THE EDITORS

The Glasgow Herald Book of Glasgow

Edinburgh, Mainstream Publishing. 1990. (ISBN: 1851582347) Hard Cover, 11.25 x 8.75 inches. No inscriptions or marks. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and slight bumping to rear corners. Price clipped dust jacket with light creasing/small tears to upper edge. 192pp. Produced to coincide with Glasgow being the European City of Culture in 1990, this book is a celebration, a guide, a tribute to the city. With a wealth of black & white photographs showing the city throughout the twentieth century. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 002331

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Great Britain History, Scotland, 1851582347

EDWARDES, MICHAEL

Everyday Life in Early India

London, B T Batsford Ltd. 1969, First Edition. (ISBN: 0713416823) Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.75 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. Corner of front end paper removed, otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with sunned spine. 176pp. Life in India from the 3rd to the 8th century, much of which understanding has been reconstructed from the surviving literature. The author challenges the popular image of a gloomy society and shows how all classes enjoyed life as fully as material circumstances allowed. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 017960

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Asia, 3rd Century, 8th Century, Society, India, History 0713416823

EGGINTON, JOYCE

From Cradle to Grave: Short Lives and Strange Deaths of Marybeth Tinning's Nine Children

London, W H Allen. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 0491038240) Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, tanned page edges and tiny bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage and faint indenting to front. 379pp. The story of an American serial killer - a mother's nine babies who all died and for which she was tried for murder and convicted. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 022343

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Crime, Social History Non-Uk Country Studies Crime and Punishment 0491038240

GREAT BRITAIN: DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Gilding the Ghetto: The State and the Poverty Experiments

Nat.Community Devel.Project,Info.& Intell.Unit. 1977. (ISBN: 0950551600) Soft Cover, 10 x 7.5 inches. Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 64pp. Published by Her Majesty's Government, this book provides an account of the urban interventions which took place from the late 1960s to 1976 by the twelve Community Development Projects across the country. The document from the Government is actually critical of Government Policy ! A fascinating account for anyone working in this field today. Very scarce. Near Fine.

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Book number: 024994

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Poverty, State Actions, Social Policy 0950551600

ERDOES, RICHARD & ORTIZ, ALFONSO (EDITORS)

American Indian Myths and Legends

New York, Panther Book. 1985. (ISBN: 0394740181) Soft Cover, 9.25 x 6 inches. Appears unread. 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. 527pp. This collection of 160 tales from 80 tribal groups offers a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. Fine.

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Book number: 026418

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Native American Tribes, Folklore Mythology 0394740181

EREIRA, ALAN

The People's England

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0710005962) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and slight bumping to some corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with rubbing to upper and lower edges and general signs of handling. 285pp. A study of the experiences of specific groups of English working people from the advent of the enclosures to the 1970s. Illustrated. Very Good (+)/Very Good.

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Book number: 013717

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Social Life, History, Customs, Labouring Class, Great Britain 0710005962

FARRER, FRANCES & GRAHAM, ALISON (COMPILERS)

The Year I Was Born 1955

Oxford, Signpost Books. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 187478521X) Hard Cover, 11.25 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. 96pp. With all the events, celebities, politics, sport, music, crime and lots more from the year 1955. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 028031

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Birthday 1955, Social History 187478521x

FEILDING, ROBERT

A Collection of Cases containing the Case of Barbara, Late Duchess of Cleavelend and Robert Feilding, the Case of Sir George Downing and Mrs Mary Forefter, the Case of John Dormer, the Case of the Lord Roos Etc.

London, The Booksellers of London and Weftminster. 1732. Leather, 6.5 x 4 inches. Previous owners' names to front end papers. Browning to end papers. No creasing to covers. Spine strip almost complete but spine and covers very well rubbed. A fairly clean tight copy with rubbing to all corners. Hinges lightly shaken. 36 page Appendix, part in Latin' plus 244pp. Extremely scarce. The first feature is called Some Memoirs of the Life of Robert Feilding Esq, The second is The Case of Barbara Dutchefs of Cleaveland. She could be the wife of Robert Feilding. Frontispiece is a portrait of Richard Feilding Esq. With three more Cases. Fair.

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Book number: 008296

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Litigation, Divorce, Wills, Marriage,

FLANDERS, JUDITH

Consuming Passions : Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

London, Harper Press. 2006, First Edition. (ISBN: 0007172958) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and a very tiny bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 604pp. A detailed study of how, over two centuries, the 18th and 19th, leisure became an industry for a new mass audience, the consumtion of goods by the masses took off, and how technology made such enormous changes for people. Illustrated. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 028000

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Social History, 19th Century, Victoria 0007172958

H. J. FLEURE

The Natural history of Man in Britain (NN)

London, Collins/Readers Union. 1959. Hard Cover, 8.75 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges, foxing to end papers, very clear gilt lettering to spine and tiny bump to upper rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little sunning to spine, very small crease to upper rear corner and very tiny nicks to top of spine. 349pp. A study of changing relations between Men and Environments. With 38 colour photographs and black & white photographs and line drawings. New Naturalist No 18. Very Good (+)/Very Good (+).

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Book number: 020676

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Nature, Man, Environment, Change Nature

FOSTER, CHARLES F. & JONES, ERIC L.

The Fabric of Society and How it Creates Wealth

Northwich, Cheshire, Arley Hall Press. 2013, First Edition. (ISBN: 0951838253) Soft Cover, 9.75 x 6.75 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. 126pp. Part 1 looks at 18th century England, contrasting the rich south and east with the north west. Business was disappearing in the south and east and bursting into action in the north west. Part 2 looks at three areas of Europe that seem to have led innovation in the world and made Europe the wealthiest continent by 1800. Very scarce. Fine.

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Book number: 025485

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Finance, Society, 18th Century Finance 0951838253

FOUNTAIN, NIGEL

Women at War (includes 1 hour audio CD of actual eye-witness accounts)

London, Michael O'Mara Books Ltd. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 185479857X) Hardback, 10 x 7.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp tight copy. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with traces of creasing to edges. 144pp. As New/Near Fine.

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Book number: 001188

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Ww2, Second World War, 185479857x

FRANCIS, CONSTANCE

The Welfare of the Needy : It Happened Round Manchester (SIGNED By AUTHOR)

London, University of London Press. 1971, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340116315) Soft Cover, 7.75 x 5.5 inches. Signed by author on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. Crease to front cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright very slightly marked boards and no bumping to corners. 64pp. A concise study of social conditions in Manchester at three different periods - the late eighteenth, the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. Very Good. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 007836

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Social Care, Poverty, Lancashire, Workhouse 0340116315

FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN

Poor Richard's Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758

New York, Ballantine Books. 1977. (ISBN: 0345256875) Soft Cover, 11 x 8.25 inches. Ill.: Norman Rockwell. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, minor rubbing/indenting to rear, foxing to top of page edges, nick to lower edge of one page, tiny rub to front and no bumping to corners. 300pp. A collection of sayings, aphorisms and advice which delighted early America for twenty-five years from 1733 to 1758. Accompanied by Norman Rothwell's richly evocative paintings of American life. Scarce in the UK. Very Good (-).

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Book number: 026487

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Classic Americana, Poems, Stories, 18th Century 0345256875 Norman Rockwell

FROW, EDMUND AND RUTH (EDITORS)

The Dark Satanic Mills : Child Apprentices in Derbyshire Spinning Factories

Manchester, Working Class Library. 1987. Soft Cover, 11.5 x 8 inches. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, slight marking to front cover and bump to spine foot. 28pp. Accounts of disturbing social conditions involving young children working in Litton Mill and Cressbrook Mill in Derbyshire in the first half of the 19th century. Typescript publication with some illustrations. Very Good.

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Book number: 018310

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Child Labour, Social History, Derbyshire Employment / Work