HEY, DAVID

Family Names and Family History

London, Hambledon and London. 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 1852852550) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Book in mint condition. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked, torn or creased. 240pp. How, when and where families first got their names. As New/Fine.

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Book number: 005210

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Genealogy, 1852852550

HEYDEN, ELSA

Das Sachsentor zur Welt: Geschichten aus dem alten Bergedorf

Hamburg, Hans Christians Verlag. 1974. (ISBN: 376720262X) Hard Cover, 7.75 x 5 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 or creased. 113pp. Stories from the old mountain village of Bergedorf in Germany. All text in German. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 018202

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: 376720262x

HIBBERT, CHRISTOPHER

Cities and Civilizations

London, Guild Publishing. 1987. Hard Cover, 10.75 x 8 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean tight copy with unmarked blue cloth boards, dusty upper page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to lower edge. 252pp. Great cities and their golden ages are explored in this book of panoramic sweep encompassing almost four thousand years. Each city is brought to life through its people, their work and pleasures, customs and society and the dramas and excitements that caused their rise and fall. Very Good (+)/Near Fine.

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Book number: 005253

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: History, New York, Sydney, London, Athens, Hangzhou, Venice, Cuzco, Amsterdam, Berlin, Moscow, Thebes, Jerusalem

TIM HITCHCOCK

Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London

London, Hambledon. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 185285281X) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Appears unread. 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. 343pp. A remarkable insight into the lives of Londoners in the 18th century, for all of whom the demands of charity and begging were part of their everyday world. Illustrated. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 022607

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Social History, 18th Century, Poverty, London 185285281x

HODKIN, WILLIAM AND BURDEKIN, T. A. (EDITOR)

A Victorian Farmer's Diary : William Hodkin's Diary 1864-66 : Life in and Around Beeley on the Chatsworth Estate

Derbyshire County Council. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 0903463725) Soft Cover, 9.75 x 6.75 inches. Book in virtually mint condition. 144pp. A fascinating account of daily life on the Chatsworth estate in Derbyshire in the 1860s, as originally written by William Hodkin, a farmer on the estate. Illustrated. As New.

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Book number: 006918

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Derbyshire, Chatsworth, Social History, 0903463725

HOLDSWORTH, NICK

Moscow : The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in Russia in Transition

London, Andre Deutsch. 2003. (ISBN: 0233009981) Soft Cover, 8.5 x 5.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of handling and no bumping to corners. 259pp. In this book, the author allows the people of Russia, whose lives bridge Soviet and free market Russia to speak for themselves, telling the stories of the country's chaotic emergence from a Soviet past to a modern future. Near Fine.

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Book number: 005455

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Post-Communism_russia (Federation) Russia (Federation)_social Life 0233009981

DAVID HOLT

David Holt's Victorian Walks: A Three Day's Ramble in the Lake District in the Spring of 1856 - Shap to Windermere

Manchester, Greater Manchester County Record Office. 1994. (ISBN: 0952189704) Soft Cover, 8.25 x 6 inches. Booklet with an integral wallet of eight maps. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers, slight creasing to wallet edge. A very clean very tight booklet with faint mark to front cover and rusty staples. All eight maps in excellent condition. 35pp. Taken from the diaries of David Holt who lived from 1828 to 1880 and who walked these Lake District routes in his youth. Very Good (+).

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Book number: 018415

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Cumbria, Lake District, 19th Century, Walking Walking / Rambling / Cycling 0952189704

HORNE, NICOLA

Guide Association of Cornwall

Stroud, Gloucestershire, Tempus Publishing Ltd. 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 0752422545) Soft Cover, 9.25 x 6.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Tiny crease to lower corner of rear cover, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 128pp. A compilation of photographs and memorabilia of Girl Guiding in Cornwall over the period 1919 to 2000. It highlights the changes in uniform over this time, award presentations, competitions and camps. Fine.

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Book number: 006716

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: England, Girl Guides, 0752422545

HOWSE, GEOFFREY

A Century of Sheffield

Stroud, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing. 2002. (ISBN: 0750924306) Hard Cover, 10.75 x 7.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with faint traces of handling. 120pp. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 007720

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Local History, South Yorkshire 0750924306

HUDSON, JOHN

Wakes Week : Memories of Mill Town Holidays

Stroud, Gloucestershire, Alan Sutton. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 0750900946) Paperback, 8.5 x 6 inches. Inscription and ex-libris sticker inside front cover. No other marks, no creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright covers and no bumping to corners. 151pp. Wakes Week was the annual holiday for generations of northern folk, when they made the annual trip to the seaside. Illustrated with eighty contemporary photographs and postcards, this book tells the story of wakes week from the earliest days of the railways to what remains of the tradition today, with a special emphasis on the golden years between the 1920s and the late 1950s. Very Good (+).

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Book number: 002082

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Great Britain Social Life and Customs 0750900946

G.FIELDEN HUGHES

Looking Back at Rural Life 1901-1939

Wakefield, Yorkshire, EP Publishing Ltd. 1975, First Edition. (ISBN: 0715811223) Hard Cover, 10 x 7.5 inches. Name/date to front end paper. No other 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 tiny nick to upper front corner and minor traces of storage. 96pp. The author describes the detail of life in an English village he calls Applesford in the early years of the 20th century. Very well illustrated. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 018639

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Village Life, Applesford, Early 20th Century 0715811223

HUXLEY, JULIAN & HADDON, A. C. & CARR-SAUNDERS, A. M.

We Europeans

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Pelican Books. 1939, First Edition. Soft Cover, 7 x 4.5 inches. Initials inside front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with dusty unmarked boards, tanned page edges, slight rubbing to spine and no bumping to corners. 246pp. A survey of 'racial' problems and the development of man, heredity and ethnic groups within Europe. First Penguin edition. Good.

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Book number: 027950

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Race, Ethnicity, Heredity, Europe Anthropology

G. CABRERA INFANTE

Holy Smoke

London, Faber & Faber. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0571135188) Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked slightly foxed boards, slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing and well rubbed surface. 329pp. The social history of the cigar from its early beginnings in 1492 to date. Very Good/Very Good (-).

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Book number: 021406

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Cigars, Smoking, History 0571135188

CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION

When Peace Broke Out: Britain, 1945

London, Stationery Office Books. 1994. (ISBN: 0117018600) Soft Cover, 11.75 x 8.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, general traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 148pp. Newspaper articles, photographs, letters, adverts, cartoons, jokes, optimism - all telling the story of the end of the Second World War. Very Good (+).

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Book number: 021999

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Social History, Britain 0117018600

LEASINGHAM WOMEN'S INSTITUTE

Leasingham in the Twentieth Century

Lincolnshire, Leasingham W.I. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 095363163X) Hard Cover, 12 x 8.5 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. The final map page cut out, scanned and an extra copy provided at the end of the book. 119pp. A study of the village of Leasingham in Lincolnshire with resident's interview and memories and old photographs. Very Good (+)/No Jacket.

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Book number: 015306

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Local History, Lincolnshire 095363163x