Masani, Zareer.
Indira Gandhi: A Biography
(Hamish Hamilton, 1975).
Hardback. Minor pencil annotation, otherwise good+ in slightly creased, slightly soiled dustwrapper. 331pp. Order No. NSBK-A7157
Keywords: 024189042X, India, Indian, Indira, Gandhi, politics, politicians, political, biography, biographical, biographies, life histories, life history, lives, twentieth century, Asian, Asia, Prime Minister, government
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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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Guinness, Alec.
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor
(Hamish Hamilton, 1996).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. x + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A9009
Keywords: 0241136679, actors, acor, Alec Guiness, autobiography, life, life history, lives, life histories, theatre, stage, twentieth century, Britain, British, history, England, English
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Bonnard, Georges A.
Edward Gibbon: Memoirs of My Life
(Nelson, 1966).
Hardback. Good+ in edgeworn dustwrapper. xxxv + 346pp. Order No. NSBK-A12544
Keywords: B000IMLF2M, Edward Gibbon, historians, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history , Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, memoirs, eighteenth century, 18th
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Morrow, John.
Young England: The New Generation: a Selection of Primary Texts
(Leicester UP, 1999).
Hardback. Very good in laminated boards. xii + 196pp. Order No. NSBK-A3717
Keywords: 0718501454, Young England, 1840s, Benjamin Disraeli, The Condition of England, politics, society, George Smythe, Victorian, nineteenth century, England, English, Britain, British, Lord John Manners, Tory, Toryism, Tories, philosophy, history, ideas, Conservatism, Conservatives, Conservative, aristocracy, ruling classes
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Berthezene, Clarisse.
Training Minds for the War of Ideas: Ashridge College, the Conservative Party and the Cultural Politics of Britain, 1929 - 54
(MUP, 2015).
Inscribed by the author. Hardback. A little ink spotting to pg edges, minor pencil annotations to text, otherwise very good. xi + 276pp. Order No. NSBK-A15649
Keywords: 9780719086496, Tories, Conservatives, history, Ashridge College, Conservative Party
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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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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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Cole, G.D.H.
The Life of William Cobbett:
(Home and Van Thal, 1947).
Hardback. Spine ends bumped, otherwise good in torn, worn dustwrapper. xii + 455pp. Order No. NSBK-A10331
Keywords: William Cobbett, biography, biographies, life history, life histories, lives, writers, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, history
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Abbs, Peter.
Autobiography in Education:
(Heinemann Educational Books, 1974).
Hardback. Ex library with traces of usual library stamps and stickers. viii + 182pp. Order No. NSBK-A13700
Keywords: 0435800116, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs, self history, self histories, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students
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