Wicks, Ben.
When The Boys Came Marching Home: True Stories of the Men Who Went to War and the Women and Children Who Took Them Back
(Stoddart, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. xi + 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A13005
Keywords: 0773725180, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, men, males, husbands, masculinity
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Schlissel, Lillian; Gibbens, Byrd and Hampsten, E.
Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey
(Schocken Books, 1989).
Hardback. Very good. xviii + 264pp. Order No. NSBK-A14986
Keywords: 9780805240528, American West, history, Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, North Dakota, frontiers, frontier territory, migration, nineteenth century, 19th
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White, Florence, ed.
How to Wash Clothes at Home: Containing Simple and Complete Instructions
(Florence White, 1901).
An advice book, recommending the best methods of carrying out laundry work. A very interesting one of its kind, with illustrations and lots of detail of interest to the social historian. Paperback. Original covers slightly soiled and creased at edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C15121
Keywords: clothes, clothing, washing clothes, laundry, laundry work, working women, domesticity, antiquarian, social history, ironing, starching, booklets, boiling, advice books, linen, booklet, booklets
Price £24.00.
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Cockburn, Cynthia and Dilic, R. F.
Bringing Technology Home: Gender and Technology in a Changing Europe
(Open UP, 1994).
Paperback. Good. x + 187pp. Order No. NSBK-C15760
Keywords: 9780335191581, women, technology, technological change
Price £11.99.
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Rooper, T.G.
School and Home Life: Essays and Lectures on Current Educational Topics
(A. Brown and Sons, 1899).
Hardback. Light wear to edges and a few splashes to back board, otherwise a good+ copy with minor annotation, mainly to margins. 479pp. Order No. NSBK-A7695
Keywords: B00088SERU, education, educational, essays, T. G. Rooper, social history, schools, schooling, teachers, teaching, training, elementary schools, children, child, childhood, Britain, British, England, English, Yorkshire, school boards, inspectors, schools inspectors, school inspector, technical schools, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th
Price £4.00.
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Peavy, Linda and Smith, Ursula.
Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement: Life on the Home Frontier
(Oklahoma UP, 1994).
Foreword by John Mack Faragher. Paperback. Fine. xvii + 381pp. Order No. NSBK-C12510
Keywords: 0806126191, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Westward Movement, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, American West, family, families, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Eckford, E. Stoddart and Fitzgerald, M. S.
Household Management: A Handbook of Domestic Economy and Hygiene
(Sir Isaac Pitman, 1927).
Fourth Impression. Hardback. Covers and spine slightly soiled, otherwise good. iv + 432pp. Order No. NSBK-A11853
Keywords: B000HC1SD4, E. Stoddart Eckman, M. S. Fitzgerald, domestic economy, hygiene, houses, households, household management, housewives, housewifery, homes
Price £12.00.
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Barnard, Mary.
Diary of an Optimist:
(The Larks Press, rpt., 1997).
Paperback. Very good+. 190pp. Order No. NSBK-C10352
Keywords: 0948400323, Mary Barnard, women, woman, women's studies, women's history, children, motherhood, mothers, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, home helps, rationing, food, clothing, shortages, teachers, education, counsellors, magistrates, journalists
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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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Townsend, Colin & Eileen.
War Wives: a Second World War Anthology
(Leisure Circle, Grafton Books, 1989).
Hardback. Very good in slightly marked dustwrapper. xvi + 297pp. Order No. NSBK-C4844
Keywords: 0246133880, war, Second World War, World War II, people, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, wives, wife, marriage, marriages, weddings, wedding, oral history, domesticity, housewives, home front
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