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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Spaull, Hebe.
The Co-operative Movement in the World Today:
(Barrie and Rockliff, 1965).
With an introduction by W. P. Watkins. Hardback. Good in slightly soiled/worn dustwrapper. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A5038
Keywords: B0000CMR1N, Co-operative Movement, co-op, co-operative, Britain, British, Europe, European, USA, Canada, America, Southern Asia, Far East, Middle East, Northern Africa, Caribbean, South America, Australasia, government, work, labour, labor, British Commonwealth, devloping countries, twentieth century, world
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Sackett, Terence.
British Life A Century Ago: Images from the Francis Frith Collection
(Frith Book Company Limited, rpt., 2001).
Richly illustrated with black and white photographs. Paperback. Very good. 133pp. Order No. NSBK-A12072
Keywords: 1859372139, photos, photography, photographs, Francis Frith, photographers, photography, images, pictures, Edwardian, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Field, Jean.
She Dyed About Midnight: The Story of Landor House, Eastgate and the Cottages in Smith Street, Warwick
(Brewin Books, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in slightly dented dustwrapper. viii + 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C7119
Keywords: 1858580005, Landor, Ann Johnson, dyed, died, Warwick, Warwickshire, Jean Field, houses, homes, schools, schooling, Eastgate, Britain, British, England, English, Eleanor Doorly, The King's High School, cottages, Smith Street, Early Modern, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, seventeenth century, sixteenth century, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, education, educational
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Yeo, Geoffrey, ed.
The British Overseas: A Guide to Records of their Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths and Burials, Available in the United Kingdom
(Guildhall Library, 1st edition, 1984).
Booklet. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, covers soiled, otherwise good. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A13887
Keywords: B001AB1IKY, British overseas, expatriots, expats, births, deaths, geneaology, geneaological, history, marriages, family research, family history, Geoffrey Yeo, abroad, migration, emigration, immigration, emigrants, immigrants, booklet
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Coleman, Deirdre, ed.
Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies: Two Women's Travel Narratives of the 1790s
(Leicester UP, 1999).
Paperback. New book, fine. xviii + 247pp. Order No. NSBK-C4338
Keywords: 0718501500, maiden voyages, colonies, colonialism, imperialism, empire, travel, narrative, narratives, women, history, 1790s, eighteenth century, traveler, travelers, travellers, travelers, Mary Ann Parker, Anna Maria Falconbridge, voyages, voyage, Sierra Leone, black history, John Clarkson, Thomas Clarkson, William Dawes, ships, Africa, African, sailing vessels, vessels
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Addis, E., Russo, V. E. and Sebesta, L.
Women Soldiers: Images and Realities
(St Martin's Press, 1994).
Hardback. Very good + with newspaper cutting pasted to inside front page. xxiv + 184pp. Order No. NSBK-C12430
Keywords: 0333600932, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, soldiers, images, representation, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States
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Department of Employment, .
Time Rates of Wages and Hours of Work: 1st April 1971
(HMSO, 1971).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some creasing to front cover, otherwise good. 327pp. Order No. NSBK-A14182
Keywords: 0113603738, wages, hours, work, time rates, employment, 1970s, seventies, manufacturing, industry, economy, textiles, factories, factory, engineering, social history, pay
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Heinemann, Margot.
Wages Front:
(Lawrence & Wishart, 1947).
Hardback. Very good in foxed, browned & slightly chipped dustwrapper. xii + 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A5507
Keywords: B0006ARPZ2, Margot Heinemann, post war, post-war, postwar, Labour Research Department, economy, economic, history, wages, earnings, wage, income, Britain, British, England, English, wage-earners, labour, labor, minimum wage, skilled, unskilled, cost of living, low wages, economic recovery, reconstruction
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Wickham, Glynne.
Early English Stages, 1300 to 1660: Volume One: 1300 to 1576
(RKP, 1963).
Volume One: 1300 to 1576. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps, otherwise good+ in worn, slightly loose, slightly creased dustwrapper. xliv + 428pp. Order No. NSBK-A14378
Keywords: B002A8TGAK, stage, stages, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, theatre, theatrical, miracle plays, pageant theatre, entertainment
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