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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Cherrett, Pauline, ed.
Introduction to Chinese Brush Painting:
(Quantum, 2002).
Paperback. Very good. 127pp. Order No. NSBK-G12278
Keywords: 1861605544, China, Chinese, art, artists, painters, paintings, brush painting,
Price £6.00.
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Oakley, Ann.
Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents Early Years
(Flamingo, 1997).
Paperback. Spine creased and cover edges worn, otherwise good. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C10416
Keywords: 0006550134, parents, Richard Titmuss, Kay Titmuss, Kay Miller, welfare state, biography, biographies, autobiography, autobiographies, feminism, feminists, family, social history, families, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, 20th
Price £2.00.
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Aikin, Dr, & Barbauld, Mrs.
Evenings at Home: Consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces, for the Instruction and Amusement of Youth
(Ward, Lock, rpt, no date).
Illustrated by the brothers Dalziel. Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, corners rubbed & spine ends slightly split, some white staining at base of boards, otherwise good. viii + 456pp. Order No. NSBK-C349
Keywords: B001KG3N20, children's literature, amusement, instruction, Britain, British, England, English, history, Juvenile Budget Opened, Evenings at Home, Warrington, North West England, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Dr Aikin, education, educational, children's stories, Dissent, nonconformity, nonconformists, antiquarian
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Lummis, Trevor and Marsh, Jan.
The Woman's Domain: Women and the English Country House
(Viking, 1990).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xii + 221pp. Order No. NSBK-C13893
Keywords: 0670816809, Hardwick Hall, women's history, women, Trevor Lummis, Jan Marsh, Arlington Court, Wallington, Belton House, Saltram, English country houses, Bess of Hardwick, domestic servants, domestic service
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Phillips, David.
Exploring Museums: North West England and the Isle of Man
(HMSO, 1989).
Hardback. Very good. xiv + 114pp. Order No. NSBK-A3434
Keywords: 0112904734, museums, North West England, English, Britain, British, history, Museums and Galleries Commission
Price £4.00.
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Hill, William Thomson.
Octavia Hill: Pioneer of the National Trust and Housing Reformer
(Hutchinson, 1956).
Hardback. Very good in soiled and chipped dustwrapper. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C1243
Keywords: B0007IVFJU, housing, National Trust, housing reform, history, Octavia Hill, biographies, poverty, open spaces, London, Hampstead Heath
Price £13.99.
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Brenner, Y. S.
Capitalism, Competition and Economic Crisis: Structured Changes in Advanced Industrialised Countries
(Wheatsheaf Books, rpt., 1986).
Paperback. Small chip to top of spine end, otherwise very good. x + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-A7977
Keywords: 0745002870, capitalism, competition, economic, economics, industrialised, industry, twentieth century, 20th
Price £10.00.
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Tranter, N. L.
Population Since the Industrial Revolution: The Case of England and Wales
(Croom Helm, 1973).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, minor pencil annotation, otherwise good in edge worn dustwrapper. 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A8259
Keywords: 0856640123, population, people, industry, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, Britain, British, England, English, Wales, Welsh
Price £8.90.
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Trompenaars, Fons.
Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business
(Economist Books, 1993).
Hardback. Very good in slightly rubbed dustwrapper. xi + 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A14980
Keywords: 0850584280, business, cultural diversity, managers, management
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