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Categories: Black British History, British History; Community & Neighbourhood Development, Croydon Authors and History, European Studies Review; Journal of Contemporary History; Labour & Working Class History, Lambeth History, London History, Merton History, Miscellaneous, Music & Song, Old Ordnance Survey Maps, Wandsworth History, Women’s History
Black History
Stephen Bourne. Black Poppies. Britain’s Black Community and the Great War.. History Press. 2019. Pbk. Special price. £8
Jeffrey Green. Black Americans in Victorian Britain. . Pen & Sword. 2018. Remainder. Pbk. £5
Tom Langley. The Life of Peter Jackson. Champion of Australia. Re-West Indian boxer 1861-1901. Also British Empire Champion. Vance Harvey Publishing. Hbk. £7.
Iain McCalman (ed). The Horrors of Slavery and other writings by Robert Wedderburn. Edinburgh UP. 1981. Pbk. £3
Brian Willan. Sol Plaatje: A Biography. Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje 1876-1932. Raven Press. 2001. Pbk. £5
British History
Prudence Bebb. Life in Regency Scarborough. William Sessions Ltd. 1999. Pbk. £1
Birmingham & District Local History Society. Birmingham Historian. Winter 2009. Includes articles re-Matthew Boulton, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, the University and its founders, George Dixon, and more. £2
Brooklands Museum. Centenary of British Aviation.100 Year’s of British Aviation at Brooklands. Special Collector’s Edition. A. V. Roe 1908-2008. £3
H. Miles Brown. The story of Truro Cathedral. Tor Mark Press. 1991. £1
Virginia Cowles. The Great Swindle. The Story of the South Sea Bubble. Collins. 1960. Hbk. £3
Frederick Hackwood. William Hone. His Life and Times. 1912. Augustus M. Kelley. 1970. Hbk. £5#
Derek Kartun. The Marshall Plan. How it affects Britain. Communist Party. 1948. £1
Cecil King. Strictly Personal. Some Memoirs. Weidenfeld & Nicholson. 1969. Chairman of International Publishing Corporation, inc. Daily Mirror and newspapers across the world including West Africa and India. Hbk. £3
Dorothy Marshall. Eighteenth Century England. Longmans. 1963. Hbk. £5
Brian Parnaby. The Jefferson’s of Whitehaven. Travail Press. 2005. Pbk. £3
Frank Prochaska. The Republic of Britain 1760 to 2000. Allen Lane. 2000. Hbk. £5
Diana Southami. Selkirk’s Island. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. Hbk. 2001. £3
J. H. Whiteley. Wesley’s England. A Survey of XVIIIth Century Social and Cultural Conditions. The Epworth Press. 1938. £3
Community & Neighbourhood Development
Hugh Barton, Marcus Grant and Richard Guise. Shaping Neighbourhoods. A Guide for Health, Sustainability and Vitality. Spon Press. £5
Akwugo Emejuklu & Mae Shaw. Community Empowerment: Critical Perspectives from Scotland. The Glasgow Papers. Edinburgh Community Development Journal. 2010. £3
Tony Gibson. Counterweight. The Neighbourhood Option. Town & Country Planning Association & Education for Neighbourhood Change. £3
The National Coalition for Neighbourhoods. A Manifesto for Neighbourhoods. 1985. £1
Jane Thomson. Paul Hamlyn Foundation Evaluation Resource Pack. In association with the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education. 2007. £5
Croydon Authors and History
CHNSS. Gardeners and Guardians of the Earth. The Lives of The Rev. William Wilks – of Shirley Poppy Fame, Mary Sibthorp, Addiscombe’s Pioneer Ecologist (and campaigner for refugees from Nazi terror), and George Clinch, Local Antiquarian. Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society. 2010. £3.50
Bernadette Fallon. Cathedrals of Britain. London and the South East. Pen & Sword. Remainder,. Pbk. £4.99
Andrew Fisher. The Failed Experiment. And how to build an economy that works. Radical Read. 2014. Croydon resident who used to work in Jeremy Corbyn’s Office analyses the financial crisis. The publisher has stopped publishing due to age. I was helping the late Ted Knight to sell the small remaining stock to raise money for Ruskin House. £3. All the money from the sale if this will still go to Ruskin House.
Brian Lancaster. Consumed by Fire. The destruction of Croydon Parish Church in 1867 and its rebuild. Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society. 2016. £4.50
Lorna Liverpool. A Dance to Remember. Story about Kaa’hina practising her African dance routine. Lorna lives in Croydon. The book is illustrated by Sarah-Louise Hibbs. 2017. £6.99
Lorna Liverpool. The Hidden Treasures Within. Story about Kaa’hinna learning about the history of Ancient Kemet. 2017. £6.99. + post
Bridget Riley. A Very Very Person. Her Early Years. Paul Moorhouse. Riding House. Special price. £15
Eric Sanders. Mazes 1. Murder in Munich & Mazes 2. Conspiracy in Vienna. . 101 year old Eric lives in Croydon. These two books are a novels about the rise of Nazism and the murder of a British diplomat in Munich, New Generation Publishing. Special price. £5 each. Eric has died since publication.
Stefan Szczelkun. The Conspiracy of Good Taste. An analysis of the suppression of working class culture. A critique of William Morris, Cecil Sharp and Clough Williams Ellis. Essential reading for Croydon cultural activists ad for labour historians. Routine Art. 2016. £9.99
The Selected Poems of James P. Hotckhkiss. Witty poems by Croydon author; and some about Croydon. The Butterfly Book Club. 2019. £7.50
European History
Barry Winter. Land and Freedom. An Episode from the Spanish Civil War. Independent Labour Publications. 2013. £1
Ernest Sommer. Into Exile. The History of the Counter-Reformation in Bohemia. New Europe Publishing Co. 1943. £2
European Studies Review:
Vol 1. No 3. July 1971. The Reception of F. I. Tyutchev’s Political Articles in Russia and Abroad 1844-1858; The British Reactions to the Assassination at Sarajevo; The Origins of Czechoslovak Communism; Fascism and the Generation Gap. Plus book reviews re-the Spanish and Italina Reformation, Goethe and Spinoza, France since the Revolution and the League of Nations. £2
Vol 2. No 1. January 1972. The Limits of Seriousness – Rousseau and the Interpretation of Political Theory; Bloody Sunday – A Reappraisal; Gustav Stresemann and the Ruhr Occupation – the Making of a Statesman; The German attack on the USSR – the Destruction of a Legend. Plus books reviews re- Humanism in France, Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France 1519-72; The Russian Annexation of the Crimea 1772-1783; Russia and the Mediterranean 1797-1807; Mediterranean – Portrait of a Sea
Vol 2. No 3. July 1972. The Governorship of Don Luis de Requesens 1573-76 – a Spanish view; Ludwig Bamberger and the Politics of the Cold Shoulder – German Liberatism’s response to working class legislation in the 1870s; Language and Silence: Some Aspects of French Writing on the French Resistance; The Problem of Death and Destruction in Germany During the Thirty Years War; The Problem of Caprivi’s Polish Policy; Machiavelli’s Discourses. Plus book reviews inc. on The Old World and the New 1492-1650; Estates ad Revolutions 1516-1660;
Journal of Contemporary History
Vol 3. No 1. 1968. USA – the ‘New Political History’; German Protestantism and Politics 1918-1939; The Impact of the First World War on British Society (Arthur Marwick); The Russian Mobilization in 1914; Britain: Soldiers and Biographers; Italy 1919-21 – the Current State of Research; Three Crises 1938-39; The Allies and Armenia 1915-18; Cold War Origins.
Vol 4. No 3. 1969. Urbanism. The City in History. Historical Contours of Contemporary Urban Society – a comparative view; Rome in the Past Hundred Years: Urban expansion without industrialisation; influences of the development of Town Planning Britain; The Process of Urbanization in Germany; West Berlin – the isolated city in the twentieth century; The Lima of Joaquim Capelo; Town Dweller versus Village Dwellers in Poland; Transport Technology and the Urban Pattern; Italian Fascism and Youth; Polish Youth in the Thirties; Economic Problems of the Danube Region After the Break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. £2
Vol 4. No 4. 1969. The Great Depression. Articles on the economic depression and Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Eastern Europe and primary producing countries; Soviet reactions; Trade union reactions; The development of the managed economy before 1939; Cultural change and the ghetto; The Genesis of the European Advisory Committee. £2
Vol 5. No 2. 1970. Pierre de Coubertin and the introduction of organized sport in France; Between Taylorism and Technology; The Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement, March 1921; The MacMahon-Hussein Correspondence and the question of Palestine; A note on coup d’etat in the Middle East; Karl Moor – German agent and friend of Lenin; The Foreign Office 1924-1929; The British press, conservatives, and Mussolini 190=34; Ernest Thompson Seton and the origins of he Woodcraft movement. £2
Vol 6. No 1. 1971. Unsatisfied Nationalisms; Catalan and Basque Nationalism; The Germans of Rumania, The Lebanese Identity, Kurdish Nationalism; The Southern Sudan; Northern Ireland; The Nationalist Movement in Scotland; Welsh Nationalism: The Historical Background; Canada: notes I two ideas of nation in confrontation. £2
Vol 6. No 2. 1971. Scientific advice war at sea 1915-17; Congress of Historians; The impact of the Second World War on the American Negro; Spanish Anarchism and Women’s Liberation; India and East Africa at end of FWW; Brtish Government strike breaking organisation and Black Friday; The Third |Reich and The Transfer Agreement; Conservatism and the national education system; Caesarism, Circuses and Monuments; Caesar, Caesarism and the historians. £2
Vol 6. No 3. 1971. The Intellectual in Politics - The case of the Webbs; The Socialist League – Intellectuals and the Labour Left in the 1930s; Eden, Blum and the Origins of Non-Intervention; Leon Blum and the Spanish Civil War; Fascism, Communism and the Foreign Office 1937-39; 25 October 1940 – A Historical puzzle; Storm-troopers in Slovakia – The Rodobrana and the Hlinka Guard; Sir Edward Grey and Imperial Germany in 1914; Lloyd George and Poland 1919-20; The Voluntary Occupational Centre Movement 1932-39; East Fulham Revisited.
Labour, Socialist & Working Class History
Althea. What is a Union? Dinoasaur’s Althea Books for children. Dinosaur Publications. 1981. £1
George Barnsby. 1945 Year of Victory. Communist Party History Group Our History pamphlet 62. Spring 1975
Stefan Berger. Labour and Social History in Great Britain: Historiographical Reviews and Agendas. Essays by– ; Lawrence Black Labour at 100; Steven Fielding – ‘New Labour’ and the ‘New’ Labour History; John Callaghan – The Foreign Policies of he Labour Party; , Kevin Morgan – Labour with Knobs on? The Recent Historiography of the British Communist Party; Alastair Ried – Trade Union History: The Consolidation of Revisionism; Chris Wrigley – The Co-operative Movement; Dan Weinbren – ‘Imagined Families’ Research on Friendly Societies; Andy Croll – the Impact of Postmodernism on Modern British Social History; Ross McKibben – Classes and Cultures: a Postscript; Edmund Neil: British Political Thought in the 1990s: Thatcherism, Citizenship and Social Democracy; Karen Hunt – Gender and Labour Hisyory in the 1990s; Interview of John Halstead on the Society for the Study of Labour History and its Journal. Mitteilungsblatt des Instuts for Soziale Bewegungen. No 27/2002. Pbk. £3
G. D. H. Cole. Attempts of General Union. A Study in British Trade Union History 1818-1834. Macmillan. Hbk. 1953. £3
G.D. H. Cole & A. W. Filson. British Working Class Movements. Select Documents 1789-1875. Macmillan. 1951. Hbk. £5
Margaret. I. Cole. Beatrice Webb’s Diaries 1912-1924. Longmans, Green & Co. Hbk. 1952. £5
Communist Party. The British Road to Socialism. CP Programme. 1968. £1
Ditto. Draft for Discussion. £1
Communist Party. About Marxism. A CP introductory course. January 1974. £1
Mary Davis. Socialist Opposition to World War One. Marx Memorial Library. 50p
Labour Party. Labour’s Colonial Policy. Part 1 The Plural Society. £2
Roger Logan. High Court Meetings of the Ancient Order of Foresters. Friendly Society. 1835-2009. The Foresters Heritage Trust. 2009
John Mahon. May 1st 1940. The meaning of May Day. First of May Demonstration Committee. In poor condition. £1
Marx Memorial Library Quarterly Bulletins:
Apr-Jun 1973. Andrew Rothstein on A Century of Marxist Study in Britain; Celebration of the Library’s Fortieth Anniversary; Marxist Education Classes in 1904; How London Welcomed Home The Men of Dorset; New Facts of British Working-Class History; The Frows on Papers of Engineering Stop Stewards
Jan/Mar 1976. Priceless records of the War in Spain; The Clarion Fellowship; A Reunion of Old Chartists. £1
Jan/Mar 1977. Inc. Militia and the Maintenance of Public Order in Nineteenth Century America; What is Marxism?; The role of poetry and song in British Trade Unions. £1
Jan/Mar 1978. The Centenary of Anti-During, The ideas of Antonio Gramsci, The Chartist Contribution to Marxist Theory; History of the British Labour Movement. £1
Bill Moore. Labour – Communist Relations 920-1951. Part III. 1945-1951. Communist Party History Group. Our History 84/85. August 1991. £2
Bill Moore & George Barnsby (eds). The Anti-Fascist People’s Front in the Armed Forces. The Communist contribution 1939-46. Community Party History Group. Our History 81. February 1980. £1
Raymond Postgate. The Life of George Lansbury. Longman, Green & Co. 1951. Hbk. £5
Raphael Samuel. 1934-1996. Tributes and Appreciations. No date. £2
SERTUC. Levellers Movement, The. An Account of perhaps the first political movement to represent the ordinary people. 2015. £2.
Beatrice Webb. My Apprenticeship. Longman’s, Green & Co. Published for use of H. M. Forces in Second World War. Hbk. £5
Lambeth History
Daneille Arnaud et al. Cloud & Vision. Exhibition booklet about artists interpretations of William Blake’s ten year living in Hercules Rd. Parabola. 2005.£2
David Coke. The Muse’s Bower. Vauxhall Gardens 1728-1786. An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Relics . Gainsborough Museum House, Sudbury, Surrey. 2 June – 2 July 1978. £2
Bob Flanigan. West Norbury Cemetery’s Music Hall. Friends of West Norbury Cemetery. 1998. £1.50
Bob Flanigan. West Norbury Cemetery’s Musicians.1998. Friends of West Norbury Cemetery. 1998. £1.50
Bob Flanigan. West Norbury Cemetery’s Sportsmen. Friends of West Norbury Cemetery. 1995. £1.50
Judy Harris. A History of Lambeth’s Horticultural Societies. Streatham Society. 2003. 50pAndrea Gregson. Last Night For Ever. Being an account and General Prospect of the work of Andrea Gregson (at the Garden Museum). Parabola. 2009
Library of Unwritten Books. These are from a project in 2006 interviewing elderly people in Lambeth about their memories. They did not all grow up in Lambeth.
Eileen Finch. United Family; Mary. Mary, Queen of Scots; Megan Jenkins. Did it Really Happen?; Brenda Obsorne. War Years; Robert Walker. Playing in the Ruins. £2.50 the set
Lady Margaret Hall Settlement. Kennington Quarter. Outline of area arts regeneration proposal. 50p
Jon Newman. Dead Reckoning: William Bligh. Parabola. 2005. £2
Rob Pateman. The history of sport and leisure in Kennington Park. Friends of Kennington Park. No date. 20p
Rob Pateman. Kennington’s Forgotten Tragedy. Friends of Kennington Park. An account of the air-raid shelter and memorial to the victims of World War II bomb incident. 20p
Streatham Millennium Trail walk guides. 1. Central Streatham; 2. South Streatham; 3. Streatham Common; 4. Streatham High Rd; 5. Streatham Hill & 6. Streatham Hill Estates. 80p the set
Janet Weeks. The Oakey Saga. A Brief History of John Oakey & Sons of Wellington Mills, Kennington. Local History Publications. 50p
London History
W. D. T. Davis. The History of the Palace of Whitehall. (King Henry VIII) Win Cellar & Historic Room 27. No publisher. No date. £1
J. Dunleavy. Workers’ Educational Association. Some Oxford connections. Oxford WEA. 2003. £1
The London Journal. Vol 24. No 1. 1999. The Evidence of Richard Horwood’s Maps for Residential Building in London 1799-1819; Languages of Citizenship in the City of London 1848-1867; Continuity and Change in Philanthropic Housing Organisations: th Octavia Hill Housing Trust and the Guinness Trust; Re-reading Robson on the Government of London; Faith in the Metropolis: Opinion Polls and Christianity in Post-War London. Plus book reviews. Pbk. £2
John Sutherland. The Mary Ward Centre 1890-1990. Cover bent marks. 50p. The pamphlet leaflet Information on Mary Ward House will be included.
Toynbee Hall. A brief history. 20p
Merton History
John Brown. Roe Bridge. Mitcham Lane. Local History Publications.1993. 50p
Wandle Industrial Museum. An hour passed at Morden Hall Park. Walk guide. 50p
Miscellaneous
Frank Ash & Stephen Moss (ed.). Advice Shop Programme Notes. 17 Campaigning. BBC Education.1991.50p
Patricia Clabburn. Samplers. Shire Publications. 2002. £1
G. P. Gooch. Citizenship and History. Association for Education in Citizenship. 1936. £1
David Graddol, Jenny Chesire & Joan Swann. Describing Language. Oxford UP. 1996 edition. Pbk. £3
Oona Grimes. Postcards from the 7th Floor. Pighog Press. 2010. £2
Alicia Herbert & Elaine Kempson. Water Debt & Disconnection. Policy Studies Institute. 1995. Pbk. £3
New Left Review. 63. Sept-Oct 1970. Fred Halliday: Counter-Revolution in Yemen; Bill Warren: The British Road to Socialism; Tariq Ali: Class Struggles in Pakistan; Robin Blackburn: The Politics of ‘The First Circle’; Goran Therborn: A Critique of the Frankfurt School. £2
New Left Review. No 120. Mar-Apr 1980. Marxism and the Historians. Raph Samuel on British Marxist Historians; Raymond Willaims on Beyond Actually Existing Socialism (Bahro); Victor Kiernan on Blood of Spain; Rodney Hilton on English Individualism and the English Peasant; Tarama Deutscher. A Chinese Journey. £2
Simon Potter. Heavy Metal The Charm of diecast rail and road models. Glassingall Books. 2021. Pbk£10
David Robinson, Kathryn Dunn & Scott Balintyne. Social Enterprise Zones. Building innovation into regeneration. Joseph Rowntree Foundation. £2
Gordon Schaffer. Who Owns Britain? Reynolds News articles. 1944 or 1945. In poor condition. £1
Bernard Stace. Bath Abbey Monuments. Millstream Books. 1993. 50p
L. F. Rushbrook Williams. India. Oxford Pamphlets On World Affairs. Oxford University Press. 1940. £1
Peter J. Schryver. Industrialised Building – the contribution of precast concrete. Article reprinted from Building 3 March 1967. A Bison Bulletin. Concrete Ltd. £1
Music and Song
Mary Ellen Brown & Paul S. Smith. Ballad and Folk song. Research guide. No.3. Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language. University of Sheffield. 1982. £1
John Crook & Albert Chevalier. The Coster’s Serenade. A Humorous Song. Reynolds & Co. Sheet music. £1
La Marseillaise. Music and words. Postcard sent from Paris. No year date. 20p
Sheffield Socialist Choir. 10th Anniversary Songbook. 1999. £5
Stand Together. A New Song Book. Hackney and Inslington Music Wokrshop.1978. £5
Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Alan Godfrey
50p each
Battersea & Fulham 1894
Clapham Common 1870 & 1894
Clapham Park & Balham 1872
Hammersmith & Fulham 1871
Kennington & Walworth 1871 & 1914
Lambeth Rd 1872
Merton 1894
Pimlico, Sloane Square & Nine Elms 1869 & 1894
Putney Bridge 1894
Putney Bridge & Fulham 1865 & 1913
Roehampton 1894
Southfields 1913
Southfields & Wimbledon Park 1867
Streatham Hill & Tulse Hill 1870 & 1894
Tooting 1894 & 1913
Wandsworth 1894
Westminster & Victoria 1869
West Streatham & Tooting 1894
Social Policy
David Downes & Tony Ward. Democratic Policing. Towards Labour Party Policy on Police Accountability. The Labour Campaign for Criminal Justice. 1986. £2
Stewart Lansley & Guy Fiegehen. One Nation? Housing and Conservative Policy. Fabian Tract 432. 1974. £1
Wandsworth History
Anon. The Mayor of Garratt. Mock Elections in 18th Century South London. Past Tense. 2004. £1
Battersea Council. Historic Battersea. Exhibition pamphlet. 1965. £1
Ann Bott (ed). Alice from Tooting. Alice Mullen 1879-1977. Plowright Press. 1997. Pbk. £3
Norman Levinson. The History of The Furzedown Project. Furzedown Project 2000?. 50p
C. F. Lindsey. (compiled). Around Wandsworth. History and Leisure. This is a street guide. No publisher, no date. £1
Wandsworth Historical Society. The Wandsworth Historian. No. 71. Spring 2000. Articles inc. Beaufoy, Burns and Booth: The Beaufoy Estate in 1889; Thames-side Sugar Houses, Friendly Societies of Battersea and Clapham (by me) and William McAndrew, Orange Merchant.
Women’s History
Betty Brown. Jane Milbourn in Carlisle Gaol. Imprisoned from 1792 for refusing to hand her property to her husband 1792. Bookcase. Pbk. £2
W. F. Cater (ed). Margaret Fountaine. Love Among the Butterflies. The Travels and Adventures of a Victorian Lady. Virago. 1997. Pbk. £2
Flora Fraser. The Unruly Queen. The Life of Queen Caroline. Macmillan. 1996. Hbk. £5
Ruth and Edmund Frow. (ed). Political Women 1800-1850. Pluto Press. 1989. Hbk. £5
Pamela M. Graves. Labour Women. Women in British Working Class Politics 1919-1939. Cambridge University Press. Pbk.£3
Angela V. John. (ed). Unequal Opportunities. Women's Employment in England 1800-1918. Pbk. 1986. £3
Candida Ann Lacey. Barbara Leigh Smith and the Langham Place Group. Routledge, Kegan & Paul. Hbk 1987. £5
Fiona Sampson. Two Way Mirror. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Profile Books. 2021. Hbk. £5
Norbert C. Soldon. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill & Macmillan. 1978. Hbk. £5
Janet Todd. Mary Wollstoncraft. A Revolutionary Life. Phoenix Press. 2000. Pbk. £5
Martha Vicinus (ed). Suffer and Be Still. Women in the Victorian Age. Indiana University Press. 1973. Hbk. 1994. £3
John Tearle. Mrs. Piozzi’s’ Tall Young Beau. Associated Universities Press. 1991. Hbk. £3