Dyos, H.J., ed.
The Study of Urban History: The Proceedings of an International Round Table Conference of the Urban History Group at Gilbert Murray Hall, University of Leicester, Sept. 1966
(Edward Arnold, rpt, 1971).
Hardback. Fly leaf clipped, otherwise good in browned dustwrapper. xxii + 400pp. Order No. NSBK-A266
Keywords: 0713154136, urban history, Britain, British, England, English, history, towns, cities, Victorian, nineteenth century, urbanisation, industrialisation
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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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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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Smith, Keith.
The British Economic Crisis: its Past and Future
(Penguin, rpt with revisions, 1989).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, covers soiled, lacks fly leaf, a good working copy. 265pp. Order No. NSBK-A7883
Keywords: 0140228136, economics, economy, British, Britain, English, England, history, crisis, monetarism, Keynesianism, industrial recovery, boom, markets
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Mallory, Keith.
The Bristol House:
(Redcliffe Press, 1985).
Paperback. A little curling to cover edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A9729
Keywords: 0905459997, homes, houses, Bristol, housing, cities, city, towns, great house, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, 18th, eighteenth, architecture, architectural
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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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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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Petavel, J. W.
Administrative Efficiency and What it Might Give Us: Reduced Military Expenditure with Increased Army Reserves, and the Solution of the Problems of the Unemployed, of Rehousing, and of Technical Education
(Swan Sonnenschein, 1906).
The Towns of the Future and Self-Supporting Armies. Hardback. Pages browned and a little brittle with age. First page detached. Ex-library with usual lib stamps, in library binding. Good. 58pp. Order No. NSBK-A13365
Keywords: B0006F9FZU, Edwardian, army, army reserves, militarism, military expenditure, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, unemployment, unemployed, rehousing, housing, technical education, administrative efficiency, conscription, social reform, houses, military, labour, land, towns, town planning
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McKelvey, Blake.
The City in American History:
(George Allen and Unwin, 1969).
Paperback. Some browning to covers, otherwise good. x + 229pp. Order No. NSBK-A5897
Keywords: 043010180, city, American, USA, United States, America, history, cities, city, towns, urban, planning, building, construction, colonial ports, metropolis, metropolitan, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, skyscrapers, architecture
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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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