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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Esher, Reginald Viscount.
The Tragedy of Lord Kitchener:
(John Murray, rpt, 1921).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Boards worn and marked. Some splitting internally at spine, a good working copy. xv + 219pp. Order No. NSBK-A15067
Keywords: B000L9ILRY, Lord Kitchener, World War I, Great War, First World War, Western Front, army, military
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Wade, Beryl.
Storm Over the Mersey:
(Countyvise, 1990).
With illustrations. Paperback. Spine creased, a few pages slightly detached, otherwise good. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-A14537
Keywords: 0907768334, Mersey, Merseyside, Liverpool, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, bombing, Blitz, autobiography
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Clayton, Tim and Craig, Phil.
Finest Hour:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 2000).
Revised edition. Paperback. Very good. x + 422pp. Order No. NSBK-A11891
Keywords: 0340766352, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, Home Front
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Miller, H. Tatlock and Sainthill, Louis.
Churchill: The Walk with Destiny
(Hutchinson, 1959).
Comprises black and white photographs of Churchill's time in office. Hardback. Over-size book, spine ends badly bumped, covers lightly worn, internally good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A12296
Keywords: B000B5H28C, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century
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Willmott, H. P.
Pearl Harbor:
(Cassell & Co, 2001).
With Tohmatsu and W. Spencer Johnson. Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A10139
Keywords: 0304358843, wars, warfare, Japan, Japanese, American, America, USA, United States, Second World War, World War Two, II, 2, Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbour, US Pacific Fleet, Pacific War, Far East, navy, ships, shipping
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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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Suffragettes, DVD format.
The Suffragettes: the Story of Emmeline Pankhurst
(Pegasus Entertainment, 2006 DVD release of 1994 recording).
PAL format DVD. Number of discs: 1. Classification: Exempt. Run Time: 52 minutes. DVD. New, fine condition, in cellophane. pp. Order No. NSBK-C13723
Keywords: B000HLDAG8, Emmeline Pankhurst, Pankhursts, feminism, feminists, feminist history, Votes for women, suffragettes, suffrage movement, Britain, British History, Edwardian, women and politics, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU, England, Britain, history, England, English, British, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, Christabel Pankhurst, E. Sylvia Pankhurst, NUWSS, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, franchise, enfranchisement, Asquith, gender, socialist, socialists, socialism, World War I, First World War, Great War, Annie Kenney, prisons, television programmes, television programme, TV, Christmas gifts, dvds, dvd, DVD, Pegasus Entertainment, teaching aids, suffragette ephemera
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Snowden, Philip.
The Living Wage:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1912).
Hardback. Bright red boards slightly blotched / soiled at back, otherwise very good. xvi + 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A13340
Keywords: B00085I7GG, Philip Snowden, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, living wage, wages, economy, politics, living wage, poverty, cost of living, industry, employment, strikes, conciliation, labour, twentieth century, before the first world war, economics
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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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