Furneaux, W. D.
The Chosen Few: An Examination of Some Aspects of University Selection in Britain
(OUP (Nuffield Foundation), 1961).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, edges worn, otherwise good. xxvi + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-A6601
Keywords: B0000CL15A, universities, university, colleges, college, higher education, adult education, students, selection, Britain, British, England, English, history, social history, academic selection
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Wrigley, Ammon.
Those Were the Days:
(Whittaker and Sons, Stalybridge, 1937).
Illustrated reminiscences. Hardback. Some heavy staining to spine. Original cloth worn at edges and slightly marked, internally a good working copy. xi + 288pp. Order No. NSBK-A14066
Keywords: B0018IK3LE, Lancashire, Blackpool, Saddleworth, moors, Holmfirth, Yorkshire, mills, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, social history, memories, industrial history
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Cole, Pauline.
Transition to Arcady: A Story of Two Years Spent in the Women's Land Army - '47 to '49
(Arthur H.Stockwell, 2001).
Booklet. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. 31pp. Order No. NSBK-C13316
Keywords: 0722333412, women and work, working women, Women's Land Army, post-war, social history, women's history, farms, farming, agriculture, rural, post war, woman, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Pauline Cole, booklet
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Caulton, T. J., ed.
Children of the Industrial Revolution in Sheffield:
(University of Sheffield, 1985).
Scarce. Based on a research project at the University of Sheffield Division of Continuing Education. Booklet. Very good. viii + 24pp. Order No. NSBK-A13329
Keywords: 0950660116, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Sheffield, Yorkshire, industrial revolution, history, social history, children, child, childhood, health, safety, working conditions, child labour, living conditions, work, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, child abuse, University of Sheffield Division of Continuing Education, booklet
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Wojtczak, Helena.
Mary Raleigh Richardson: The Suffragette Arsonist Who Slashed the Rokeby Venus
(Hastings Press, 2025).
Signed by the author. This first book-length biography of the militant suffragette Mary Raleigh Richardson reveals for the first time her true identity, ancestry, childhood and education, as well as her surprising - and exciting - international travels before she became embroiled in the suffrage struggle. During her time as a militant Mary was arrested nine times. Prepared to die for the cause, she adopted the hunger strike each time she was imprisoned, and was forcibly fed countless times. Her hunger strike medal boasted more bars than that of any other suffragette - something of which she remained proud for the rest of her life. Her most infamous deed was to use a cheap meat cleaver to inflict several gashes into Velasquez's Rokeby Venus, a world-famous and priceless painting. In a lesser-known and yet equally sensational attack she burned down a historic mansion near Hampton Court. During the war she continued to work for the vote, allying herself with both Sylvia Pankhurst's ELFS and the United Suffragists. Having joined the Labour Party she twice stood for Parliament, and in 1933 was briefly a member of Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Finding it did not align with her values she returned to socialism for the rest of her life. In retirement she penned Laugh a Defiance, a memoir of her suffrage days. The work is essential reading for suffrage scholars and those keen to explore the lives of the individual personalities within the militant movement. Paperback. Fine. 320pp. Order No. NSBK-C15912
Keywords: 9781904109600, signed by the author, suffragettes, Votes for Women, biography, biographies, social history, women's history, Mary Raleigh Richardson, hunger strikes, militancy,suffragette, Canada, Canadian politics, arson, militant
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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004 facsimile of 1918 text).
Clementina Black (1854 - 1922) was a campaigner committed to improving the plight of working women. In this work of 1918, she 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'. Examples of material included: 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. Paperback. New book, fine. x + 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C7548
Keywords: 0954476123, 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, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Portrayer reprints, Portrayer facsimiles, new titles
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Summerfield, Penny.
Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives:
(MUP, 1998).
Paperback. Fly leaf clipped, spine creased, minor pencil annotation, with newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C2122
Keywords: 0719044618, wartime, women's history, women's work, World War II, Second World War, World War Two, social history, oral history, popular culture, war effort, home front, domestic front, gender relations, gender roles, cultural representations, films, magazines, media, Women's Land Army, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, WAAF, Women's Royal Navy Service, WRNS
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Enamel Reproduction Suffragette Badge, Organisers & Organising Secretaries.
NUWSS (National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies): Women's Suffrage
(Portrayer Publishers, 2005).
High quality modern reproduction enamel badge. Collectable modern replica of a suffragette badge (originally produced by the NUWSS, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies). Size: 30mm height at tallest point. Approx 23mm at widest point. Featuring a hand-sculpted 3D figure to the centre of the badge (woman blowing trumpet), surrounded by the words [at top] "The Union of N.U.W.S.S" and [at bottom] "Organisers & Organising Secretaries". Colours are shiny gold with red, white and green edging. Gold back and safety pin to rear for easy affixing to garments. Presented inside a small poly-bag. Badge. Fine, new. pp. Order No. NSBK-C8942
Keywords: B00467U4PE, Christmas gifts, jewellery, jewelry, woman suffrage, button badge, pin back, badges, pinback, suffragette era, pins, suffragettes, suffragist activity, suffragists, women, women's history, woman, history, social history, Britain, British history, England, English history, NUWSS, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, enamel badges, suffragette jewellery, suffragette jewelry, brooch, brooches, women's movement, Portrayer Publishers, suffragette ephemera
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Constantine, Stephen, Kirby, M. W. & Rose M.B., eds.
The First World War in British History:
(Edward Arnold, 1995).
Paperback. Some foxing / soiling to page edges, otherwise good. ix + 286pp. Order No. NSBK-A2454
Keywords: 0340570539, First World War, World War I, Great War, Britain, British, England, English, history, social history, twentieth century, Germany, France
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Malone, Carolyn.
Women's Bodies and Dangerous Trades in England, 1880-1914:
(Royal Historical Society, 2003).
Royal Historical Society Studies in History. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xi + 169pp. Order No. NSBK-C13167
Keywords: 0861932641, women's bodies, body, sexuality, femininity, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, social history, work, industry, reproduction, dangerous trades, white lead, pottery trade, potteries, medicine, medical, health, pregnancy, working conditions, sexual difference, infant mortality, foetal protection
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