Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Kineton/The Roundwood Press, 1974).
Hardback. Covers slightly soiled, marginal pencil annotation not affecting legbility, otherwise very good. xvi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C11001
Keywords: 0900093307, women, woman, gender, 1920s, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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Bishop, Patrick.
Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940
(Harper Collins, 2003).
Hardback. Very good condition in dustwrapper. xiii + 434pp. Order No. NSBK-A15732
Keywords: 9780002571692, fighter planes, World War II, 1940, 1940s, aerial warfare, social history
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Robins, Elizabeth.
Where are you Going to?:
(William Heinemann, 2nd impress., 1913).
Scarce, collectable. Hardback. Some white moulding to board edges and light marking to board faces, otherwise a good, firm copy. vi + 312pp. Order No. NSBK-C9864
Keywords: B000KT6EJM, Elizabeth Robins, women's suffrage, woman suffrage, women writers, Where Are You Going To, fiction, suffragettes, acting, actresses, novels, novelists, theatre, collectible, antiquarian, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, Social and Political Union, actresses, actresss, theatre, drama, plays, novelists, feminists, actors, literature, original suffragette ephemera
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Symes, R. A.
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings: a Guide for Family Historians
(Pen and Sword, 2016).
Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle sat down and wrote a poem, or a memoir? Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together and managing their collective affairs. With industrialisation, improved education, and far more geographical mobility, British people of all classes were writing for new purposes, with new implements, in new styles, using new modes of expression and new methods of communication (e.g. telegrams and postcards). Our ancestors had an itch for scribbling from the most basic marks (initials, signatures and graffiti on objects as varied as trees, rafters and window ledges), through more emotionally-charged kinds of writing such as letters and diaries, to more creative works such as poetry and even fiction. This book shows family historians how to get the most out of documents written by their ancestors and, therefore, how better to understand the people behind the words. Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-A15529
Keywords: 9781473855434, family, geneaology, family trees, geneaological, diaries, social history, family historians, ancestors, literacy, correspondence, journals, autobiographies, signatures, commonplace books
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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004 facsimile of 1918 text).
Clementina Black (1854 - 1922) was a campaigner committed to improving the plight of working women. In this work of 1918, she 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'. Examples of material included: 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. Paperback. New book, fine. x + 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C7548
Keywords: 0954476123, 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, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Portrayer reprints, Portrayer facsimiles, new titles
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Department of Education, Strathclyde Regional Council.
Scottish Women and the Vote: Sources for the History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in Scotland
(Strathclyde Regional Council).
Ringbound A4-size folder. A very useful collection of printed source material on the history of the women's suffrage movement in Scotland, with an emphasis on Glasgow and the West of Scotland. Ringbound folder. Very good. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C15728
Keywords: Scottish women, Scotland, sources, Votes for Women, suffragettes, suffrage, suffragette, social history, Scots, politics, Leah Leneman, West of Scotland, Western Scotland, Glasgow, WSPU, stored in antiquarian
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Stodart, M.A.
Every Day Duties: in Letters to a Young Lady
(Photocopy only of R.B. Seeley edition, 1840).
Hardback. Library photocopy only, not an original. In good, sturdy, maroon library binding, a little scuffed at the back. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A13755
Keywords: B0008CKDZC, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, femininity, feminine, advice books, prayer, women's history, religion, private sphere, domesticity, politeness, manners, home, Sabbath, household, servants, social history, etiquette, religious
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Davies, Emily.
The Higher Education of Women:
(Portrayer, 2002 facsimile reprint of 1866 edition).
A nicely-presented, good-value facsimile of this crucial text. Paperback. New book, fine. 191pp. Order No. NSBK-C6300
Keywords: 0954263294, Sarah Emily Davies, Emily Davies, education, social history, women's history, higher education, further education, adult education, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, facsimiles, Girton, Girton College, Cambridge, Oxbridge, undergraduates, careers, girls, woman suffrage, suffrage, suffragettes, Hitchin, Hitchin College, John Stuart Mill, women's careers, Higher Education of Women, female, woman, learning, pedagogy, teaching, teachers, teacher, universities, university education, educationalists, educationalist, pioneers, pioneer, rights for women, women's movement, women's rights, emancipation of women, professional women, training, enfranchisement, Victorian, nineteenth century, new title
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Atkinson, Diane.
Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front
(Preface Publishing, 2009).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly soiled, slightly creased dustwrapper. 280pp. Order No. NSBK-C15563
Keywords: 9781848091337, Great War, First World War, social history, women, nursing, ambulances, motorcycles, biography, nurses, medicine
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Crow, Duncan.
The Edwardian Woman:
(Book Club, rpt, 1978).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. 231pp. Order No. NSBK-C5018
Keywords: 0049421581, women, women's history, Edwardian, social history, Britain, British, England, English, suffrage, suffragettes, woman suffrage, Votes for Women, marriage, Edwardians
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