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
Price £24.00.
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May, William J.
Calling All Women: Fifty-Two Talks for Women's Meetings
(The Epworth Press, 1943).
Hardback. Good+ in soiled, torn dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A11280
Keywords: B000LPEC94, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Methodism, nonconformity, Dissent, nonconformists, women's meetings, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, wartime
Price £6.00.
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Allison, J. Murray.
Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War: Volume I: The First Twelve Months of the War
(John Lane, 1919).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, original cloth rather soiled / darkened, occasion soiling to pages, else good. xv + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A14991
Keywords: B000Q9R9A4, humour, comedy, comic, humorous, World War I, Great War, World War One, history, Western Front, trench warfare, cartoons, Raemaekers, art, artists
Price £18.00.
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Morton, Desmond & Granatstein, J. L.
Victory, 1945: Canadians from War to Peace
(Phyllis Bruce, Harper Collins, 1995).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A2856
Keywords: 0002550695, Canada, war, World War II, Second World War, military, military history, victory, peace, WW II, WW 2
Price £7.99.
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Supreme Commander to the Combined Chiefs, General Eisenhower.
Report on Operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force: 6 June 1944 to 8 May 1945
(HMSO, 1946).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps in soiled library binding, a good working copy. x + 149pp. Order No. NSBK-A14900
Keywords: B0010ZJ70S, Allied Expeditionary Force, Europe, Second World War, World War II, Second Front, Seine, Rhine, Ruhr, German surrender, victory, fighting, history
Price £22.00.
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Atkinson, Rev Canon.
British Birds' Eggs and Nests: Popularly Described
(George Routledge, revised and re-edited, 1901).
With plates. Hardback. Wear to edges and corners. Boards darkened and lightly soiled, otherwise good+. vii + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-Z14720
Keywords: B0008AJ5I0, birds, eggs, ornithology, nests, nature, natural world, natural history
Price £18.00.
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Putnam, Emily James.
The Lady: Studies of Certain Significant Phases of her History
(Sturgis & Walton, 1910).
Emily James Putnam, nee Emily James Smith, was an American educator and historian, remembered especially for her early influence on Barnard College in New York. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1889, and then attended Girton College, Cambridge. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers & stamps, edges & spine ends frayed, a good working copy in worn cloth. xxi + 323pp. Order No. NSBK-C4141
Keywords: B000J0SFDK, Emily James Putnam, women's history, gender, world, salon, blue stockings, Greece, Rome, Renaissance
Price £12.00.
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Braithwaite, B.; Walsh N.; and Davies, G, eds.
Ragtime to Wartime: The Best of Good Housekeeping, 1922-1939
(Leopard, rpt., 1995).
Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled, lightly stained dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C5268
Keywords: 0752900455, Good Housekeeping, magazines, periodicals, women's reading, media, 1920s, World War Two, World War II, Second World War, Thirties Depression, articles, advertisements, domesticity
Price £11.00.
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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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Wicks, Ben.
When The Boys Came Marching Home: True Stories of the Men Who Went to War and the Women and Children Who Took Them Back
(Stoddart, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. xi + 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A13005
Keywords: 0773725180, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, men, males, husbands, masculinity
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