Royal College of Nursing, Molly Case.
Album: It May Be for Sometime, it May be Forever
(RCN, 2017).
Poetry anthology inspired by ten nurses who kept scrapbooks during World War I. Paperback. Very good. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-C15688
Keywords: Molly Case, Royal College of Nursing, World War I, First World War, nursing, medicine, nurses, women and work, history, booklets
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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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Angell, Norman.
The Policy Behind Armaments:
(National Peace Council, 1911).
National Peace Council, Economic Series, No 1. Paperback. Some rusting to staples, otherwise very good. 8pp. Order No. NSBK-A13965
Keywords: B001E4X1M0, armaments, arms, defence policy, before the First World War, peace, pacifism, social history, Norman Angell, peace movement
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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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King, Peter.
Women Rule the Plot: The Story of the 100 Year Fight to Establish Women's Place in Farm and Garden
(Duckworth, 1999).
Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C5406
Keywords: 0715629492, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, gardens, gardening, plots, unions, unionists, Women's Farm and Garden Union, earth, land, World War 1, World War One, Great War, wars, First World War, rural, country, countryside, agrarian, Lady Warwick, Gertrude Jekyll, Brend Colvin, Madeline Agar, suffrage, suffragettes, Women's Farm and Garden Association, associations, organisations, feminism, feminists, WFGA, Folly Farm, Highgrove, Chenies Manor, women and work, women's work, farming
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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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Laffin, John.
Panorama of the Western Front:
(Sutton Publishing, rpt., 1996).
Hardback. Good+ in chipped and worn dustwrapper. viii + 120pp. Order No. NSBK-J12653
Keywords: 1856279014, Western Front, panorama, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Binns, Stewart and Wood, Adrian.
The Second World War in Colour:
(Pavilion, 2000).
Foreword by Sir Ludovic Kennedy. In Association with the Imperial War Museum. Paperback. Very good +. 207pp. Order No. NSBK-C13962
Keywords: 1862053936, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century
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Summerfield, Penny and Peniston-Bird, Corinna.
Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War
(MUP, 2007).
Cultural History of Modern War Series. Paperback. Fine, as new. xviii + 307pp. Order No. NSBK-C14504
Keywords: 0719062020, home guard, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, home defence, World War II, Second World War, Dad's Army, oral history, women, Blitz, national identity
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Murray, Robert N.
Lest We Forget: The Experiences of World War II Westindian Ex-Service Personnel
(Nottingham Westindian Combined Ex-Servic, 1996).
Edited by Patrick L. Hylton. Paperback. Fine. 190pp. Order No. NSBK-A15316
Keywords: 1870518527, world war II, Second World War
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