Swaisland, Violet Durant.
Yourself and Your Body: a Booklet for Girls
(British Social Hygiene Council, 2nd edition, no date).
The main purpose of this booklet is to explain the facts of life to young girls. Probably written in the inter-war period?. Booklet. Some light creasing to covers, otherwise good. 15pp. Order No. NSBK-C10980
Keywords: Violet Durant Swaisland, girls, hygiene, health, girlhood, sexuality, social history, women's history, British Social Hygiene Council, sexual education, reproduction, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, facts of life, motherhood, fertility, education, booklet
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Fisher, Kate.
Birth Control, Sex, and Marriage in Britain, 1918 - 1960:
(OUP, 2006).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. viii + 294pp. Order No. NSBK-C13601
Keywords: 0199267367, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, sex, family, social history, birth control, contraception, contraceptives, marriages, abortion, Marie Stopes, working class, twentieth century, demography, family limitation, abortion, sexual ignorance, pregnancy, family planning, family size, sexual health
Price £30.00.
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Banks, J.A..
Victorian Values: Secularism and the Size of Families
(RKP, 1981).
Hardback. Very good in sunfaded dustwrapper. ix + 203pp. Order No. NSBK-C127
Keywords: 0710008074, contraception, family planning, children, Victorian, secularism, middle class, sexual habits, motherhood, fatherhood, health, nineteenth century, families, family, family size, birth control, history, middle classes, Britain, British, England, English, sexuality, birth rate, sexual morality, standard of living, social conditions, fertility, morals, moral code
Price £8.50.
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Hartman, Mary & Banner, Lois W., eds.
Clio's Consciousness Raised: New Perspectives on the History of Women
(Harper Colophon, 1974).
Paperback. Minor marginal ink annotation, otherwise good. xii + 253pp. Order No. NSBK-C4901
Keywords: 006131823X, women's history, motherhood, mothers, welfare, health, femininity, sexuality, social history, family, families
Price £6.00.
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Bowman, Gerald.
The Lamp and the Book: The Story of the Rcn, 1916-1966
(The Queen Anne Press, 1967).
Hardback. Page edges foxed, a little spotting to cloth, otherwise good. 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A3936
Keywords: 0362000220, Royal College of Nursing, nurse, nursing, medicine, medical, health, doctor, women's work, twentieth century, Nightingale Training School, hospital, National Council of Nurses, nursing profession, Nurses Act
Price £4.00.
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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
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Pearson, R.A.
The Guardian Book of the Welfare State:
(Wildwood House, 1988).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. xiv + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-A7656
Keywords: 0704530848, 20th, twentieth century, welfare state, social history, social welfare, poor, poverty, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, debates, housing, education, health, social security, health, post-war, post war
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Chazal, E. L. de.
Guide Elementaire D'Hygiene Infantile: a L'Usage des Infirmieres et des Meres de Famille
(Port Louis, P. G. Bumstead, 2nd edition, 1924).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. Front cover loose, otherwise good in firm, slightly marked library binding. 150pp. Order No. NSBK-A13886
Keywords: B001A6JL6W, child welfare, interwar, inter-war, inter war, family, medicine, hygiene, France, French, children, childhood, health, enfants, mothers, motherhood, history, 1920s, illnesses, childhood illnesses, ailments, remedies, infant mortality, medical
Price £30.00.
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Warwick, F.J. & Tunstall, A.C..
First Aid to the Injured and Sick: an Advanced Ambulance Handbook
(Bristol, John Wright and Sons, 1911).
Minor pencil annotation to memoranda pages. Card covers. Card covers torn, creased and worn; spine largely worn away to reveal binding, rather shakey - a good working copy of a scarce book. xiv + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-A7260
Keywords: B004QJOTH6, first aid, health, social history, twentieth century, ambulances, Britain, British, England, English, sickness, injured, injuries, caring for the sick, patients, advice books, pre-First World War, philanthropy, ambulance handbooks
Price £12.00.
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Havins, Peter J. Neville.
The Spas of England:
(Robert Hale, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in very slightly chipped dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A12051
Keywords: 0709152647, spas, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, towns, cities, city, water, health, public health
Price £14.00.
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