Hill, Octavia.
House Property and its Management: Some Papers on the Methods of Management Introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and Adapted to Modern Conditions
(George Allen & Unwin, 1921).
Intro. by I. G. Gibbon. Presented by M.M. Jeffery and Edith Neville. Scarce original. Hardback. Pages and boards browned with age, spine split a little at top end, and internally at binding, else a good copy. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C6430
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, tenants, town planning, urban history, Britain, England, British, English, history, house property, house management, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, cottages, model dwellings, letters to fellow workers, women managers, Amsterdam, municipal, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment
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Sheridan, Dorothy, ed.
Wartime Women: A Mass-Observation Anthology
(Heinemann, 1990).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xiv + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-C1657
Keywords: 0434695319, war, Second World War, World War II, mass-observation, mass observation, people, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history
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Haddon, Celia.
Be Beautiful: The Country Way
(Davis-Poynter, 1979).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 63pp. Order No. NSBK-A5674
Keywords: 0706702344, country, countryside, beautiful, beauty, perfume, scents, perfumes, nature, natural, toilet, toilette, hair, baths, oils, unguents, recipes, Thomas Bewick, stillroom, herbs, pot pourris
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Osborne, Margaret.
Collies:
(W. & G. Foyle, 1961).
Foyles Handbooks Series. Hardback. Back board soiled, corners worn, otherwise a good copy. 92pp. Order No. NSBK-A8694
Keywords: B0000CL2PK, collie, collies, dogs, dog-owning, puppy, puppies, Foyles Handbooks Series, Foyles Handbook, training collies, showing collies, breeding, dog breeding
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Maclure, Stuart.
The Inspectors' Calling: HMI and the Shaping of Educational Policy, 1945 - 1992
(Hodder & Stoughton, 2000).
Hardback. Fine. xxxiv + 350pp. Order No. NSBK-A13399
Keywords: 0340753919, HMI, inspectors, schools inspectors, education, educational, history, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, post war, post-war, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students
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Symes, Ruth A.
It Runs in the Family:
(The History Press, 2013).
In the quest to uncover our family history, we turn to written records, the family album and even heirlooms. However, they can often be difficult to interpret and sometimes pose more questions than they answer: Why didn't my ancestors smile for the camera? Why did great-grandfather wear a beard while his sons were clean-shaven? Why is my great-grandmother holding flowers in this photograph? Drawing on evidence from social history, women's history, and the histories of photography, art and fashion, and using examples from the lowly as well as the famous, Ruth Symes explores many aspects of ordinary life in the past - from the state of the nation's teeth, to the legal and economic connotations of wearing a wedding ring and even the business of keeping a dog. This fascinating volume aims to help family historians get to know their elusive ancestors by deciphering the wealth of personal and historical clues contained in photographs, documents and artefacts. Paperback. New book, fine. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-D15428
Keywords: 9780752497020, family history, family, families, Ruth Symes, genealogy, geneaolgical, social history, evidence, sources, research, women, old photographs, photography
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Chinn, Carl.
They Worked All Their Lives: Women of the Urban Poor in England, 1880-1939
(MUP, 1988).
Hardback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good in faded dustwrapper. xi + 187pp. Order No. NSBK-A15085
Keywords: 9780719024368, urban poor, poverty, Carl Chinn, working class, women's history, social history, British, English, England, Britain, Birmingham, Midlands, charity, mothers, motherhood, Reports, women's work, trade unions, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, twentieth century, self-help, community, communities, debt, Clementina Black, working women
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Hoyle, Richard.
Recent Work on the History of Lancashire and Cheshire: The Early Modern Period
( 1996).
Reprinted from the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year 1996. Volume 146. Paperback. Biro scribblings on front, otherwise good. 147pp. Order No. NSBK-A13582
Keywords: Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Lancashire, Cheshire, Early Modern
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Sharp, Evelyn.
Rebel Women:
(Portrayer, 2003 facsimile of the 1st edit. of 1910).
A special edition of this highly sought-after work of suffragette fiction, in smart bespoke binding. Walnut finish boards with blue & green head and tail bands. Coloured endpapers. A series of descriptive sketches about the suffragette movement. Hardback. Fine condition. 135pp. Order No. NSBK-C6498
Keywords: 0954476107, suffragettes, suffrage, women's history, Rebel Women, Edwardian, New Woman, Votes for Women, Evelyn Sharp, Britain, British, England, English, enfranchisement, woman suffrage, woman, women writers, fiction, social protest, political women, politics, collector's editions, literature, twentieth century, 20th century, Portrayer, Portrayer's, Portrayer Publishers, fictional, writing, stories, sketches
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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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