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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Davies, A. J.
To Build a New Jerusalem: The Labour Movement from the 1880s to the 1990s
(Michael Joseph, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in faded dustwrapper. vi + 344pp. Order No. NSBK-A8529
Keywords: 0718133943, labour labor, politics, political, Labour Party, Britain, British, England, English, history, organisations, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 19th, 20th, socialism, socialists
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Blyth, John A.
English University Adult Education, 1908-1958: A Unique Tradition
(MUP, 1983).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xii + 363pp. Order No. NSBK-A9101
Keywords: 0719009030, adult education, training, twentieth , century, 20th, Britain, British, history, England, English, university, universities, academics, Ashby Report, Liberal, academe, adults, Workers' Educational Association, WEA
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Homberger, Eric.
The Art of the Real: Poetry in England and America Since 1939
(Dent, 1977).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, spine faded, otherwise good. x + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-A7484
Keywords: 0460110845, poets, poet, poetry, American, America, USA, England, English, Britain, British, twentieth century, 20th century, post war, post-war, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, literary, literature
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Nisbet, Robert.
Emile Durkheim: With Selected Essays
(Prentice-Hall, 1965).
Makers of Modern Social Science. Paperback. Stain to front cover, otherwise good. x + 179pp. Order No. NSBK-A12959
Keywords: B0006BMUNS, Emile Durkheim, philosophy, philosophers, sociologists, sociology, twentieth century, 20th
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Harrison, Shirley.
Sylvia Pankhurst: A Crusading Life 1882-1960
(Aurum Press, 2003).
Hardback. Small stain on top front edge and top of dustwrapper, otherwise very good. viii + 291pp. Order No. NSBK-D7899
Keywords: 9781854109057, Pankhursts, Pugh, politics, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, militants, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th, Sylvia, Christabel, women's history, Emmeline, the vote, women's rights, the women's movement, emancipation, woman, woman's, womans
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Clive, John.
Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History
(Collins Harvill, 1990).
Paperback. Near fine. xiv + 334pp. Order No. NSBK-A10012
Keywords: 0002720604, essays, history, reading, writing, Macaulay, Gibbon, Carlyle, Victorians, Michelet, De Tocqueville, Trevelyan, historiography, historians, nineteenth, twentieth, century, 19th, 20th
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Dayus, Kathleen.
All My Days:
(Virago, rpt., 1993).
The third book in the trilogy. Paperback. Light edge wear to covers, otherwise good. 154pp. Order No. NSBK-C7182
Keywords: 0860680762, Kathleen Dayus, All My Days, Birmingham, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life histories, life history, lives, memoirs, Second World War, World War Two, 2, II, twentieth century, 20th, women writers, woman writer, women's writing
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Palmer, William T.
The English Lakes:
(Adam and Charles Black, 1943).
With 31 Colour Plates by A. Heaton Cooper. A Black Colour Book. Hardback. Boards soiled and corners rubbed, otherwise good in tatty dustwrapper. 191pp. Order No. NSBK-J12963
Keywords: B000KDUQOC, Lake District, Cumbria, The Lakes, Cumberland, pictures, images, paintings, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, Heaton Cooper, Heaton Cooper's illustrations
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Bonnard, Pierre.
Pierre Bonnard, 1867-1947:
(Royal Academy of Arts, 1966).
Royal Academy of Arts, Winter Exhibition, 1966. Paperback. Small sticker mark to front cover, otherwise good. Light soiling to covers. 110pp. Order No. NSBK-A10080
Keywords: B0000CNC3D, Pierre Bonnard, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 20th, Royal Academy of Arts, painters, paintings, images, pictures
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