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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Dix, Bernard and Williams, Stephen.
Serving the Public: Building the Union: The History of the National Union of Public Employees. Volume 1: The Forerunners 1889-1928
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1987).
Paperback. Near fine. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A13411
Keywords: 0853156468, Britain, British, England, English, NUPE, Union, Trade Unions, streets, wages, public health, New Unionism, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Victorian, Edwardian, municipal, urban, MEA, First World War, World war 1, Great War, labour, work, jobs, women workers, National Union of Public Employees, labor
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Braddon, Russell.
Woman in Arms:
(Armada, 1956).
Paperback. Ex library but good. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C6945
Keywords: 0006935184, Nancy Wake, women, woman, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, France, French, Europe, European, history, Second World War, World War II, World War Two, twentieth century, 20th, wars, warfare, French resistance, women and work, Paris
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Harries-Jenkins, Gwyn.
The Army in Victorian Society:
(RKP, 1977).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps. Overall very good in dustwrapper. xi + 320pp. Order No. NSBK-A7247
Keywords: 0710084471, army, wars, warfare, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, history, England, English, military, soldiers, colonial, colonialists, Waterloo, officers, professionalism, professionals, fighting, social history, army ranks, 19th century
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Coysh, Victor.
Swastika Over Guernsey: an Outline of the German Occupation and the Liberation of the Island
(Guernsey Press, 4th impression, 1955).
Paperback. Some browning to covers, and a little brown staining to top of some of the pages, otherwise good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A13913
Keywords: B000WUXH44, occupied territories, Guernsey, World War II, Second World War, Channel Islands, history, Nazism, Nazis, German, Germany, liberation
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Symons, Julian.
The General Strike:
(Cresset Library, rpt, 1987).
Paperback. Spine and front cover lightly creased, otherwise good. xviii + 259pp. Order No. NSBK-A8882
Keywords: 0091729289, General Strike, Britain, British, history, England, English, nineteen twenties, unions, trade unions, trades unions, trade unionism, strikes, industrial action, 1920s, inter-war, interwar, inter war
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Glover, Elizabeth R.
Probation and Re-education:
(RKP, 1949).
Hardback. Some splitting at spine edges, original cloth lightly worn, minor pencil markings, otherwise good. xii + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-A13917
Keywords: B0007J6YMM, crime, probation, history, 1940s, poverty, probation act, post war
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Royal Norwegian Government, Information Office.
Before We Go Back: Norway's Fight Since April, 1940. A Pictorial Record Of Norway's Fight Against Nazism Both Inside And Outside Germany, With A Postscript By Philip Noel-Baker
(HMSO, 1944).
Paperback. Light edge-wear, covers slightly browned, otherwise good. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-H15136
Keywords: B004H3CS2Y, Norway, Norwegian, history, World War II, Second World War, Nazism, Nazi occupation, occupied, occupied territories
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Neale, Douglas.
Guide For Husbands and Wives or A Manual Of Wisdom:
(William Lovett, revised edition, 1938).
Paperback. Very good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A13675
Keywords: B00126A4I4, advice books, 1930s, thirties, husbands, wives, marriage, family, sex, birth control, family planning, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, family limitation, mothers, motherhood, maternity, contraception, contraceptives, inter-war, interwar, inter war, confinement, babies, health
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Hunt, Audrey.
A Survey of Women's Employment: Vol II Tables
(HMSO, March 1968).
Government Social Survey. A survey carried out on behalf of the Ministry of Labour by the Government Social Survey in 1963. Paperback. Spine slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. vii + 299pp. Order No. NSBK-C15475
Keywords: B000IU1U2Y, social survey, government, politics, political, Britain, British, England, English, statistics, work, employment, women and work, women's work, employees, working women, non-working women, tywentieth century, post-war
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