Social History

Reds, Rebels and Radicals

by David Bell

The men and women featured in this book are an eclectic bunch. We have a mutineer; a couple of suffragettes, one of them framed for conspira …

Available (Published: July 2019)
ISBN: 9781910170632

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Homes and Places: A History of Nottingham’s Council Houses – 2nd edition

by Chris Matthews

Council housing in Nottingham is an essential part of the city’s history and identity. The slums of the nineteenth century laid the foundati …

Available (Published: June 2019)
ISBN: 9780993409332

£9.99

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Byron Speaks Up for the Luddites

by Lord Byron

This pamphlet includes the full text of Lord Byron’s maiden speech in the House of Lords, alongside his Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill …

Available (Published: December 2018)
ISBN: 9781910170595

£4.00

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Minnie Lansbury: Suffragette, Socialist, Rebel Councillor

by Janine Booth

This is a story of a remarkable young woman who became a popular champion and whose tragically early death broke the hearts of her family, f …

Out of print (Originally published: November 2018)
ISBN: 9781910170557

£12.99

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Curious King’s Cross

by Andrew Whitehead

Reprinting Nov 2024 Sex, pubs and rock’n’roll – King’s Cross has it all, and so much more … from a fish-and-chip shop once bugged by MI5 t …

Reprinting (Originally published: November 2018)
ISBN: 9781910170564

£9.95

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A Brief History of Whistling

by Allan Chatburn, John Lucas

Whistling has been used for work, entertainment, self-expression and communication, including secret communication. The authors were inspire …

Temporarily out of stock (Originally published: March 2018)
ISBN: 9781907869990

£7.99

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Destroying the Baby in Themselves – Why the two boys killed James Bulger

by David Jackson

That blurred, foggy frame of the security video has become engraved on the public conscience. We can never know the whole truth of what foll …

Out of print (Originally published: February 2018)
ISBN: 9781910170533

£6.00

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The Fear of Being Seen as White Losers – White working-class masculinities and the killing of Stephen Lawrence

by David Jackson

Using the police surveillance video transcript and the Martin Bashir interview with the suspects on Tonight, David Jackson interprets how th …

Available (Published: February 2018)
ISBN: 9781910170540

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William Morris’s Socialist Diary

edited by Florence Boos

William Morris was the most prominent artist and writer to embrace the new socialist movement of the 1880s. As the leader of one of Britain’ …

Available (Published: February 2018)
ISBN: 9781910170496

£10.00

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Viking Nottinghamshire

by Rebecca Gregory

NEW EDITION IN PREPARATION Viking Nottinghamshire describes the county as it was throughout the Viking Age, through the various stages of Sc …

Out of print (Originally published: December 2017)
ISBN: 9781910170472

£8.99

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