Rich, Doris L.
Amelia Earhart: A Biography
(Smithsonian Institution, 1989).
Paperback. Very good. xiii + 322pp. Order No. NSBK-C8308
Keywords: 1560987251, biography, biographies, life history, life histories, lives, biographical, Amelia Earhart, aviation, aviators, heroines, American America, USA, United States, women, woman, women's history
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Davis, Edwin Adams and Hogan, William Ransom.
The Barber of Natchez:
(Louisiana UP, 1973).
Paperback. Very good. 278pp. Order No. NSBK-A8204
Keywords: 0807102121, Natchez, barbers, slavery, slaves, free slaves, USA, United States, Black history, negroes, Mississippi, politics, American, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian, diaries, diary, letters, biography, biographies, lives, life histories, life history, biographical, business records
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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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Cole, G.D.H.
The Life of William Cobbett:
(Home and Van Thal, 1947).
Hardback. Spine ends bumped, otherwise good in torn, worn dustwrapper. xii + 455pp. Order No. NSBK-A10331
Keywords: William Cobbett, biography, biographies, life history, life histories, lives, writers, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, history
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Baker, Kenneth.
The Turbulent Years: My Life in Politics
(Faber and Faber, 1993).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly worn, slightly creased dw. xiii + 498pp. Order No. NSBK-A6031
Keywords: 0571170773, Kenneth Baker, autobiography, autobiographical, life history, life histories, memoir, politics, political, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, Tory Party, Tories, Conservatives, Margaret Thatcher, Party Chairman, Cabinet, Poll tax, Education, British Telecom, ILEA, GLC
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Brooke, David.
The Railway Navvy: That Despicable Race of Men
(David and Charles, 1983).
Hardback. Very good in slightly browned dustwrapper. 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A13480
Keywords: 071538449X, trains, railways, history, railway workers, railway navvy, navvies, railwaymen, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, construction workers, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Balaklava Railway, Crimea, Crimean War, railway building, locomotives
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Ward, W. R.
The Early Correspondence of Jabez Bunting, 1820-1829:
(Royal Historical Society, 1972).
Camden Fourth Series, Vol II. Hardback. Covers soiled, otherwise good. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A12021
Keywords: 0901050091, Jabez Bunting, Wesleyan, Methodism, Methodists, nonconformity, nonconformists, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, letters, epistles, epistolary, Jabez Bunting, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Sweeney, Patricia E.
Biographies of American Women: An Annotated Bibliography
(Santa Barbara, 1990).
Hardback. Fine. xi + 290pp. Order No. NSBK-A11014
Keywords: 0874360706, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, bibliography, bibliographies
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Webb, Beatrice.
Beatrice Webb's Diaries, 1912-1924:
(Longmans, Green and Co, 1952).
Edited by Margaret L. Cole. With an introduction by Lord Beveridge. Hardback. Spine ends bumped, covers slightly worn, otherwise good in chipped, torn and worn dustwrapper. xxvi + 272pp. Order No. NSBK-C11987
Keywords: B0000CI9IH, Beatrice Webb, The Webbs, Sidney Webb, philanthropy, philanthropists, twentieth century, left- wing, socialism, socialists, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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Field, Jean.
Landor: A Biography of Walter Savage Landor
(Brewin Books, 2000).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A7147
Keywords: 1858581672, Jean Field, Walter Savage Landor, nineteenth century, history, writers, poets, poems, poetry, Warwick, Warwickshire, Britain, British, England, English, literature, literary, biographical, biography, biographies, lives, life histories, life history, eighteenth century, 18th, 19th, Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Robert Southey, Landors, Landor family
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