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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Minister of National Defence, .
The Canadian Army at War: Canada's Battle in Normandy, 6th June - 1 September 1944
(Canadian Minister of National Defence, 1946).
Hardback. Ex library, covers darkened, otherwise good in chipped, soiled dustwrapper. 159pp. Order No. NSBK-A14579
Keywords: B002AEVE4U, Canada, Normandy, Canadian, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, France, French, D-Day, D-Day landings
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Bishop, Patrick.
Bomber Boys:
(Harper Collins, 2007).
Hardback. Very good, a clean copy in very good dustwrapper. xli + 429pp. Order No. NSBK-A15746
Keywords: 9780007189861, bombers, planes, flying, pilots, history, Battle of Britain, Second World War, World War II, aviation
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Normann, Roderick de.
For Fuhrer and Fatherland: SS Muder and Mayhem in Wartime Britain
(Wrens Park, rpt., 1998).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper with sticker mark. vii + 182pp. Order No. NSBK-A12580
Keywords: 0905778197, Fuhrer, Nazis, Germans, Germany, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, SS, murders, mayhem, crimes, criminals
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Musgrave, P. W.
Society and the Curriculum in Australia:
(George Allen & Unwin, 1979).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some wear to covers, internally good. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A7978
Keywords: 0868610259, world, Australia, Australian, twentieth century, 20th, education, curriculum, curricula, society, teaching, teachers, academic, Australasia
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Briggs, Susan.
Keep Smiling Through: The Home Front, 1939-45
(Book Club Associates, 1975).
Introduced by Vera Lynn. Hardback. Very good in slightly faded dustwrapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A5776
Keywords: 0297769898, Home Front, wars, Second World War, World War II, World War Two, Britain, British, England, English, The War Effort, twentieth century, Vera Lynn
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Wicks, Ben.
When The Boys Came Marching Home: True Stories of the Men Who Went to War and the Women and Children Who Took Them Back
(Stoddart, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. xi + 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A13005
Keywords: 0773725180, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, men, males, husbands, masculinity
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Toussant-Samat, Maguelonne.
History of Food:
(Blackwell, 1992).
Translated by Anthea Bell. Hardback. Pages edges slightly soiled and spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise very good. 801pp. Order No. NSBK-A11961
Keywords: 0631177418, food, feeding eating, nourishment, menus, recipes, foodstuffs, animals, crops, world, medieval, Early Modern, Renaissance, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, fruit, meat, vegetables, pulses, wine
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Sheridan, Dorothy, ed.
Wartime Women: A Mass-Observation Anthology of Women's Writing, 1937 - 1945
(Phoenix Press, rpt, 2000).
Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. xiv + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-C5912
Keywords: 1842122134, war, Second World War, World War II, mass-observation, mass observation, people, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, mass observation studies
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Atkinson, Rev Canon.
British Birds' Eggs and Nests: Popularly Described
(George Routledge, revised and re-edited, 1901).
With plates. Hardback. Wear to edges and corners. Boards darkened and lightly soiled, otherwise good+. vii + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-Z14720
Keywords: B0008AJ5I0, birds, eggs, ornithology, nests, nature, natural world, natural history
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