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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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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Hunt, Leigh.
Captain Sword and Captain Pen: A Poem. With a Preface, Remarks on War and Notes Detailing the Horrors on Which the Poem is Founded
(Charles Gilpin, 3rd edition, 1849).
All edges gilt. Hardback. Small. Ex library with usual library stamps. Original decorated boards sunned, damage to spine ends, light wear to edges. A little splitting internally at binding, otherwise good. 101pp. Order No. NSBK-A14261
Keywords: B0014HXZ3C, poems, poetry, Leigh Hunt, nineteenth century, war, wars, military, 19th century
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Horrocks, Sidney, ed.
Lancashire History: Historical Period: i) Hanover ii) Contemporary Broadsides
(Manc Joint Committee on Lanc Biblio, 1978).
A Contribution Towards a Lancashire Bibliography 9. Hardback. Spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise good. xiv + 242pp. Order No. NSBK-A13737
Keywords: B000HBZSHM, Lancashire, Hanover, contemporary broadsides, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, nineteenth, eighteenth, century, Hanoverian
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Gardiner, Juliet, ed.
What is History Today?:
(Macmillan, rpt, 1989).
Paperback. Spine faded, newspaper reviews pasted to front endpaper, otherwise good. vi + 167pp. Order No. NSBK-A15667
Keywords: history, methodology, practice of history
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Maisky, I.M.
Before the Storm: Recollections
(Hutchinson, 1944).
Translated from the Russian by Gerard Shelley. Hardback. Cloth slightly worn, especially at edges, otherwise good. 176pp. Order No. NSBK-A15935
Keywords: B000LEXPFC, Maisky, Russia, Russian, memoirs, autobiographies, Soviet
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Thomis, Malcolm I.
The Town Labourer and the Industrial Revolution:
(B.T. Batsford, 1974).
Paperback. Spine faded, otherwise very good. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-A5486
Keywords: 0713428333, town labourers, Industrial Revolution, social history, Britain, British, England, English, workers, work, industry, urban, urbanisation, towns, factory, factories, trade unions, trade unionism, trade union, collectives, combinations, Combination Laws, factory system, handloom weavers
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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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Bet-El, Ilana R.
Conscripts: Lost Legions of the Great War
(Sutton Publishing, 1999).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xv + 239pp. Order No. NSBK-A8113
Keywords: 0750921080, Britain, British, England, English, history, wars, warfare, First World War, World War 1, One, I, Great War, twentieth century, 20th, conflicts, munitions, soldiers, military, battles, armies, army
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Condell, Diana & Liddiard, Jean.
Working for Victory?: Images of Women in the First World War, 1914-1918
(Routledge, rpt, 1991).
Paperback. Minor fading to covers, otherwise very good. xii + 201pp. Order No. NSBK-C2480
Keywords: 9781032285382, First World War, World War I, Great War, women and war, women and work, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, WW1, WWI, The Great War, Condell, Liddiard, Images, War, images of war, representation, representations, art
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