Grenfell, Joyce.
Darling Ma: Letters to her Mother, 1932-1944
(Hodder & Stoughton, 1988).
Edited by James Roose-Evans. Hardback. Ex lib with usual library stamps & stickers, otherwise good in creased dw. xxii + 360pp. Order No. NSBK-C4643
Keywords: 0340423684, Joyce Grenfell, mothers, daughter, letters, 1930s, World War II, Second World War, history, correspondence, woman, women, actresses, drama, actress, theatre, interwar, inter war, inter-war
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Gyford, C. Barrington.
The Skipper Ashore: Being Some More Letters from the Skipper of a Tramp Steamer, about his Experiences Ashore in Various Parts of the World. With Photographs Sent by the Writer
(Isaac Pitman, 1938).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, boards worn especially at edges, some soiling to page edges, otherwise a good solid copy. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A14089
Keywords: B0014IF138, maritime, travel, ships, boats, skippers, history, C. Barrington Gyford, letters, correspondence, Europe, East, Arabia, Middle East, Sudan, steamers, photographs, sea travel, adventure, seas, inter-war, inter war
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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
Price £24.00.
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Worswick, G. D. N. & Ady, P.H. eds.
The British Economy, 1945-1950:
(Clarendon, rpt, 1967).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, lacks fly leaf, very good in dustwrapper. 621pp. Order No. NSBK-A3220
Keywords: B0000CIERJ, Britain, British, economy, economic history, post-war, 1945-1950, post war
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McNeill, William Hardy.
America, Britain and Russia: their Co-operation and Conflict, 1941 - 1946
(OUP, 1953).
Hardback. Ex library, with usual library stamps and markings, & soiling to page edges, otherwise a good solid copy in soiled and chipped dustwrapper. xviii + 819pp. Order No. NSBK-A15825
Keywords: B0006DB80M, war, diplomacy, 1940s, conflict, America, Britain, Russia, forties
Price £48.00.
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Brown, Heloise.
The Truest Form of Patriotism: Pacifist Feminism in Britain, 1870 - 1902
(MUP, 2003).
Hardback. A little bumping to top and bottom edges, otherwise very good. viii + 199pp. Order No. NSBK-C14371
Keywords: 0719065305, pacifism, pacifists, feminism, history, Heloise Brown, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Priscilla Peckover, Ellen Robinson, women's suffrage, peace associations, Anglo-Boer War, Boer War, philanthropy, international diplomacy, suffragettes
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Jane, Fred T.
The British Battle Fleet: Its Inception and Growth Throughout the Centuries
(S. W. Partridge, 1914).
Illustrated. Hardback. Ex library. Some internal soiling (text OK), and light soiling to blue sturdy library binding, otherwise good, firm and solid. xvi + 406pp. Order No. NSBK-A14919
Keywords: B00088GTJA, British Fleet, British Navy, history, fleets, maritime, nautical, sailing, warship, wars, naval, dreadnoughts, sailing, seas, ocean, high seas
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German Report Series, .
The German Campaign in the Balkans (Spring 1941):
(Naval and Military Press, new edition, 2003).
Paperback. Fine. 161pp. Order No. NSBK-A13894
Keywords: 1843425009, Balkans, Near East, history, World War II, Second World War, Germany, German, Nazis, Third Reich, fascism, Naval and Military Press, Balkan, Eastern Europe, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Crete, Turkey, Yugoslavia
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Rowntree, Isabella Ann.
Poems:
(Maurice L. Rowntree, 1930).
Scarce collection of poems by the Scarborough poet Isabella Ann Rowntree. With illustrations by Isobel M. and Eirene W. Rowntree, her grandchildren. Card covers. Some light foxing to pages, especially endpapers. Card covers lightly soiled, & yellowed with age at edges - but overall a good copy. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-C15951
Keywords: Scarborough, Yorkshire, women poets, woman poet, 1930s, thirties, Rowntrees, verse, North Yorkshire, social history, inter-war, antiquarian, poetry, inter war, Isabella Ann Rowntree, Isobel M. Rowntree, Eirene W. Rowntree, stored with booklets
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Everett-Heath, E. J.; Moss, G. M.; Mowat, A.; Reid, K.
Military Helicopters:
(Brassey's, 1990).
Battlefield Weapons Systems & Technology Series. Volume 6. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, spine area faded, otherwise good. xiv + 177pp. Order No. NSBK-A13892
Keywords: 0080373410, military helicopters, air, Royal Military College of Science, battlefields, war, flight, history, helicopter transport, flying
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