Horsfield, Margaret.
Biting the Dust: The Joys of Housework
(Fourth Estate, 1998).
Paperback. Fading to spine, light edge-wear, otherwise very good. xi + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-C6189
Keywords: 1857026756, domestic, domesticity, women and work, women's work, woman, women's history, housewives, housewife, housewifery, homemaking, homemaker, houses, home, household, chores, housemaids, Mrs Beeton, cleanliness, cleaning, Hannah Cullwick, Cleanliness Institute, cleaners, flappers, dusting
Price £4.00.
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Burnett, John, ed.
Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly soiled and browned dustwrapper. 364pp. Order No. NSBK-A2267
Keywords: 0713906820, working class, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, working classes, autobiographies, men, women, women's, labour, labor, labouring classes, laboring classes, domestic servants, housemaids, domestic service, skilled workers, labour aristocracy, John Burnett
Price £11.50.
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Johnson, Chris.
Women on the Frontline: Voices from Southern Africa
(Macmillan, 1992).
Editor: Jo Campling. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ condition in slightly yellowed, slightly soiled dustwrapper. xviii + 197pp. Order No. NSBK-C13322
Keywords: 0333539532, Jo Campling, Chris Johnson, women, war, South Africa, Southern Africa, African, wars, frontline, rural, urban, marriage, domestic service, equality, work education
Price £11.00.
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Henny, E. and Byett, J. D.
Modern Home Laundrywork:
(J.M. Dent and Sons, rpt., 1948).
Illustrated with photographs and drawings of different types of laundry equipment, methods of folding items of clothing etc. Hardback. Good. x + 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A10644
Keywords: women, women's history, homes, Britain, British, homekeeping, housekeeping, housewifery, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, laundry, washing, stains, cotton, linen, fabrics, cleaning, rayon, nylon, family wash, domestic, domesticity, laundrywork, reagents, equipment, water, soap, women's work, textiles, housewife, housewives, clothes, clothing
Price £7.00.
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Gordon, Eleanor & Breitenbach, Esther, eds.
The World is Ill-Divided: Women's Work in Scotland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
(Edinburgh UP, 1990).
Paperback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpaper, slight crease to front cover, otherwise very good. viii + 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C15722
Keywords: 9780748602124, women and work, Scotland, Victorian, Edwardian, Glasgow, waged work, agriculture, prostitution, domestic labour, printing trade, sweated trades, textile industry, Edinburgh, Scottish women's history, Scottish history, working women, scots
Price £16.95.
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Nicholson, Mavis.
What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?: Women in World War II
(Chatto & Windus, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 264pp. Order No. NSBK-A8523
Keywords: 0701133562, war, Second World War, women, history, women's, World War II, Home Front, twentieth century, domestic front, land army, land girls, oral history, WAAF, wartime, wartime brides, widows, war effort, woman, female, social history
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Rendall, Jane.
Women in an Industrialising Society, 1750-1880:
(Blackwell, rpt., 1991).
Paperback. Light edge-wear, otherwise very good. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-C7322
Keywords: 9780631153030, Jane Rendall, industrialisation, industrialization, industry, women, woman, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, 18th, 19th, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, work, employment, labor, labour, domestic, domesticity, economics, economy, economic, women and work
Price £6.99.
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Calder, Jenni.
The Victorian Home:
(Book Club, 1977).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-C3742
Keywords: 0713408170, domestic sphere, housing, home, domesticity, women, woman, housing, Victorian, nineteenth century, homes, family, Jenni Calder, Britain, British, England, English
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Lummis, Trevor and Marsh, Jan.
The Woman's Domain: Women and the English Country House
(Viking, 1990).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xii + 221pp. Order No. NSBK-C13893
Keywords: 0670816809, Hardwick Hall, women's history, women, Trevor Lummis, Jan Marsh, Arlington Court, Wallington, Belton House, Saltram, English country houses, Bess of Hardwick, domestic servants, domestic service
Price £10.00.
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Yarwood, Derek.
Outrages - Fatal & Other: A Chronicle of Cheshire Crime, 1612-1912
(Didsbury Press, 1991).
Signed by the author. Paperback. Front cover slightly creased, otherwise good. v + 233pp. Order No. NSBK-A1866
Keywords: 1872325017, crime, Cheshire, Victorian, murder, violence, Britain, British, England, English, history, seventeenth century, eighteenth century, twentieth century
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