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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Jenkin, Michael.
British Industry and the North Sea: State Intervention in a Developing Industrial Sector
(Macmillan, 1981).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings, otherwise very good in slightly wavy dustwrapper. xiii + 251pp. Order No. NSBK-A7525
Keywords: 0333256069, Britain, British, England, English, history, state intervention, economy, economics, North Sea, seas, oil, gas, companies, business, twentieth century, 20th
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Hutt, C. W.
Crowley's Hygiene of School Life:
(Methuen, 8th edit., 1929).
With 6 plates and 15 diagrams. Hardback. Light rubbing/slight soiling to cloth, otherwise good. xvi + 426pp. Order No. NSBK-A9787
Keywords: hygiene, schools, school, schooling, Britain, British, England, English, history, education, teachers, students, physical, health, child, children, twentieth century, school meals, infants, baths, bathing, exercise, games, medical, infectious disease
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Anderson, James and Ricci, Marilyn, eds.
Society and Social Science: A Reader
(Open University, 1990).
Paperback. Very good. viii + 307pp. Order No. NSBK-A9309
Keywords: 0749200464, society, sociology, twentieth century, 20th, theory, Britain, British, England, English, liberalism, Marxism, social reformism, conservatism
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Wilson, Andrew, ed.
The Modern Physician: Being a Complete Guide to the Attainment and Preservation of Health
(Caxton Publishing, 1913).
Volume IV ONLY of five. Frontispiece portrait lacks tissue paper covering. Hardbacks. Original green / gilt cloth a little marked and rubbed, with wear to edges, otherwise a good solid copy. Single volume only, Vol 4. viii + 296pp. Order No. NSBK-A7370
Keywords: B000881XCI, social history, Edwardian health, twentieth century, medical, medicine, medical history, Dr Andrew Wilson, Britain, British, England, English, physicians, physician, welfare, organs, circulation, treatments, symptoms, ailments, diseases, women, men, children, doctors, illnesses, hygiene, fevers, vaccinations, drugs, exercise, exercising, exercises
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Yarwood, Derek.
Outrages - Fatal & Other: A Chronicle of Cheshire Crime, 1612-1912
(Didsbury Press, 1991).
Signed by the author. Paperback. Front cover slightly creased, otherwise good. v + 233pp. Order No. NSBK-A1866
Keywords: 1872325017, crime, Cheshire, Victorian, murder, violence, Britain, British, England, English, history, seventeenth century, eighteenth century, twentieth century
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Thomas, Caitlin.
Caitlin: Life with Dylan Thomas
(Henry Holt and Company, 1986).
With George Tremlett. Paperback. Very good+. xii + 212pp. Order No. NSBK-C10669
Keywords: 0805007695, Dylan Thomas, Caitlin Thomas, poets, poetry, alcohol, alcoholism, Britain, British, Welsh, Wales, history, death, bereavement, twentieth century, literature, 20th, literary, writers, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical
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Bayley, John.
Iris and her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire
(W. W. Norton, 2000).
Hardback. Very good+. 275pp. Order No. NSBK-C13735
Keywords: 039304856X, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, literature, fiction, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19thris Murdoch, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, novels, novelists
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Royal Academy of Arts, .
Paintings by the Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill: Honorary Academician Extraordinary
(Royal Academy of Arts, 1959).
Richly illustrated with black and white and colour photographs of the paintings. Exhibition Catalogue. Spine end bumped, otherwise good+. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-A10641
Keywords: B0007ITS4O, Winston Churchill, artists, painters, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century, 20th, politicians, politics, Prime Ministers, history
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Collis, Maurice.
Nancy Astor: an Informal Biography
(Faber & Faber, 1960).
Hardback. Cloth worn especially at corners and edges, otherwise good. 235pp. Order No. NSBK-C1258
Keywords: B0000CKKMP, Nancy Astor, politics, politician, M. P., women and politics, Plymouth Sutton, Conservative party, Tory, party politics, House of Commons, Houses of Parliament, Britain, British, history, England, English, biography, women's history, twentieth century
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