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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Johnson, Chris.
Women on the Frontline: Voices from Southern Africa
(Macmillan, 1992).
Editor: Jo Campling. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ condition in slightly yellowed, slightly soiled dustwrapper. xviii + 197pp. Order No. NSBK-C13322
Keywords: 0333539532, Jo Campling, Chris Johnson, women, war, South Africa, Southern Africa, African, wars, frontline, rural, urban, marriage, domestic service, equality, work education
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Probert, Laura.
Women of Thanet Rally Round the Flag, 1914 - 1918:
(Millicent Press, 2011).
Paperback. New and unread, with just a little soiling to the page edges from shelf-life. 176pp. Order No. NSBK-C15165
Keywords: 9780955867415, Thanet, Great War, First World War, history, social history, France, Western Front, women, Kent, aerial bombardment, domestic front, home front, women's work
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Lindley, Keith, and Scott, David, eds.
The Journal of Thomas Juxon, 1644-1647:
(CUP, 1999).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A3931
Keywords: 0521652596, Journal of Thomas Juxon, seventeenth century, Puritan, London, public affairs, political, military, politics, civil war
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Whiting, Charles.
Massacre at Malmedy: The Story of Jochen Peiper's Battle Group Ardennes, December, 1944
(Leo Cooper, rpt., 1996).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, slight damage to spine and fly leaf, a good working copy. vi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A6711
Keywords: 0850525128, massacre, warfare, wars, Second World War, World War Two, II, 2, Jochen Peiper's Battle group, Jochen Peiper, twenteith century, British, Britain, history, France, French, Malmedy, guns, Germans, Nazis, Germany, Europe, European
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Goldie, Sue M.
Florence Nightingale: Letters from the Crimea, 1854 - 1856
(Mandolin, 1997).
Paperback. Light soiling to page edges otherwise good, light soiling to rear, otherwise very good. xi + 326pp. Order No. NSBK-C2565
Keywords: 190134102X, Crimean War, nurses, nursing, Florence Nightingale, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, nineteenth century, nurse, medical, medicine, health
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Hibbard, Caroline.
Charles I and the Popish Plot:
(North Carolina UP, Chapel Hill, 1983).
Scarce. Hardback. Very good+, and crisp, in sun-faded, very good dustwrapper. viii + 342pp. Order No. NSBK-A6745
Keywords: 0807815209, Charles I, Caroline, Catholics, Catholic, Roman Catholic, popish, popes, pope, popery, Catholicism, religion, religious, history, early modern, Vatican, papal, Civil War, English Civil Wars, seventeenth century, 17th century, England, Britain, British, history, Long Parliament, no popery, anti-Catholicism, no-popery, court, Laud, Laudianism, Thomas Wentworth, Jesuits, Henrietta Maria, royalty, monarchy, monarchs, kings, royals
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Brittain, Vera.
Born 1925: A Novel of Youth
(Virago, 1982).
Paperback. Good. 379pp. Order No. NSBK-C5942
Keywords: 0860682706, Vera Brittain, Adrian Cadbury, wars, warfare, Europe, European, Nazi Germany, German, pacifism, First World War, World War I. World War One, Great War, novels, novelists, women writers, woman writer, women's history, twentieth century, literature, literary, fiction, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Holmes, Martin.
Proud Northern Lady: Lady Anne Clifford, 1590-1676
(Phillimore, corrected reprint, 1984).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. 181pp. Order No. NSBK-C3168
Keywords: 0850332257, Anne Clifford, Lady Anne Clifford, seventeenth century, Knole, Wiltshire, Inigo Jones, biography, Countess of Dorset and Pembroke, Civil War, Britain, England, British, English, history, women's history
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Glover, Elizabeth R.
Probation and Re-education:
(RKP, 1949).
Hardback. Some splitting at spine edges, original cloth lightly worn, minor pencil markings, otherwise good. xii + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-A13917
Keywords: B0007J6YMM, crime, probation, history, 1940s, poverty, probation act, post war
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