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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Stanford, Peter.
The She-Pope: a Quest for the Truth Behind the Mystery of Pope Joan
(Heinemann, 1998).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 205pp. Order No. NSBK-C2661
Keywords: 0434024589, Pope Joan, popery, Catholicism, Catholic, priesthood, legend, women, history, women's history, religion
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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Kineton/The Roundwood Press, 1974).
Hardback. Covers slightly soiled, marginal pencil annotation not affecting legbility, otherwise very good. xvi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C11001
Keywords: 0900093307, women, woman, gender, 1920s, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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Grant, Neil.
The Savage Trade:
(Kestrel Books, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A3806
Keywords: 0722654898, slave, slavery, history, Atlantic slave trade, slaves, William Wilberforce, West Africa, West Indies, trading, economic, New World
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Shipton, Elisabeth.
Female Tommies: the Frontline Women of the First World War
(History Press, rpt, 2015).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-C15460
Keywords: 9780752491431, Great War, history, First World War, women, frontline, Flora Sandes
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Clark, Samuel.
Social Origins of the Irish Land War:
(Princeton UP, 1979).
Hardback. Light foxing to page edges, otherwise very good in lightly soiled dustwrapper. x + 418pp. Order No. NSBK-A15213
Keywords: 9780691100685, agrarian, farming, land, land-owning, Irish, Ireland, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, tenants, agriculture, land war, peasants, peasantry, social change, demography, social history
Price £36.00.
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Bentley, Eric.
Bernard Shaw:
(Methuen, 2nd British edition, 1967).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf; ex-library with usual library stamps & stickers, a good working copy in slightly yellowed, creased dustwrapper. xviii + 204pp. Order No. NSBK-A7591
Keywords: B0000CNJNK, George Bernard Shaw, biography, biographies, history, literature, literary, politics, religion, drama, theatre, plays, Shavian, stage
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Beckerman, Wilfred.
Slow Growth in Britain: Causes and Consequences
(Clarendon Press, 1979).
Paperback. Very good +. vi + 237pp. Order No. NSBK-A10121
Keywords: 0198284217, Britain, British, England, English, history, industry, industrial, economics, economic, twentieth century, 20th, British Association for the Advancement of Science Economics, slow growth, productivity, manufacturing
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Steen, Duncan and Soames, Nicholas.
The Essential Englishman: An Anthology
(Cassell, 1989).
Paperback. Cover slightly creased, otherwise very good+. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A11154
Keywords: 0304340472, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, anthology, anthologies, Englishness, gentlemen, gentleman, national identity
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Phillips, Anne.
Divided Loyalties: Dilemmas of Sex and Class
(Virago, 1987).
Paperback. Minor annotation, otherwise good. vi + 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C10070
Keywords: 0860685535, sex, sexual, class, feminism, feminists, gender, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, history, Viragos
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