Wicks, Ben.
When The Boys Came Marching Home: True Stories of the Men Who Went to War and the Women and Children Who Took Them Back
(Stoddart, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. xi + 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A13005
Keywords: 0773725180, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, men, males, husbands, masculinity
Price £8.00.
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White, Florence, ed.
How to Wash Clothes at Home: Containing Simple and Complete Instructions
(Florence White, 1901).
An advice book, recommending the best methods of carrying out laundry work. A very interesting one of its kind, with illustrations and lots of detail of interest to the social historian. Paperback. Original covers slightly soiled and creased at edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C15121
Keywords: clothes, clothing, washing clothes, laundry, laundry work, working women, domesticity, antiquarian, social history, ironing, starching, booklets, boiling, advice books, linen, booklet, booklets
Price £24.00.
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Phillips, Janet and Peter.
Victorians at Home and Away:
(Croom Helm, 1978).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A8407
Keywords: 0856646881, Victorians, England, English, Britain, British, nineteenth century, 19th, Crystal Palace, Christian Soldiers, music, queens, royalty, monarchs, Queen Victoria, businessmen, professionals, shopkeepers, manners, fashions, women, the poor, poverty, soldiers, soccer, racing, cricket, public schools, missionary, missionaries
Price £8.00.
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Lingard, Horace.
Hints and Ideas by a Practical Man for Unpractical People:
(Publisher unknown, no date).
Paperback. Small stain on back cover, otherwise good. 16pp. Order No. NSBK-A3223
Keywords: decorative, painting, home decoration, advice, history, Horace Lingard, DIY, handywork
Price £4.00.
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Eckford, E. Stoddart and Fitzgerald, M. S.
Household Management: A Handbook of Domestic Economy and Hygiene
(Sir Isaac Pitman, 1927).
Fourth Impression. Hardback. Covers and spine slightly soiled, otherwise good. iv + 432pp. Order No. NSBK-A11853
Keywords: B000HC1SD4, E. Stoddart Eckman, M. S. Fitzgerald, domestic economy, hygiene, houses, households, household management, housewives, housewifery, homes
Price £12.00.
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Stodart, M.A.
Every Day Duties: in Letters to a Young Lady
(Photocopy only of R.B. Seeley edition, 1840).
Hardback. Library photocopy only, not an original. In good, sturdy, maroon library binding, a little scuffed at the back. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A13755
Keywords: B0008CKDZC, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, femininity, feminine, advice books, prayer, women's history, religion, private sphere, domesticity, politeness, manners, home, Sabbath, household, servants, social history, etiquette, religious
Price £29.00.
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Allison, J. Murray.
Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War: Volume I: The First Twelve Months of the War
(John Lane, 1919).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, original cloth rather soiled / darkened, occasion soiling to pages, else good. xv + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A14991
Keywords: B000Q9R9A4, humour, comedy, comic, humorous, World War I, Great War, World War One, history, Western Front, trench warfare, cartoons, Raemaekers, art, artists
Price £18.00.
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Gregson, Nicky & Lowe, Michelle.
Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Labour in Contemporary Britain
(Routledge, 1994).
Paperback. Fine. viii + 327pp. Order No. NSBK-A1431
Keywords: 0415085314, domestic labour, class, gender, Britain, British, England, English, middle class, middle classes, wages, nanny, nannies, servants, servant, maid servants, maid servants, cleaners, cleaner, home helps, gender relations, class, sociology, women, women and work
Price £12.00.
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Innes, C. L.
Woman and Nation in Irish Literature and Society, 1880 - 1935:
(University Georgia Press, 1993).
Hardback. Very good. xii + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C15619
Keywords: 9780820315973, woman, women's history, Ireland, Irish, Eire, Irishness, colonial, colonialist, nationalist, Catholic, Catholicism, Protestantism, Protestants, Yeats, Joyce, Synge, Anna Parnell, Ladies Land League, Maud Gonne, Lady Gregory, Elizabeth Bowen, icons, iconography, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century, Britain, British, literature, novels, fiction, women writers, church, Easter Rising, patriots, patriotism, Irish Independence, Home Rule
Price £18.00.
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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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