Atkinson, Diane.
Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front
(Preface Publishing, 2009).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly soiled, slightly creased dustwrapper. 280pp. Order No. NSBK-C15563
Keywords: 9781848091337, Great War, First World War, social history, women, nursing, ambulances, motorcycles, biography, nurses, medicine
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Brittain, Vera.
Born 1925: A Novel of Youth
(Virago, 1982).
Paperback. Good. 379pp. Order No. NSBK-C5942
Keywords: 0860682706, Vera Brittain, Adrian Cadbury, wars, warfare, Europe, European, Nazi Germany, German, pacifism, First World War, World War I. World War One, Great War, novels, novelists, women writers, woman writer, women's history, twentieth century, literature, literary, fiction, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Fisher, David.
The War Magician: How Jasper Maskelyne and his Magic Gang Altered the Course of World War II
(Coward McCann, New York, 1983).
Britain's most bizarre secret weapon of WWII - he made the Suez canal disappear. Became an assassination target of Hitler's regime during WWII. A very scarce title. Hardback. Slight bumping to corners, otherwise very good in chipped, slightly discoloured, slightly worn dustwrapper. First Edition in 315pp. Order No. NSBK-A4731
Keywords: 0698111400, magic, conjuring, maskelyne, illusions, music hall, theatre, David Devant, jasper, Neville, war, Hitler, illusion, conjurer, warfare, war, magic gang, magician, magicians, magical, illusionist, jasper maskelyne, illusionists, Second World War, great britain, great british, england, english, war magician, history, david fisher, egyptian hall, illusions, deceptions, deception, deceptionist, deceptionists, decept, deceptive, deceptor, world war, wartime, war magician, magic gang, history, magic history, conjurers, conjured, J.N Maskelyne, white magic, World War II, World War Two, Inter-war, Interwar, Inter war
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Crane Kalman, Gallery.
Winifred Nicholson b.1893: Paintings February 22 - March 11 1972
(Crane Kalman Gallery, 1972).
Exhibition catalogue: With an introductory article by P. G Konody. 14 plates (in B/W and colour). Booklet. Olive clrd crinkled card wrappers, with sunning to front & rear at all 4 edges,for approx 2" depth, o/w internally very good. 15pp. Order No. NSBK-F5498
Keywords: B00185CLVW, winifred nicholson, nicholson, nicholsons, winifred, watercolour, watercolours, art, artist, artists, painting, paintings, painter, painter, english, england, britain, british, great, twentieth century, 20th century, female, woman, women, females, letters, design correspondence, history, women writers, women writer, cornwall, st ives, modern, modernist, modernists, modernism, modernistic, impressionist, impressionists, impressionism, impressionistic, impressions, impression, writings, color, colors, booklet
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Proud, E. Dorothea.
Welfare Work: Employers' Experiments for Improving Working Conditions in Factories
(G. Bell, 3rd edition, 1918).
Foreword by David Lloyd-George. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers. some wear to edges, otherwise good. xx + 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C6760
Keywords: B000856JQQ, welfare, Great War, First World War, World War I, workers, working, factory system, factories, working conditions, women and work, working women, David Lloyd-George, social experiments, history, Catherine Helen Spence, E. Dorothea Proud, pay, wages, economic, economy, industry, industrial, twentieth century, antiquarian, factory legislation, factory labour, factory girls, labor
Price £19.50.
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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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Porter, Bernard.
Britannia's Burden: The Political Evolution of Modern Britain, 1851-1990
(Edward Arnold, 1994).
Paperback. Covers browned, otherwise very good. viii + 440pp. Order No. NSBK-A8092
Keywords: 0340561971, Victorian, nineteenth, eighteenth, politics, political, Britannia, Britain, England, English, British, century, Bernard Porter, Great Exhibition
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Cowles, Virginia.
The Kaiser:
(Collins, 1963).
Hardback. Good+ in torn dustwrapper. 446pp. Order No. NSBK-A11889
Keywords: B0000CLXLT, Kaiser, Germany, Germans, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, Queen Victoria
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Stocks, Mary.
My Commonplace Book: an Autobiography
(Peter Davies, rpt, 1970).
Women's suffrage; the welfare state; the L.S.E.; adult education; the Great Depression in Manchester; social work in London; a variety of government assignments. Hardback. Very good in soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. ix + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C779
Keywords: 0432157506, suffrage, suffragette, women's rights, L.S.E., the Great Depression, adult education, Manchester, London, social work, welfare state, England, Britain, history, English, British
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Ouditt, Sharon.
Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Identity and Ideology in the First World War
(Routledge, 1994).
Very good. x + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C15575
Keywords: 9781138151529, women writers, Great War, literature, history, World War I
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