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
Price £24.00.
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Porter, Valerie.
Yesterday's Countryside: Country Life as it Really Was
(David & Charles, rpt, 2003).
Hardback. Slight bump top edge, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. Large format. 319pp. Order No. NSBK-A15126
Keywords: 0715309684, countryside, country, history, agrarian, rural, farming, farms, country markets, social history
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White, Andrew.
The Buildings of Georgian Lancaster:
(Centre for North West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster, 2000).
Paperback. New book, fine. 76pp. Order No. NSBK-A5407
Keywords: 186220084X, Georgian, Lancaster, Lancastrian, North-West Centre for Regional Studies, University of Lancaster, art, architecture, Britain, British, history, England, English, Northern, cities, planning, city, urban, towns, public buildings, construction, Centre for North West Regional Studies
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Jansen, Harry.
The Construction of an Urban Past: Narrative and System in Urban History
(Berg, 2001).
Hardback. Light soiling to back board, otherwise very good+. vii + 374pp. Order No. NSBK-A13326
Keywords: 9781859734377, towns, city, town, cities, urban history, historiography, geography
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Bass Ratcliff and Gretton Limited, .
Excursion to Scarborough: Friday July 24th, 1914
(Bass Museum, reprint, 1977).
A charming booklet. On the very eve of the First World War, this detailed guide prepares Bass employees and their families for their day excursion to Scarborough by train. Illustrated. Booklet. Fine. 40pp. Order No. NSBK-A6872
Keywords: B000IZA06Q, Scarborough, seaside, holidays, outings, Britain, British, England, English, Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, towns, spa towns, working classes, working class, excursions, working class excursions, leisure, entertainment, recreation, train journeys, trains, railways, days out, day out, days-out, day-out, tramways, amusements, Bass, industrial workers, Bass Ratcliff and Gretton Limited, Ratcliff, Gretton, stations, twentieth century, World War I, Great War, First World War, pre-war, Bass Museum, Bass outings, booklet
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Greenall, R.L.
The Making of Victorian Salford:
(Carnegie Publishing, 2000).
Paperback. Edges soiled, otherwise good+. viii + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-A4545
Keywords: 1859360777, Salford, Manchester, Victorian, England, English, Britain, British, nineteenth century, history, social history, urban, industry, industrial, cotton, textiles, mills, factories, factory system, textile, towns, urbanisation
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Davis, Terence.
Tunbridge Wells: The Gentle Aspect
(Phillimore, 1976).
Photographs by Charles Saumarez Smith. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 72pp. Order No. NSBK-A5301
Keywords: 0850332508, Tunbridge wells, towns, British, Britain, English, England, History, urban, city, cities, photographs, architecture, architectural history, planning, Mount Ephraim, Mount Sion, Mount Pleasant
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Sutton, Richard.
Motor Mania: Stories from a Motoring Century
(Collins and Brown, 1996).
A major Channel 4 TV series. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 159pp. Order No. NSBK-A7822
Keywords: 1855852608, cars, motors, automobiles, transport, vehicles, twentieth century, 20th, garages, roads, machines, motoring, driving, classic cars, motor markets, Richard Sutton, history
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Noin, Daniel and Woods, Robert, eds.
The Changing Population of Europe:
(Blackwell, 1993).
Paperback. Some sun-fading to spine and top edge, otherwise very good. xvi + 260pp. Order No. NSBK-J13875
Keywords: 0631189726, population, demography, demographic, Europe, European, history, society, geography, urbanisation, towns, urban growth, migration, family, fertility, mortality
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Reece, S.
Guide to Manchester and Salford:
(St Ann's Press, 2nd edit., 1948).
Card covers. Spine loose, boards soiled and worn otherwise good. 159pp. Order No. NSBK-A12079
Keywords: B000J32PLK, Manchester, Salford, North-West, North West, towns, city, cities, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, guides
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