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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Henny, E. and Byett, J. D.
Modern Home Laundrywork:
(J.M. Dent and Sons, rpt., 1948).
Illustrated with photographs and drawings of different types of laundry equipment, methods of folding items of clothing etc. Hardback. Good. x + 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A10644
Keywords: women, women's history, homes, Britain, British, homekeeping, housekeeping, housewifery, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, laundry, washing, stains, cotton, linen, fabrics, cleaning, rayon, nylon, family wash, domestic, domesticity, laundrywork, reagents, equipment, water, soap, women's work, textiles, housewife, housewives, clothes, clothing
Price £7.00.
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Haste, Cate.
Rules of Desire: Sex in Britain: World War I to the Present
(Pimlico, rpt., 1994).
Paperback. Very good. xi + 356pp. Order No. NSBK-C8117
Keywords: 0712660240, Britain, british, England, English, sex, sexuality, gender, desire, twentieth century, 20th, divorce, marriage, abortion, free love, Marie Stopes, Bertrand Russell, pleasure, bodies, body, moral, morality
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Mackenzie, Suzanne.
Visible Histories: Women and Environments in a Post-War British City
(McGill-Queen's UP, 1989).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 217pp. Order No. NSBK-C12005
Keywords: 0773507124, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, work, women's work, women and work, employment, city, cities, towns, environments, Brighton
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Lawrence, Elizabeth.
Gender and Trade Unions:
(Taylor & Francis, 1994).
Paperback. Very good. xii + 175pp. Order No. NSBK-C4214
Keywords: 0748401474, gender, trade unions, trade unionism, sociology, women, trade union, work, industry, twentieth century, feminism, Britain, British, England, English, shop stewards, NALGO
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Bowman, Gerald.
The Lamp and the Book: The Story of the Rcn, 1916-1966
(The Queen Anne Press, 1967).
Hardback. Page edges foxed, a little spotting to cloth, otherwise good. 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A3936
Keywords: 0362000220, Royal College of Nursing, nurse, nursing, medicine, medical, health, doctor, women's work, twentieth century, Nightingale Training School, hospital, National Council of Nurses, nursing profession, Nurses Act
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Kingston-upon-Hull City Council, .
Silvered Wings: A Commemorative Brochure
(Kingston-upon-Hull CC, 1980).
The story of Amy Johnson. Produced for the Amy Johnson Festival, Kingston-Upon-Hull, 3rd - 24th May 1980. Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-C9692
Keywords: B000HC6XGQ, Amy Johnson, aircraft, aeroplanes, aviators, women, woman, history, Britain, British, England, English, wings, biographical, biographies, biography, lives, life, gender, women's work, Hull, twentieth century, 20th, planes, aviation
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Boguet, Henri.
An Examen of Witches: Discours Execrable Des Sourciers
(Portrayer Publishers, 2002 facs. rpt of 1929 ed).
First published 1602. Edited by Montague Summers. Translated by E. Allen Ashwin. A well-presented facsimile of a hitherto scarce title. Paperback. New book, fine. 328pp. Order No. NSBK-C5096
Keywords: 0954263227, witch, witches, witchcraft, magic, Henry Boguet, Henri Boguet, history, persecution, trials, judges, courts, magistrates, priests, early modern history, Burgundy, torture, social history, Europe, European, seventeenth century, 17th century, Montague Summers, E. Allen Ashwin, occult, magick, sorcery, sourcier, sourciers, superstition, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, sorcerers, incantations
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Bennett, Arthur.
Songs in the Darkness:
(Sunrise Publishing, Warrington, 1927).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, covers sunned at the top, otherwise a good+ copy. xiv + 212pp. Order No. NSBK-A10182
Keywords: B000HC7252, songs, poems, poets, poetry, Arthur Bennett, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, Warrington, Lancashire
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Vallely, Bernadette.
What Women Want: The Campaign for Social and Political Change
(Virago, 1996).
Paperback. Fine. xxx + 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C11350
Keywords: 1860491731, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, twentieth century, 20th, politics, political, politicians, government
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