White, E. W.
British Fishing-Boats and Coastal Crafts: Part I : Historical Survey
(HMSO, rpt., 1957).
Paperback. Good. 60pp. Order No. NSBK-A12961
Keywords: B0007K0JUY, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, boats, ships, marine, fish, fishing, coasts, crafts, coastal, maritime, history, England, Scotland, Ireland, Thames Estuary
Price £15.00.
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Harriman, Mrs J. Borden.
From Pinafores to Politics:
(George Allen & Unwin, n.d).
With photographs. Non-militant suffrage campaigner in the United States. Hardback. Spine faded, edges slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. 359pp. Order No. NSBK-C2782
Keywords: America, USA, biography, Episcopalian, suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, American suffrage, American politics, First World War, World War I, Votes for Women
Price £4.00.
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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
Price £24.00.
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Wightman, Clare.
More than Munitions: Women, Work and the Engineering Institutions, 1900-1950
(Longman, 1999).
Paperback. A little soiling to page edges, otherwise good+. viii + 207pp. Order No. NSBK-C7738
Keywords: 9780582414358, munitions, women, gender, work, employment, jobs, employees, engineering, engineers, twentieth century, factories, factory, industry, industries, world wars, Second World War, World War 1, One, I, World War Two, II, 2, Britain, British, England, English, history
Price £15.99.
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Magill, Colonel Sir James.
The Red Cross: the Idea and its Development. A Sketch
(Cassell and Company, rpt, 1927).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps. Light foxing to endpapers and rubbing to cloth at corners, a small splash to front board - otherwise in good+ all-round condition. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A13513
Keywords: B000L3K4XO, Red Cross, history, Red Cross Movement, British Red Cross Society, Great War, First World War, World War I, colonialism, voluntary societies, peace, pacifism, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Edwardian, 19th century, nineteenth century, twentieth century, health, aid, hospitals, relief, medicine, medical, international, voluntary aid
Price £25.00.
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Moat, Florence and Sumner, Josephine.
The Concise Series of Practical Housecraft: I. Housewifery
(Longmans, Green, 1925).
Paperback. Original covers browned, spotted and worn. Spine split, otherwise good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-C15120
Keywords: B00174ZJ6I, booklets, booklet, housewifery, domesticity, history, antiquarian, domestic, Florence Moat, housework, housewives, washing, cleaning, shopping, interwar, inter-war
Price £16.00.
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Bass Ratcliff and Gretton Limited, .
Excursion to Scarborough: Friday July 24th, 1914
(Bass Museum, reprint, 1977).
A charming booklet. On the very eve of the First World War, this detailed guide prepares Bass employees and their families for their day excursion to Scarborough by train. Illustrated. Booklet. Fine. 40pp. Order No. NSBK-A6872
Keywords: B000IZA06Q, Scarborough, seaside, holidays, outings, Britain, British, England, English, Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, towns, spa towns, working classes, working class, excursions, working class excursions, leisure, entertainment, recreation, train journeys, trains, railways, days out, day out, days-out, day-out, tramways, amusements, Bass, industrial workers, Bass Ratcliff and Gretton Limited, Ratcliff, Gretton, stations, twentieth century, World War I, Great War, First World War, pre-war, Bass Museum, Bass outings, booklet
Price £12.00.
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Zagorin, Perez.
The Court and the Country: the Beginning of the English Revolution
(RKP, rpt, 1977).
Hardback. Ex library, very good in slightly faded, slightly marked dustwrapper. xiv + 366pp. Order No. NSBK-A2989
Keywords: 0710064152, English Civil War, English Revolution, court, country, Puritanism, Long Parliament, Charles I, Britain, British, England, English, history, revolution
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Hamilton, Catherine.
The West Country is a Garden: A Wayfarer's Companion
(Bracken, 1993).
Select Editions in association with David Bateman. Hardback. Front endpapers slightly spotted, otherwise very good in slightly marked dustwrapper. 72pp. Order No. NSBK-A6540
Keywords: 185891034X, gardens, gardening, West Country, England, English, gardeners, horticulture, horticultural, horticulturalists, British, Britain, flowers, sketching, drawing, art, artists, plants
Price £4.50.
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Howarth, Patrick.
The Year is 1851:
(Collins, 1951).
Hardback. Cover boards faded & slightly grubby, otherwise good. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A4165
Keywords: B0000CHXDX, Victorian, ninetenth century, Golden Age, Prince Albert, Exhibition of 1851, history, Queen Victoria, Great Exhibition
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