Wilson, Trevor.
The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War, 1914 - 1918
(Polity Press, rpt, 1988).
Paperback. Spine slightly creased, page edges lightly soiled, with newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise a good copy. xvi + 864pp. Order No. NSBK-A15761
Keywords: 9780745606453, Great War, World War I, fighting, home front, Western Front, history
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Marsh, E. L.
Laundry Work: In Theory and Practice
(Longmans, Green & Co, 1914).
With illustrations. Hardback. External condition poor, spine cover flapping loose, cloth worn/marked/blotched, a working copy. xiii + 205pp. Order No. NSBK-A11180
Keywords: B000877ELI, laundry, laundry work, launderesses, women's work, women and work, domestic, domesticity, washing, ironing, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, cleaning, mangling, cotton, linen
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Becke, A. F.
History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions: The Regular British Divisions Part 1
(Sherwood Press, 1990).
Based on Official Documents. The Regular British Divisions Part 1. By Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, a little curling to edges, covers soiled, internally good. ix + 130pp. Order No. NSBK-A14883
Keywords: 0948983019, First World War, World War I, history, battles, army, divisions, British, fighting, Western Front, order of battle
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Pennington, Shelley & Westover, Belinda.
A Hidden Workforce: Homeworkers in England, 1850 - 1985
(Macmillan, 1989).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+ in browned dustwrapper. xi + 191pp. Order No. NSBK-C15640
Keywords: 9780333432969, homeworker, labour work, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, workforce, domestic, domesticity, working women, pennington, westover, sweated labour, housework, tailoring, tailor, tailoring industry, 19th century
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Horn, Pamela.
The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant:
(Gill and Macmillan, 1975).
Hardback. With minor pencil annotation, and newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15682
Keywords: 717107469, Victorian, servants, nineteenth century, women, history, work, domesticity, employment, class, domestics, maids, maidservants, Britain, British, England, English, domestic service, housework, below stairs
Price £11.95.
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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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Miller, Miranda.
Bed and Breakfast: Women and Homelessness Today
(The Women's Press, 1990).
Paperback. Good. ix + 178pp. Order No. NSBK-C9725
Keywords: 0704342049, women, woman, women's studies, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, homes, houses, homeless, homelessness, family, families, violence, domestic violence, children, bed and breakfasts, hotels, hostels, landlords, tenants, residences, feminism, feminists, twentieth century, 20th
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Mace, Jane.
Playing with Time: Mothers and the Meaning of Literacy
(UCL Press, 1998).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, otherwise very good. xiii + 185pp. Order No. NSBK-C8834
Keywords: 1857288912, mothers, motherhood, women, children, child, literacy, education, educational, maternal, reading, writing, grandmothers, domestic, adult literacy, family, families
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McCrindle, Jean & Rowbotham, Sheila, Eds..
Dutiful Daughters: Women Talk About Their Lives
(Penguin, rpt, 1979).
Paperback. Pages browned, front cover clipped at top corner, a good working copy. 396pp. Order No. NSBK-C6499
Keywords: 9780140219456, women, women's lives, biography, domestic, sexual, women and work, female, experience, Janet Daly, Annie Williams, Annie Davison, Catherina Barnes, Maggie Fuller, Jean Mormont, Peggy Wood, Norah Kirk, Fiona McFarlane, Barbara Marsh, Pat Garland, Christine Buchan, Irene McIntosh, Linda Peffer, domestic, family, oral history, interviews, oral history interviews
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Stuart, Dorothy Margaret.
The English Abigail:
(Macmillan, 1946).
Hardback. Ex library with minor marks left by stickers, edges worn, otherwise good. 221pp. Order No. NSBK-C3359
Keywords: B0007IW8V0, abigail, domestic service, servant, women adn work, women's work, literature, novel, fiction
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