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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Hunt, Leigh.
Captain Sword and Captain Pen: A Poem. With a Preface, Remarks on War and Notes Detailing the Horrors on Which the Poem is Founded
(Charles Gilpin, 3rd edition, 1849).
All edges gilt. Hardback. Small. Ex library with usual library stamps. Original decorated boards sunned, damage to spine ends, light wear to edges. A little splitting internally at binding, otherwise good. 101pp. Order No. NSBK-A14261
Keywords: B0014HXZ3C, poems, poetry, Leigh Hunt, nineteenth century, war, wars, military, 19th century
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Jones, I. G. and Williams, G.
Social Policy, Crime and Punishment: Essays in Memory of Jane Morgan
(Wales UP, 1994).
Hardback. Light soiling to red cloth, otherwise good. x + 202pp. Order No. NSBK-A15218
Keywords: 9780708312582, crime, punishment, history, social policy, Welsh, Wales, police, prisons, prison
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Mackenzie, Norman & Jeanne, eds.
The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Volume I: 1873 - 1892. Glitter Around and Darkness Within
(Virago, rpt, 1986).
Volume I only. Paperback. Edges slightly curled, otherwise good. xxii + 386pp. Order No. NSBK-C4262
Keywords: 0860688461, Beatrice Webb, socialism, socialist, socialists, Fabian, Fabians, Fabian socialism, women, history, diaries, diary, Victorian, Sidney Webb, Charles Booth, Margaret Harkness, Joseph Chamberlain, nineteenth century, Virago, Webbs
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White, E. W.
British Fishing-Boats and Coastal Crafts: Part I : Historical Survey
(HMSO, rpt., 1957).
Paperback. Good. 60pp. Order No. NSBK-A12961
Keywords: B0007K0JUY, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, boats, ships, marine, fish, fishing, coasts, crafts, coastal, maritime, history, England, Scotland, Ireland, Thames Estuary
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Gordon, Eleanor & Breitenbach, Esther, eds.
The World is Ill-Divided: Women's Work in Scotland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
(Edinburgh UP, 1990).
Paperback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpaper, slight crease to front cover, otherwise very good. viii + 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C15722
Keywords: 9780748602124, women and work, Scotland, Victorian, Edwardian, Glasgow, waged work, agriculture, prostitution, domestic labour, printing trade, sweated trades, textile industry, Edinburgh, Scottish women's history, Scottish history, working women, scots
Price £16.95.
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Esher, Reginald Viscount.
The Tragedy of Lord Kitchener:
(John Murray, rpt, 1921).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Boards worn and marked. Some splitting internally at spine, a good working copy. xv + 219pp. Order No. NSBK-A15067
Keywords: B000L9ILRY, Lord Kitchener, World War I, Great War, First World War, Western Front, army, military
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Beasley, Chris.
What is Feminism?: An Introduction to Feminist Theory
(Sage, 1999).
Paperback. Very good. xvii + 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C11079
Keywords: 9780761963356, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, history of ideas, politics, women and politics, twentieth century, 20th
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Mitchell, David.
Women on the Warpath: The Story of the Women of the First World War
(Jonathan Cape, 1966).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Some cracking internally at spine, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in worn, chipped dustwrapper. xvi + 400pp. Order No. NSBK-A14202
Keywords: B0000CMXCJ, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, munitions, Western Front, Pankhursts, women, women's history, WAAC, Pethick-Lawrence
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Horrocks, Sidney, ed.
Lancashire History: Historical Period: i) Hanover ii) Contemporary Broadsides
(Manc Joint Committee on Lanc Biblio, 1978).
A Contribution Towards a Lancashire Bibliography 9. Hardback. Spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise good. xiv + 242pp. Order No. NSBK-A13737
Keywords: B000HBZSHM, Lancashire, Hanover, contemporary broadsides, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, nineteenth, eighteenth, century, Hanoverian
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