Maurice, C. Edmund, ed.
Life of Octavia Hill: as Told in her Letters
(Macmillan, rpt, 1914).
Hardback. Some foxing to early pages, minor yellow highlighting to text, rubbing to edges and spine ends, otherwise a good solid copy. vii + 591pp. Order No. NSBK-C4485
Keywords: B01M9FUK1S, Octavia Hill, biography, biographies, autobiographies, autobiography, letters, housing, Victorian social reformers, reform, philanthropy, town planning, open spaces, settlements, dwellings, poverty, poor, paupers, pauperism, Britain, England, English, British, National Trust, commons, working class, working classes
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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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Waugh, Thomas.
The Clarion or the Bible:
(Charles H. Kelly, 2nd edit., n.d.).
In this scarce period source, Thomas Waugh attacks the Clarion Movement and in particular Robert Blatchford himself, whom he describes as "The Infidel". In the name of "Christian workers who have in the past sympathised with pure socialism", Waugh sets out to win back the hearts and minds of working men "whom 'The Clarion' has hit". Hardback. Small, some ink scorings on pg edges & 1st page of chapter 1 only, otherwise very good with gilt decorated boards. 136pp. Order No. NSBK-A5246
Keywords: B0008BTIQS, Clarion Club, Clarion Clubs, history, social history, bible, religious, scripture, temperance, socialism, socialist, socialists, Britain, British, England, English, Clarion Movement, socialist movements, Robert Blatchford, religion, Thomas Waugh, Rev Thomas Waugh, workers, working classes, Christian, Christian socialism, Christians, Christian socialists, infidelity, atheism
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Read, Donald and Glasgow, Eric.
Feargus O'Connor: Irishman and Chartist
(Edward Arnold, 1961).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, light sellotape marks to cloth, otherwise good in slightly worn dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A10350
Keywords: B0000CKYZG, Chartists, Chartist movement, Chartism, radicalism, popular protest, nineteenth century, Victorian, socialism, reform, politics, franchise, votes, suffrage, working class, representation, working-class, classes, radicals, Irish, Irishman, British, England, English, history, biography, biographies, biographical, life history, life histories, lives, eighteenth century, 18th
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Thompson, Thea.
Edwardian Childhoods:
(RKP, reprint, 1982).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers and a little waviness to a few pages, otherwise good. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A6236
Keywords: 0710093357, child, children, Edwardian, infancy, family, Britain, British, England, English, history, childhood, reminiscences, memories, memory, autobiographies, autobiography, autobiographical, class, povert, poor, paupers, working class, working classes, lower orders
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Harrison, J.F.C. & Thompson, Dorothy.
Bibliography of the Chartist Movement, 1837-1976:
(Harvester Press, 1978).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xvi + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A627
Keywords: 0855273348, bibliography, bibliographies, Chartism, Chartists, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 19th, 20th, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, politics, working class, working classes, working-class, class system, democracy
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Burnett, John, ed.
Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, 1982).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise good+ in browned, slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. 345pp. Order No. NSBK-A7533
Keywords: 9780713912142, autobiography, childhood, education, Victorian, social history, England, Britain, autobiographies, 19th century, nineteenth century, children, family, families, schooling, working class, working classes, working-class, literature, John Burnett
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Emsley, Clive and Walvin, James, eds.
Artisans, Peasants and Proletarians, 1760 - 1860:
(Croom Helm, 1985).
A collection of essays. Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled / discoloured dustwrapper. 236pp. Order No. NSBK-A7854
Keywords: 0709936354, labour, labor, laboring classes, labouring, social history, Clive Emsley, James Walvin, essays, artisans, peasants, peasantry, artisanate, class, social conditions, slavery, slaves, working classes, workers, 18th century, eighteenth century, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century
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Saville, John.
1848: The British State and the Chartist Movement
(CUP, 1987).
Hardback. Minor marginal annotation, otherwise very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. ix + 310pp. Order No. NSBK-A10335
Keywords: 0521333415, Chartists, Chartist movement, Chartism, radicalism, popular protest, nineteenth century, Victorian, socialism, reform, politics, franchise, votes, suffrage, working class, representation, working-class, classes, radicals, Britain, British, England, English, history, State, political
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Thompson, Dorothy, ed.
The Early Chartists:
(South Carolina UP, 1971).
Paperback. Edges rubbed, otherwise very good. xii + 307pp. Order No. NSBK-A1435
Keywords: 0872492311, radicalism, radical, Chartist, politics, working class, working-class, Victorian, politics, class, britain, british, socil history, history, chartist, chartists, chartism, chartist movement, radicals, nineteenth century, 19th century, chartist propoganda, propoganda, social protest, franchise, militancy, militants, militant, working classes, working-classes
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