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Braddon, Russell.
Woman in Arms:
(Armada, 1956).
Paperback. Ex library but good. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C6945
Keywords: 0006935184, Nancy Wake, women, woman, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, France, French, Europe, European, history, Second World War, World War II, World War Two, twentieth century, 20th, wars, warfare, French resistance, women and work, Paris
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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
Price £24.00.
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Harries-Jenkins, Gwyn.
The Army in Victorian Society:
(RKP, 1977).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps. Overall very good in dustwrapper. xi + 320pp. Order No. NSBK-A7247
Keywords: 0710084471, army, wars, warfare, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, history, England, English, military, soldiers, colonial, colonialists, Waterloo, officers, professionalism, professionals, fighting, social history, army ranks, 19th century
Price £23.00.
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Ministry of Information, Roof over Britain.
The Official Story of Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences, 1939-1942:
(HMSO, 1943).
In booklet form. Paperback. Light edge wear, otherwise good. 88pp. Order No. NSBK-A6072
Keywords: B000HKR8Q2, Britain, British, England, English, wars, warfare, anti-aircraft, planes, aircraft, aeroplanes, defences, Second World War, World War II, World War Two, airforce, booklet
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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
Price £8.25.
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Krass, Peter.
Sojourner Truth: Antislavery Activist
(Melrose Square Publishing, 1990).
Paperback. Very good. 169pp. Order No. NSBK-A5779
Keywords: 0870675591, slavery slaves, activist, activism, politics, political, black rights, black history, women's history, woman's history, Sojourner Truth, nineteenth century, America, American, USA, United States, Civil War, female, slaveowner, slavetrade, biography, biographer, biographical
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Forester, Margery.
Michael Collins: the Lost Leader
(Sphere Books, rpt, 1972).
Paperback. Light edgewear, otherwise good. x + 370pp. Order No. NSBK-A15793
Keywords: Ireland, Irish independence, Michael Collins, Civil War
Price £7.00.
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Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Dept, .
Education and Training for the Cotton and Rayon Industry: Papers and Dicussions at a Conference in Manchester in September 1946 Organized by the Cotton Board With the Collaboration of the British Rayon Federation, the Textile Institute and the Textile Teachers' Association
(Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Dept, 1946).
A series of essays from different contributors. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly browned, edge worn dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A7704
Keywords: post war, post-war industry, cotton, textiles, rayon, training, industries, textile, Britain, British, England, English, Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Department, industrial training, production, technical colleges, teach, teachers, teaching, technical education, history
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Cruz, Vera da.
Bailliere's Midwives' Dictionary:
(Bailliere Tindall, 4th edition, rpt, 1964).
Hardback. Covers soiled & a little worn, otherwise a good working copy. xiii + 396pp. Order No. NSBK-C7273
Keywords: 0702005967, midwives, midwives' dictionary, Bailliere's Midwives' Dictionary, health, midwifery, history, 1950s, 1960s, post war, childbirth, nurses, nursing, advice books, nurse, Britain, British, England, English, social history, women's history, having babies, reproduction, motherhood, childbirth, mothers, maternity, pregnancy, pregnant
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Rowntree, Isabella Ann.
Poems:
(Maurice L. Rowntree, 1930).
Scarce collection of poems by the Scarborough poet Isabella Ann Rowntree. With illustrations by Isobel M. and Eirene W. Rowntree, her grandchildren. Card covers. Some light foxing to pages, especially endpapers. Card covers lightly soiled, & yellowed with age at edges - but overall a good copy. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-C15951
Keywords: Scarborough, Yorkshire, women poets, woman poet, 1930s, thirties, Rowntrees, verse, North Yorkshire, social history, inter-war, antiquarian, poetry, inter war, Isabella Ann Rowntree, Isobel M. Rowntree, Eirene W. Rowntree, stored with booklets
Price £45.00.
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