Rodaway, Angela.
A London Childhood:
(Virago, rpt with new intro,1985).
Paperback. With a newspaper review pasted to inner cover, otherwise very good. xvii + 158pp. Order No. NSBK-C15903
Keywords: 9780860686408, autobiographies, autobiography, women, social history, London, working class, classes, stored near piano
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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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Bishop, Patrick.
Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940
(Harper Collins, 2003).
Hardback. Very good condition in dustwrapper. xiii + 434pp. Order No. NSBK-A15732
Keywords: 9780002571692, fighter planes, World War II, 1940, 1940s, aerial warfare, social history
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Porter, Valerie.
Yesterday's Countryside: Country Life as it Really Was
(David & Charles, rpt, 2003).
Hardback. Slight bump top edge, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. Large format. 319pp. Order No. NSBK-A15126
Keywords: 0715309684, countryside, country, history, agrarian, rural, farming, farms, country markets, social history
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St. John Ambulance Association, .
Home Nursing: the Authorized Textbook of the St. John Ambulance Association
(St. John Ambulance Association, 4th edition, 5th reprint, Oct. 1938).
Hardback. Covers a little soiled / darkened with some wear to white titles & motif, otherwise good, though with a few creased pages. 272pp. Order No. NSBK-A6772
Keywords: B000E7YF9G, St. John Ambulance Association, first aid, health, social history, twentieth century, ambulances, Britain, British, England, English, sickness, injured, injuries, caring for the sick, patients, advice books
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Beddoe, Deirdre.
Discovering Women's History: a Practical Manual
(Pandora, 1983).
Paperback. Covers and spine creased, a good working copy. 232pp. Order No. NSBK-C1062
Keywords: 0863580084, women's history, social history, gender, female, females, sexuality, femininity, handbook
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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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Jones, Whitney R.D..
David Williams: The Anvil & the Hammer
(Wales UP, 1986).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xviii + 266pp. Order No. NSBK-A202
Keywords: 0708309496, Wales, Welsh, David Williams, Whitney E. D. Jones, social history, Britain, British
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Howe, P.P.
The Life of William Hazlitt:
(Hamish Hamilton, new edition, 1947).
Hardback. Spine faded, otherwise very good. xxvi + 433pp. Order No. NSBK-A4755
Keywords: B0006XOXBS, Regency, Georgian, England, English, Britain, British, social commentary, journalism, journalists, history, William Hazlitt, nineteenth century, William Godwin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Blackwood's Magazine, The Edinburgh Review, essays, essayists, essayist, Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, Henry Crabb Robinson
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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
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