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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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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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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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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Brittain, Vera.
Born 1925: A Novel of Youth
(Virago, 1982).
Paperback. Good. 379pp. Order No. NSBK-C5942
Keywords: 0860682706, Vera Brittain, Adrian Cadbury, wars, warfare, Europe, European, Nazi Germany, German, pacifism, First World War, World War I. World War One, Great War, novels, novelists, women writers, woman writer, women's history, twentieth century, literature, literary, fiction, Britain, British, England, English, history
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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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Fussell, Paul.
Wartime: Understanding and Behaviour in the Second World War
(OUP, 1989).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. x + 330pp. Order No. NSBK-A8920
Keywords: 0195037979, wartime, Second World War, World War Two, World War II, social history, behaviour, habits, propaganda, psychological, psychology, morale, USA, Britain, British, American, United States of America, England, English, Britain, British, emotion, popular culture, sentiment, memory
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Bell, Ken, et al.
An Ordinary Lot: Recollections of the Thirties and World War II
(Department Adult Continuing Education, 1985).
Paperback. Very good. 39pp. Order No. NSBK-A14363
Keywords: B001OPWBX4, 1930s, thirties, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, memories, autobiography, recollections, youth, Yorkshire, Saltaire, Shipley
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Melvin, Michael J.
Minesweeper: The Role of the Motor Minesweeper in World War II
(Square One, 1992).
Hardback. Very good copy, in slightly rubbed, slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. 226pp. Order No. NSBK-A7520
Keywords: 1872017576, wars, warfare, minesweepers, ships, shipping, World War II, Two, 2, military, navy, Britain, British, England, English, history, Motor Minesweepers, mines, Germans, twentieth century, 20th, naval, shipping, maritime
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Philpott, Bryan.
Fighters Defending the Reich: World War 2 Photo Album. Number 4
(Patrick Stephens, 1978).
Hardback. Very good in faded dustwrapper. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A13915
Keywords: B0015KK6Z8, Third Reich, fighter planes, fighter pilots, German, Germany, Nazis, Nazism, photographs, aircraft, Luftwaffe, wartime, World War II, Second World Two, military, radar
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