Darling, Isabella F.
Songs from Silence:
(Alexander Gardner, 2nd edition, 1913).
Hardback. Light scuffing and fading to blue boards, some light foxing to pages not affecting legibility, otherwise a good+ copy. 248pp. Order No. NSBK-A10180
Keywords: B0019RL7QO, Isabella Darling, women writers, woman writer, songs, writing, poetry, poems, poets, history, women's history, British, Britain, Scottish, Scotland, Scots, English, Victorian, nineteenth century, literature, literary, Lanarkshire, stane, singing, singers, music, verses, sickness
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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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Seabrook, Jeremy.
Unemployment:
(Quartet Books, 1982).
Hardback. Page edges soiled, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xiv + 226pp. Order No. NSBK-A9899
Keywords: 0704323257, unemployment, employment, work, workers, employers, employees, twentieth century, Jeremy Seabrook, eighties, redundancy
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Exwood, Maurice and Lehmann, H. L., eds.
The Journal of William Shellinks' Travels in England, 1661-1663:
(Royal Historical Society, 1993).
Camden Fifth Series, Volume I. Translated from the Dutch. Hardback. Very good. 196pp. Order No. NSBK-A13452
Keywords: 0861931351, Dutch, Netherland, seventeenth century, travel, traveller, traveler, William Shellinks, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, journals, diaries
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Ponting, K. G., ed.
Baines's Account of the Woollen Manufacture of England:
(David and Charles, 1970).
The text of Edward Baines's Account of the Woollen Manufacture of England is reprinted from Thomas Baines's Yorkshire, Past and Present (1875). Hardback. Spine ends bumped, otherwise very good. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-A10291
Keywords: 0715347543, Edward Baines, woollen, manufacture, manufacturing, England, English, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, production
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Floud, Roderick and McCloskey, Donald, eds.
The Economic History of Britain Since 1700:
(CUP, rpt, 1984).
Volume I only, 1700 - 1860. Paperback. Light creasing & yellowing to covers, otherwise very good. xv + 323pp. Order No. NSBK-A8899
Keywords: 0521298423, economy, economics, Roderick Floud, Donald McCloskey, history, labour, labor, labour supply, population, 18th century, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, 19th century, Victorian, demography, trade, empire, capital, capital accumulation, agriculture, industrial revolution, technology, technical progress, Britain, British, England, English
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Guinness, Alec.
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor
(Hamish Hamilton, 1996).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. x + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A9009
Keywords: 0241136679, actors, acor, Alec Guiness, autobiography, life, life history, lives, life histories, theatre, stage, twentieth century, Britain, British, history, England, English
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Cunningham, Hugh.
Grace Darling: Victorian Heroine
(Hambledon Continuum, 2007).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. ix + 203pp. Order No. NSBK-C14963
Keywords: 9781852855482, 19th, nineteenth century, Grace Darling, heroines, Victorian, Farne Islands, sea, maritime, oceans, history, women
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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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Beamont, William.
Annals of the Lords of Warrington and Bewsey from 1587 to 1833: When Warrington Became a Parliamentary Borough. In Two Parts. Part I: Warrington. Part II: Bewsey. With Notices of Historical and Local Events
(Charles Simms, Manchester, Percival Pearse, Warrington, 1873).
Hardback. A little wear to corners, edges and spine ends, a little cracking internally at binding, otherwise good+, firm. xxiv + 165pp. Order No. NSBK-A13754
Keywords: B000WFVS9A, Warrington, Bewsey, Lords, history, 19th century, Victorian, nineteenth century, Boteler, Atherton, Lancashire, early modern, Dudley, Delamer, seventeenth century, eighteenth century, William Beamont, antiquarian
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