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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Malmgreen, Gail.
Neither Bread nor Roses: Utopian Feminists and the English Working Class, 1800-1850
(John L. Noyce, 1978).
Studies in Labour History. Pamphlet. Covers slightly soiled and browned, otherwise good. 43pp. Order No. NSBK-C12787
Keywords: B001B4DC36, Gail Malmgreen, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, utopias, class, working class, working-class, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, pamphlets, stored with pamphlets
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Ritchie, Rear Admiral G. S.
The Admiralty Chart: British Naval Hydrography in the 19th Century
(Hollis and Carter, 1967).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, page edges and dustwrapper lightly soiled, otherwise good+. 388pp. Order No. NSBK-A15714
Keywords: B0000CNE77, stored with rare, naval, Britain, British navy, history, admiralty, hydrography, surveying, charts, ships, sailers, shipping, vessels
Price £26.00.
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Coronation Street, Derek Meakin.
The Coronation Street Wedding Souvenir: Elsie Tanner and Sergeant Steve Tanner
(TV Times, 1967).
TV Times Special. 4to. Pictorial Cover. Magazine format. Folded at centre, all edges tatty, internally good. 31pp. Order No. NSBK-Z15450
Keywords: ITV, Coronation Street, souvenirs, 1960s, sixties, television, Elsie Tanner, stored with Darling books
Price £13.00.
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Graham, Andrew with Seldon, Anthony, ed.
Government and Economies in the Postwar World: Economic Policies and Comparative Performance, 1945-85
(Routledge, 1990).
Paperback. Minor annotation, otherwise good. x + 332pp. Order No. NSBK-A8457
Keywords: 0415072883, government, policies, politics, economy, economics, twentieth century, 20th, United Kingdom, Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Soviet union, United States, USA, America, Japan
Price £7.00.
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Tilley, Helen with Gordon, Robert J.
Ordering Africa: Anthropology, European Imperialism and the Politics of Knowledge
(MUP, 2007).
Studies in Imperialism. Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xiv + 390pp. Order No. NSBK-A14525
Keywords: 9780719062391, African, Africa, imperialism, imperial, colonial, colonialism, anthropology, history, Empire, colonial administration, French Congo, Sudan, Kenya, Belgian Congo, Gabon, essays, ethnography
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Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
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Kahn, Albert.
Days with Ulanova:
(Collins, 1962).
With an Introduction by Arnold L. Haskell. Hardback. Large format, good in slightly edge worn dustwrapper. 235pp. Order No. NSBK-C5310
Keywords: B0000CLJYI, Galina Ulanova, ballet, ballerina, prima ballerina, Bolshoi Ballet, Covent Garden, dancing, dance, dances, dancers, Soviet Union, Russia, biography, biographies, life history, life histories, women's history, Russian
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Wright, Thomas.
The Romance of the Lace Pillow: Being The History Of Lace-Making In Bucks, Beds, Northants And Neighbouring Counties, Together With Some Account Of The Lace Industries of Devon And Ireland
(Olney, Bucks, 2nd edition, 1930).
Volume II only of two. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings. Minor wear to edges, otherwise good+. ii + 125 + 271pp. Order No. NSBK-A15131
Keywords: B0018Y07WI, lace, lace-making, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, history, lace-makers, Devon, Ireland, Irish, bobbins, crochet, sewing, crafts
Price £16.00.
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Storkey, Elaine.
What's Right With Feminism:
(SPCK, 1985).
A Third Way Book. Paperback. Fine. 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C13647
Keywords: 0281041806, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Christian, religion, religious
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