Probert, Laura.
Women of Thanet Rally Round the Flag, 1914 - 1918:
(Millicent Press, 2011).
Paperback. New and unread, with just a little soiling to the page edges from shelf-life. 176pp. Order No. NSBK-C15165
Keywords: 9780955867415, Thanet, Great War, First World War, history, social history, France, Western Front, women, Kent, aerial bombardment, domestic front, home front, women's work
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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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Esher, Reginald Viscount.
The Tragedy of Lord Kitchener:
(John Murray, rpt, 1921).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Boards worn and marked. Some splitting internally at spine, a good working copy. xv + 219pp. Order No. NSBK-A15067
Keywords: B000L9ILRY, Lord Kitchener, World War I, Great War, First World War, Western Front, army, military
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Binns, Stewart and Wood, Adrian.
The Second World War in Colour:
(Pavilion, 2000).
Foreword by Sir Ludovic Kennedy. In Association with the Imperial War Museum. Paperback. Very good +. 207pp. Order No. NSBK-C13962
Keywords: 1862053936, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century
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Fisher, David.
The War Magician: How Jasper Maskelyne and his Magic Gang Altered the Course of World War II
(Coward McCann, New York, 1983).
Britain's most bizarre secret weapon of WWII - he made the Suez canal disappear. Became an assassination target of Hitler's regime during WWII. A very scarce title. Hardback. Slight bumping to corners, otherwise very good in chipped, slightly discoloured, slightly worn dustwrapper. First Edition in 315pp. Order No. NSBK-A4731
Keywords: 0698111400, magic, conjuring, maskelyne, illusions, music hall, theatre, David Devant, jasper, Neville, war, Hitler, illusion, conjurer, warfare, war, magic gang, magician, magicians, magical, illusionist, jasper maskelyne, illusionists, Second World War, great britain, great british, england, english, war magician, history, david fisher, egyptian hall, illusions, deceptions, deception, deceptionist, deceptionists, decept, deceptive, deceptor, world war, wartime, war magician, magic gang, history, magic history, conjurers, conjured, J.N Maskelyne, white magic, World War II, World War Two, Inter-war, Interwar, Inter war
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Litoff, Judy Barrett and Smith, David C.
Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women on the Home Front
(OUP, 1991).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. x + 293pp. Order No. NSBK-C12640
Keywords: 0195067959, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, letters, epistles, epistolary, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, Home Front
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Bruley, Sue, ed.
Working for Victory: A Diary of Life in a Second World War Factory
(History Press, 2010).
Paperback. Very good+. xxv + 226pp. Order No. NSBK-C15189
Keywords: 9780752456492, second world war, factory, factories, industry, women workers, employment
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McKay, Sinclair.
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the World War II Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Worked There
(Aurum, 2010).
Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled dustwrapper. vi + 336pp. Order No. NSBK-A15737
Keywords: 9781845135393, codes, war, Second World War, wartime, code-breaking, history, Bletchley Park
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Summerfield, Penny and Peniston-Bird, Corinna.
Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War
(MUP, 2007).
Cultural History of Modern War Series. Paperback. Fine, as new. xviii + 307pp. Order No. NSBK-C14504
Keywords: 0719062020, home guard, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, home defence, World War II, Second World War, Dad's Army, oral history, women, Blitz, national identity
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Pattinson, Juliette.
Behind Enemy Lines: Gender, Passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War
(Manchester UP, 2007).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly dented, slightly marked, otherwise very good dustwrapper. xv + 236pp. Order No. NSBK-D15079
Keywords: 9780719075698, SOE, Special Operations Executive, Second World War, World War II, gender, agents, women, spies, France, resistance, French
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