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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Esher, Reginald Viscount.
The Tragedy of Lord Kitchener:
(John Murray, rpt, 1921).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Boards worn and marked. Some splitting internally at spine, a good working copy. xv + 219pp. Order No. NSBK-A15067
Keywords: B000L9ILRY, Lord Kitchener, World War I, Great War, First World War, Western Front, army, military
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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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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
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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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Buchan, John.
The History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers (1678 - 1918):
(Thomas Nelson, 1925).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some dark patching / staining to boards & wear to edges - but a good solid copy. xii + 502pp. Order No. NSBK-A15235
Keywords: B001SQJ7YK, Royal Scots Fusiliers, army, armies, military, fighting, war, soldiers, military regiments, Crimean War, Zulu War, First World War, history
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Cherry, Steven.
Medical Services and the Hospitals in Britain, 1860-1939:
(CUP, 1996).
News Studies in Economic and Social History. Paperback. Very good+. vii + 93pp. Order No. NSBK-A7715
Keywords: 0521577845, medical, medicine, health, hospitals, sickness, disabled, disablement, nurses, doctors, mortality, voluntary, poor law, local authority, local authorities, wars, First World War, Great War, World War 1, I, National Health Service, population, deaths, death rates, infant mortality
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Binns, Stewart and Wood, Adrian.
The Second World War in Colour:
(Pavilion, 2000).
Foreword by Sir Ludovic Kennedy. In Association with the Imperial War Museum. Paperback. Very good +. 207pp. Order No. NSBK-C13962
Keywords: 1862053936, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century
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McKay, Sinclair.
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the World War II Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Worked There
(Aurum, 2010).
Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled dustwrapper. vi + 336pp. Order No. NSBK-A15737
Keywords: 9781845135393, codes, war, Second World War, wartime, code-breaking, history, Bletchley Park
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Galbraith, John Kenneth.
The World Economy Since the Wars: A Personal View
(Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994).
Paperback. Light staining to lower corner of pages. xiii + 273pp. Order No. NSBK-A9801
Keywords: 1856194159, John Kenneth Galbraith, Galbraith, economy, economics, wars, world, twentieth century, 20th, history
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