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Poems of a Nottingham Lace-Runner

by Mary Bailey

Mary Bailey’s is a unique female voice in the masculine world of nineteenth-century Nottingham working-class poetry. A ‘lace-runner’ whose s …

Out of print (Originally published: August 2022)
ISBN: 9781915434005

£4.00

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Don’t Blame the Blacks

by George Powe

Don’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

£3.00

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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

£3.00

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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

£5.00

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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

£4.00

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St Ann’s: The Final Chapter

by Peter Richardson

In 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

£30.00

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St Ann’s: The Final Chapter

by Peter Richardson

In 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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Isaac and I: A Life in Poetry

by Chris Searle

Isaac and I is the autobiography of Chris Searle, who braces his own story with the life of his greatest influence, East London poet Isaac R …

Available (Published: January 2022)
ISBN: 9781910170809

£11.99

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Curious Crouch End

by Andrew Whitehead

Seeded sourdough and oatmilk flat white – that’s how Crouch End is often seen. But there’s so much more to the history of this proudly indep …

Available (Published: October 2021)
ISBN: 9781910170830

£9.95

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St Ann’s, The End of an Era

by Peter Richardson

In the late 1960s an area of Nottingham known as St Ann’s was set for demolition. This involved the wholesale clearance of houses, shops, pu …

Available (Published: February 2021)
ISBN: 9781910170793

£30.00

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