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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Snowden, Philip.
The Living Wage:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1912).
Hardback. Bright red boards slightly blotched / soiled at back, otherwise very good. xvi + 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A13340
Keywords: B00085I7GG, Philip Snowden, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, living wage, wages, economy, politics, living wage, poverty, cost of living, industry, employment, strikes, conciliation, labour, twentieth century, before the first world war, economics
Price £18.00.
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Pettitt, Stephen J.
Philharmonia Orchestra: A Record of Achievement, 1945 - 1985
(Robert Hale, 1985).
Illustrated. Hardback. Very good in sun-faded, slightly creased dustwrapper. 285pp. Order No. NSBK-A15017
Keywords: 0709023715, music, Philharmonia Orchestra, orchestral, history, post war, post-war, performances, Arts Council, EMI Records, London
Price £45.00.
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Wightman, Clare.
More than Munitions: Women, Work and the Engineering Institutions, 1900-1950
(Longman, 1999).
Paperback. A little soiling to page edges, otherwise good+. viii + 207pp. Order No. NSBK-C7738
Keywords: 9780582414358, munitions, women, gender, work, employment, jobs, employees, engineering, engineers, twentieth century, factories, factory, industry, industries, world wars, Second World War, World War 1, One, I, World War Two, II, 2, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Chrisp, Peter.
Evacuation:
(University of Susex Library, 1987).
Ringbound booklet. Very good. 20pp. Order No. NSBK-A13211
Keywords: 0850870194, Mass Observation, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, twentieth century, 20th Century, Blitz, Mass-Observation, Peter Chrisp, University of Sussex, 1939, 1940s, forties, home front, domestic front, social history, evacuation, evacuees, children, childhood, evacuation scheme, archive
Price £6.50.
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Miller, Russell & Renate.
Ten Days in May: The People's Story of V.E. Day
(Michael Joseph, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some soiling to page edges, otherwise good in chipped dustwrapper. xi + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-A189
Keywords: 0718139291, World War II, Second World War, V. E. Day, Britain, British, England, English, history, war, victory
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Cole, Pauline.
Transition to Arcady: A Story of Two Years Spent in the Women's Land Army - '47 to '49
(Arthur H.Stockwell, 2001).
Booklet. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. 31pp. Order No. NSBK-C13316
Keywords: 0722333412, women and work, working women, Women's Land Army, post-war, social history, women's history, farms, farming, agriculture, rural, post war, woman, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Pauline Cole, booklet
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Perkin, Harold.
Key Profession: The History of the Association of University Teachers
(RKP, 1969).
Hardback. Very good in faded and creased dustwrapper. 268pp. Order No. NSBK-A11913
Keywords: 0710065019, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, Harold Perkin, Association of University Teachers, professionals, profession
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Olyslager Auto Library, .
Cross-Country Cars from 1945:
(Frederick Warne & Co, 1975).
Hardback. Very good in slightly yellowed dustwrapper. 72pp. Order No. NSBK-A14869
Keywords: 0854295429, post-war, post war, cars, automobiles, cross country, county-country, vehicles, four-wheel drives, multi-purpose vehicles, engines, civilian, military
Price £9.00.
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Cowles, Virginia.
The Kaiser:
(Collins, 1963).
Hardback. Good+ in torn dustwrapper. 446pp. Order No. NSBK-A11889
Keywords: B0000CLXLT, Kaiser, Germany, Germans, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, Queen Victoria
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