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WHAT SHALL I SAY? - A Guide to Letter Writing for Ladies.

Anon., · 1994

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Pryor Publications, Whitstable, ND (copyright 1994), facsimile edn., paperback, 127pp, [i] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, tall and slim pocket format about 8 x 4 inches, a facsimile reproduction of the guide first published in 1898 covering forms of address to royalty, nobili...

THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN - The Rise and Decline of the Women's Movemment in German Social Democracy 1863-1933.

Thönnessen, Werner (trans. by Joris de Bres), · 1973

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Pluto Press, London, 1973, paperback, 185pp, [iv] ads., large format (8.5 x 6.5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, the origins of the socialist theory of women's emnacipation and how it has changed with the fortunes of the working-class movement as a whole, ru...

FAMILY AND KINSHIP IN EAST LONDON.

Young, Michael and Willmott, Peter, · 1990

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1990, trade paperback, 210pp, half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, an picture of family life in the East End of the 1950's, of the sense of community and the powerful mother-daughter bond at its heart, and of the disatrous effect of re-housing and ...

POST-VICTORIAN BRITAIN 1902-1951.

Seaman, L. C. B., · 1979

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Methuen, London, 1979, reprint, paperback, [xii], 531pp, maps and cartoons in text, large format (8.5 x 5 inches approx.), half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, a comprehensive survey of English history during the first half of the 20th century, featuring the political and...

THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE - An Archaeology AD 150-600.

Reece, Richard, · 2007

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Tempus, Stroud, 2007, new edn., paperback, 192pp, 16pp coloured photo ills., half tone photo ills., line drawings and plans in text, large format (9.5 x 6.5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, analysis of the changes, especially those in the visual arts, which ...

A COMPANION TO MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY 1871-1945.

Pugh, Martin (edited by), · 1998

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Blackwell, Oxford, 1998, reprint, paperback, xiv, 407pp, 8 in text maps, large format (9.5 x 6.5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial panel upper wrapper, intended for all students of modern European history it aims to be both an essential reference for undergraduates working ...

THE CELTS.

Powell, T. G. E., · 1997

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Thames and Hudson, London, 1997, reprint, paperback, 232pp, coloured and half tone ills., maps and diagrams in text, large format (9.5 x 6.5 inches approx.), photo pictorial upper wrapper, a major study of the history, archeology and linguistics of Celtic life, art and religi...

THE PLAGUES OF LONDON.

Porter, Stephen, · 2008

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Tempus, Stroud, 2008, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 286pp, half tone ills. in text, decorative head and tail pieces, [ii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the outbreak of bubonic plague in London, from the Black Death of the 14th century through the va...

GODDESSES, WHORES, WIVES AND SLAVES - Women in Classical Antiquity.

Pomeroy, Sarah B., · 1995

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pimlico, London, ND (circa 1995), reprint, trade paperback, xiv, 265pp, 6pp half tone photo ills., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, spanning a period of 1500 years from the fall of Troy to the death of Constantine an examination of the lives of women from all classes of the ...

HENGEWORLD.

Pitts, Mike, · 2000

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

Century, London, 2000, 1st edn., [xii], 404pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps, diagrams and line drawings in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, an update on the state of archeological investigation and the advances in the knowl...

LIMITED MONARCHY IN GREAT BRITAIN IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

Pares, Richard, · 1960

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Historical Association, London, 1960, reprint, paperback, 28pp, stapled lettered card wrappers, pamphlet G 35 in the general series published by the Historical Association by accomplished contemporary historians, an examination of the nature of the limited monarch in Great Br...

THE YEAR OF LIBERTY - The story of the great Irish Rebellion of 1798.

Pakenham, Thomas, · 1969

£13.50 (€16.18 | $17.84 | ¥2,848)

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1969, 1st edn., 416pp, half tone pictorial frontis, 24pp half tone photo ills., 5 in text maps, maps at endpapers, light green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the violent and tra...

THE STALIN YEARS - The Soviet Union 1929-1953.

Mawdsley, Evan, · 2003

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2003, 2nd edn., trade paperback, [vi], 159pp, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, in the New Frontiers in History series, an examination of the entire period of Stalin's rule including chapters on ideology, politics, economic development...

ANCIENT ROME ON FIVE DENARII A DAY.

Matyszak, Philip, · 2007

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Thames and Hudson, London, 2007, 1st edn., 144pp, half tone photo frontis, map, line drawings, coloured and half tone ills. in text, decorative chapter heads, brown cloth lettered in orange at spine, publisher's device blind stamped upper board, decorative head and tails band...

ATTILA THE HUN - A Barbarian King and the Fall of Rome.

Man, John, · 2006

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Bantam, London, 2006, paperback, 399pp, 16pp coloured and half tone photo ills., 3 in text maps, decorative chapter heads, [ii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, the man behind the enduring myth who, for twenty years in the 5th century, held the fate of the Roman Empire and the ...

A HISTORY OF THE SOVIET UNION 1917-1991.

Hosking, Geoffrey, · 1999

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Fontana, London, ND (circa 1999), reprint, trade paperback, 570pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 3 in text maps, [iii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the evolution of the Soviet political system from the revolutionatry origins of 1917 to the reforms of Pe...

LIFE BELOW STAIRS IN THE 20TH CENTURY.

Horn, Pamela, · 2003

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Sutton, Thrupp, Stroud, 2003, trade paperback, x, 358pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the transformation of domestic service during the 20th century, prior to which it has been the largest single female occupation but which the firs...

ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISM.

Hartung, fritz, · 1957

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Historical Association, London, 1957, paperback, 32pp, stapled lettered card wrappers, pamphlet G.36 in the general series published by the Historical Association by accomplished contemporary historians, an English translation of the essay in German entitled 'Enlightened Abso...

CLOSE TO THE EARTH - Living Social History of the British Isles.

Cook, Judith, · 1984

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)

Routledge and Kegan Paul, Lonodn, 1984, 1st edn., xii, 195pp, [i] bibliography, 16pp half tone photo ills., title in line, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound pictorial montage dustwrapper, based on conversations with those involved, the personal recollections ...

LIBERALISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE.

Collins, Irene, · 1959

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Historic Association / Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1959, reprint, paperback, 26pp, stapled lettered card wrappers, pamphlet G.34 in the general series published by the Historical Association by accomplished contemporary historians, lightly rubbed at extrems., wrappers l...