Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004 facsimile of 1918 text).
Clementina Black (1854 - 1922) was a campaigner committed to improving the plight of working women. In this work of 1918, she 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'. Examples of material included: 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. Paperback. New book, fine. x + 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C7548
Keywords: 0954476123, 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, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Portrayer reprints, Portrayer facsimiles, new titles
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Cherry, Steven.
Medical Services and the Hospitals in Britain, 1860-1939:
(CUP, 1996).
News Studies in Economic and Social History. Paperback. Very good+. vii + 93pp. Order No. NSBK-A7715
Keywords: 0521577845, medical, medicine, health, hospitals, sickness, disabled, disablement, nurses, doctors, mortality, voluntary, poor law, local authority, local authorities, wars, First World War, Great War, World War 1, I, National Health Service, population, deaths, death rates, infant mortality
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Laffin, John.
Panorama of the Western Front:
(Sutton Publishing, rpt., 1996).
Hardback. Good+ in chipped and worn dustwrapper. viii + 120pp. Order No. NSBK-J12653
Keywords: 1856279014, Western Front, panorama, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Cowles, Virginia.
The Kaiser:
(Collins, 1963).
Hardback. Good+ in torn dustwrapper. 446pp. Order No. NSBK-A11889
Keywords: B0000CLXLT, Kaiser, Germany, Germans, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, Queen Victoria
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Graham, Andrew with Seldon, Anthony, ed.
Government and Economies in the Postwar World: Economic Policies and Comparative Performance, 1945-85
(Routledge, 1990).
Paperback. Minor annotation, otherwise good. x + 332pp. Order No. NSBK-A8457
Keywords: 0415072883, government, policies, politics, economy, economics, twentieth century, 20th, United Kingdom, Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Soviet union, United States, USA, America, Japan
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Gordon, Eleanor & Breitenbach, Esther, eds.
The World is Ill-Divided: Women's Work in Scotland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
(Edinburgh UP, 1990).
Paperback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpaper, slight crease to front cover, otherwise very good. viii + 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C15722
Keywords: 9780748602124, women and work, Scotland, Victorian, Edwardian, Glasgow, waged work, agriculture, prostitution, domestic labour, printing trade, sweated trades, textile industry, Edinburgh, Scottish women's history, Scottish history, working women, scots
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Drifte, Collette.
Women in the Second World War:
(Remember When, 2011).
Very good. 221pp. Order No. NSBK-C15742
Keywords: 9781399019477, women, Second World War, World War II, personal memoirs, oral history
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Constantine, Stephen, Kirby, M. W. & Rose M.B., eds.
The First World War in British History:
(Edward Arnold, 1995).
Paperback. Some foxing / soiling to page edges, otherwise good. ix + 286pp. Order No. NSBK-A2454
Keywords: 0340570539, First World War, World War I, Great War, Britain, British, England, English, history, social history, twentieth century, Germany, France
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McKay, Sinclair.
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the World War II Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Worked There
(Aurum, 2010).
Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled dustwrapper. vi + 336pp. Order No. NSBK-A15737
Keywords: 9781845135393, codes, war, Second World War, wartime, code-breaking, history, Bletchley Park
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Fisher, David.
The War Magician: How Jasper Maskelyne and his Magic Gang Altered the Course of World War II
(Coward McCann, New York, 1983).
Britain's most bizarre secret weapon of WWII - he made the Suez canal disappear. Became an assassination target of Hitler's regime during WWII. A very scarce title. Hardback. Slight bumping to corners, otherwise very good in chipped, slightly discoloured, slightly worn dustwrapper. First Edition in 315pp. Order No. NSBK-A4731
Keywords: 0698111400, magic, conjuring, maskelyne, illusions, music hall, theatre, David Devant, jasper, Neville, war, Hitler, illusion, conjurer, warfare, war, magic gang, magician, magicians, magical, illusionist, jasper maskelyne, illusionists, Second World War, great britain, great british, england, english, war magician, history, david fisher, egyptian hall, illusions, deceptions, deception, deceptionist, deceptionists, decept, deceptive, deceptor, world war, wartime, war magician, magic gang, history, magic history, conjurers, conjured, J.N Maskelyne, white magic, World War II, World War Two, Inter-war, Interwar, Inter war
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