Daily Mail Ideal Home Book 1955

This Daily Mail Ideal Home Book was published in 1955. Many middle-class women in the 1950s had to clean and manage their home for the first time because of a post-war shortage of servants. Publications such as this were aimed at this middle-class audience, and included chapters like ‘House and Home’, ‘Furnishing’ and ‘Managing the Home’ that gave advice to readers. The dust jacket of this book is a reproduction of Crown wallpaper L46363, and uses a nice cut-out graphic title that plays on the design of the pattern.