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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Housden, Martyn.
Hitler: Study of a Revolutionary?
(Routledge, 2000).
Paperback. A little browning to covers, otherwise very good, clean. x + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A15664
Keywords: 9780415757157, Hitler, Germany, history, German, Nazism, Third Reich, politics, National Socialism, Second World War, World War II
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Dix, Bernard and Williams, Stephen.
Serving the Public: Building the Union: The History of the National Union of Public Employees. Volume 1: The Forerunners 1889-1928
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1987).
Paperback. Near fine. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A13411
Keywords: 0853156468, Britain, British, England, English, NUPE, Union, Trade Unions, streets, wages, public health, New Unionism, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Victorian, Edwardian, municipal, urban, MEA, First World War, World war 1, Great War, labour, work, jobs, women workers, National Union of Public Employees, labor
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Childs, David.
Britain Since 1945: A Political History
(Routledge, 3rd edition, 1979).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good+. xiii + 398pp. Order No. NSBK-A9772
Keywords: 0415060249, politics, political, twentieth century, 20th, history, Second World War, post war
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Gardiner, Juliet.
D-Day: Those Who Were There
(Collins & Brown, 1994).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, otherwise good in creased dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A5218
Keywords: 1855852047, D-Day, twentieth century, fighting, World War II, Second World War, Britain, British, England, English, France, French, Allies, Allied, Normandy beaches, Channel, Second Front, forces, military operations
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Maccoby, S.
English Radicalism: the End?
(George Allen Unwin, 1961).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, dustwrapper browned, soiled and chipped, otherwise good. 640pp. Order No. NSBK-A14583
Keywords: B001CEIN5C, work, industry, radicals, radicalism, twentieth century, protests, Dr Maccoby, popular, propaganda, class, Lloyd George, Labour, General Strike, Asquith, social reform, First World War
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Miller, H. Tatlock and Sainthill, Louis.
Churchill: The Walk with Destiny
(Hutchinson, 1959).
Comprises black and white photographs of Churchill's time in office. Hardback. Over-size book, spine ends badly bumped, covers lightly worn, internally good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A12296
Keywords: B000B5H28C, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century
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Murland, J.R.W.
The Royal Armoured Corps:
(Methuen, 1943).
With 11 illustrations. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Cloth slightly soiled/ darkened, corners worn, otherwise good+. viii + 106pp. Order No. NSBK-A14976
Keywords: B0007J9CVW, Royal Armoured Corps, history, armies, military, tanks, tank, armoured cars, wartime, war, Second World War, World War II
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Coysh, Victor.
Swastika Over Guernsey: an Outline of the German Occupation and the Liberation of the Island
(Guernsey Press, 4th impression, 1955).
Paperback. Some browning to covers, and a little brown staining to top of some of the pages, otherwise good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A13913
Keywords: B000WUXH44, occupied territories, Guernsey, World War II, Second World War, Channel Islands, history, Nazism, Nazis, German, Germany, liberation
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May, William J.
Calling All Women: Fifty-Two Talks for Women's Meetings
(The Epworth Press, 1943).
Hardback. Good+ in soiled, torn dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A11280
Keywords: B000LPEC94, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Methodism, nonconformity, Dissent, nonconformists, women's meetings, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, wartime
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