Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
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Jenkin, Michael.
British Industry and the North Sea: State Intervention in a Developing Industrial Sector
(Macmillan, 1981).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings, otherwise very good in slightly wavy dustwrapper. xiii + 251pp. Order No. NSBK-A7525
Keywords: 0333256069, Britain, British, England, English, history, state intervention, economy, economics, North Sea, seas, oil, gas, companies, business, 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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Robinson-Welsh, Dawn.
Memories of Old Yorkshire:
(Aurora Publishing, 1994).
Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 85pp. Order No. NSBK-J11397
Keywords: 1859260462, York, Yorkshire, Harrogate, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, photos, photography, pictures, images
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Anon, .
The First Casualty: The German Underground Hospital and Jersey's Occupation Experience
(High Level Associates Ltd, 1991).
Paperback. Good. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-A5892
Keywords: B0000EF19I, German, Germany, Jersey, occupation, wars, warfare, World War II, World War Two, Second World War, twentieth century, military, Nazis, Nazism, Channel Islands, history, European, Europe, history, hospitals, medicine, medical, Underground Hospital, jews, jewish, Spanish, refufees, Russians, Gestapo, Anti-Semitism, antisemites, islands, resistance, Britain, British
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Murphy, Mary.
Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914 - 41
(Illinois Press, 1997).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, spine creased, otherwise good+. xviii + 279pp. Order No. NSBK-A14207
Keywords: 0252065697, Butte, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, leisure, mining, consumerism, twentieth century, social history, consumer culture, copper mines, Montana
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Sands, Frederick & Broman, Sven.
The Divine Garbo:
(Sidgwick & Jackson, 1979).
With many photos. Hardback. Cloth slightly damaged at base, otherwise a very good copy in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 243pp. Order No. NSBK-C4081
Keywords: 0283985453, Greta Garbo, actresses, women, woman, big screen, Hollywood, films, history, film stars, Frederick Sands, twentieth century
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Walton, John K. and Walvin, James.
Leisure in Britain, 1780 - 1939:
(MUP, 1983).
Paperback. Ex library, spine creased, usual library markings, otherwise good. vi + 241pp. Order No. NSBK-A13843
Keywords: 071901946X, leisure, entertainment, social history, recreation, Victorian, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, twentieth century, England, English, Britain, British, hobbies, working class, working classes, middle class, middle classes, class, John Walton, Jim Walvin, James Walvin, Walton, Leisure in Britain
Price £26.95.
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Kendall, Walter.
The Labour Movement in Europe:
(Allen Lane, rpt., 1975).
Paperback. Covers faded, page edges soiled, otherwise very good. xxi + 456pp. Order No. NSBK-A5979
Keywords: 0713904992, labor, labour, movement, Europe, European, history, politics, work, working, European Economic Community, EEC, industry, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, Industrial Revolution, France, French, German, Germany, Britain, British, Belgium, Belgian, Netherlands, Holland, Dutch, motor industry, trade unions, trade unionism, Italy, Italian, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century
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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
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