Aitken-Swan, Jean.
Widows in Australia: A Survey of the Economic and Social Condition of Widows with Dependent Children
(Council of Social Service of NS Wales, 1962).
Paperback. A little marking/soiling to card covers, otherwise a good copy. x + 148pp. Order No. NSBK-C7054
Keywords: B0007JIO2K, twentieth century, 20th, history, Australia, Australian, Australasian, women, women's history, woman, female, widows, children, economics, economy, widowhood, widow
Price £5.00.
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Debenham, Clare.
Life and Death in Higher Education: a Political and Social Analysis of British Colleges of Education
(Lutterworth, 2021).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xii + 162pp. Order No. NSBK-A15636
Keywords: 9780718895495, education, teaching, history, teaching colleges, higher education, teacher shortages
Price £27.95.
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Mayhew, Henry.
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts. Volume 2
(Caliban Books, 1981).
Paperback. Spine a little browned. A few light marks to card covers, otherwise very good. 335pp. Order No. NSBK-A13115
Keywords: 0904573214, Victorian, 1840s, forties, 19th century, nineteenth century, labour, poor, poverty, Henry Mayhew, social surveys, social investigations, sanitation, oral history, wages, sweated labour, poor law, employment, hucksters, alcohol, drinking, housing, coal, pawn-broking, tailoring, pubs, publicans, public houses, London
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Macbain, ed, Alexander.
History of the Highland Clans:
(Eneas Mackay, 1900).
A good working copy. The second part of Skene's work. Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Some wear to edges. Spine damaged, (partly detached and revealing binding). Boards sl. loose. Contents firm. 175 - 427pp. Order No. NSBK-A15173
Keywords: B0008822GY, clans, Scots, Scottish, Scotland, history, highlanders, ancestry, social history, genealogy, Scottish Highlands
Price £88.00.
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Greenall, R.L.
The Making of Victorian Salford:
(Carnegie Publishing, 2000).
Paperback. Edges soiled, otherwise good+. viii + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-A4545
Keywords: 1859360777, Salford, Manchester, Victorian, England, English, Britain, British, nineteenth century, history, social history, urban, industry, industrial, cotton, textiles, mills, factories, factory system, textile, towns, urbanisation
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Symes, Ruth A.
It Runs in the Family:
(The History Press, 2013).
In the quest to uncover our family history, we turn to written records, the family album and even heirlooms. However, they can often be difficult to interpret and sometimes pose more questions than they answer: Why didn't my ancestors smile for the camera? Why did great-grandfather wear a beard while his sons were clean-shaven? Why is my great-grandmother holding flowers in this photograph? Drawing on evidence from social history, women's history, and the histories of photography, art and fashion, and using examples from the lowly as well as the famous, Ruth Symes explores many aspects of ordinary life in the past - from the state of the nation's teeth, to the legal and economic connotations of wearing a wedding ring and even the business of keeping a dog. This fascinating volume aims to help family historians get to know their elusive ancestors by deciphering the wealth of personal and historical clues contained in photographs, documents and artefacts. Paperback. New book, fine. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-D15428
Keywords: 9780752497020, family history, family, families, Ruth Symes, genealogy, geneaolgical, social history, evidence, sources, research, women, old photographs, photography
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Bloom, Stanley S.
The Launderette: a History
(Duckworth, 1988).
Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A15832
Keywords: 9780715625095, launderette, history, clothes, social history, women, washing, booklet
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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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Wrigley, C.J., ed.
The Working Classes in the Victorian Age: Debates on the Issue from 19th Century Critical Journals
(Gregg International, 1973).
4 volumes: Vol 1: Political Economy and Whig Reforms 1815-1937; Vol II Urban Conditions, 1839-1848; Vol III Urban Conditions, 1848-1868; Vol IV Rural Conditions, 1815-1870. Hardbacks. Very good in slightly chipped, slightly worn dustwrapper. pp. Order No. NSBK-A928
Keywords: 0576532568, working class, Victorian, class, rural, social reform, countryside, Chris Wrigley, history
Price £60.00.
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Powell, Edgar and Trevelyan, G. M., eds.
The Peasant's Rising and the Lollards: A Collection of Unpublished Documents Forming an Appendix to England in the Age of Wycliffe
(Longmans, Green, 1899).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, minor rubbing to corners & fraying / splitting to spine ends, otherwise good. xiii + 81pp. Order No. NSBK-A14970
Keywords: B001NK2LEE, Lollards, Lollardy, Dissent, Wycliffe, peasants' rising, history, nonconformity, religion, religious, 14th century, fourteenth century, early modern, peasantry, documents, sources, Church, social disturbances, antiquarian
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