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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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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Snowden, Philip.
The Living Wage:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1912).
Hardback. Bright red boards slightly blotched / soiled at back, otherwise very good. xvi + 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A13340
Keywords: B00085I7GG, Philip Snowden, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, living wage, wages, economy, politics, living wage, poverty, cost of living, industry, employment, strikes, conciliation, labour, twentieth century, before the first world war, economics
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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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Heath, Carl.
Military Service, Compulsory and Otherwise:
(Rationalist Peace Society, no date, circa First World War).
Leaflet no 2. Paperback. Slight browning and chipping to edges, otherwise very good. 2pp. Order No. NSBK-A14131
Keywords: pacifists, pacifism, pacifist, military service, compulsory military service, social history, Carl Heath, fighting, World War I, First World War, Great War, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, peace, peace movements
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James, Leighton S.
The Politics of Identity and Civil Society in Britain and Germany: Miners in the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890 - 1926
(Manchester UP, 2008).
Critical Labour Movement Studies. Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 226pp. Order No. NSBK-A14753
Keywords: 9780719074974, Critical Labour Movement Studies, Ruhr, miners, mining, South Wales, Welsh, coal mining, coal-mining, colleries, pits, coalfields, trade unions, labour movements, identity, history, Germany, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, German, coal industry, World War I, Great War
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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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Fowler, Will.
D-Day: The First 24 Hours
(Spellmount, rpt., 2004).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A13955
Keywords: 186227214X, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, D-day, military, D-Day Landings, France, French
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Elwes, Richard.
First Poems:
(Hodder & Stoughton, rpt, 1941).
Hardback. Soiled / marked cream covers with gilt lettering, endpapers a little marked, otherwise good. 44pp. Order No. NSBK-C6755
Keywords: B000P1QEHM, poems, poets, poetry, Richard Elwes, Second World War, World War II, World War Two, social history, Europe, European, Poland, Finland, sonnets, verses, wars, twentieth century, 1940s
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Gardiner, Juliet.
D-Day: Those Who Were There
(Meridian, 1994).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in torn dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A11070
Keywords: 1855852047, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, Americans, Yanks, Utah, Omaha, D-Day
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