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
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Dayus, Kathleen.
All My Days:
(Virago, rpt., 1993).
The third book in the trilogy. Paperback. Light edge wear to covers, otherwise good. 154pp. Order No. NSBK-C7182
Keywords: 0860680762, Kathleen Dayus, All My Days, Birmingham, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life histories, life history, lives, memoirs, Second World War, World War Two, 2, II, twentieth century, 20th, women writers, woman writer, women's writing
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Supreme Commander to the Combined Chiefs, General Eisenhower.
Report on Operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force: 6 June 1944 to 8 May 1945
(HMSO, 1946).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps in soiled library binding, a good working copy. x + 149pp. Order No. NSBK-A14900
Keywords: B0010ZJ70S, Allied Expeditionary Force, Europe, Second World War, World War II, Second Front, Seine, Rhine, Ruhr, German surrender, victory, fighting, history
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Lyons, Lewis.
The History of Punishment:
(Amber Books, 2003).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A7967
Keywords: 0954435621, history, crime, world, criminals, punishment, retribution, deterrence, reform, incapacitation, laws, law, legal, imprisonment, prisons, gaols, jails, corporal punishment, death penalty, Sharia Law, Manu, tang code, shaming, medieval, mediaeval, prison reform, open prisons, community service, hannurabi, the pilliory, flogging, hanging, drawing, quartering, guillotines, bastinado, crucifixion, lethal injection, electric chair, torture
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Ministry of Information, Roof over Britain.
The Official Story of Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences, 1939-1942:
(HMSO, 1943).
In booklet form. Paperback. Light edge wear, otherwise good. 88pp. Order No. NSBK-A6072
Keywords: B000HKR8Q2, Britain, British, England, English, wars, warfare, anti-aircraft, planes, aircraft, aeroplanes, defences, Second World War, World War II, World War Two, airforce, booklet
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Bet-El, Ilana R.
Conscripts: Lost Legions of the Great War
(Sutton Publishing, 1999).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xv + 239pp. Order No. NSBK-A8113
Keywords: 0750921080, Britain, British, England, English, history, wars, warfare, First World War, World War 1, One, I, Great War, twentieth century, 20th, conflicts, munitions, soldiers, military, battles, armies, army
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Putnam, Emily James.
The Lady: Studies of Certain Significant Phases of her History
(Sturgis & Walton, 1910).
Emily James Putnam, nee Emily James Smith, was an American educator and historian, remembered especially for her early influence on Barnard College in New York. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1889, and then attended Girton College, Cambridge. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers & stamps, edges & spine ends frayed, a good working copy in worn cloth. xxi + 323pp. Order No. NSBK-C4141
Keywords: B000J0SFDK, Emily James Putnam, women's history, gender, world, salon, blue stockings, Greece, Rome, Renaissance
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Coates, Ken.
The Crisis of British Socialism: Essays on the Rise Harold Wilson and the Fall of the Labour Party
(Spokesman Books, 1972).
Paperback. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise good. 243pp. Order No. NSBK-A12724
Keywords: 0851240445, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, Harold Wilson, Labour Party, Labour, socialists, socialism ,twentieth century, 20th
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German Report Series, .
The German Campaign in the Balkans (Spring 1941):
(Naval and Military Press, new edition, 2003).
Paperback. Fine. 161pp. Order No. NSBK-A13894
Keywords: 1843425009, Balkans, Near East, history, World War II, Second World War, Germany, German, Nazis, Third Reich, fascism, Naval and Military Press, Balkan, Eastern Europe, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Crete, Turkey, Yugoslavia
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Wicks, Ben.
When The Boys Came Marching Home: True Stories of the Men Who Went to War and the Women and Children Who Took Them Back
(Stoddart, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. xi + 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A13005
Keywords: 0773725180, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, men, males, husbands, masculinity
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