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Jones, Whitney R.D..
David Williams: The Anvil & the Hammer
(Wales UP, 1986).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xviii + 266pp. Order No. NSBK-A202
Keywords: 0708309496, Wales, Welsh, David Williams, Whitney E. D. Jones, social history, Britain, British
Price £2.50.
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Kushner, Tony.
Observing the "Other": Mass-Observation and "Race"
(Uni of Sussex, 1995).
Mass-Observation and "Race". Mass-Observation Archive, Occasional Paper No 2. Booklet. Paperback. New book, fine. 15pp. Order No. NSBK-A5119
Keywords: 0415064988, Mass Observation, Mass-Observation, social investigations, surveys, twentieth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English, sociology, Mass Observation team, working classes, working class, 20th century, social research, Mass-Observation Archive, methodology, research, methodological, Sussex University, World War II, Second World War, wartime, Occasional Papers, Tony Kushner, Jews, Judaism, Jewish, Jew, ethnicity, race, racism, racial, antisemitism, 1930s, inter-war, interwar, inter war, booklet
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Liddiard, Mabel.
British Red Cross Society: Infant Welfare Manual. No 9
(J. & A. Churchill, third edition, 1933).
Hardback. Some fading and soiling to cloth, otherwise good. viii + 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A7277
Keywords: B000HC1154, health, history, British Red Cross Society, Red Cross, philanthropy, first aid, first-aid, medicine, medical, history, manuals, Britain, British, England, English, childhood, children, child, infants, infant, infant welfare, social welfare, mothers, motherhood, maternity, advice books, ante-natal, feeding children, babies, looking after babies, interwar, inter-war, inter war, baby, breast feeding, breast-feeding, bottle feeding, natural feeding, artifical feeding, teething, family, families
Price £6.00.
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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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Williams, Neville.
Powder and Paint: A History of the Englishwoman's Toilet, Elizabeth I - Elizabeth II
(Longmans Green, 1957).
Hardback. Grey cloth darkened, but a good solid copy, in soiled, chipped, edgeworn dustwrapper. xiii + 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A15817
Keywords: B0000CJPXG, fashion, beauty, cosmetics, history, make-up, perfume, hairdressing, social history, women's, coiffure, salons
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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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Walton, John K. and Walvin, James.
Leisure in Britain, 1780 - 1939:
(MUP, 1983).
Paperback. Ex library, spine creased, usual library markings, otherwise good. vi + 241pp. Order No. NSBK-A13843
Keywords: 071901946X, leisure, entertainment, social history, recreation, Victorian, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, twentieth century, England, English, Britain, British, hobbies, working class, working classes, middle class, middle classes, class, John Walton, Jim Walvin, James Walvin, Walton, Leisure in Britain
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Hewitt, Graily.
The Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of the Diseases of Women: Including a Diagnosis of Pregnancy
(Longmans, Green, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged, 1868).
With numerous illustrations. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps. Boards darkened with rubbing to edges. One page loose, otherwise a good solid copy, though with a little marginal pencil annotation. xxxii + 700pp. Order No. NSBK-C13522
Keywords: B001009LFY, medical, medicine, pregnancy, women, women's history, health, illness, gynaecology, gynaecological, maternity, motherhood, pathology, diseases, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, uterus, uterine medicine, social history
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Atkinson, Diane.
Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front
(Preface Publishing, 2009).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly soiled, slightly creased dustwrapper. 280pp. Order No. NSBK-C15563
Keywords: 9781848091337, Great War, First World War, social history, women, nursing, ambulances, motorcycles, biography, nurses, medicine
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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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