Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004 facsimile of 1918 text).
Clementina Black (1854 - 1922) was a campaigner committed to improving the plight of working women. In this work of 1918, she 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'. Examples of material included: 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. Paperback. New book, fine. x + 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C7548
Keywords: 0954476123, 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, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Portrayer reprints, Portrayer facsimiles, new titles
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Weinberg, Samantha.
A Fish Caught in Time: the Search for the Coelacanth
(Fourth Estate, 1999).
Paperback. Fine. xiii + 239pp. Order No. NSBK-A5560
Keywords: 1857029062, fish, rare fish, fossils, discovery, twentieth century, J.L.B. Smith, fishes, Coelacanth, seas, sea, pisces, underwater
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Beauchamp, Joan.
Women Who Work:
(George Allen and Unwin, 1961).
Hardback. Good + in dustwrapper. 103pp. Order No. NSBK-C15509
Keywords: B00CPRYSZO,Britain, British, woman, women, female, feminism, feminists, women and work, women's history,twentieth century
Price £9.00.
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Wherret, Duncan.
Jaguar MKII:
(Motorbooks International, 1990).
Paperback. Very good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A12266
Keywords: 1855321017, tranport, cars,jguars, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, Jaguar MKII
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Jackson, Brian.
Working Class Community: Some General Notions Raised by a Series of Studies in Northern England
(RKP, 1968).
The International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction. Hardback. Good+ in chipped and worn dustwrapper. 184 + 13pp. Order No. NSBK-A12556
Keywords: 0710039166, working class, working classes, North, Northern, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, communities, class, classes, working-class, twentieth century, 20th
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Joannou, Maroula.
'Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows': Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change, 1918-38
(Berg, 1995).
Hardback. Slight crease to back cover, otherwise very good. xii + 236pp. Order No. NSBK-H8038
Keywords: 0854969098, women's writing, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, woman, female, feminism, feminists, consciousness, social change, twentieth century, 20th, politics, feminist-materialist, class, lesbianism, lesbians, domestic, domesticity, literature, literary, novels, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Rosamund Lehmann, Radclyffe Hall, autobiographies, autobiography
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Shipman, David.
Cinema: The First Hundred Years
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993).
Foreword by Barry Norman. Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. 384pp. Order No. NSBK-A11046
Keywords: 0297832018, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, cinemas, films, media, twentieth century, 20th, film stars
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Wilson, Andrew, ed.
The Modern Physician: Being a Complete Guide to the Attainment and Preservation of Health
(Caxton Publishing, 1913).
Volume IV ONLY of five. Frontispiece portrait lacks tissue paper covering. Hardbacks. Original green / gilt cloth a little marked and rubbed, with wear to edges, otherwise a good solid copy. Single volume only, Vol 4. viii + 296pp. Order No. NSBK-A7370
Keywords: B000881XCI, social history, Edwardian health, twentieth century, medical, medicine, medical history, Dr Andrew Wilson, Britain, British, England, English, physicians, physician, welfare, organs, circulation, treatments, symptoms, ailments, diseases, women, men, children, doctors, illnesses, hygiene, fevers, vaccinations, drugs, exercise, exercising, exercises
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Fuller, Ken.
Radical Aristocrats: London Busworkers from the 1880s to the 1980s
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1985).
Paperback. Spine faded, otherwise good+. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A13451
Keywords: 0853156492, buses, transport, vehicles, London, twentieth century, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action
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Chapple, J. A. V.
Documentary and Imaginative Literature: 1880-1920
(Blandford Press, 1970).
From the series 'History and Literature'. Hardback. Very good in slightly discoloured dustwrapper. 395pp. Order No. NSBK-A9674
Keywords: 0713736054, literature, literary, history, historical, Great Depression of Agriculture, Socialism, Imperialism, the Boer War, Liberal Party, suffragette movement, First World War, Victorian, twentieth century, 20th, 19th
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