Baines, Thomas.
History of the Town and Commerce of Liverpool: and of the Rise of Manufacturing Industry in the Adjoining Counties
(Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, London, Liverpool, 1852).
Small library markings to spine and front endpaper. Frontispiece plan of Liverpool damaged and repaired with sellotape. Another plan, of Royalist Fortifications, torn in two but complete. A little rubbing / bumping to corners, but a very nice copy indeed, sound and tight. Hardback. Full leather nicely repaired. Gilt decoration front & back, raised gilt bands & titles to spine, all edges gilt. Ex library, but library markings minimal. Very good, attractive. xvi + 844 + 13pp. Order No. NSBK-A6861
Keywords: B000K40UBA, towns, cities, urban, city, commerce, commercial, manufacturing, manufacture, Liverpool, Merseyside, North West, England, Britain, British, English, counties, Lancashire, history, urbanisation, antiquarian, industry, industrial, Thomas Baines, Industrial Revolution, industrialisation, town, Mersey, Victorian, nineteenth century, Liverpool Docks, trade, exports, imports, economic, economy, ports, port
Price £60.00.
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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
Price £24.00.
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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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Rose, Mark H.
Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America
(Pennsylvania UP, 1995).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. xviii + 229pp. Order No. NSBK-A12352
Keywords: 0271013494, city, cities, towns, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, gas, electricity, urban, power, technology
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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
Price £4.00.
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Stanley, Oliver; Buchan, John, Bressey, C. H.
British Bridges: an Illustrated Technical and Historical Record
(Public Works, Roads, Transport Congress, 1933).
With many photographic illustrations. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Splitting / cracking damage to exterior of spine, with some wear to all edges. Otherwise overall good. xxiv + 498pp. Order No. NSBK-A14968
Keywords: B000RZAQPW, bridges, history, technical, transport, history, technology, roads, infrastructure, public works, bridge, towns, crossing points, photos, photographs, pictures, illustrations
Price £35.00.
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Brydon, Lynne & Chant, Sylvia.
Women in the Third World: Gender Issues in Rural and Urban Areas
(Edward Elgar, rpt, 1993).
Paperback. Very good. 327pp. Order No. NSBK-C6810
Keywords: 1852781904, gender, rural, countryside, Third World, development, developing countries, women, urban, towns, urban planning, town planning, women's issues, household, reproduction, migration, rural development policy, Brazil, South America, South East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, African, East Africa, poverty, poor
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North West Civic Trust, Norman Bilsborough.
The Treasures of Cheshire:
(North West Civic Trust, 2nd rpt, 1986).
Paperback. Very good. vi + 184pp. Order No. NSBK-A14088
Keywords: Cheshire, tourism, beauty spots, history, Chester, villages, churches, industrial archaeology, towns, countryside, architecture
Price £13.99.
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Kent, Graeme.
Poverty:
(B.T. Batsford, 1968).
Past into Present Series. Illustrated in black and white with pictures and photographs. Hardback. Spine ends rubbed, otherwise good in tatty dustwrapper. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-A12995
Keywords: 0713417544, poverty, poor, towns, urban, cities, workers, instituitions, Poor law, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, images, pictures
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Cottrell, P.L.
British Overseas Investment in the Nineteenth Century:
(Macmillan, 1975).
Studies in Economic and Social History Series. Paperback. Covers soiled, some ink annotation, otherwise good. 79pp. Order No. NSBK-A10152
Keywords: 0333135903, Britain, British, overseas, investment, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian, capital exports, Borrowing Economy, British Economy, the Long Swing, markets
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