Brooke, David.
The Railway Navvy: That Despicable Race of Men
(David and Charles, 1983).
Hardback. Very good in slightly browned dustwrapper. 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A13480
Keywords: 071538449X, trains, railways, history, railway workers, railway navvy, navvies, railwaymen, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, construction workers, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Balaklava Railway, Crimea, Crimean War, railway building, locomotives
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James, Leighton S.
The Politics of Identity and Civil Society in Britain and Germany: Miners in the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890 - 1926
(Manchester UP, 2008).
Critical Labour Movement Studies. Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 226pp. Order No. NSBK-A14753
Keywords: 9780719074974, Critical Labour Movement Studies, Ruhr, miners, mining, South Wales, Welsh, coal mining, coal-mining, colleries, pits, coalfields, trade unions, labour movements, identity, history, Germany, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, German, coal industry, World War I, Great War
Price £38.00.
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Foot, Michael and Highet, Alison.
Isaac Foot: A Westcountry Boy - Apostle of England
(Politico's, 2006).
Hardback. Slight bump top spine end, otherwise very good+ and clean in dustwrapper. 352pp. Order No. NSBK-A15652
Keywords: 9781842751817, Isaac Foot, the Foot family, politics, class, Liberal Party, Liberals, Plymouth, methodism, Free Church, Bodmin, Second World War, history, West Country
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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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Proud, E. Dorothea.
Welfare Work: Employers' Experiments for Improving Working Conditions in Factories
(G. Bell, 3rd edition, 1918).
Foreword by David Lloyd-George. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers. some wear to edges, otherwise good. xx + 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C6760
Keywords: B000856JQQ, welfare, Great War, First World War, World War I, workers, working, factory system, factories, working conditions, women and work, working women, David Lloyd-George, social experiments, history, Catherine Helen Spence, E. Dorothea Proud, pay, wages, economic, economy, industry, industrial, twentieth century, antiquarian, factory legislation, factory labour, factory girls, labor
Price £19.50.
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Tierney, Jane.
Tobo: One Woman's Escape
(Guild Publishing, 1985).
Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly torn dustwrapper. 156pp. Order No. NSBK-C6025
Keywords: B000HGFZJS, Jane Tierney, women's history, woman, Far East, Second World War, World War II, World War Two, World War 2, wars, warfare, twentieth century, Japanese, Japan, Singapore, Malaya, East Indies, Ceylon, Dutch Fifth Columnists, Gestapo, Australia, escape
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Holmes, Martin.
Proud Northern Lady: Lady Anne Clifford, 1590-1676
(Phillimore, corrected reprint, 1984).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. 181pp. Order No. NSBK-C3168
Keywords: 0850332257, Anne Clifford, Lady Anne Clifford, seventeenth century, Knole, Wiltshire, Inigo Jones, biography, Countess of Dorset and Pembroke, Civil War, Britain, England, British, English, history, women's history
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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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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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Goldie, Sue M.
Florence Nightingale: Letters from the Crimea, 1854 - 1856
(Mandolin, 1997).
Paperback. Small biro mark to front cover, light soiling to rear, otherwise very good. xi + 326pp. Order No. NSBK-C2565
Keywords: 190134102X, Crimean War, nurses, nursing, Florence Nightingale, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, nineteenth century, nurse, medical, medicine, health
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