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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Smith, Joan.
Femmes de Siecle: Stories from the '90s: Women Writing at the End of Two Centuries
(Chatto & Windus, 1992).
Paperback. Ink inscription to fly leaf, otherwise good. 303pp. Order No. NSBK-C6905
Keywords: 0701139846, women writers, woman writers, women's writing, New women, New woman, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century, 20th, femmes de siecle
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LLoyd, T. O.
Empire to Welfare State: English History 1906-1985
(OUP, 3rd edit., 1987).
The Short Oxford History of the Modern World. Paperback. Fine. xv + 558pp. Order No. NSBK-A10699
Keywords: 0198221347, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, England, English, history, Britain, British, twentieth century, 20th, Empire, imperial, imperialism, Welfare State
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Clifford, James.
Aspects of Economic Development, 1760 to 1960:
(Longman, 3rd impress., 1975).
Paperback. Spine and covers slightly soiled and chipped, otherwise good. 315pp. Order No. NSBK-A10467
Keywords: 0582422094, economy, economics, Britain, British, history, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, economists, policy
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Orr, Emily C.
Our Working Boys: Suggestions for Their Teachers
(SPCK, 1900).
Hardback. Boards and spine worn, internally good. 128 + 8pp. Order No. NSBK-A11911
Keywords: B000HC7CKM, SPCK, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, boys, working boys, Emily C. Orr, work
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Bagwell, Philip S.
Doncaster: Town of Train Makers, 1853-1990
(Doncaster, 1991).
Signed by the author. Hardback. Outsized book, very good+. vii + 136pp. Order No. NSBK-A12364
Keywords: 0906976375, trains, railways, transport, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Doncaster, manufacture, engineering, plant works, factory, factories, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, industry, work
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Leapman, David.
David Leapman:
(Todd Gallery, 1992).
Published to coincide with an exhibition of new work at Todd Gallery. Catalogue. Fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-A11193
Keywords: Deavid Leapman, art, artists, painters, paintings, gallery, galleries, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Sharpe, Sue.
'Just Like a Girl': How Girls Learn to be Women
(Penguin, rpt., 1987).
Paperback. Good+. 328pp. Order No. NSBK-C10666
Keywords: 0140219536, women, girls, gender, sex, feminism, feminists, twentieth century, Sue Sharpe, woman, women's studies, behaviour
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Anon, .
The First Casualty: The German Underground Hospital and Jersey's Occupation Experience
(High Level Associates Ltd, 1991).
Paperback. Good. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-A5892
Keywords: B0000EF19I, German, Germany, Jersey, occupation, wars, warfare, World War II, World War Two, Second World War, twentieth century, military, Nazis, Nazism, Channel Islands, history, European, Europe, history, hospitals, medicine, medical, Underground Hospital, jews, jewish, Spanish, refufees, Russians, Gestapo, Anti-Semitism, antisemites, islands, resistance, Britain, British
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Monahan, Patricia.
Landscape Painting:
(Macdonald, 1985).
29 landscape painting projects illustrated step-by-step with advice on materials and techniques. Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled, slightly chipped dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A10233
Keywords: 0356107795, art, artists, painting, painters, Britain, British, England, English, crafts, twentieth century, 20th, techniques, watercolours
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