Bray, Maurice I.
Railway Picture Postcards:
(MPC, rpt., 1991).
Paperback. Spine and front cover creased, otherwise good. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A6230
Keywords: 0861903137, railways, steam trains, trains, transport, engines, vehicles, travel, postcards, pictures, nineteenth century, twentieth century, railway ships, docks, royal trains, bridges, tunnels, viaducts, Great Western Railway, locomotives, trams, traffic, The London and North Western Railway, photographs, photography, collectors, hobbies, hobby, entertainment, leisure, Britain, British, England, English, history
Price £6.00.
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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
Price £24.00.
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Humphries, Stephen.
Hooligans or Rebels: An Oral History of Working-Class Childhood and Youth, 1889-1939
(Basil Blackwell, 1981).
Paperback. Library bookplate to inner cover, some marginal annotation, creasing to covers & a little waviness to rear pages - otherwise good. viii + 279pp. Order No. NSBK-A5924
Keywords: 0631132864, oral, oral hisotory, working class, working-class, working classes, children, child, childhood, youth, hooligans, rebels, Stephen Humphries, teenagers, teenage gangs, vandalism, anarchy, oral tradition, spoken, twentieth century, education
Price £10.00.
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Eyken, Willem van der, ed.
Education, the Child and Society: a Documentary History, 1900 - 1973
(Penguin, 1973).
Paperback. Pages browned, minor pencil markings, overall good. 536pp. Order No. NSBK-A2554
Keywords: 0140803416, education, children, history, society, educational documents, twentieth century England, Board of Education, secondary schooling
Price £2.00.
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Thomas, Caitlin.
Caitlin: Life with Dylan Thomas
(Henry Holt and Company, 1986).
With George Tremlett. Paperback. Very good+. xii + 212pp. Order No. NSBK-C10669
Keywords: 0805007695, Dylan Thomas, Caitlin Thomas, poets, poetry, alcohol, alcoholism, Britain, British, Welsh, Wales, history, death, bereavement, twentieth century, literature, 20th, literary, writers, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical
Price £5.50.
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Mitchison, Naomi.
All Change Here: Girlhood and Marriage
(Bodley Head, 1975).
The 2nd part of her autobiography. HB. Ex lib, good in sl soiled dw with newspapers pasted in at end. 159pp. Order No. NSBK-C716
Keywords: 0370104854, Naomi Mitchison, girlhood, marriage, autobiography, autobiographical, twentieth century,
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George, Vic and Miller, Stewart.
Social Policy Towards 2000: Squaring the Welfare Circle
(Routledge, rpt., 1997).
Paperback. Fine. vii + 256pp. Order No. NSBK-C12472
Keywords: 0415087074, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, sociology, welfare, twentieth century, 20th, social policy, welfare state
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Hutchinson, T. W.
Economics and Economic Policy in Britain, 1946-1966: Some Aspects of their Inter-relations
(George Allen and Unwin, 1968).
Hardback. Good in slightly browned, slightly chipped dustwrapper. 307pp. Order No. NSBK-A5959
Keywords: B000KYXBAW, economics, economic policy, economy, Britain, British, England, English, policy, policies, post-war, twentieth century
Price £15.00.
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Wickham, Ann.
Women and Training:
(Open University Press, 1986).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good. x + 147pp. Order No. NSBK-C8414
Keywords: 0335151191, woman, woman, training, gender, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, technology, economics, women's work, women and work, sexual discrimination, feminism, feminists
Price £7.00.
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Lane, Margaret.
The Tale of Beatrix Potter:
(Penguin, rpt., 1962).
Paperback. Covers slightly browned, small tear at base of front cover, otherwise good. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C5879
Keywords: B0000CLKPW, Beatrix Potter, women writers, woman writer, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Lake District, Cumbria, children's books, children's writing, children, animals, history, Britain, British, England, English, literature, literary, biography, biographical, biographies, life history, life histories, Margaret Lane, unitarianism, Unitarians, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
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