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
Price £24.00.
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Dayus, Kathleen.
All My Days:
(Virago, rpt., 1993).
The third book in the trilogy. Paperback. Light edge wear to covers, otherwise good. 154pp. Order No. NSBK-C7182
Keywords: 0860680762, Kathleen Dayus, All My Days, Birmingham, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life histories, life history, lives, memoirs, Second World War, World War Two, 2, II, twentieth century, 20th, women writers, woman writer, women's writing
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Spencer, Herbert.
Tumours Complicating Pregnancy, Labour and the Puerperium: Being The Lettsomian Lectures Delivered Before The Medical Society Of London, February and March 1920
(Harrison and Sons, 1920).
Very scarce. Hardback. Ex-library (St Bartholomew's Hospital College Library). Edges worn, otherwise a good copy. 78pp. Order No. NSBK-A13637
Keywords: B00126A1M8, Lettsomian Lectures, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, medicine, medical, women, women's history, pregnancy, maternity, pregnant, having a baby, health, tumours, cysts, cancer, growth, babies, motherhood, mothers, labour, London, 1920s, twenties, twentieth century, puerperium, cervix, cervical cancer, Caesarean section, antiquarian
Price £75.00.
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Pitchfork, Graham.
Men Behind the Medals:
(Leo Cooper, 1998).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 268pp. Order No. NSBK-A9376
Keywords: 0850525861, military, armies, wars, warfare, aircrew, RAF, Royal Air Force, wartime, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century, 20th
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Famous Warplanes Video Volume 26, .
Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk: Northrop B-2 Spirit
().
Running time: 52 mins. VHS Video PAL, Famous Warplanes Volume 26. VHS Video. Very good, in cellophane. pp. Order No. NSBK-A14210
Keywords: warplanes, famous warplanes, Nighthawk, aircraft, military, aeroplanes, history, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, aviation, bombing, bombers, flying, stealth bombers
Price £14.00.
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Shaw, Marion, ed.
Man Does, Woman Is: an Anthology of Work and Gender
(Fab. & Fab., 1995).
Hardback. Very good in edgeworn dustwrapper. xiii + 256pp. Order No. NSBK-C753
Keywords: 0571165583, work, women and work, gender, labour, women's work, sexual equality, sex disrimination, jobs, women workers, working women, woman worker, woman workers, 20th century, twentieth century, labour, labor, gender roles, division of labour, gender division of labour
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International Labour Office, .
The War and Women's Employment: The Experience of the United Kingdom and the United States
(International Labour Office, Montreal, 1946).
Paperback. Covers torn and soiled, internally good. iii + 287pp. Order No. NSBK-C15487
Keywords: B071FC6HWJ, United Kingdom, Britain, British, England, English, USA, United States, employmemt, jobs, work, women's work, women and work, gender, twentieth century, 20th century
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Thompson, Paul.
The Edwardians: the Remaking of British Society
(Weidenfeld and Nicholson, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Slight split at base of spine, otherwise good in chipped, slightly soiled dustwrapper. xi + 382pp. Order No. NSBK-A15216
Keywords: 9780713432244, Edwardian, Britain, British, England, English, history, society, oral history, interviews, interview, Edwardians, social conditions, 20th century, twentieth century, social change
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Tunstall, Jeremy.
The Media in Britain:
(Constable, 1983).
Communication & Society Series. Paperback. Very good+. xiv + 304pp. Order No. NSBK-A12539
Keywords: 0094651302, media, communication, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th
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Robinson-Welsh, Dawn.
Memories of Old Yorkshire:
(Aurora Publishing, 1994).
Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 85pp. Order No. NSBK-J11397
Keywords: 1859260462, York, Yorkshire, Harrogate, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, photos, photography, pictures, images
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