Shaw, Frank & Joan.
We Remember Dunkirk: Over 100 Personal Accounts
(Echo Press, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, otherwise good in slightly torn dustwrapper. xiii + 231pp. Order No. NSBK-A2903
Keywords: 1872779 00X, Dunkirk, British Legion, war, Second World War, World War II, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Ogden, Annegret S. Ogden.
The Great American Housewife: From helpmate to wage earner, 1776-1986
(Greenwood Press, 1986).
Hardback. Good in slightly chipped dustwrapper, with some pencil annotation on opening pages. xxiiii + 255pp. Order No. NSBK-C15514
Keywords: 0313247528, American, America, United States, US, United States of America, housewife, housewives, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century, women's work, women and work
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Lytton, Constance.
Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
(Virago, rpt, 1988).
The stirring testimony of a Suffragette. With an introduction by Midge McKenzie. Paperback. Light soiling to front covers, otherwise good+. xiv + 337pp. Order No. NSBK-C1841
Keywords: 0860686825, Votes for Women, suffrage, suffragettes, women's history, woman suffrage, Edwardian, prisons, prison, Constance Lytton, Jane Warton, twentieth century, politics, women's rights, Britain, British, England, English, women's movement, cells, gaols, police, crime, law and order, protest, Holloway, Walton
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Robbins, Keith.
The Eclipse of a Great Power: Modern Britain, 1870-1975
(Longman, 1983).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xi + 408pp. Order No. NSBK-C8261
Keywords: 0582489717, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth, twentieth, 19th, 20th, century, EEC, United Kingdom, Empire, imperialism, Commonwealth, democracy, economy, economics, European, Europe
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Symes, R. A.
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings: a Guide for Family Historians
(Pen and Sword, 2016).
Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle sat down and wrote a poem, or a memoir? Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together and managing their collective affairs. With industrialisation, improved education, and far more geographical mobility, British people of all classes were writing for new purposes, with new implements, in new styles, using new modes of expression and new methods of communication (e.g. telegrams and postcards). Our ancestors had an itch for scribbling from the most basic marks (initials, signatures and graffiti on objects as varied as trees, rafters and window ledges), through more emotionally-charged kinds of writing such as letters and diaries, to more creative works such as poetry and even fiction. This book shows family historians how to get the most out of documents written by their ancestors and, therefore, how better to understand the people behind the words. Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-A15529
Keywords: 9781473855434, family, geneaology, family trees, geneaological, diaries, social history, family historians, ancestors, literacy, correspondence, journals, autobiographies, signatures, commonplace books
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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Alan Sutton, 1985).
Paperback. Creases to back cover, otherwise good. xii + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A13483
Keywords: 0862991579, women, woman, gender, 1920s, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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Liddle, Peter.
Testimony of War, 1914-18:
(Michael Russell, 1979).
Hardback. Large format, very good in slightly rubbed dustwrapper. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A2490
Keywords: 0859550737, history, First World War, World War II, war, Great War, twentieth century
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Gorman, Daniel.
Imperial Citizenship: Empire and the Question of Belonging
(Manchester University Press, 2006).
Hardback. Brand new, fine in dustwrapper. xi + 243pp. Order No. NSBK-A14636
Keywords: 9780719075292, imperial citizenship, Empire, history, belonging, imperialism, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, colonies, colonialism, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, national identity, Great War, Boer War, Lionel Curtis, John Buchan, Arnold White, Richard Jebb, Thomas Sedgwick, India, emigration, immigration
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Thompson, Thea.
Edwardian Childhoods:
(RKP, reprint, 1982).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers and a little waviness to a few pages, otherwise good. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A6236
Keywords: 0710093357, child, children, Edwardian, infancy, family, Britain, British, England, English, history, childhood, reminiscences, memories, memory, autobiographies, autobiography, autobiographical, class, povert, poor, paupers, working class, working classes, lower orders
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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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