Stocks, Mary.
My Commonplace Book: an Autobiography
(Peter Davies, rpt, 1970).
Women's suffrage; the welfare state; the L.S.E.; adult education; the Great Depression in Manchester; social work in London; a variety of government assignments. Hardback. Very good in soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. ix + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C779
Keywords: 0432157506, suffrage, suffragette, women's rights, L.S.E., the Great Depression, adult education, Manchester, London, social work, welfare state, England, Britain, history, English, British
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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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Porter, Bernard.
Britannia's Burden: The Political Evolution of Modern Britain, 1851-1990
(Edward Arnold, 1994).
Paperback. Covers browned, otherwise very good. viii + 440pp. Order No. NSBK-A8092
Keywords: 0340561971, Victorian, nineteenth, eighteenth, politics, political, Britannia, Britain, England, English, British, century, Bernard Porter, Great Exhibition
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Heath, Carl.
Military Service, Compulsory and Otherwise:
(Rationalist Peace Society, no date, circa First World War).
Leaflet no 2. Paperback. Slight browning and chipping to edges, otherwise very good. 2pp. Order No. NSBK-A14131
Keywords: pacifists, pacifism, pacifist, military service, compulsory military service, social history, Carl Heath, fighting, World War I, First World War, Great War, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, peace, peace movements
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Mallory, Keith.
The Bristol House:
(Redcliffe Press, 1985).
Paperback. A little curling to cover edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A9729
Keywords: 0905459997, homes, houses, Bristol, housing, cities, city, towns, great house, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, 18th, eighteenth, architecture, architectural
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Laffin, John.
Panorama of the Western Front:
(Sutton Publishing, rpt., 1996).
Hardback. Good+ in chipped and worn dustwrapper. viii + 120pp. Order No. NSBK-J12653
Keywords: 1856279014, Western Front, panorama, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Sayers, Peig.
An Old Woman's Reflections:
(OUP, rpt., 1978).
Translated from the Irish by Seamus Ennis and Introduced by W. R. Rodgers. Paperback. Very good. xiv + 131pp. Order No. NSBK-C4951
Keywords: 0192812394, women, woman, history, women's history, Ireland, Irish, Eire, Gaelic, Republic of Ireland, Southern Ireland, Great Blasket Island, County Kerry, oral history, storytelling, stories, tales, Peig Sayers
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Brendon, Vyvyen.
The First World War, 1914 - 1918:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 2000).
Access to History. Paperback. Very good. vi + 154pp. Order No. NSBK-A15683
Keywords: 9780340743034, First World War, Great War
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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Kineton/The Roundwood Press, 1974).
Hardback. Covers slightly soiled, marginal pencil annotation not affecting legbility, otherwise very good. xvi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C11001
Keywords: 0900093307, women, woman, gender, 1920s, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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Liddle, Peter.
Testimony of War, 1914-18:
(Michael Russell, 1979).
Hardback. Large format, very good in slightly rubbed dustwrapper. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A2490
Keywords: 0859550737, history, First World War, World War II, war, Great War, twentieth century
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