Mackenzie-Grieve, Averil.
The Great Accomplishment: The Contribution of Five English Women to 18th Century Colonisation
(Geoffrey Bles, 1953).
Hardback. Very good in worn and faded dustwrapper. xiii + 290pp. Order No. NSBK-C3122
Keywords: B0000CIHIY, Empire, Mrs Pinckney, South Carolina, Mrs Macarthur, New South Wales, Mrs Simcoe, Canada, Mrs Falconbridge, Sierra Leone, Mrs Brodbelt, Jamaica, West Indies, America, Australia, colonialism
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Thistlethwaite, William.
Four Lectures on the Rise, Progess and Past Proceedings: of the Society of Friends in Great Britain
(A. W. Bennett, 1865).
With brief historical notices of some preceding and contemporary events. Hardback. Spine and corners ends slightly split, worn, light marking to boards, a small library sticker on spine, otherwise good. vi + 152pp. Order No. NSBK-A6068
Keywords: B000HC4R5U, Society of Friends, Quakers, religion, religious, nonconformity, non-conformity, nonconformism, non-conformism, dissenters, nonconformists, non-conformists, dissent, Victorian, nineteenth century, societies, associations, Quakerism
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Gilbey, Walter.
The Old English War-horse: Or the Great Horse as it Appears, at Intervals, in Contemporary Coins and Pictures During the Centuries of its Development into the Shire-horse. With Notes
(Vinton, 1888).
Two dates in the margins of the book have sadly been crossed out in ink. Text is otherwise not annotated, but there is some light foxing / soiling on some pages, not affecting legibility. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. Boards darkened / thumbed, with fraying to spine edges. A little cracking internally at spine, else good. 23pp. Order No. NSBK-A14314
Keywords: B000875WPI, horses, shire-horses, shires, war-horses, equestrian, history, rural, Victorian, coins, illustrations, agriculture, antiquarian
Price £48.00.
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Courtauld, George.
The Pocket Book of British Patriotism: the History of Great Britain and the World
(Sterling Publishing, 2004).
Hardback. White dustwrapper lightly soiled, otherwise a very good copy. 62pp. Order No. NSBK-A15794
Keywords: 9781402728358, history, patriotism
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Tillyard, Frank.
Unemployment Insurance in Great Britain, 1911 - 48:
(Thames Bank Pub. Co, 1949).
Hardback. Very good in chipped, slightly browned dustwrapper. ix + 233pp. Order No. NSBK-A13287
Keywords: B001IVGWXE, unemployment, insurance, national insurance, dole, twentieth century, inter-war, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, contributions, benefits, social welfare, poor relief, out-of-work, history
Price £14.00.
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Kent, Susan Kingsley.
Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918 - 1931
(Palgrave, 2009).
Hardback. Covers slightly rubbed, otherwise very good+. ix + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A15716
Keywords: 9781403993335, politics, trauma, psyche, emotions, emotional, inter-war, inter war, twenties, psychology, social history, post World War I, Great War
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Griffiths, Gareth.
Women's Factory Work in World War I:
(Alan Sutton, 1991).
With previously unknown photographs from the Home Office Industrial Museum. Hardback. With a newspaper review pasted to rear endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. viii + 176pp. Order No. NSBK-C665
Keywords: 9780862997953, women's history, factory, factories, munitions, Great War, World War I, First World War, Britain, British, England, English, history
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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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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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Brendon, Vyvyen.
The First World War, 1914 - 1918:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 2000).
Access to History. Paperback. Very good. vi + 154pp. Order No. NSBK-A15683
Keywords: 9780340743034, First World War, Great War
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