Warren, Geoffrey C. ed.
The Foods We Eat: A Survey of Meals, their Content and Chronology by Season, Day of the Week, Region, Class, and Age, Conducted in Great Britain by the Market Research Division of W. S. Crawford Limited
(Cassell, 1958).
A Survey by the Market Research Division of W. S. Crawford Ltd. Hardback. Very good in torn and stained dustwrapper. v + 169pp. Order No. NSBK-H14312
Keywords: B000LBZWTW, foods, nutrition, surveys, foodstuffs, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, 1950s, market research, diets, regions, ages, class
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Symes, R. A.
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings: a Guide for Family Historians
(Pen and Sword, 2016).
Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle sat down and wrote a poem, or a memoir? Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together and managing their collective affairs. With industrialisation, improved education, and far more geographical mobility, British people of all classes were writing for new purposes, with new implements, in new styles, using new modes of expression and new methods of communication (e.g. telegrams and postcards). Our ancestors had an itch for scribbling from the most basic marks (initials, signatures and graffiti on objects as varied as trees, rafters and window ledges), through more emotionally-charged kinds of writing such as letters and diaries, to more creative works such as poetry and even fiction. This book shows family historians how to get the most out of documents written by their ancestors and, therefore, how better to understand the people behind the words. Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-A15529
Keywords: 9781473855434, family, geneaology, family trees, geneaological, diaries, social history, family historians, ancestors, literacy, correspondence, journals, autobiographies, signatures, commonplace books
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Allsop, Gladys.
Reminiscences: Reminiscences of a Manchester Woman
(Janice Owen, 1987).
Paperback. Top spine end damaged (torn and bumped), newspaper review pasted to front endpaper, a good working copy. 61pp. Order No. NSBK-C14871
Keywords: 0951240609, Manchester, North West, history, autobiographies, autobiography, social history, women, Gladys Allsop, Wythenshawe Park, May Day, Whit Monday
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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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Wilson, Neil.
Great Sea Disasters:
(Parragon, 1998).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A11654
Keywords: sea, ocean, maritime, history, seas
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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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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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Probert, Laura.
Women of Thanet Rally Round the Flag, 1914 - 1918:
(Millicent Press, 2011).
Paperback. New and unread, with just a little soiling to the page edges from shelf-life. 176pp. Order No. NSBK-C15165
Keywords: 9780955867415, Thanet, Great War, First World War, history, social history, France, Western Front, women, Kent, aerial bombardment, domestic front, home front, women's work
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Sayers, Peig.
An Old Woman's Reflections:
(OUP, rpt., 1978).
Translated from the Irish by Seamus Ennis and Introduced by W. R. Rodgers. Paperback. Very good. xiv + 131pp. Order No. NSBK-C4951
Keywords: 0192812394, women, woman, history, women's history, Ireland, Irish, Eire, Gaelic, Republic of Ireland, Southern Ireland, Great Blasket Island, County Kerry, oral history, storytelling, stories, tales, Peig Sayers
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Thackeray, W. M.
Vanity Fair:
(Marshall Cavendish Partworks, 1987).
From the Series: The Great Writers' Library. Hardback. Very good. 601pp. Order No. NSBK-A9747
Keywords: Great Writers Library, Thackeray, nineteenth century, 19th, literature, William Makepeace Thackeray, novels, fiction, Becky Sharp, Britain, British, England, English, history
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