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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Coysh, Victor.
Swastika Over Guernsey: an Outline of the German Occupation and the Liberation of the Island
(Guernsey Press, 4th impression, 1955).
Paperback. Some browning to covers, and a little brown staining to top of some of the pages, otherwise good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A13913
Keywords: B000WUXH44, occupied territories, Guernsey, World War II, Second World War, Channel Islands, history, Nazism, Nazis, German, Germany, liberation
Price £7.00.
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Pankhurst, Sylvia.
Sylvia Pankhurst: Everything is Possible. DVD
(WORLDWRITE, 2011).
DVD, Region 2. (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe). DVD. Brand new in fine condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15261
Keywords: B004QINSJ2, suffragettes, suffragette ephemera, history, women's history, social history, heroines, Pankhurst, Sylvia Pankhurst, suffrage movement, women's suffrage, woman, Richard Pankhurst, First World War, radicalism, films, TV, DVD, DVDs, votes for women, Edwardian, campaigns
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Anon, .
The First Casualty: The German Underground Hospital and Jersey's Occupation Experience
(High Level Associates Ltd, 1991).
Paperback. Good. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-A5892
Keywords: B0000EF19I, German, Germany, Jersey, occupation, wars, warfare, World War II, World War Two, Second World War, twentieth century, military, Nazis, Nazism, Channel Islands, history, European, Europe, history, hospitals, medicine, medical, Underground Hospital, jews, jewish, Spanish, refufees, Russians, Gestapo, Anti-Semitism, antisemites, islands, resistance, Britain, British
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Scott, Philippa.
Lucky Me:
(Kenilworth Press, 1990).
Illustrated by more than 90 photographs. The book is an evocation of the early life of Philippa Scott (nee Talbot-Ponsonby's) - her childhood in South Africa, school, climbing holidays, her time in the Land Army in World War II and a spell in Yugoslavia during the Cold War. She married Peter Scott in Reykjavik in 1951. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C5734
Keywords: 1872082114, Lucky Me, Philippa Scott, Philippa Talbot-Ponsonby, Land Army, Peter Scott, South Africa, World War Two, wars, Second World War, World War II, Britain, British, history, england, English, autobiography, autobiographical, memoirs, memoir, autobiographies, life history, life histories, women writers, Severn Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, Thjorsaver Expedition, Reykjavik
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Service, Robert W.
The Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man:
(T. Fisher Unwin, 1916).
Hardback. Some splitting internally at spine front and back. Endpapers partly detached, ex library. Boards stained, frayed at edges and soiled. A good working copy only. viii + 176pp. Order No. NSBK-A14891
Keywords: B000RNFXA2, Red Cross, verse, poems, poetry, World War I, First World War, Great War, social history, Robert W. Service
Price £10.00.
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Miller, H. Tatlock and Sainthill, Louis.
Churchill: The Walk with Destiny
(Hutchinson, 1959).
Comprises black and white photographs of Churchill's time in office. Hardback. Over-size book, spine ends badly bumped, covers lightly worn, internally good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A12296
Keywords: B000B5H28C, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century
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Coates, Ken.
The Crisis of British Socialism: Essays on the Rise Harold Wilson and the Fall of the Labour Party
(Spokesman Books, 1972).
Paperback. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise good. 243pp. Order No. NSBK-A12724
Keywords: 0851240445, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, Harold Wilson, Labour Party, Labour, socialists, socialism ,twentieth century, 20th
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Maccoby, S.
English Radicalism: the End?
(George Allen Unwin, 1961).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, dustwrapper browned, soiled and chipped, otherwise good. 640pp. Order No. NSBK-A14583
Keywords: B001CEIN5C, work, industry, radicals, radicalism, twentieth century, protests, Dr Maccoby, popular, propaganda, class, Lloyd George, Labour, General Strike, Asquith, social reform, First World War
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Willmott, H. P.
Pearl Harbor:
(Cassell & Co, 2001).
With Tohmatsu and W. Spencer Johnson. Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A10139
Keywords: 0304358843, wars, warfare, Japan, Japanese, American, America, USA, United States, Second World War, World War Two, II, 2, Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbour, US Pacific Fleet, Pacific War, Far East, navy, ships, shipping
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