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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Brown, Jonathan.
The English Market Town:
(The Crowood Press, rpt., 1991).
Hardback. Small dent to spine, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 176pp. Order No. NSBK-A7972
Keywords: 1852236833, market, towns, markets, English, England, Britain, British, nineteenth, 19th, century, twentieth, 20th, Victorian, buying, selling, shopping, livestock, produce, eighteenth, 18th, retail
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Prandy, K., Stewart, A. and Blackburn, R. M.
White-Collar Unionism:
(Macmillan, 1983).
Cambridge Studies in Sociology. Paperback. Very good. viii + 172pp. Order No. NSBK-A11338
Keywords: 0333328906, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, white-collar work, white collar unionism, class, classes, class system, twentieth century, 20th, staff associations
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Moss, Peter & Fonda, Nickie, eds.
Work and the Family:
(Temple Smith, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in slightly worn dustwrapper. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C1436
Keywords: 0851171990, work, family, twentieth century, sociology
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Pack of 10 Suffragette Greetings Cards, .
Votes for Workers:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2009).
Pack of 10 greetings cards (all featuring the same design). Card measurements are 6 inches high by 4 inches wide and each card is complete with cellophane wrapper and envelope. Blank interiors for your own message or for any occasion. The image is printed in vibrant colours and is taken from a suffragette poster, created by W.F. Winter, and originally produced by the Artists' Suffrage League (date unknown). Image (in shades of brown, cream and sand) shows weary and dejected British working woman at a sewing machine, with the slogan "Votes for Workers" beneath it. Please note that the sample electronic image, unlike the cards themselves, is watermarked and reduced in quality, to prevent image theft. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C14486
Keywords: suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, women's rights, Votes for Women, women and politics, women's politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, greeting card, greeting cards, cards, suffragette images, suffragettes, propaganda, suffrage imagery, card, picture, pictures, art, artist, artists, suffragette art, art, arts, artistry, illustration, illustrations, twentieth century, 20th century, twentieth century, portrayer, portrayer publishers, suffragette greetings cards, greetings card, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera, new, Artists' Suffrage League
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Hampshire Federation of Women's Institut, .
Hampshire: Within Living Memory
(Countryside Books, 1994).
Paperback. Cover creased, otherwise good+. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A11942
Keywords: 1853062901, Hampshire, Women's Institutes, Hampshire Federation of Women's Institutes, rural, agricultural, British counties, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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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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Brookner, Anita.
Family and Friends:
(Guild Publishing, 1985).
Hardback. Very good in sl faded dustwrapper. 187pp. Order No. NSBK-C4157
Keywords: women novelists, novels, fiction, twentieth century, Anita Brookner, literature
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Smith, Anne.
Women Remember: an Oral History
(Routledge, 1989).
Hardback. With newspaper cuttings pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C4236
Keywords: 0415033306, women, oral history, history, memories, autobiography, autobiographies, memories, memory, life history, life histories, Britain, British, England, English, family, interview, interviews, twentieth century
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Pollard, Sidney, and Holmes, Colin, eds.
Documents of European Economic History: Vol 2, Industrial Power and National Rivalry, 1870-1914
(Edward Arnold, 1972).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, lacks fly leaf, very good. 509pp. Order No. NSBK-A3333
Keywords: 071315618X, Europe, European history, economic, economy, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, documents, agrarian, industrial, financial
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