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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National Institute, Economic and Social Research.
The UK Economy:
(Heinemann, 3rd edit., 1995).
Series editor Bryan Hurl. Studies in the UK Economy. Paperback. Very good. v + 90pp. Order No. NSBK-A9824
Keywords: 0435330365, UK, economy, economic, history, twentieth century, Britain, British, history, England, English, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Studies in the UK Economy
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Glaister, Stephen and Mulley, Corinne.
Public Control of the British Bus Industry:
(LSE/Gower, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+. vii + 139pp. Order No. NSBK-A11372
Keywords: 0566005603, bus, buses, transport, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, vehicles, roads, twentieth century, 20th, public control, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial
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Moran, James.
NATSOPA: Seventy-Five Years. The National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants, 1889-1964
(Oxford UP, 1964).
Hardback. Good in edge-worn dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A12710
Keywords: B0000CMFI5, NATSOPA, The National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th
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Beer, Cedric de.
The South African Disease: Apartheid Health and Health Services
(CIIR, rpt., 1986).
Paperback. Very good. viii + 86pp. Order No. NSBK-A13832
Keywords: 0946848130, South Africa, South African, health, medicine, medical, disease, health service, twentieth century, 20th
Price £13.00.
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Thomas, David St John.
The Country Railway:
(Penguin Books, 1976).
Paperback. Covers creased, a little brown marking/staining to a few pages not affecting legibility, otherwise good. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A8295
Keywords: 0140048278, railways, railway, trains, transport, country, countryside, transport, technology, platforms, bridges, embankments, viaducts, architecture, ninetenth, century, 19th, twentieth, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, steam
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Magic Poster Greeting Cards, .
An Assorted Selection of 10 Attractive Magic Poster Greetings Cards: Pack 1:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004).
Ten historical magicians' promotional posters, reproduced for the first time ever as ten attractive, colourful greeting cards. Individually wrapped in cellophane, and each with its own white envelope. Each card measures 6 inches x 4 inches, and has a plain interior, for your own message for any occasion. The selection includes: 4 X Harry Kellar, 2 X Howard Thurston, 1 X Newmann Spirit Mysteries, 1 X Hardeen, 1 X Kar-mi and 1 X Harry Blackstone Sr. Highly collectable. Greeting Cards. Fine, in cellophane wrappers. pp. Order No. NSBK-F7654
Keywords: B001F2XY6Y, magic, poster, posters, magic posters, magician, magician's, magicians, magic poster, magic posters, greetings, greeting card, greeting cards, greeting, historic, history, historical, magics, magically, card, cards, posters, poster, vaudeville, old time, show, shows, Kellar, Harry Kellar, Houdini, Hardeen, Thurston, Howard Thurston, Karmi, Kar mi, Kar-mi, Newmann, spirit, mysteries, master magician, master, spirits, spirit, seances, old time, leisure, entertainment, mystery, maskelyne, devant, david devant, conjuring, conjurors, conjure, conjurings, history of magic, magical history, magic school, stage, drama, entertain, ephemera, collector, collecting, collectors, collected, history, hobbies, hobby, images, art, representations, representation, vintage, 19th century, nineteenth century, Harry Blackstone, Blackstone, senior, junior, victorian, 20th century, twentieth century, modern, imagery, images, pictures, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, magic cards, magiccards, art, artwork, Christmas gifts
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Skelton, Robin.
Begging the Dialect: Poems and Ballads
(OUP, 1960).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in faded dustwrapper. vii + 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A10055
Keywords: B0000CKL7B, poems, poetry, poets, Robin Skelton, ballads, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, literature, literary, dialects
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Chapkis, Wendy.
Beauty and Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance
(The Women's Press, 1988).
Paperback. Very good. 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A9741
Keywords: 0704340895, women, women's history, politics, political appearance, faces, make up, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, dress, ugliness, ugly, beautiful, skin
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Moynihan, Ruth Barnes, Russett, C. & Crumpacker, L.
Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women: Volume II: From 1865 to the Present
(Nebraska UP, 1993).
Paperback. Slight rippling at spine, otherwise very good+. xxii + 365pp. Order No. NSBK-C11926
Keywords: 0803282044, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century
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