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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Waller, Jane and Vaughan-Rees, Michael.
Women in Uniform, 1939-45:
(Papermac, 1989).
Paperback. Near fine. xvi + 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C12468
Keywords: 0333488962, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, uniform, clothing, dress, NAAFI, WAAFS, WRENS, Land army, Land girls, nurses, nursing, sisters, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th
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Holmes, Martin.
Proud Northern Lady: Lady Anne Clifford, 1590-1676
(Phillimore, corrected reprint, 1984).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. 181pp. Order No. NSBK-C3168
Keywords: 0850332257, Anne Clifford, Lady Anne Clifford, seventeenth century, Knole, Wiltshire, Inigo Jones, biography, Countess of Dorset and Pembroke, Civil War, Britain, England, British, English, history, women's history
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Martin, T. J., ed.
Liverpool Corporation Tramways 1897 - 1937:
(Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society, 1973).
Booklet. Paperback. Light edge wear, otherwise good+. pp. Order No. NSBK-A14886
Keywords: B0016SQHOI, Liverpool, Merseyside, trams, tramways, corporation tramways, transport, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Edwardian, twentieth century, inter-war, inter war, booklets, booklet
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Tierney, Jane.
Tobo: One Woman's Escape
(Guild Publishing, 1985).
Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly torn dustwrapper. 156pp. Order No. NSBK-C6025
Keywords: B000HGFZJS, Jane Tierney, women's history, woman, Far East, Second World War, World War II, World War Two, World War 2, wars, warfare, twentieth century, Japanese, Japan, Singapore, Malaya, East Indies, Ceylon, Dutch Fifth Columnists, Gestapo, Australia, escape
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Briggs, Susan.
Keep Smiling Through: The Home Front, 1939-45
(Book Club Associates, 1975).
Introduced by Vera Lynn. Hardback. Very good in slightly faded dustwrapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A5776
Keywords: 0297769898, Home Front, wars, Second World War, World War II, World War Two, Britain, British, England, English, The War Effort, twentieth century, Vera Lynn
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Clayton, Tim and Craig, Phil.
Finest Hour:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 2000).
Revised edition. Paperback. Very good. x + 422pp. Order No. NSBK-A11891
Keywords: 0340766352, 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, Home Front
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Trustram, Myna.
Women of the Regiment: Marriage and the Victorian Army
(CUP, 1984).
Hardback. Very good in slightly browned and torn dustwrapper. ix + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-C4189
Keywords: 9780521262941, regiments, regiment, army, armies, women, nineteenth century, Victorian, war, marriage, marital relations, family, military, sexuality, soldiers, soldier, wives, wife, social history, Britain, British, England, English, Myna Trustram
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Shaw, Frank & Joan.
We Remember Dunkirk: Over 100 Personal Accounts
(Echo Press, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, otherwise good in slightly torn dustwrapper. xiii + 231pp. Order No. NSBK-A2903
Keywords: 1872779 00X, Dunkirk, British Legion, war, Second World War, World War II, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Dept, .
Education and Training for the Cotton and Rayon Industry: Papers and Dicussions at a Conference in Manchester in September 1946 Organized by the Cotton Board With the Collaboration of the British Rayon Federation, the Textile Institute and the Textile Teachers' Association
(Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Dept, 1946).
A series of essays from different contributors. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly browned, edge worn dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A7704
Keywords: post war, post-war industry, cotton, textiles, rayon, training, industries, textile, Britain, British, England, English, Cotton Board Recruitment & Training Department, industrial training, production, technical colleges, teach, teachers, teaching, technical education, history
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