Wilks, Mike.
The Ultimate Noah's Ark:
(Michal Joseph, 1993).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. n.pp. Order No. NSBK-A6531
Keywords: 0718135962, leisure, entertainment, childhood, children, kids, animals, beasts, Noah's Ark, play, twentieth century, puzzles, art, artists, pictures, paintings, Mike Wilks
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Russell, Meg.
Must Politics Disappoint:
(Fabian Society, 2005).
Fabian Ideas 614. Paperback. Pages wavy, pages and covers soiled, poor - a working copy only. vi + +63pp. Order No. NSBK-A10127
Keywords: 071630614X, politics, socialism, socialists, Fabianism, Fabians, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history
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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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Melosh, Barbara, ed.
Gender and American History, since 1890:
(Routledge, 1993).
Paperback. Some creasing to spine, otherwise a good copy. xii + 308pp. Order No. NSBK-C9430
Keywords: 0415076765, gender, American, USA, United States, history, Victorian, twentieth century, nineteenth century, sexuality, consumption, social welfare, Ida B. Wells, labor, labour, anti-lynching
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Barnett, Henrietta.
Canon Barnett: His Life, Work and Friends
(John Murray, 1918).
With newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, plus a typed and signed letter by Henrietta Barnett. Complete in two volumes. Hardbacks. Minor yellow highlighting, lacking spine covers.Good working copies, vol I firm; vol II firm also though with splitting inside at spine. xxiv + 302; xii + 415pp. Order No. NSBK-A15635
Keywords: Henrietta Barnett, Canon Barnett, Samuel Augustus Barnett, housing, social conditions, Octavia Hill, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, Victorian, Edwardian, biography, biographies, social reform, philanthropy, Toynbee, state relief, social problems, poverty
Price £30.00.
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Seymour-Jones, Carole.
Beatrice Webb: Woman of Conflict
(Allison and Busby, 1992).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in mottled dustwrapper. xiv + 369pp. Order No. NSBK-C12599
Keywords: 0850318289, Beatrice Webb, philanthropy, charity, biography, women's history, nineteenth century, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, Webbs
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Moore, Katharine.
Victorian Wives:
(Allison and Busby, 1985).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, otherwise good+. xxviii + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C9482
Keywords: 0850316340, women, woman, wives, wife, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, husbands, spouses, matrimony, weddings, Emily Patmore, Catherine Norton, Custody of Infants Act, Harriet Beecher Stowe, women's history, women's studies, Britain, British, England, English, American, America
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Fraser, George MacDonald.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light:
(Collins Harvill, 1990).
Hardback. Very good in very slightly torn dustwrapper. 367pp. Order No. NSBK-Z14699
Keywords: imperial wars, Flashman, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, India, Indian, Empire, British Empire
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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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Graham, Malcolm.
Henry Taunt of Oxford: a Victorian Photographer
(Oxford Illustrated Press, 1973).
Hardback. Slight fault to camber of the book ( -the boards are a little bent in the middle), otherwise good in browned dustwrapper. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A14993
Keywords: 0902280147, Henry Taunt, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, photography, photos, pictures, Oxford, Oxfordshire, camera, publishers, publishing
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