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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Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, and Roger Leech.
Early Industrial Housing: the Trinity Area of Frome
(HMSO, 1981).
Supplementary Series. Paperback. Covers lightly rubbed, otherwise very good. viii + 44pp. Order No. NSBK-A7705
Keywords: 0117009075, Frome, Trinity Area, industrial housing, housing, houses, social history, architecture, architectural, buildings, homes, surveys, plans, streets, neighbourhood, town planning, regional studies, Britain, British, England, English, Somerset, urban, urbanisation, urban development, growth, 18th century, eighteenth century
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Roche, Tony and Monahan, Patricia.
Decorating with Stencils: Innovative Designs Step-by-Step Instructions Templates
(George Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, board edges worn, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-G13067
Keywords: 0789200945, decoration, decorating, stencils, designs, patterns, homes, houses, wallpaper, decor, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Thorns, David C.
Suburbia:
(MacGibbon & Kee, 1972).
Hardback. Good+. 175pp. Order No. NSBK-A13420
Keywords: 0261632612, suburbia, towns, cities, city, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, housing, houses
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Allaun, Frank.
No Place Like Home: Britain's Housing Tragedy (from the Victim's View) and How to Overcome It
(Andre Deutsch, 1972).
Paperback. Spine creased; top cover edge worn; page edges soiled, otherwise good. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A6687
Keywords: 0233964150, houses, housing, homes, residences, urban history, Britain, British, history, England, English, industry, slums, cottages, health, tenements, terraces
Price £2.50.
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Lyster, Robert A.
A First Course in Hygiene:
(University Tutorial Press, rpt, 1946).
Hardback. Blue cloth darkened and marked in places, corners worn, otherwise good. viii + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-A6371
Keywords: health, hygiene, social welfare, social hygiene, history, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, Robert A. Lyster, body, ventilation, text books, foods, digestion, cooking, nervous system, dwellings, housing, heating, water supply, diseases, infection, houses, diets
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Scott, A. F.
The Early Hanoverian Age, 1714-1760: Commentaries on an Era
(Croom Helm, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in spine-faded dustwrapper. 175pp. Order No. NSBK-A9097
Keywords: 0709904153, Hanover, Hanoverian, Britain, British, England, English, history, eighteenth, century, 18th, writings, paintings, engravings, drawings, cockfighting, coffee houses, highwaymen, South Sea Bubble, Black Hole of Calcutta, Richardson, Pope
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National Trust, .
Dunham Massey:
(The National Trust, rpt., 1999).
Paperback. Good+. 65pp. Order No. NSBK-A11997
Keywords: Dunham Massey, houses, stately homes, Cheshire, aristocrats, aristocracy
Price £6.00.
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Waters, William.
Stained Glass from Shrigley and Hunt of Lancaster and London:
(Centre for North-West Regional Studies, Lancaster University, 2003).
Hardback. Fine. 88pp. Order No. NSBK-A14728
Keywords: 9781862201408, stained glass, stained glass windows, religion, religious, Shrigley and Hunt, glass houses, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Centre for North-West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster, art, William Walters, church windows, church architecture
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Thomis, Malcolm I.
Old Nottingham:
(David and Charles, 1968).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. 200pp. Order No. NSBK-A7631
Keywords: 071534305X, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, regions, Britain, British, history, England, English, towns, Castle Rock, law, High Pavement, Thomas Bailey of Basford, Goose Fair, Luddites, Trade unions, trade unionism, enclosure, pubs, public houses
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