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Marlow, Joyce: The Peterloo Massacre
Book Number: 43844
London, Rapp & Whiting 1969., 8vo hardcover 238pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Peterloo Massacre manchester england britian british english history
Price: $25.00 |
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Atkinson, Rev. J. C.: Forty Years In A Moorland Parish
Book Number: 43824
Macmillan, London, 1891. 8vo. green cloth hardcover. 471pp, index, AB/w frontis with tissue guard, 2 b/w illus, 2 maps, one fold-out. Good, hinges split, some foxing.
Keywords: british english social history local
Price: $35.00 |
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Cooper, Michael: Robert Hooke and the Rebuilding of London
Book Number: 43967
Sutton Publishing Ltd 2005 8vo softcover 271pp index, b/w illus. Fine.
Keywords: tudor history anne boleyn tudor england british history henry viii tudors elizabeth i historical fiction history women Robert Hooke and the Rebuilding of London Cooper Michael
Price: $35.00 |
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Jenkins, Roy: Life At the Centre
Book Number: 43973
Pan Books 1992 8vo softcover 658pp index, b/w illus. very good.
Keywords: british englisj politics Jenkins Roy
Price: $12.00 |
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Leapman, Michael: The World for a Shilling: How the Great Exhibition of 1851 Shaped a Nation
Book Number: 44663
Headline Book Publishing April 1, 2002 8vo softcover 320pp very good. Conceived as a showcase for Britain's burgeoning manufacturing industries and the exotic products of its Empire, the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace was Britain's first truly national spectacle. This text examines the story of how the exhibition came into being; the key characters who made it happen (from Prince Albert, who was credited with the idea, to Thomas Cook, whose cheap railway trips ensured its accessibility to all); and the tales behind the exhibitors and exhibits themselves, from the Koh-i-noor diamond to the more quirky inventions on display, such as a bed that physically ejected its occupant in the morning. One quarter of the British population had visited the exhibition by its close. This is the story of how it fired the imagination of the era.
Keywords: World for a Shilling How the Great Exhibition of 1851 Shaped a Nation Leapman Michael
Price: $22.00 |
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Traquair, Peter: Freedoms Sword - Scotland's War of Independence
Book Number: 45259
Harpercollins Pub Ltd April 2000 8vo softcover 480pp Very good. "Freedom's Sword" brings to life two of Scotland's greatest heroes, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, and covers the conflict's endgame in the decades after Robert's death in 1329. 30 color illustrations. B&W illustrations & maps.
Keywords: Freedoms Sword Traquair Peter
Price: $22.00 |
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Fletcher, Ronald: In a Country Churchyard
Book Number: 45468
Paladin Granada 1980 8vo softcover 160pp very good. The author has traced many life stories hidden in the country churchyards of East Anglia where he lives. His generously illustrated narrative calls back to life whith striking clarity a host of characters. Among them are a cheerful hunchbacked little mwn who, though unfit for ordinary work, was given a useful part to play in the life of the community, a gentle lifeshy poet, and a man whose turbulent involvement in early American history belies the quiet of his resting place under and old yew tree in the East Anglian countryside. The detailed picture which emerges is one of human community intimately acquainted with hardshop, struggle and loss as well the variety and warm humour of daily village life in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century England.
Keywords: In a Country Churchyard Fletcher Ronald
Price: $12.00 |
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Huggett, Frank E: Life Below Stairs: Domestic Servants in England From Victorian Times
Book Number: 45615
R Clark September 18, 1978 8vo softcover 156pp. Reading copy, hinges reaired with masking tape. Illustrated with drawings.
Keywords: Life Below Stairs Domestic Servants in England From Victorian Times Huggett Frank E
Price: $12.00 |
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Tayler, Henrietta: Lady Nithsdale and Her Family
Book Number: 45636
Lindsay Drummond 1939 8vo. Hardocover in d/w with chips and tears. With 20 portraits in collotype. The biography of the intrepid heroine who rescued her husband from the Tower on the eve of his execution for participation in the Jacobite Rising of 1715-1716. Material drawn from letters from family and museums. Besides the Nithsdales, several other members of the family appear and accounts are given by themselves of the efforts they made to retrieve their wasted fortunes in John Law's Mississip scheme and other wild projects.
Keywords: Jacobite Rising, Tower of London, King James III, King James VIII, the Old Chevalier, the Old Pretender. John Laws Mississippi scheme
Price: $22.00 |
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Brittain, Vera: The Women at Oxford: A Fragment of History
Book Number: 46336
MacMillan 1960 8vo. hardcover. 272pp. index, b/w illus. Good, cover has some insect damage, owner's details & liquid paper mark on fep. / Very good d/w.
Keywords: Oxford History schools university
Price: $15.00 |
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