White, Florence, ed.
How to Wash Clothes at Home: Containing Simple and Complete Instructions
(Florence White, 1901).
An advice book, recommending the best methods of carrying out laundry work. A very interesting one of its kind, with illustrations and lots of detail of interest to the social historian. Paperback. Original covers slightly soiled and creased at edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C15121
Keywords: clothes, clothing, washing clothes, laundry, laundry work, working women, domesticity, antiquarian, social history, ironing, starching, booklets, boiling, advice books, linen, booklet, booklets
Price £24.00.
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Peavy, Linda and Smith, Ursula.
Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement: Life on the Home Frontier
(Oklahoma UP, 1994).
Foreword by John Mack Faragher. Paperback. Fine. xvii + 381pp. Order No. NSBK-C12510
Keywords: 0806126191, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Westward Movement, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, American West, family, families, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
Price £8.00.
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Cockburn, Cynthia and Dilic, R. F.
Bringing Technology Home: Gender and Technology in a Changing Europe
(Open UP, 1994).
Paperback. Good. x + 187pp. Order No. NSBK-C15760
Keywords: 9780335191581, women, technology, technological change
Price £11.99.
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Haste, Cate.
Rules of Desire: Sex in Britain: World War I to the Present
(Pimlico, rpt., 1994).
Paperback. Very good. xi + 356pp. Order No. NSBK-C8117
Keywords: 0712660240, Britain, british, England, English, sex, sexuality, gender, desire, twentieth century, 20th, divorce, marriage, abortion, free love, Marie Stopes, Bertrand Russell, pleasure, bodies, body, moral, morality
Price £7.00.
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Stodart, M.A.
Every Day Duties: in Letters to a Young Lady
(Photocopy only of R.B. Seeley edition, 1840).
Hardback. Library photocopy only, not an original. In good, sturdy, maroon library binding, a little scuffed at the back. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A13755
Keywords: B0008CKDZC, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, femininity, feminine, advice books, prayer, women's history, religion, private sphere, domesticity, politeness, manners, home, Sabbath, household, servants, social history, etiquette, religious
Price £29.00.
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Simon, E.D.
The Anti-Slum Campaign:
(Longmans, 2nd Impression, 1933).
Very scarce. Hardback. Cloth sun faded and worn at edges, internally good. viii + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A4069
Keywords: B000KYQ3D4, Manchester, slums, anti-slum campaign, housing, cities, urban history, North West, England, English, Britain, British, Addison Act, rents, Greenwood Act, town planning, urbanisation, conurbation, dwellings, houses, building, city, local government, local authorities, Chamberlain Act, Wheatley Act, Hilton Young Acts, slum clearance, housing shortage, tenants, Homes for Heroes, Simons, E.D. Simon, Ernest Simon, poverty, poor
Price £12.00.
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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
Price £6.00.
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Chrisp, Peter.
Evacuation:
(University of Susex Library, 1987).
Ringbound booklet. Very good. 20pp. Order No. NSBK-A13211
Keywords: 0850870194, Mass Observation, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, twentieth century, 20th Century, Blitz, Mass-Observation, Peter Chrisp, University of Sussex, 1939, 1940s, forties, home front, domestic front, social history, evacuation, evacuees, children, childhood, evacuation scheme, archive
Price £6.50.
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Kaye, Michael.
Child Welfare Outside the School:
(Oliver and Boyd, 1937).
Hardback. Some brown soiling to cloth and rubbing to edges, otherwise good. viii + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-A13584
Keywords: B00112B870, inter-war, inter war, child welfare, social welfare, home, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, housing, family, poverty, social history, health, employment, unemployment, leisure, delinquency, slums, slum, fitness, children
Price £11.99.
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Wilson, Trevor.
The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War, 1914 - 1918
(Polity Press, rpt, 1988).
Paperback. Spine slightly creased, page edges lightly soiled, with newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise a good copy. xvi + 864pp. Order No. NSBK-A15761
Keywords: 9780745606453, Great War, World War I, fighting, home front, Western Front, history
Price £20.50.
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