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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Kipling, Rudyard, ed.
The Irish Guards in the Great War:
(Macmillan, 1923).
Volume II. The Second Battalion and Appendices. Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Edges slightly worn, some fraying to spine edges, otherwise good. vi + 310pp. Order No. NSBK-D15250
Keywords: B0006DMHC0, Kipling, Irish Guards, Ireland, Great War, World War I, fighing, battalions, Loos, Somme, Arras, history, Bourlon Wood
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Gardiner, Juliet, ed.
What is History Today?:
(Macmillan, rpt, 1989).
Paperback. Spine faded, newspaper reviews pasted to front endpaper, otherwise good. vi + 167pp. Order No. NSBK-A15667
Keywords: history, methodology, practice of history
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Mitchell, David.
Women on the Warpath: The Story of the Women of the First World War
(Jonathan Cape, 1966).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Some cracking internally at spine, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in worn, chipped dustwrapper. xvi + 400pp. Order No. NSBK-A14202
Keywords: B0000CMXCJ, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, munitions, Western Front, Pankhursts, women, women's history, WAAC, Pethick-Lawrence
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Horrocks, Sidney, ed.
Lancashire History: Historical Period: i) Hanover ii) Contemporary Broadsides
(Manc Joint Committee on Lanc Biblio, 1978).
A Contribution Towards a Lancashire Bibliography 9. Hardback. Spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise good. xiv + 242pp. Order No. NSBK-A13737
Keywords: B000HBZSHM, Lancashire, Hanover, contemporary broadsides, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, nineteenth, eighteenth, century, Hanoverian
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Harriman, Mrs J. Borden.
From Pinafores to Politics:
(George Allen & Unwin, n.d).
With photographs. Non-militant suffrage campaigner in the United States. Hardback. Spine faded, edges slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. 359pp. Order No. NSBK-C2782
Keywords: America, USA, biography, Episcopalian, suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, American suffrage, American politics, First World War, World War I, Votes for Women
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Davies, Margery W.
Woman's Place Is At The Typewriter: Office Work and Office Workers 1870-1830
(Temple University Press, 1982).
Hardback. Good in torn dustwrapper. x + 217pp. Order No. NSBK-C15504
Keywords: 0877222916, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, history, women's history, women's work, clerks, clerical, American, America, United States, US, USA, typewriters, typing, offices, office work, office workers, secretaries, secretarial
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Holland, Dennis.
When I Could Nearly Walk:
(Co-operative Wholesale Society, 1997).
Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. 43pp. Order No. NSBK-A15055
Keywords: 0951738410, Runcorn, Cheshire, disabled, Dennis Holland, biography
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Pollard, Sidney & Holmes, Colin.
Documents of European Economic History: Vol. 3, The End of the Old Europe, 1914-1939
(Edward Arnold, 1973).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, lacks fly leaf, boards slightly marked, otherwise good in chipped dustwrapper. xvi + 623pp. Order No. NSBK-A3375
Keywords: 0713156643, Europe, European history, war, First World War, Second World War, Great War, World War I, World War II, interwar, depression, Soviet Union, economy, economic, unemployment2
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Maylunas, Andrei and Mironenko, Sergei.
A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra. Their Own Story
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2nd impression, 1996).
Heavy book. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. 516pp. Order No. NSBK-A8520
Keywords: 0297815202, Tsarism, Tsarist, Russian, Russia, royalty, royalty, monarchy, monarchs, Nicholas I, history, Tsarina, Alexandra, Russian Revolution, repression, reform, revolutionaries, reaction
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