Grenfell, Joyce.
Darling Ma: Letters to her Mother, 1932-1944
(Hodder & Stoughton, 1988).
Edited by James Roose-Evans. Hardback. Ex lib with usual library stamps & stickers, otherwise good in creased dw. xxii + 360pp. Order No. NSBK-C4643
Keywords: 0340423684, Joyce Grenfell, mothers, daughter, letters, 1930s, World War II, Second World War, history, correspondence, woman, women, actresses, drama, actress, theatre, interwar, inter war, inter-war
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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
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Scaffardi, Sylvia.
Fire Under the Carpet: Working for Civil Liberties in the 1930s
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1986).
Paperback. Very good. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C14152
Keywords: 0853156549, 1930s, thirties, inter war, inter-war, interwar, civil liberties, NCCL, Mosley, fascism, Ronald Kidd, Sylvia Scaffardi, anti-fascism, anti-semitism
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Kenner, Charmian.
No Time for Women: Exploring Women's Health in the 1930s and Today
(Pandora Press, 1985).
Paperback. Very good. xvii + 168pp. Order No. NSBK-A15000
Keywords: 0863580327, women, health, illness, 1930s, thirties, history, health education, interwar, inter war
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Jones, Stephen G.
Workers at Play: a Social and Economic History of Leisure, 1918 - 1939
(RKP, 1986).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. viii + 286pp. Order No. NSBK-A4346
Keywords: 0710206356, leisure, recreations, recreation, social history, interwar, inter war, inter-war, hobbies, sport, gambling, boxing, men, women, economic, holidays, drinking, pub, pubs, public houses, popular culture, cinema, working class, working classes, pastimes, voluntary organisations, clubs, working men's clubs, labour, entertainment, Britain, British, England, English
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Chazal, E. L. de.
Guide Elementaire D'Hygiene Infantile: a L'Usage des Infirmieres et des Meres de Famille
(Port Louis, P. G. Bumstead, 2nd edition, 1924).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. Front cover loose, otherwise good in firm, slightly marked library binding. 150pp. Order No. NSBK-A13886
Keywords: B001A6JL6W, child welfare, interwar, inter-war, inter war, family, medicine, hygiene, France, French, children, childhood, health, enfants, mothers, motherhood, history, 1920s, illnesses, childhood illnesses, ailments, remedies, infant mortality, medical
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Gyford, C. Barrington.
The Skipper Ashore: Being Some More Letters from the Skipper of a Tramp Steamer, about his Experiences Ashore in Various Parts of the World. With Photographs Sent by the Writer
(Isaac Pitman, 1938).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, boards worn especially at edges, some soiling to page edges, otherwise a good solid copy. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A14089
Keywords: B0014IF138, maritime, travel, ships, boats, skippers, history, C. Barrington Gyford, letters, correspondence, Europe, East, Arabia, Middle East, Sudan, steamers, photographs, sea travel, adventure, seas, inter-war, inter war
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Boyle, Kay.
My Next Bride:
(Virago, rpt, 1986).
Paperback. Slightly creased, otherwise good. 330pp. Order No. NSBK-C3727
Keywords: 0860687562, Virago, novels, novel, Kay Boyle, inter-war, inter war, fiction, modernist, modernism, women writers
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Tillyard, Frank.
Unemployment Insurance in Great Britain, 1911 - 48:
(Thames Bank Pub. Co, 1949).
Hardback. Very good in chipped, slightly browned dustwrapper. ix + 233pp. Order No. NSBK-A13287
Keywords: B001IVGWXE, unemployment, insurance, national insurance, dole, twentieth century, inter-war, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, contributions, benefits, social welfare, poor relief, out-of-work, history
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Beaumont, Caitriona.
Housewives and Citizens: Domesticity and the Women's Movement in England, 1928-64
(MUP, 2013).
Hardback. Very good+. xii + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C15420
Keywords: 9780719086076, domesticity, women's movement, citizenship, women's organisations, inter-war, history, inter war, Mother's Union, Women's Institute
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