CARRADICE, PHILLIP

Wales at War

Llandysul, Wales, Gomer Press. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 1843233215) Soft Cover, 9.75 x 6.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners and minor traces of storage. 151pp. The voices of ordinary people tell the stories of the Second World War in Wales, including Land Army girls, air-raid wardens, evacuees, fireman, prisoners of war, conscientious objectors and servicemen. Fine.

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Book number: 006338

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: World War, 1939-1945_personal Narratives, Welsh, Social History, 1843233215

COLBECK, MAURICE (EDITOR)

The Calendar Year : A Celebration of Events in the Yorkshire Television Region

EP Publishing Ltd. 1983. (ISBN: 0715808540) Hard Cover, 10.5 x 8 inches. Ill.: Derry Brabbs (photographer). Slight foxing to upper page edges. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. 256pp. Covering Yorkshire and parts of Humberside and Lincolnshire, this well illustrated book describes a wealth of events around the region . Fine.

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Book number: 006581

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Recreation, Social Life, 0715808540 Derry Brabbs (Photographer)

ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL

Victorian Essex

Chelmsford, Essex, Essex County Council. 1968. Paperback, 9.5 x 6 inches. No inscriptions or marks to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards with a very tiny rub on front and no bumping to corners. Staples not rusted. 28pp. Essex Record Office Publications No 40 - Second Edition. Contains forty plates depicting places, people and social history in the County, with a double page plate in the centre and detailed captions. Near Fine.

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Book number: 003182

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Architecture, History, England, Social History

COURTNEY, NICHOLAS

'In Society' : The Brideshead Years

London, Pavilion Books Ltd. 1986. (ISBN: 0907516912) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, very minor sunning to extreme upper edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked, torn with light creasing to upper edge. 166pp. Weaving together extracts from letters, diaries and memoirs of the 1920s, with many first-hand accounts by many who recall the time, the author provides a graphic and amusing evocation of Society then and of the quality of life in its rather loose top drawer. Very Good (+)/Very Good (+).

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Book number: 023227

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Great Britain_history, Evelyn Waugh, Debutantes, Twenties, London Season, Epsom, Ascot, Goodwood, Wimbledon, Henley, Cowes 0907516912

CRADDOCK, MARY

A North Country Maid

Maidstone, Kent, George Mann. 1995. (ISBN: 0704102587) Hard Cover, 9.25 x 6.25 inches. No inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with slight creasing to upper and lower edges. 160pp. A touching, funny and affectionate account of what it was like to grow up during the terrible industrial Depression of the inter-war years. Childhood in Rainton: a mining village near Newcastle in the 1920's & 1930's. A cheerful, vital book, full of humour, and of love of the countryside that flourished in spite of the pits."-The Times. Fine/Very Good (+).

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Book number: 003343

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Depression, Durham, Mining, 1930s, 0704102587

CRAFT, MAURICE

Teacher Education in a Multicultural Society

Nottingham, Univ.Nottingham,School.of Education. 1987. (ISBN: 0853591563) Soft Cover, 8.25 x 5.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Very slight creasing to covers. A very clean typed booklet with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 33pp. A Training the Trainers booklet. Very Good.

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Book number: 016778

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Education, Race, Colour, Education 0853591563

GEORGE G. DANIELS (EDITOR)

The Spaniards (The Old West)

New York, Time Life Books. 1976, 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 tiny rub to lower rear corner. 240pp. By the editors of Time-Life books this book describes the lives of the Spaniards 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: 020181

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Wild West, America, California, Spaniards, Culture,

DANNETT, SYLVIA G. L.

The Yankee Doodler : Music, Theater and Fun in the American Revolution

South Brunswick and New York, A. S. Barnes and Co. 1973, First Edition. (ISBN: 0498011364) Hard Cover, 11.25 x 8.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of foxing to very slightly dusty page edges and extremely tiny bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small tears and minor creasing to edges and rubbing to front surface. 320pp. An account of what the men and women of North America did to amuse themselves when they were off the battlefields of the American Civil War. What did George Washington do when he was not fathering his country ? How did they dance and what did they sing about ? What day by day life was like in the Revolutionary period. Well illustrated. Scarce in the UK. Very Good (+)/Good.

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Book number: 026252

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: America, 18th Century, British Colonies, History 0498011364

DARBY, GEORGE (EDITOR)

The 'Sunday Times' Bedside Book

London, Andre Deutsch Ltd. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0233972986) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 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 slight creasing to rear edges. 256pp. With around seventy-five features on the contemporary times by the Sunday Times' correspondents. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 017026

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Journalism Journalism 0233972986

DAVENPORT, L.T. (COMPILED BY)

Cheshire Place Names: An Index to the Census 1841-1891

Stoke on Trent, Family History Society of Cheshire. 2004. (ISBN: 1874214786) Soft Cover, 8.25 x 5.5 inches. Mint unread booklet. 71pp. Place name details from the 1841 to 1891 Census Returns for Cheshire. New.

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Book number: 018235

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Cheshire, Place Names, History, Records 1874214786

DAVIES, HUNTER (EDITOR)

Sunday Times Book of Jubilee Year

London, Michael Joseph Ltd. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0718116720) Hard Cover, 11.5 x 9 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight sunning to extreme edges of boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight traces of storage. 160pp. A pictorial review of Queen Elizabeth II's Jubilee Year in 1977 including the royal events and royal family and pictures showing how the Queen's subject celebrated the time. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 020335

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Royalty, Elizabeth II, Queen, Royalty 0718116720

DAWSON, MAJOR KENNETH

Just an Ordinary Shoot

London, Country Life Ltd. 1935, First Edition. Hard Cover, 10 x 7.5 inches. Ill.: Winifred Austen. Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, sunning to spine, slightl;y dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 143pp. An account of the sport from the viewpoint of the average owner (!) or tenant of a few hundred acres of mixed shooting. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 026428

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Game Birds, Shooting Sport - Shooting Winifred Austen

DESMOND, COSMAS

The Discarded People : An Account of African Resettlement in South Africa

London, Penguin. 1972. (ISBN: 0140410325) Soft Cover, 7.25 x 4.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Tiny crease to lower rear corner and arching to spine. A clean very tight copy with bright very faintly marked boards, tanned page edges and no bumping to corners. 265pp. The resettlement during the South African apartheid time of 1,000,000 black people into Bantu 'homelands' which resulted in immense human suffering, poverty and starvation is here described by a Franciscan priest. Very Good (-).

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Book number: 026894

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: South Africa, History, Apartheid, Bantu Anthropology 0140410325

DEWHIRST, IAN

You Don't Remember Bananas... : A Pennine Half-Century

Driffield, Yorkshire, The Ridings Publishing Company. 1985. (ISBN: 0901934313) Paperback, 8.25 x 5.75 inches. No inscriptions or marks. Very light creasing to covers near spine, none to spine. A very clean crisp tight copy with bright unmarked covers and no bumping to corners. 92pp. A collection of twenty four articles first published individually in the Yorkshire Ridings Magazine, based around social history over fifty years. Near Fine.

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Book number: 002246

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Yorkshire Ridings, Local History, England 0901934313

READER'S DIGEST

Road to Recovery: 1950's (Looking Back at Britain)

Reader's Digest. 2008. (ISBN: 0276442490) Hard Cover, 11.5 x 9.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 157pp. Illustrtated social history of the 1950s in Britain. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 020307

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Social History, 1950s 0276442490