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Barnard, Mary.
Diary of an Optimist:
(The Larks Press, rpt., 1997).
Paperback. Very good+. 190pp. Order No. NSBK-C10352
Keywords: 0948400323, Mary Barnard, women, woman, women's studies, women's history, children, motherhood, mothers, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, home helps, rationing, food, clothing, shortages, teachers, education, counsellors, magistrates, journalists
Price £3.00.
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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(W. Collins, 1st edition, 1918).
Rare first edition copy of this ground-breaking work. For the collector. Women employed in housekeeping; changes in domestic standards; why not be servantless?; the distaste for domestic service; labour-making houses; domestic federations; reconstructed domestic service; the motor as emancipator; waste of labour; women who do domestic work without aptitude or satisfaction; service of women needed by the country. Clementina Black urges a reorganisation of household duties, in order to free women from domestic drudgery. In her utopian vision of 'co-operative housekeeping', women would be released from the wasted effort of housework and made available for the labour market, which was now so very depleted of men after the Great War. She criticises the 'stupidity' of 'labour-making houses', and questions the continuing validity of the employment of domestic servants in the modern age. Her solution is to propose the formation of 'domestic federations'. These would represent committees of householders who would collectively manage their domestic arrangements in a centre 'fitted up with store places, kitchens, dining-rooms, offices, and lodgings for a nucleus of resident servants'. Hardback. Original cloth covered in small dark and white blotches, corners worn and spine split, text firm. A good working copy only. 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C4960
Keywords: Great War, First World War, World War I, social history, class, middle classes, middle class, domesticity, servants, domestic servants, maid, maids, housemaids, housekeeping, Clementina Black, labour-making houses, homes, houses, domestic service, twentieth century, interwar, inter-war, inter war, Homes for Heroes, housing, domestic standards, etiquette, women, domestic work, labour, working women, women's history, chores, co-operative housekeeping, domestic federations, cooperative housekeeping, co-operatives, co-operation, cooperation, Women's Industrial Council, labour-saving, labour market, labor, labour shortage, housework, utopianism, utopian, stored with antiquarian
Price £24.00.
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Simon, E.D.
The Anti-Slum Campaign:
(Longmans, 2nd Impression, 1933).
Very scarce. Hardback. Cloth sun faded and worn at edges, internally good. viii + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A4069
Keywords: B000KYQ3D4, Manchester, slums, anti-slum campaign, housing, cities, urban history, North West, England, English, Britain, British, Addison Act, rents, Greenwood Act, town planning, urbanisation, conurbation, dwellings, houses, building, city, local government, local authorities, Chamberlain Act, Wheatley Act, Hilton Young Acts, slum clearance, housing shortage, tenants, Homes for Heroes, Simons, E.D. Simon, Ernest Simon, poverty, poor
Price £12.00.
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Plunket, Irene L.
Sally Cocksure: a School Story
(OUP, rpt, 1929).
Girls' school story. Hardback. Slight foxing, otherwise very good with illustrations by G. Browne. 190pp. Order No. NSBK-C1162
Keywords: Sally Cocksure, school story, children's writing, girls' story, Britain, British, England, English, history, school, schooling
Price £8.00.
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Dwyer, Bernard.
But That's Another Story: Collected Writings of Roscommon Man
(Dave Mallinson, 1995).
Paperback. Good+. viii + 97pp. Order No. NSBK-A14246
Keywords: 1899512152, Roscommon Man, Irish, Ireland, story telling, stories, fact, fiction, legends, tales, Bernard Dwyer
Price £6.99.
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Yonge, Charlotte.
The Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last Crusade
(Macmillan and Co, 1908).
Hardback. Red boards slightly soiled; corners worn and spine faded; slightly splitting internally at spine, otherwise good. x + 259pp. Order No. NSBK-C6066
Keywords: B000HC4R5K, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Charlotte M. Yonge, writing for children, children's books, child, women writers, women's history, Victorian, Edwardian, prince, page, literature, literary, story, stories, novels, novelists, fiction, crusade
Price £8.00.
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Carr, Jean.
Another Story: Women and the Falklands War
(Hamish Hamilton, 1984).
Paperback. Crease to front cover, otherwise good. xv + 162pp. Order No. NSBK-C3647
Keywords: 0241113547, Falklands War, women, Margaret Thatcher, Thatcherism, history, eighties, politics, Britain, England, English, British, Argentina, family, Tories, Tory, Conservatives, Malvinas
Price £2.00.
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Shaw, A.G.L.
The Story of Australia:
(Fab. & Fab., 5th edit., revised, 1983).
Paperback. Very good. 324pp. Order No. NSBK-A3117
Keywords: 0571180744, Australia, history, Australian
Price £1.50.
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Plaut, James S.
The Story of Steuben Glass:
(H. Bittner and Co, 1951).
Paperback. Ex library. Back cover soiled, wear to edges, otherwise good, solid. 31pp. Order No. NSBK-A14372
Keywords: B0007I2REM, glass, Steuben glass, American, USA, glassmakers, history, museums, ornaments
Price £6.00.
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Livings, Henry.
That the Medals and the Baton be Put on View: The Story of a Village Band, 1875-1975
(David & Charles, 1975).
Hardback. Good in dustwrapper. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A3116
Keywords: 0715370715, music, brass band, Henry Livings, Dobcross, Oldham, Pennines, britain, British, England, English, history
Price £4.00.
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