Social History
Winter at the Bookshop: Politics and Poverty, St Ann’s in the 1960s
by Sylvia RileyWinter at the Bookshop was a raw, warm, cold experience. Raw with chapped fingers clutching kettles of boiling water from the gas-stove, mul …
Forthcoming (Due: November 2023)ISBN: 9781915434043
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The World is in Our Words
by Chris Searle‘Pick up The World is in Our Words and be enthused by energy unbounded, going in several directions at once. [Chris Searle’s] life is a chal …
Available (Published: November 2022)ISBN: 9781910170915
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Cuba ’62: Preludes to a World Crisis
by JS Tennant, Richard HollisThe thirteen-day stand-off between the US and USSR in October 1962 was the most dangerous period of the Cold War. Richard Hollis chanced to …
Available (Published: September 2022)ISBN: 9781910170991
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Poems of a Nottingham Lace-Runner
by Mary BaileyMary Bailey’s is a unique female voice in the masculine world of nineteenth-century Nottingham working-class poetry. A ‘lace-runner’ whose s …
Available (Published: August 2022)ISBN: 9781915434005
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Don’t Blame the Blacks
by George PoweDon’t Blame the Blacks was written by George Powe in 1958, at a time of race riots in Nottingham, and Notting Hill in London. At the time th …
Available (Published: June 2022)ISBN: 9781910170984
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Feminism Before the First Wave
by Zoe Fairbairns“I have no quarrel with the use of waves as a metaphor for feminism. On the contrary – waves and feminism have a lot in common. Waves are po …
Available (Published: May 2022)ISBN: 9781910170946
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The Long Piece
by Alan Sillitoe“I was born in 1928, on March 4th, under the sign of Pisces, in the front bedroom of a red-bricked council house on the further outskirts of …
Available (Published: March 2022)ISBN: 9781910170939
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500 Years of Struggle: A People’s History of Nottingham
by The Nottingham Communist Party (1949)500 Years of Struggle – a people’s history of Nottingham was published in 1949 and sold for threepence. This pamphlet is not without anachro …
Available (Published: March 2022)ISBN: 9781910170762
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St Ann’s: The Final Chapter
by Peter RichardsonIn the late 1960s St Ann’s, an area of Nottingham, was set for demolition. This involved the wholesale clearance of houses, shops, pubs, chu …
Available (Published: January 2022)ISBN: 9781910170861
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St Ann’s: The Final Chapter
by Peter RichardsonIn the late 1960s St Ann’s, an area of Nottingham, was set for demolition. This involved the wholesale clearance of houses, shops, pubs, chu …
Available (Published: January 2022)ISBN: 9781910170854
£20.00
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