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
Price £7.50.
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Magill, Colonel Sir James.
The Red Cross: the Idea and its Development. A Sketch
(Cassell and Company, rpt, 1927).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps. Light foxing to endpapers and rubbing to cloth at corners, a small splash to front board - otherwise in good+ all-round condition. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A13513
Keywords: B000L3K4XO, Red Cross, history, Red Cross Movement, British Red Cross Society, Great War, First World War, World War I, colonialism, voluntary societies, peace, pacifism, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Edwardian, 19th century, nineteenth century, twentieth century, health, aid, hospitals, relief, medicine, medical, international, voluntary aid
Price £25.00.
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Roberts, Elizabeth.
A Woman's Place: an Oral History of Working-Class Women, 1890-1940
(Blackwell, reissue, 1985).
Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. vii + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C4152
Keywords: 0631147543, oral history, Elizabeth Roberts, Lancaster, Barrow, Preston, working class, working classes, family, marriage, work, leisure, motherhood, mothers, neighbourhood, North West, Northern, England, British, Britain, English, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Edwardian
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Rowntree, Maurice.
Social Freedom: A Study in the Application of the Ethics of Jesus to Modern Social and Industrial Problems
(Committee on War and Social Order, 1921).
Hardback. Covers soiled, otherwise good+. 172pp. Order No. NSBK-A10189
Keywords: B00087R6UM, Maurice Rowntree, Jesus, religion, Christianity, Christians, religion, religious, ethics, social freedom, twentieth century, 20th, industry, industrial
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Jones, Mervyn.
A Radical Life: The Biography of Megan Lloyd George, 1902-66
(Random Century, 1991).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xii + 340pp. Order No. NSBK-C9618
Keywords: 0091748291, Megan Lloyd George, twentieth century, Edwardian, biography, biographical, biographies, lives, Britain, British, England, English, women, Megan Lloyd George, Liberals, Liberal Party, women MPs, Members of Parliament, feminism, feminists, Frances Stevenson, Labour Party
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Lovell, John.
British Trade Unions, 1875-1933:
(Macmillan, rpt., 1986).
Paperback. Good+. 75pp. Order No. NSBK-A9828
Keywords: 0333179269, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 19th, 20th, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, economics
Price £4.00.
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Gilbert, W. Stephen.
Fight and Kick and Bite: The Life and Work of Dennis Potter
(Hodder & Stoughton, 1995).
Illustrated with black and white photographs. Hardback. Near fine in dustwrapper. xvi + 382pp. Order No. NSBK-A10136
Keywords: 0340640472, Dennis Potter, life, lives, playwrights, stage, theatres, literature, twentieth century, 20th, dramatists, writers, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Mathias, Peter.
The First Industrial Nation: an Economic History of Britain, 1700-1914
(Routledge, 2nd edition, 1990).
Paperback. Front cover rather creased, otherwise good. xiv + 522pp. Order No. NSBK-A1036
Keywords: 041502756X, economic history, Britain, industrialisation, industry, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, twentieth century
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Buckley, V. C.
Good Times: At Home and Abroad Between the Wars
(Thames and Hudson, 1979).
With 197 illustrations. Paperback. Very good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A5740
Keywords: 050027178X, wras, interwar, homes, abroad, leisure, entertainment, schooldays, schools, schooling, London, motors, motoring, pastimes, hobbies, dining, First World War, Great War, World War One, World War Two, World War Two, World War II, twentieth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English
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Wickham, Ann.
Women and Training:
(Open University Press, 1986).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good. x + 147pp. Order No. NSBK-C8414
Keywords: 0335151191, woman, woman, training, gender, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, technology, economics, women's work, women and work, sexual discrimination, feminism, feminists
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