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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Corporation of Nottingham, .
Records of the Borough of Nottingham: Being a Series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corporation of Nottingham. Vol IX. 1836 - 1900
(Corporation of Nottingham, 1956).
Hardback. Light mottling to cloth, otherwise very good in chipped, slightly worn, lightly soiled dustwrapper. 462pp. Order No. NSBK-A14074
Keywords: B001M5CF0U, records, volume nine, 9, IX, Nottingham, borough, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Nottinghamshire, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th century, social history, housing, town, urban, urbanisation, towns, markets, Nottinghamshire, schools, public health, sewers, police, buildings, Midlands
Price £25.00.
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Walvin, James.
English Urban Life, 1776-1851:
(Hutchinson, 1984).
Paperback. Covers slightly browned, otherwise good. vii + 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A7558
Keywords: 0091561515, James Walvin, England, English, history, Britain, British, towns, cities, city, urban, metropolitan, metropolis, population, demographic, demography, housing, homes, houses, streets, machinery, social class, classes, poverty, urbanisation, urbanization, poor, public order, law enforcement
Price £8.99.
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Rubinstein, David.
Victorian Homes:
(David and Charles, 1974).
Hardback. Boards lightly soiled, otherwise very good. 287pp. Order No. NSBK-A8040
Keywords: 071536765X, Victorian, homes, houses, nineteenth, 19th, century, residences, residential, class, architecture, architectural, classes, slums, housing, terraces, planning, sanitation, hot water, heating, lighting, flats, tenements, society
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Benjamin, E Alwyn.
Penarth, 1841-71: A Glimpse of the Past
(D Brown and Sons Ltd, 1980).
Paperback. Slight scratching and browning to covers and small sticker mark to front cover, otherwise good. 182pp. Order No. NSBK-A7321
Keywords: 0905928113, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, Penarth, demography, demographic, public health, population, Welsh, Wales, births, deaths, Glamorgan, properties, occupations, census, census returns, housing
Price £4.00.
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Lyster, Robert A.
A First Course in Hygiene:
(University Tutorial Press, rpt, 1946).
Hardback. Blue cloth darkened and marked in places, corners worn, otherwise good. viii + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-A6371
Keywords: health, hygiene, social welfare, social hygiene, history, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, Robert A. Lyster, body, ventilation, text books, foods, digestion, cooking, nervous system, dwellings, housing, heating, water supply, diseases, infection, houses, diets
Price £5.00.
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Greve, John; Page, Dilys & Greve, Stella.
Homelessness in London:
(Scottish Academic Press, 1971).
Paperback. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise very good, ex-library. xix + 303pp. Order No. NSBK-A3723
Keywords: 0701118067, homeless, homelessness, sociology, history, twentieth century, London, housing, homes, metropolis, social services, England, Britain, English, British
Price £6.00.
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Hill, Octavia.
Our Common Land:
(Macmillan, 1877).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, some wear to spine, spine ends, edges and corners. Cloth a little marked / rubbed -else good / solid. vi + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-C6431
Keywords: B001P1SGF4, housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, town planning, urban history, open spaces, countryside, Britain, England, British, English, history, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment, district visiting, volunteer visitors, commons, charity, charities, COS, C.O.S., Charity Organisation Society
Price £120.00.
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Thorns, David C.
Suburbia:
(MacGibbon & Kee, 1972).
Hardback. Good+. 175pp. Order No. NSBK-A13420
Keywords: 0261632612, suburbia, towns, cities, city, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, housing, houses
Price £9.00.
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Suttles, Gerald D.
The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City
(Chicago UP, 1968).
Paperback. Spine slightly creased, otherwise good. xxii + 243pp. Order No. NSBK-A3326
Keywords: 0226781925, ethnicity, territory, slum, housing, urban history, delinquency, Hull House, Chicago, Italian, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Negro, America, American history, United States, USA
Price £14.00.
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