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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Hallett, Christine E.
Nurses of Passchendaele: Caring for the Wounded of the Ypres Campaigns 1914 - 1918
(Pen and Sword, 2017).
Paperback. Very good. xx + 196pp. Order No. NSBK-C15608
Keywords: Ypres, First World War, history, nursing, Belgium, nurses, women, World War I
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Royal College of Nursing, Molly Case.
Album: It May Be for Sometime, it May be Forever
(RCN, 2017).
Poetry anthology inspired by ten nurses who kept scrapbooks during World War I. Paperback. Very good. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-C15688
Keywords: Molly Case, Royal College of Nursing, World War I, First World War, nursing, medicine, nurses, women and work, history, booklets
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Pankhurst, Sylvia.
Sylvia Pankhurst: Everything is Possible. DVD
(WORLDWRITE, 2011).
DVD, Region 2. (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe). DVD. Brand new in fine condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15261
Keywords: B004QINSJ2, suffragettes, suffragette ephemera, history, women's history, social history, heroines, Pankhurst, Sylvia Pankhurst, suffrage movement, women's suffrage, woman, Richard Pankhurst, First World War, radicalism, films, TV, DVD, DVDs, votes for women, Edwardian, campaigns
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Dix, Bernard and Williams, Stephen.
Serving the Public: Building the Union: The History of the National Union of Public Employees. Volume 1: The Forerunners 1889-1928
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1987).
Paperback. Near fine. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A13411
Keywords: 0853156468, Britain, British, England, English, NUPE, Union, Trade Unions, streets, wages, public health, New Unionism, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Victorian, Edwardian, municipal, urban, MEA, First World War, World war 1, Great War, labour, work, jobs, women workers, National Union of Public Employees, labor
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Jones, Helen, ed.
Duty and Citizenship: the Correspondence and Papers of Violet Markham, 1896-1953
(The Historians' Press, 1994).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. vi + 202pp. Order No. NSBK-C3649
Keywords: 9781872273037, Violet Markham, women, work, duty, citizenship, suffrage, anti-suffrage, Votes for Women, anti-suffragism, suffragettes, Edwardian, war, World War I, Great War, First World War, Home Front, citizens, Liberals, local politics, Liberal politics, twentieth century, letters, Helen Jones
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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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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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Wheal, Elizabeth-Anne & Pope, Stephen.
The Macmillan Dictionary of the Second World War:
(Macmillan, 2nd edition, 1989).
Hardback. Very good in slightly worn dustwrapper. xviii + 548pp. Order No. NSBK-A3855
Keywords: 0333619366, World War II, Second World War, twentieth century, reference, dictionary, history, warfare, total war
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Nicholson, Mavis.
What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?: Women in World War II
(Chatto & Windus, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 264pp. Order No. NSBK-A8523
Keywords: 0701133562, war, Second World War, women, history, women's, World War II, Home Front, twentieth century, domestic front, land army, land girls, oral history, WAAF, wartime, wartime brides, widows, war effort, woman, female, social history
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