Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004 facsimile of 1918 text).
Clementina Black (1854 - 1922) was a campaigner committed to improving the plight of working women. In this work of 1918, she 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'. Examples of material included: 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. Paperback. New book, fine. x + 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C7548
Keywords: 0954476123, 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, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Portrayer reprints, Portrayer facsimiles, new titles
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Neale, Douglas.
Guide For Husbands and Wives or A Manual Of Wisdom:
(William Lovett, revised edition, 1938).
Paperback. Very good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A13675
Keywords: B00126A4I4, advice books, 1930s, thirties, husbands, wives, marriage, family, sex, birth control, family planning, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, family limitation, mothers, motherhood, maternity, contraception, contraceptives, inter-war, interwar, inter war, confinement, babies, health
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Elwes, Richard.
First Poems:
(Hodder & Stoughton, rpt, 1941).
Hardback. Soiled / marked cream covers with gilt lettering, endpapers a little marked, otherwise good. 44pp. Order No. NSBK-C6755
Keywords: B000P1QEHM, poems, poets, poetry, Richard Elwes, Second World War, World War II, World War Two, social history, Europe, European, Poland, Finland, sonnets, verses, wars, twentieth century, 1940s
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Miles, Caroline.
Lancashire Textiles: a Case Study of Industrial Change
(CUP, 1968).
National Institute of Economic and Social Research. Paperback. Slight browing to covers and wear to spine edges, otherwise good+. x + 124pp. Order No. NSBK-A13321
Keywords: 0521072867, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Lancashire, mills, textiles, textile, cotton, history, textile industry, cotton, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, North West, 1940s, 1950s, post war, post-war
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Allen, Vivien.
Lady Trader: A Biography of Mrs Sarah Heckford
(Collins, 1979).
Hardback. Very good in soiled and chipped dustwrapper. 243pp. Order No. NSBK-C4496
Keywords: 0002160730, Mrs Sarah Heckford, women travellers, woman traveller, women travelers, woman traveler, The East London Hospital, Childrens' Hospital, Nathaniel Heckford, India, South Africa, Transvaal, Pretoria, Rain Queen, Loboda, Modjadje, Boer War, biography, biographies, women's history, British, Britain nineteenth century
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Harries-Jenkins, Gwyn.
The Army in Victorian Society:
(RKP, 1977).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps. Overall very good in dustwrapper. xi + 320pp. Order No. NSBK-A7247
Keywords: 0710084471, army, wars, warfare, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, history, England, English, military, soldiers, colonial, colonialists, Waterloo, officers, professionalism, professionals, fighting, social history, army ranks, 19th century
Price £23.00.
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Beckett, Lorna C.
The Second I Saw You: The True Love Story of Rupert Brooke and Phyllis Gardner
(British Library, 2015).
Hardback. Very good in slightly rubbed dustwrapper. xvi + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A15580
Keywords: 9780712357920, Rupert Brooke, First World War, Phyllis Gardner
Price £9.50.
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Royal Norwegian Government, Information Office.
Before We Go Back: Norway's Fight Since April, 1940. A Pictorial Record Of Norway's Fight Against Nazism Both Inside And Outside Germany, With A Postscript By Philip Noel-Baker
(HMSO, 1944).
Paperback. Light edge-wear, covers slightly browned, otherwise good. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-H15136
Keywords: B004H3CS2Y, Norway, Norwegian, history, World War II, Second World War, Nazism, Nazi occupation, occupied, occupied territories
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Magill, Colonel Sir James.
The Red Cross: the Idea and its Development. A Sketch
(Cassell and Company, rpt, 1927).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps. Light foxing to endpapers and rubbing to cloth at corners, a small splash to front board - otherwise in good+ all-round condition. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A13513
Keywords: B000L3K4XO, Red Cross, history, Red Cross Movement, British Red Cross Society, Great War, First World War, World War I, colonialism, voluntary societies, peace, pacifism, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Edwardian, 19th century, nineteenth century, twentieth century, health, aid, hospitals, relief, medicine, medical, international, voluntary aid
Price £25.00.
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Brereton, J.M.
The British Soldier: a Social History from 1661 to the Present Day
(Bodley Head, 1986).
Hardback. Very good in slightly torn, creased dustwrapper. viii + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A5210
Keywords: 0370305515, wars, war, history, soldier, soldiers, army, armies, social history, British, Britain, England, English, fighting, combat
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