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.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Johnson, Chris.
Women on the Frontline: Voices from Southern Africa
(Macmillan, 1992).
Editor: Jo Campling. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ condition in slightly yellowed, slightly soiled dustwrapper. xviii + 197pp. Order No. NSBK-C13322
Keywords: 0333539532, Jo Campling, Chris Johnson, women, war, South Africa, Southern Africa, African, wars, frontline, rural, urban, marriage, domestic service, equality, work education
Price £11.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Service, Robert.
The Best of Robert Service:
(A & C Black, rpt., 1997).
Paperback. Good+. vii + 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A12750
Keywords: 0713644648, Robert Service, poems, poetry, literature, poets, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
Price £8.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Enamel Reproduction Suffragette Badge, WSPU Loyal Service 1913.
Women's Social and Political Union, Modern Replica Badge: Loyal Service, WSPU, 1913. Deeds Not Words
(Portrayer Publishers, 2005).
Large rosette-shaped badge (with a diameter of 45mm), in the attractive suffragette colours of purple, white and green. Gold-plated finish all round. Purple background with green circle displaying the words "Loyal Service - Deeds Not Words" in gold. On an inner white circle, in the centre of the badge, the letters "W.S.P.U" and the date "1913" appear, also in gold. Gold back and safety pin to rear for easy affixing to garments. Presented inside a small poly-bag. Badge. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C8954
Keywords: Christmas gifts, jewellery, jewelry, woman suffrage, button badge, the pin backs, the pinback, suffragette era, suffragettes, suffragist activity, women, women's history, woman, social history, Britain, British history, England, English history, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, enamel badges, suffragette jewellery, suffragette jewelry, brooch, brooches, Portrayer Publishers, suffragette ephemera
Price £13.50.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
View Image
|
Service, Robert W.
The Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man:
(T. Fisher Unwin, 1916).
Hardback. Some splitting internally at spine front and back. Endpapers partly detached, ex library. Boards stained, frayed at edges and soiled. A good working copy only. viii + 176pp. Order No. NSBK-A14891
Keywords: B000RNFXA2, Red Cross, verse, poems, poetry, World War I, First World War, Great War, social history, Robert W. Service
Price £10.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Clulow, Derek A.
No Tides to Stem: A History of the Manchester Pilot Service
(Countyvise Ltd, 1998).
Volume 2 only. Paperback. Edges soiled, otherwise very good. x + 276pp. Order No. NSBK-A8073
Keywords: 1901231062, Manchester Ship Canal, boats, ships, maritime, canals, North-West, Manchester, pilots, Manchester Pilot Service, pilotage, Helmsman Service, vessels, work, working conditions, seas, navigation
Price £6.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Gregson, Nicky & Lowe, Michelle.
Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Labour in Contemporary Britain
(Routledge, 1994).
Paperback. Fine. viii + 327pp. Order No. NSBK-A1431
Keywords: 0415085314, domestic labour, class, gender, Britain, British, England, English, middle class, middle classes, wages, nanny, nannies, servants, servant, maid servants, maid servants, cleaners, cleaner, home helps, gender relations, class, sociology, women, women and work
Price £12.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Brett, Michael, ed.
Things a Lady Would Like to Know Concerning Domestic Management:
(Hutchinson, 1970).
Paperback. Covers soiled, otherwise good. 93pp. Order No. NSBK-A9578
Keywords: 0091043514, lady, ladies, domestic management, household, wife, wives, spouses, Britain, British, England, English, history
Price £6.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Heath, Carl.
Military Service, Compulsory and Otherwise:
(Rationalist Peace Society, no date, circa First World War).
Leaflet no 2. Paperback. Slight browning and chipping to edges, otherwise very good. 2pp. Order No. NSBK-A14131
Keywords: pacifists, pacifism, pacifist, military service, compulsory military service, social history, Carl Heath, fighting, World War I, First World War, Great War, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, peace, peace movements
Price £8.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Anderson, Christopher.
The Domestic Constitution or the Family Circle: the Source and Test of National Stability
(W.P. Kennedy, Edinburgh, new & improved edition, 1847).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, embossed cloth rubbed / slightly marked, a little splitting top spine end & internally at spine, otherwise good, tight. xviii + 464pp. Order No. NSBK-A5355
Keywords: B000W6Q560, domestic, domesticity, contemporary comment, history, Britain, British, England, English, family, families, nineteenth century, domestic constitution, national stability, nation, nationhood, parenthood, civilisation, parents, instruction, advice books, moral, moral constitution, mores, morality, obedience, domestic education, domestic government, obligation, right, duties, duty, responsibility, responsibilities, domestic circles, reason, rational, religion, religious, educating children, antiquarian
Price £12.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
|
|
