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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Dyment, Clifford.
The Railway Game: an Early Autobiography
(Readers Union, rpt, 1963).
Hardback. Very good in browned, slightly worn dustwrapper. 218pp. Order No. NSBK-A4710
Keywords: B0000EERAV, British, Britain, England, English, autobiographies, autobiography, railway, steam, railway game, Clifford Dyment, autobiography, child, boy, children, childhood, 1920s, 1930s, interwar, inter-war, inter war, history, boyhood, youth, poems, poet, poets, poetry
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Department of Employment, .
Time Rates of Wages and Hours of Work: 1st April 1971
(HMSO, 1971).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some creasing to front cover, otherwise good. 327pp. Order No. NSBK-A14182
Keywords: 0113603738, wages, hours, work, time rates, employment, 1970s, seventies, manufacturing, industry, economy, textiles, factories, factory, engineering, social history, pay
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Heinemann, Margot, Labour Research Department.
Britain's Coal: A Study of the Mining Crisis
(Victor Gollancz, 1944).
Foreword by Will Lawther. Hardback. Spine faded, otherwise very good. 195pp. Order No. NSBK-A13478
Keywords: B0006AQV84, coal, coal mining, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, history, miners, colliers, crisis, 1940s, nationalisation, wages, health, safety, dangers, accidents, mines, labour, monopoly, management
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Women's Freedom League, .
Report of the Annual Conference, February 1908: and Balance Sheet, Oct. - Dec. 1907
(Portrayer, 2002 facs. of 1908 text).
Number 2 in the Open Archive Series. Booklet. New booklet, fine. 16pp. Order No. NSBK-C5190
Keywords: 0954263251, woman suffrage, suffragettes, women's suffrage, Britain, British, England, English, Votes for Women, enfranchisement, Portrayer, Open Archive Series, women's movement, politics, Edwardian, twentieth century, Women's Freedom League, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, conference, conferences, Cicely Hamilton, Teresa Billington-Greig, Charlotte Despard, reports, documents, sources, protest, social protest, booklet
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Women's Social and Political Union, Replica Badge (Suffragettes).
Sowing the Seeds of Suffrage: Modern Reproduction Suffragette Badge in Enamel
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004).
High quality modern reproduction enamel badge (with epoxy seal). A collectable modern replica of an original WSPU badge. (Women's Social and Political Union). Size: 25mm (1 inch) diameter: Circular shape. Hard enamel-type finish. Gold-plated back and gold-plated, safe, butterfly clutch-pin to rear. Presented inside a small poly-bag. The design, as used by the WSPU, features a woman scattering the seeds of woman suffrage, and the colours are those associated with the suffragette movement - purple, green and white. The writing around the circumference of the badge reads (at top) ' Votes For Women' and (at bottom) 'Women's Social and Political Union'. Badge. Mint condition, new. pp. Order No. NSBK-C8808
Keywords: B0032U1Q76, Votes For Women, suffrage, woman suffrage, pins, badge, badges, pin back, pinbacks, suffragette, suffragettes, suffragists, women, women's history, social history, Britain, British, England, English, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, enamel, enamels, jewellery, jewelry, brooch, brooches, Edwardian, women's movement, Britain, British, England, English, Portrayer Publishers, suffragette ephemera
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Riemer, Eleanor S. & Fout, John C., eds.
European Women: a Documentary History, 1789-1945
(Harvester, 1983).
Social documents written by women, organised in 4 sections: women & work; women's politics; women & the family; woman & her body. Scarce. PB. Spine faded and creased, otherwise good. xxi + 258pp. Order No. NSBK-C2294
Keywords: 0710804792, women's history, europeans, european, europe, document, documents, resources, resource, women in work, work, women, employment, working women, working woman, politics, political, marriage, matrimony, sexuality, contraception, gender, abortion, abortionists, motherhood, working class, working classes
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Hamerow, Theodore S.
Otto von Bismarck: A Historical Assessment
(D. C. Heath and Co, 1962).
Paperback. Ex library with mimimal library stamps, light creasing/browning to covers, otherwise good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A10421
Keywords: B000AMPJT0, Otto von Bismarck, German, Germany, leaders, unification, statesmen, statesman, Bismarckian, Iron Chancellor, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, lives, biography, biographical, biographies
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Smith, Joan.
Femmes de Siecle: Stories from the '90s: Women Writing at the End of Two Centuries
(Chatto & Windus, 1992).
Paperback. Ink inscription to fly leaf, otherwise good. 303pp. Order No. NSBK-C6905
Keywords: 0701139846, women writers, woman writers, women's writing, New women, New woman, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century, 20th, femmes de siecle
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Duby, Georges.
Women of the Twelfth Century: Volume Three: Eve and the Church
(Polity Press + University of Chicago, Rpt., 1998).
Translated by Eve Birrell. Paperback. Very good+. 122pp. Order No. NSBK-C12763
Keywords: 0745619495, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, medieval, 12th century, twelfth century
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