Exley, Richard and Helen.
Grandmas and Grandpas: A Gift Book Written by Grandchildren for their Grandparents
(Exley, rpt., 1985).
Hardback. Good. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A5011
Keywords: grandparents, grandfathers, grandmothers, parents, children, humour, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century
Price £3.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Lee, Jongsook.
Ben Jonson's Poesis: A Literary Dialetic of Ideal and History
(Virginia UP, 1989).
Hardback. Fine in green cloth. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-A4348
Keywords: 0813911923, Ben Jonson, history, poesis, British, Britain, writers, literary criticism, poetry, drama, laudatory poetry, poems, literature, early modern, seventeenth century
Price £7.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Spink, Henry Hawkes.
The Gunpowder Plot And Lord Mounteagle's Letter: Being a Proof, With Moral Certitude, of the Authorship of the Document Together With Some Account of the Whole Thirteen Gunpowder Conspirators, Including Guy Fawkes
(Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1902).
Being a Proof, With Moral Certitude, of the Authorship of the Document Together With Some Account of the Whole Thirteen Gunpowder Conspirators, Including Guy Fawkes. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. A little cracking internally at spine. Cloth dark, with wear to edges & fraying /a little splitting externally at spine. Else good. xxxvi + 412pp. Order No. NSBK-A14860
Keywords: B000ZGAJIW, Guy Fawkes, Gunplowder Plot, conspiracy, history, 17th century, seventeenth century, government, politics, Yorkshire, treason, early modern
Price £27.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
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
Price £7.50.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
View Image
|
Madoc-Jones, Beryl and Coates, Jennifer, ed.
An Introduction to Women's Studies:
(Blackwell, 1996).
Paperback. Very good+. xiv + 293pp. Order No. NSBK-C12452
Keywords: 0631192557, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's studies, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th
Price £4.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
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
Price £7.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Eden, Frederic Morton.
The State of the Poor: or, an History of the Labouring Classes in England from the Conquest to the Present Period
(Thoemmes Continuum, 2001 facsimile edition of 1797 edition).
PLEASE NOTE: TWO VOLUMES ONLY OF THREE (Vol I and Vol II). Hardbacks. Very good condition. Set sadly lacks vol 3. xxxi + 632; viii + 692pp. Order No. NSBK-A13850
Keywords: 1855062623, poverty, poor, poor relief, friendly societies, friendly society, labouring classes, working classes, pauperism, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Frederic Morton Eden, parochial reports, diet, dress, habitation, domestic economy, philanthropy, poor houses, workhouses, 18th century, eighteenth century
Price £48.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Brown, Ivor.
Theatre: 1955-6
(Max Reinhardt, 1956).
Hardback. Very good. 200pp. Order No. NSBK-A5130
Keywords: B0006DCCQQ, theatre, drama, plays, stagecrfaft, playwrights, play, actors, actresses, repertory, Britain, British, history, England, English, twentieth century
Price £7.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Pack of 8 Suffragette Greetings Cards, .
Assorted Designs, Suffragette Themes:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2003).
Pack of 8 greetings cards (8 different designs) which reproduce attractive images on suffragette themes. The images are printed in vibrant lithographic colours. (Please note that the sample electronic image, unlike the cards themselves, is watermarked with a Naomi Symes Books insignia and reduced in quality, to prevent image theft). Card measurements are 6 inches high by 4 inches wide and each card is complete with envelope. Blank interiors for your own message or for any occasion. Card 1: 'The Cat and Mouse Act', from a WSPU postcard, 1914. Card 2: Emmeline Pankhurst portrait from a modern, hand-painted oil painting, based on a photograph of her c.1909. Card 3: From a poster of 1908: Factory Acts - Regulations for Women. Card 4: 'The Suffragette Nails Her Colours to The Mast'. A masculine-looking woman attaches a 'Votes for Women' banner to her umbrella. An anti-women's suffrage image, a protest against the militancy of the suffragette movement, c.1908. Card 5: 'The Modern Inquisition'. From A WSPU poster, depicting the forcible feeding of suffragettes in prison, from the time of the January 1910 General Election. Card 6: From a Women Writers' Suffrage League poster, 1909, in which justice, personified as a woman, defends the female sex from male prejudice. Card 7: 'The Suffragette 1d Weekly'. From a poster advertising 'The Suffragette' newspaper, c.1912. Card 8: 'Meeting of Cabinet Ministers, 1978. Mrs Spankhurst, MP, Delivering her Maiden Speech'. Anti-suffrage, a satirical image from 1906, depicting four middle-aged women sitting around a tea table. (The prediction almost came true. 1978 was, of course, just one year short of Margaret Thatcher's first ministry!). 8 Greetings Cards. Fine, new. pp. Order No. NSBK-C7227
Keywords: B0032YKOKW, suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, women's rights, Votes for Women, women and politics, women's politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, greeting card, greeting cards, cards, suffragette images, suffragettes, envelopes, suffrage imagery, postcard, postcards, card, picture, pictures, cartoons, art, artist, artists, suffragette art, art, arts, artistry, illustration, illustrations, twentieth century, 20th century, portrayer, portrayer publishers, suffragette greetings cards, greetings card, cat and mouse act, liberals, liberal government, liberal party, pankhursts, pankhurst portraits, Emmeline Pankhurst, The Pankhursts, factory act, factory acts, women workers, woman worker, woman workers, modern inquisition, force feeding, forcible feeding, hunger strike, hunger strikes, prisons, imprisonment, imprisoned, suffragists, women's history, history, women, woman, acts of parliament, parliament, campaign, campaigners, women's rights, votes for women, voter, votes, women voter, woman voter, enfranchisement, enfranchise, The Franchise, colour images, Alfred Pearce, Mary Lowndes, The Suffragette Newspaper, propaganda, propagandists, drawing, drawings, painting, paintings, pankhurst, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera
Price £11.99.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
View Image
|
Bradley, Helen.
And Miss Carter Wore Pink: Scenes from an Edwardian Childhood
(Joanthan Cape, rpt., 1971).
Hardback. Some browning to dustwrapper, otherwise very good. 31pp. Order No. NSBK-A10528
Keywords: 0224005812, Helen Bradley, Miss Carter, Northern, art, artists, paintings, painters, Britain, British, England, English, history, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th
Price £10.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
|
|
