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
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Ottley, Lucy J.
A Preliminary Manual of Home Nursing:
(John Ambulance Association, 1959).
First illustrated edition. Small tear to title page. Paperback. Red / grey covers soiled and a little creased, else a good copy. 83pp. Order No. NSBK-A7269
Keywords: St. John Ambulance Association, first aid, health, social history, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, sickness, injured, injuries, caring for the sick, patients, advice books, nursing, nurses, care, 1950s, post war, post-war, bed-making, patients, diseases, treatments, bandaging
Price £4.00.
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Sandford, Mrs Henry.
Home Work and Duties:
(W. & R. Chambers, 1885).
Girls' Reading-Book. Hardback. Some wear to edges & fraying to spine ends. Red / black cloth with gilt lettering slightly darkened, otherwise a good copy. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C13123
Keywords: Victorian, 1880s, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, duties, responsibilities, duty, responsibility, social history, women's history, Mrs Henry Sandford, women's education, girls, girlhood, domestic economy, food, clothing, sewing, needlework, knitting, ventilation, cleaning, washing, health, sickness, Britain, British, England, English, hygiene,
Price £25.00.
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St. John Ambulance Association, .
Home Nursing: the Authorized Textbook of the St. John Ambulance Association
(St. John Ambulance Association, 4th edition, 5th reprint, Oct. 1938).
Hardback. Covers a little soiled / darkened with some wear to white titles & motif, otherwise good, though with a few creased pages. 272pp. Order No. NSBK-A6772
Keywords: B000E7YF9G, St. John Ambulance Association, first aid, health, social history, twentieth century, ambulances, Britain, British, England, English, sickness, injured, injuries, caring for the sick, patients, advice books
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Anon, .
A Survey of the History, Commerce and Manufactures of Lancashire: Together With Extracts, Reproduced by Request, From "The Home Trade of Manchester" and a Biographical Sketch of Reuben Spencer
(Biographical Publishing, 1897).
Including Jubilee Demonstrations. Hardback. Lacks front endpaper, slight cracking internally at spine, corners rubbed, but overall very good. 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A5186
Keywords: B000HBZ0H0, Lancashire, North West, England, English, Britain, British, trade, nineteenth century, Jubilee, Victorian, history, commerce, industry, industrial, manufactures, manufacturing, textile, textiles, cotton, factory, factories, factory system, Manchester Ship Canal, Manchester, Reuben Spencer, commercial, economy, economic
Price £7.00.
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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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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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Clayton, Tim and Craig, Phil.
Finest Hour:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 2000).
Revised edition. Paperback. Very good. x + 422pp. Order No. NSBK-A11891
Keywords: 0340766352, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, Home Front
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The Times, .
British War Production, 1939 - 1945: a Record
(Printing House Square, 1945).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, cloth slightly marked, otherwise very good. viii + 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A15072
Keywords: B000LBZSGY, Second World War, war production, World War II, economy, industry, heavy industry, home front, domestic, war effort, war effort, transport, history, industries
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Chrisp, Peter.
The Blitz:
(University of Sussex Library, 1987).
Scarce. Based on papers held at the Mass Observation Archive, University of Sussex. Spiral-boundbooklet. Good. 26pp. Order No. NSBK-A13031
Keywords: 0850870186, Mass Observation, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, Blitz, Mass-Observation, Peter Chrisp, University of Sussex, 1940s, forties, home front, domestic front, London Blitz, Coventry, Birmingham, Portsmouth, Hull, bombing, social history, Croydon Raid, air raids
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