Grigg, John.
Nancy Astor: A Revealing New Portrait of a Woman who Made History
(Hamlyn, 1980).
Illustrated with exclusive pictures from the Astor family album. Paperback. Covers slightly browned, otherwise very good. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A3947
Keywords: 0600205940, Nancy Astor, politics, politician, M. P., women and politics, Plymouth Sutton, Conservative party, Tory, party politics, House of Commons, Houses of Parliament, Britain, British, history, England, English, biography, women's history, twentieth century, Tories
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Philips, Deborah & Haywood, Ian.
Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions
(Leicester UP, 1998).
Paperback. Fine. iv + 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C4311
Keywords: 0718500598, post war, postwar, post-war, fiction, fictions, literature, women, woman, literary history, 1950s, working women, women and work, texts, discourses, gender, femininity, women employees, Britain, British, England, English
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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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Diamond, Patrick, ed.
Family Fortunes: the New Politics of Childhood
(Fabian Society, 2004).
Fabian Ideas 613. Paperback. Very good. vi + 73pp. Order No. NSBK-A15976
Keywords: 9780716306139, shed, family fortunes, family, childhood, children, childcare, parenting, history, sociology
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Spallone, Patricia.
Beyond Conception: New Politics of Reproduction
(Macmillan, 1989).
Women in Society. Hardback. Newspaper articles pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly browned dustwrapper. ix + 251pp. Order No. NSBK-C14158
Keywords: 0333435311, reproduction, conception, feminism, conceiving, women, IVF, test tube fertilisation, surrogacy, motherhood, artifical conception, assisted conception, medical science, eugenics, genetic engineering
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Deacon, Bob, et al.
The New Eastern Europe: Social Policy, Past, Present and Future
(Sage, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. ix + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A9468
Keywords: 0803984391, social policy, history, Europe, Eastern Europe, East Europe, European, Soviet Union, communism, communist, market economy, democracy, welfare, childcare, working women, unemployed, poor, twentieth century, 20th
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McCall's Needlework and Crafts Magazine, .
McCall's New Book of Country Needlecrafts:
(W.H. Allen, 1984).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. 312pp. Order No. NSBK-J13503
Keywords: 0491033931, needework, crafts, sewing, seamstress, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, stitches, needlecrafts
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Rowbotham, Sheila.
A New World for Women: Stella Browne - Socialist Feminist
(Pluto, 2nd impress., 1978).
Scarce. Paperback. Covers yellowed and lightly soiled, otherwise good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-C1584
Keywords: 0904383547, socialism, feminism, Stella Browne, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Broughton, Trev Lynn & Anderson, Linda.
Women's Lives / Women's Times: New Essays on Auto/biography
(New York UP, 1997).
Paperback. Very good. xvii + 291pp. Order No. NSBK-C3077
Keywords: 9780791433980, women writers, autobiography, biography, auto/biography, theory
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Punch and Judy Poster, Reproduction of a Rare 1880 Image.
The True Story of Punch and Judy: Royal Polytechnic. New Entertainment by Damer Cape. Humourous, Musical, Pictorial, Tragical, Comical. New Views by A. Mayhew & J. Green. New Music, by Edouard Frewin & Alfred Lee. New songs by Damer Cape & New Effects by the Institution. Twice Daily
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007 reproduction of 1880 poster).
A reproduction of an attractive poster which promoted a Punch and Judy show at the Royal Polytechnic, Westminster, London, England in 1880. PAPER: A3 sized = 297mm x 420mm or 11.7 inches x 16.5 inches. IMAGE: 250mm x 400mm or 10 inches x 16 inches [approx]. 100 GMS matte poster paper, coated and treated. In full glossy colour: brownish-red, white and black. The online image is lessened in quality for speedy loading and watermarked to deter image theft. Fine condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-A13093
Keywords: Victorian, Punch and Judy, Punch & Judy, entertainment, leisure, posters, poster, reproductions, Portrayer Publishers, nineteenth century, London, 19th century, Britain, British, England, English, social history, magic, Punch and Judy shows, ventriloquists, ventriloquism, theatre, English theatre, music halls, puppets, puppetry, hand puppets, Damer Cape, Edouard Frewin, Alfred Lee
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