Brewster, Margaret Maria.
Work, or Plenty to Do and How to Do It:
(T. Constable, 1953).
Paperback. Blue boards with bold lettering and illustration, soiled and worn, otherwise good. 117pp. Order No. NSBK-A13011
Keywords: 1428637338, twentieth century, work, labour, labor, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
Price £8.00.
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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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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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Brivati, Brian and Cockett, Richard, eds.
Anatomy of Decline: The Political Journalism of Peter Jenkins
(Cassell, 1995).
With an introduction by Polly Toynbee and Foreword by David Owen. Hardback. Near fine in slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. Book plate stuck to fly leaf. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-A10134
Keywords: 0304344761, politics, political, Peter Jenkins, journalism, journalists, twentieth century, media, newspapers, journals, Magazines, Washington correspondent
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Barnes, H. Gorell and Montmorency, J. E. G. de.
The Divorce Commission: The Majority and Minority Reports Summarised, with Appendices on the History of Divorce; Foreign and Colonial Divorce Laws; Proposed Divorce Circuits in England and Wales; Names of Women after Divorce
(P. S. King, 1912).
Prefaces by Guthrie and Dibdin. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers, some wear to edges, otherwise good. xvi + 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A13882
Keywords: B000WFGD0O, divorce, marriage, break-down of marriage, Divorce Commission, reports, social history, divorce circuits, legal, law, family, twentieth century
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Giles, Judy.
Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900-50:
(Macmillan, 1995).
Hardback. With a newspaper article pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. viii + 189pp. Order No. NSBK-C15586
Keywords: 9780312126247, women, private life, domesticity, gender, identity, Britain, British, England, British, Judy Giles, suburbia, respectability, twentieth century, social history, oral history
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Davis, Lance E and Cull, Robert J.
International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820-1914:
(CUP, 1994).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. vii + 166pp. Order No. NSBK-A13196
Keywords: 0521460549, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, Edwardian
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Hite, Shere.
The Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy
(Bloomsbury, 1994).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. xxiv + 424pp. Order No. NSBK-C13712
Keywords: 0747514801, patriarchy, patriarchal, Hite Report, sexuality, twentieth century, 20th
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Ziegler, Philip.
London at War, 1939-1945:
(BCA, 1995).
Hardback. Stamped 'damaged' but no obvious faults, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. viii + 372pp. Order No. NSBK-A9576
Keywords: 1856193845, London, capital, wars, Second World War, twentieth century, World War II, Two, 2, cities, city, Britain, British, England, English, history
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