Birkett, Dea

Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers

(Basil Blackwell, rpt, 1989) Hardback. With newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xi + 300pp.

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Book number: C1183

Keywords: 0631156046, Victorian, women travellers, spinster, Mary Kingsley, travel, nineteenth century, travelers, spinsters, spinsterhood, history, Isabella Bird, Amelia Edwards, explorers

Bishop, Patrick

Battle of Britain: A Day-to-day Chronicle, 10 July - 31 October 1940

(Quercus, 2013) Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 391pp.

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Book number: A15685

Keywords: 9781847249845, Battle of Britain, World War II, Second World War, RAF, Luftwaffe

Bishop, Patrick

Bomber Boys:

(Harper Collins, 2007) Hardback. Very good, a clean copy in very good dustwrapper. xli + 429pp.

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Book number: A15746

Keywords: 9780007189861, bombers, planes, flying, pilots, history, Battle of Britain, Second World War, World War II, aviation

Bishop, Alan

Chronicle of Friendship: Diaries of the Thirties, 1932 - 39

(Victor Gollancz, 1986) Hardback. Ex library. Lacks fly leaf. Usual library stamps and markings, otherwise good in rather creased dustwrapper. 448pp.

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Book number: A14679

Keywords: 0575036028, diary, women's diaries, history, Vera Brittain, pacifism, pacifist, 1930s, thirties, interwar

Bishop, Patrick

Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940

(Harper Collins, 2003) Hardback. Very good condition in dustwrapper. xiii + 434pp.

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Book number: A15732

Keywords: 9780002571692, fighter planes, World War II, 1940, 1940s, aerial warfare, social history

Bishop, John, ed

Wise, Wanton, Womanly: a Verse Anthology About Woman

(John Baker, 1967) Hardback. Ex library, interior good in soiled cover boards. viii + 232pp.

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Book number: C2495

Keywords: 0212359509, poetry, verse, literature

Black, Jeremy

The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1727-1731:

(Alan Sutton, 1987) Hardback. Very good in slightly sunned, slightly marked dustwrapper. xvi + 224pp.

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Book number: A5336

Keywords: 0862993008, Anglo-French, Anglo-French diplomacy, diplomatic, diplomatic relations, foreign policy, Europe, European, balance of power, France, Britain, British, French, history, domestic politics, Crown, monarchy, monarchies, Seville Alliance, eighteenth

Black, Naomi and Brandt, Gail Cuthbert

Feminist Politics on the Farm: Rural Catholic Women in Southern Quebec and Southwestern France

(McGill-Queen's UP, 1999) Hardback. Light blemishing to base of front board, otherwise very good. xii + 295pp.

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Book number: C8212

Keywords: 0773518282, agrarian, rural, country, countryside, women, women's history, woman, Catholic, Catholicism, religion, religious, Canada, Canadian, Quebec, France, French, farms, farming, farm, demography, demographic, farm women, feminism, feminist, mass, tw

Black, George F

A Gypsy Bibliography:

(Privately Printed, Provisional Issue, 1909) Printed Privately for the Members of the Gypsy Lore Society, 6 Hope Place, Liverpool, by T. & A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press. Card covers. Ex library in tweed-effect library card covers. Usual library stamps / markings, with some taped repair work to inner hinges. Title page torn, otherwise good. 139pp.

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Book number: A8467

Keywords: B00178HJBM, gypsy, gypsies, romany, romanies, bibliography, books, history, literature, travelling people, ethnography, Gypsy Lore Society, gipsy, gipsies, reference, travellers, travelers

Black, Clementina ed

Married Women's Work: Being the Report of an Enquiry Undertaken by the Women's Industrial Council

(G. Bell, 1915) Hardback. Original red cloth slightly faded and edgeworn, otherwise very good. vi + 292pp.

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Book number: C15617

Keywords: married women, work, industry, Women's Industrial Council, wages, employment, working conditions, family, poverty, Clementina Black, suffragists, suffragist, suffrage, Votes for Women, suffragettes, Britain, England, English, Britain, economic, social his

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.

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Book number: 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, twentie

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.

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Book number: 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 serv

Blackburn, Melissa, Humphries, Steve et al

Hope and Glory: Epic Stories of Empire and Commonwealth

(Sutton Publishing, 2004) Paperback. Very good. 197pp.

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Book number: C15607

Keywords: 9780750935401, empire, imperialism, commonwealth

Blackburn, Helen

Women's Suffrage: a Record of the Women's Suffrage Movement in the British Isles with Biographical Sketches of Miss Becker

(Source Book Press, 1970 reprint of 1902 edition) Hardback. Spine sun-faded, light edge-wear, otherwise very good. x + 298pp.

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Book number: C1076

Keywords: B000OLKNZC, suffrage, suffragette, suffragism, votes for women, women's politics, women's rights, Edwardian, British, Britain, England, English, history, Lydia Becker

Blackmore, Betsy L

The A B C of Needlework:

(Ralph, Holland and Co, 1906) Containing 174 Original Diagrams, including Two Inset Plates. With a preface by Miss S. Loch. Hardback. Pencil annotation at back not affecting legibility, covers slightly stained, otherwise good. 123pp.

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Book number: G11395

Keywords: B0008BXV20, needlework, needles, stitches, stitching, sewing, seamstresses, twentieth century, 20th, crafts, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK