Thomas, David St John.
The Country Railway:
(Penguin Books, 1976).
Paperback. Covers creased, a little brown marking/staining to a few pages not affecting legibility, otherwise good. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A8295
Keywords: 0140048278, railways, railway, trains, transport, country, countryside, transport, technology, platforms, bridges, embankments, viaducts, architecture, ninetenth, century, 19th, twentieth, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, steam
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Groves, Derek.
The Roof of Africa on Wheels:
(Alfresco Books, 1999).
Commentary by Jon Amos. Foreword by Chris Bonnington. Jon Amos became a paraplegic following a road accident when just 17. Since then he has advanced the awareness of what a person with a disability can achieve by the challenges he has personally undertaken, raising thousands of pounds for charity in the process. In 1998 he attained an altitude record by someone in a wheelchair - 16,040 feet up Mount Kilimanjaro. This book vividly describes the preparation and actual ascent by Jon and the team. With a fascinating selection of colour photographs, this story of Jon's grit and determination, and the dedicated teamwork of those who accompanied him, makes inspiring reading. Paperback. Fine. 104pp. Order No. NSBK-A6269
Keywords: 1873727119, Africa, African, Derek Groves, Alfresco Books, Jon Amos, Chris Bonnington, wheelchairs, mountains, mountaineering, disabilities, disability, teamwork, climbing, Mount Kilimanjaro, twentieth century, paraplegics, paraplegic sports, Moshi International School, Moshi Club, Tanzania, wheelchair sport, British Wheelchair Sports Foundation, Marangu Gate, Tanzanian National Parks, TANAPA, Arusha, Mkombozi Street Kids Project, Kishari Orphanage, Mandara Hut, Brice Bennett's Trekking Lodge, Horombo, Kibo, Mwereni Primary School, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, KCMC, Arusha National Park, Ngurdoto Crater, Momella Lodge, Poverty Africa, Cyclone Wheelchairs
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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
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Humphries, Stephen.
Hooligans or Rebels: An Oral History of Working-Class Childhood and Youth,1889-1939
(Basil Blackwell, 1981).
Hardback. Papers and newspapers pasted to inside covers, otherwise very good+ in dustwrapper. viii + 279pp. Order No. NSBK-A13607
Keywords: oral, oral hisotory, working class, working-class, working classes, children, child, childhood, youth, hooligans, rebels, Stephen Humphries, teenagers, teenage gangs, vandalism, anarchy, oral tradition, spoken, twentieth century, education
Price £27.00.
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Hobbs, Margaret and Sangster Joan.
The Woman Worker, 1926-1929:
(Canadian Committee on Labour History, 1999).
Paperback. Near fine. 284pp. Order No. NSBK-A12324
Keywords: 1894000013, Canada, Canadian, labour history, labor history, work, worker, employees, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, twentieth century, 20th
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Young, Pat.
Mastering Social Welfare:
(Macmillan, 1987).
Paperback. Minor highlighting to text, otherwise good. xi + 295pp. Order No. NSBK-A5695
Keywords: 0333363736, social welfare, British, Britain, England, English, family, marriage, divorce, family, single parent, welfare state, race, racism, social security, dole, unemployment, employment, government, policies, twentieth century, sociology, text books
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Wherret, Duncan.
Jaguar MKII:
(Motorbooks International, 1990).
Paperback. Very good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A12266
Keywords: 1855321017, tranport, cars,jguars, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, Jaguar MKII
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Bruce, Colin John.
War on the Ground: 1939-1945
(Constable, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in slightly creased dustwrapper. 318pp. Order No. NSBK-A9380
Keywords: 0094724903, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, army, armies, guns, military, navy, RAF
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Weinberg, Samantha.
A Fish Caught in Time: the Search for the Coelacanth
(Fourth Estate, 1999).
Paperback. Fine. xiii + 239pp. Order No. NSBK-A5560
Keywords: 1857029062, fish, rare fish, fossils, discovery, twentieth century, J.L.B. Smith, fishes, Coelacanth, seas, sea, pisces, underwater
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Milne, Alexander Taylor.
A Centenary Guide to the Publications of the Royal Historical Society, 1868-1968: and of the Former Camden Society, 1838-1897
(Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1968).
Hardback. Very good. xi + 249pp. Order No. NSBK-A9689
Keywords: 0901050008, Royal Historical Society, Camden Society, Victorian, twentieth century, organisations, organizations, Britain, British, England, English, history, London, centenary guides, publications
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