Sayers, Peig.
An Old Woman's Reflections:
(OUP, rpt., 1978).
Translated from the Irish by Seamus Ennis and Introduced by W. R. Rodgers. Paperback. Very good. xiv + 131pp. Order No. NSBK-C4951
Keywords: 0192812394, women, woman, history, women's history, Ireland, Irish, Eire, Gaelic, Republic of Ireland, Southern Ireland, Great Blasket Island, County Kerry, oral history, storytelling, stories, tales, Peig Sayers
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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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Stocks, Mary.
My Commonplace Book: an Autobiography
(Peter Davies, rpt, 1970).
Women's suffrage; the welfare state; the L.S.E.; adult education; the Great Depression in Manchester; social work in London; a variety of government assignments. Hardback. Very good in soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. ix + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C779
Keywords: 0432157506, suffrage, suffragette, women's rights, L.S.E., the Great Depression, adult education, Manchester, London, social work, welfare state, England, Britain, history, English, British
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Brittain, Vera.
Poems of the War and After:
(Victor Gollancz, first edition, 1934).
Ex-Wigan Free Public Library. A signed first edition copy. Inscription reads: 'With best wishes to Wigan, and Wigan Public Library from Vera Brittain. Wigan, December 7th, 1936'. Scarce, for the collector. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps.(Wigan Library). Cream cloth soiled, lacks spine cover, but contents firm, solid. Collectible though a working copy. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-C16020
Keywords: Vera Brittain, First World War, Great War, poems, verse, poetry, signed, women, women's history, social history, grief, mourning, signed editions, first editions, first edition, World War I, Wigan, Wigan Free Public Library, Lancashire, interwar, inter war, 1930s, thirties, antiquarian, collectible, literature, women writers, pacifism, pacifists
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Proud, E. Dorothea.
Welfare Work: Employers' Experiments for Improving Working Conditions in Factories
(G. Bell, 3rd edition, 1918).
Foreword by David Lloyd-George. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers. some wear to edges, otherwise good. xx + 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C6760
Keywords: B000856JQQ, welfare, Great War, First World War, World War I, workers, working, factory system, factories, working conditions, women and work, working women, David Lloyd-George, social experiments, history, Catherine Helen Spence, E. Dorothea Proud, pay, wages, economic, economy, industry, industrial, twentieth century, antiquarian, factory legislation, factory labour, factory girls, labor
Price £19.50.
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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
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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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Trainor, Luke.
The Origins of the First World War:
(Heinemann Educational Publishers, rpt, 1975).
Paperback. Light soiling / scuffing to covers, otherwise good+. 68pp. Order No. NSBK-A13591
Keywords: 0435319000, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, origins, causes, alliances, Europe, causes, Balkans, diplomacy
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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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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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