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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Goodchild, K, Ikin, P and Leach, J.
Looking Back at Knutsford:
(Willow Publishing, 1984).
Full of black and white photographs. Paperback. A4 size. Covers somewhat worn, internally good. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-H13779
Keywords: 0946361096, Knutsford, Cheshire, rural towns, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, pictures, images, illustrations
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Darling, Jen.
Portrait of Warrington:
(Sigma Leisure, 1989).
Paperback. Ex Librrary with usual library stamps and stickers. viii + 88pp. Order No. NSBK-A15377
Keywords: 1850582076, Warrington, towns, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Wilson, Graham K.
Business and Politics: A Comparative Introduction
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd edition, 1990).
Paperback. Very good. xiv + 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A8518
Keywords: 0333535820, business, businesses, economic, economy, government, policy, economic growth, market, international, markets, economies
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Simmons, Jack.
Life in Victorian Leicester:
(Leicester Museums, 1971).
Paperback. Good. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-A14236
Keywords: B001QXYCK4, Leicester, Leicestershire, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, 19th century, nineteenth century, local history, towns, urban, Midlands, social history
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Graham, Frank.
The Geordie Netty: A Short History and Guide
(Howe Brothers, 1980).
Northern History Booklet No.1001. Paperback. Good+. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A11321
Keywords: B000RJVMEW, geordies, netty, netties, nettys, toilets, urination, W.C.s, water closets, urban, cities, city, towns, Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North-East, North East, history, booklet
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Thomis, Malcolm I.
The Town Labourer and the Industrial Revolution:
(B.T. Batsford, 1974).
Paperback. Spine faded, otherwise very good. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-A5486
Keywords: 0713428333, town labourers, Industrial Revolution, social history, Britain, British, England, English, workers, work, industry, urban, urbanisation, towns, factory, factories, trade unions, trade unionism, trade union, collectives, combinations, Combination Laws, factory system, handloom weavers
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Short, Basil and Sales, John.
The Book of Bridport:
(Barracuda Bks, 1980).
Limited Edition. Number 454. Richly illustrated with photographs. Hardback. Spine sun-faded, otherwise very good and clean in sun-faded dustwrapper. 126pp. Order No. NSBK-A14042
Keywords: 0860230791, Bridport, history, Saxons, Normans, Norman, Saxon, Priory, harbour, towns, town, Dorset, schools, social history, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, pictures, photographs
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Havins, Peter J. Neville.
The Spas of England:
(Robert Hale, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in very slightly chipped dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A12051
Keywords: 0709152647, spas, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, towns, cities, city, water, health, public health
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Flinn, M. W and Smout, T. C. eds.
Essays in Social History:
(Clarendon Press, 1974).
Edited for the Economic History Society. Paperback. Minor annotation, slightly shaky with tatty covers, a good working copy. xi + 289pp. Order No. NSBK-A5657
Keywords: 0198770170, social history, economy, economics, Britain, British, England, English, labour, labor, Industrial Revolution, industry, Sunday Schools, Manchester, Poor Laws, class, classes, towns, urban history, social reform, mortality, trade unions, women's history, trade unionism
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