)

South Africa Today 1966

Johannesburg, Financial Mail. 1966. Hard Cover, 11.25 x 8.5 inches. Previous owners' names/stamp to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly rubbed/marked boards and corners. 244pp. Originally primarily designed as a promotional vehicle for trade in South Africa and South West Africa (Namibia) during the apartheid era, this gives a fascinating insight into social conditions at that time. Near Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011011

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Trade, Business, Adverts, South Africa, Apartheid Business Non-Uk Country Studies Mining

STEVENS, E. F. AND OTHERS (EDITORS)

The Log Vol 14 No 1 January-February 1950

Furness Withy & Co Ltd. 1950. Soft Cover, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright veryt slightly marked boards and no bumping to corners. 40pp. Company magazine of a host of companies, mainly shipping-related such as Furness Withy, Manchester Liners, Prince Line and about twenty more. Full of sport, stories, jokes, events, announcements etc. Very Good.

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Book number: 016824

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Company News, Events, People Business

RICHARD SULIMA

Around Tamworth in Old Photographs

Stroud, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing Ltd. 1995. (ISBN: 0750906219) Soft Cover, 8.75 x 6 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Small crease to upper corner of front cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 160pp. Well-captioned local history photographs of Tamworth in Staffordshire dating back to the 1880s. Near Fine.

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Book number: 021640

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Local History, Staffordshire 0750906219

SUSSEX, GAY ; HELM, PETER ; BROWN, ANDREW

Looking Back at Levenshulme and Burnage

Willow Publishing,Timperley. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0946361223) Soft Cover, 8.25 x 11.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions to contents. Small crease to upper corner of front cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, very faint cup ring to front and no bumping to corners. 45pp. Well-captioned photographs of the Levenshulme and Burnage districts of Manchester at the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century. Very Good.

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Book number: 020149

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Local History, Manchester 0946361223

SUTHERLAND, JMES (EDITOR)

The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1975. (ISBN: 0198121393) Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.75 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 light creasing to some edges. 382pp. A collection of almost 500 worthwhile anecdotes from over 1000 years of memoirs. Near Fine/Very Good (+).

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Book number: 022964

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Quotations, Stories, Tales Language 0198121393

OGDEN TANNER

The Ranchers (The Old West)

Alexandria, VA, Time Life Books. 1977, First Edition. Faux Leather, 11 x 8.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked padded embossed boards and no bumping to corners. 240pp. By the editors of Time-Life books this book describes the lives of the cattle men and farmers who came to live in the lawless lands of the American West in a wealth of detail and with superb contemporary black & white photos from the time. Also some in colour including detailed illustrations based on artwork. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Fine.

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Book number: 020183

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Wild West, America, California, Farmers, Cattle, Culture,

TAYLOR, D. R. FRASER AND MACKENZIE, FIONA (EDITORS)

Development from Within : Survival in Rural Africa

London, Routledge. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 0415069912) Soft Cover, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 284pp. An exploration of the complex social relationships of power in rural Africa from the household to the state and the diverse means by which men and women in rural Africa struggle to survive. Very Good (+).

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Book number: 013871

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Social History, Sub-Saharan, Employment / Work 0415069912

TAYLOR, BOSWELL (EDITOR)

Picture Reference Book of the Royal Family

Leicester, Brockhampton Press. 1971. (ISBN: 0340134658) Soft Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 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. 37pp. An illustrated story of the British Monarchy. Fine.

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Book number: 025583

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Royalty, Britain Royalty 0340134658

THOMAS, PETER

Exeter : Britain in Old Photographs

Stroud, Gloucestershire, Budding Books. 1999. (ISBN: 1840151188) Soft Cover, 8.75 x 6 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. 160pp. This photographic study of Exeter from the 1920s up to the mid-20th century is based around the work of professional photographer Henry Wykes. Fine.

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Book number: 027282

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Social History, Devon 1840151188

THOMPSON, E. P.

The Making of the English Working Class

London, Penguin. 1991. (ISBN: 0140136037) Soft Cover, 7.75 x 5 inches. Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A little creasing to covers, single crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 958pp. The classic study from EP Thompson of English post-war social history. Very Good (-).

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Book number: 028159

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Social History 0140136037