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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Piper, David.
Painting in England, 1500 - 1870:
(Book Society, 1960).
Hardback. Cloth slightly marked, especially at back, otherwise good. 143pp. Order No. NSBK-A2493
Keywords: B0000CM3FB, painting, art, artist, painter, painters, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Wheeler, Barry, ed.
Spare the Rod: Journal of a Victorian Schoolmaster in Dorset, 1863 - 64
(Winterbourne Press, 1988).
Booklet. Spine faded, covers lightly soiled, otherwise good. 36pp. Order No. NSBK-A13308
Keywords: 0950828947, Dorset, Victorian, 19th, century, nineteenth, history, schools, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, education, 1860s, journals, teachers, diaries, booklet
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Exwood, Maurice and Lehmann, H. L., eds.
The Journal of William Shellinks' Travels in England, 1661-1663:
(Royal Historical Society, 1993).
Camden Fifth Series, Volume I. Translated from the Dutch. Hardback. Very good. 196pp. Order No. NSBK-A13452
Keywords: 0861931351, Dutch, Netherland, seventeenth century, travel, traveller, traveler, William Shellinks, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, journals, diaries
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Oakley, Ann.
Telling the Truth about Jerusalem: A Collection of Essays and Poems
(Basil Blackwell, 1986).
Paperback. Near fine. vi + 283pp. Order No. NSBK-C12447
Keywords: 0631149511, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, feminism, feminists, history of ideas, poems, poets, poetry
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Williams, Professor Lady Williams.
The Changing Pattern of Women's Employment:
(Liverpool UP, 1965).
Eleanor Rathbone Memorial Lecture. Pamphlet. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise good. 16pp. Order No. NSBK-C12976
Keywords: 0853230110, Professor Lady Williams, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Eleanor Rathbone Memorial Lecture, work, employment, employees, workers, pamphlets, pamphlet
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Spender, Dale.
Feminist Theories: Three Centuries of Women's Intellectual Traditions
(The Women's Press, 1983).
Paperback. Page edges slightly soiled, back cover creased, otherwise very good. 402pp. Order No. NSBK-C9940
Keywords: 0704338890, three centuries, women, woman, women's history, feminism, feminists, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth century, women writers, woman writer, women's writing, women's studies
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Gadd, E.W.
Victorian Logs:
(K.A.F. Brewin, 1979).
A study of Victorian Southampton based on an examination of school log books. Hardback. Ex library with a few scattered internal library stamps, but good in dustwrapper. xii + 196pp. Order No. NSBK-A684
Keywords: 0950557013, school, school logs, logbooks, schooling, education, teaching, Britain, British, England, English, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, schools, schooling
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Paterson, Donald and Smith, J. Forest.
Modern Methods of Feeding in Infancy and Childhood:
(Constable, 7th edition, reprint, 1942).
Hardback. Boards slightly bowed / soiled, with some splitting internally at binding, otherwise a good working copy. 219pp. Order No. NSBK-A7703
Keywords: infancy, childhood, children, infants, feeding, mothers, maternity, motherhood, breast feeding, history, infant foods, medicine, medical, health, sick children, breast milk, artificial feeding, Britain, British, England, English, social history, twentieth century, advice books, diets, baby, babies, bringing up babies
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Kelley, Kitty.
Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography
(Bantam Press, 1991).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in creased dustwrapper. xix + 532pp. Order No. NSBK-E3335
Keywords: 0593024508, biography, Nancy Reagan, women's history, America, American history, Republican party, United States, USA, Reagan administration, 1980s, President, Presidency
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