Magill, Colonel Sir James.
The Red Cross: the Idea and its Development. A Sketch
(Cassell and Company, rpt, 1927).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps. Light foxing to endpapers and rubbing to cloth at corners, a small splash to front board - otherwise in good+ all-round condition. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A13513
Keywords: B000L3K4XO, Red Cross, history, Red Cross Movement, British Red Cross Society, Great War, First World War, World War I, colonialism, voluntary societies, peace, pacifism, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Edwardian, 19th century, nineteenth century, twentieth century, health, aid, hospitals, relief, medicine, medical, international, voluntary aid
Price £25.00.
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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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Cherry, Steven.
Medical Services and the Hospitals in Britain, 1860-1939:
(CUP, 1996).
News Studies in Economic and Social History. Paperback. Very good+. vii + 93pp. Order No. NSBK-A7715
Keywords: 0521577845, medical, medicine, health, hospitals, sickness, disabled, disablement, nurses, doctors, mortality, voluntary, poor law, local authority, local authorities, wars, First World War, Great War, World War 1, I, National Health Service, population, deaths, death rates, infant mortality
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Aldrich, Mildred.
A Hilltop on the Marne: Being Letters Written June 3 - September 8, 1914
(Houghton Mifflin, 19th impression, 1917).
Hardback. Nice green pictorial boards with gilt lettering and black decorations, minor wear to corners and dent to rear board, otherwise very good and bright. 188pp. Order No. NSBK-C16107
Keywords: First World War, Great War, letters, history, women, correspondence, France, French, Marne, Mildred Aldrich, Western Front, antiquarian
Price £20.00.
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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
Price £10.00.
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King, Peter.
Women Rule the Plot: The Story of the 100 Year Fight to Establish Women's Place in Farm and Garden
(Duckworth, 1999).
Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C5406
Keywords: 0715629492, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, gardens, gardening, plots, unions, unionists, Women's Farm and Garden Union, earth, land, World War 1, World War One, Great War, wars, First World War, rural, country, countryside, agrarian, Lady Warwick, Gertrude Jekyll, Brend Colvin, Madeline Agar, suffrage, suffragettes, Women's Farm and Garden Association, associations, organisations, feminism, feminists, WFGA, Folly Farm, Highgrove, Chenies Manor, women and work, women's work, farming
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Stewart, Mother (Eliza Daniel).
Memories of the Crusade: a Thrilling Account of the Great Uprising of the Women of Ohio in 1873, Against the Liquor Crime
(Arno Press, 1972 rpt of second edition of 1889).
American temperance worker's reminiscences. Hardback. Very good, bright. 535pp. Order No. NSBK-C3552
Keywords: 0405044828, Mother Stewart, American, temperance, women, history, liquor, religion, crusade, United States, Women's Temperance League, Ohio, Christianity, religion
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McNeil, Robina and Walker, John S. F.
Warehouse Album: The Heritage Atlas 3. An Archaeological Miscellany from the University of Manchester and the Ten Districts of Greater Manchester
(Field Archaeology Centre, Manchester University, March 1997).
Paperback. Some creasing and scuffing to covers, otherwise very good. 59pp. Order No. NSBK-A14530
Keywords: 0952781352, city, urban, archaeological, warehouses, warehouse, Manchester, Greater Manchester, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, industrial archaeology, Leigh, Rochdale, exports, storage, cities, urbanisation
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Howarth, Patrick.
The Year is 1851:
(Collins, 1951).
Hardback. Cover boards faded & slightly grubby, otherwise good. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A4165
Keywords: B0000CHXDX, Victorian, ninetenth century, Golden Age, Prince Albert, Exhibition of 1851, history, Queen Victoria, Great Exhibition
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Fawcett, Millicent Garrett.
Women's Suffrage: a Short History of a Great Movement
(Portrayer Publishers, 2002 facs. rpt of 1912 ed).
A well-presented facsimile of a hitherto scarce title. Paperback. New book, fine. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-C5097
Keywords: 0954263243, women's suffrage, Votes for Women, Edwardian, suffragettes, Millicent Fawcett, England, Britain, history, English, British, woman suffrage, enfranchisement, women's history, women's movement, women suffrage, politics, suffragists, anti-suffragists, militant, militancy, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, parliament, Portrayer
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