Shonfield, Zuzanna.
The Precariously Privileged: A Professional Family in Victorian London
(OUP, 1987).
Hardback. With newspaper cutting pasted to inside front cover, otherwise good in dustwrapper. ix + 266pp. Order No. NSBK-C463
Keywords: 0192122657, class, professional, Victorian, London, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, middle class
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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
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Hariri, Khaled.
Fisheries Development in the North West Indian Ocean: the Impact of Commercial Fishing Arrangements
(Ithaca Press, 1985).
Hardback. Ex library with mimimal library stamps, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xv + 158pp. Order No. NSBK-A6826
Keywords: 0863720382, fishing, fish, fishing arrangements, commercial fishing arrangements, fisheries, Indian Ocean, North West Indian Ocean, India, Khaled Ibrahim Hariri, seafood, seafoods, twentieth century, fish supply, fish licensing, fish stock, management, fisheries development, Middle East, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Middle Eastern
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Warren, Geoffrey C. ed.
The Foods We Eat: A Survey of Meals, their Content and Chronology by Season, Day of the Week, Region, Class, and Age, Conducted in Great Britain by the Market Research Division of W. S. Crawford Limited
(Cassell, 1958).
A Survey by the Market Research Division of W. S. Crawford Ltd. Hardback. Very good in torn and stained dustwrapper. v + 169pp. Order No. NSBK-H14312
Keywords: B000LBZWTW, foods, nutrition, surveys, foodstuffs, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, 1950s, market research, diets, regions, ages, class
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Walton, John K. and Walvin, James.
Leisure in Britain, 1780 - 1939:
(MUP, 1983).
Paperback. Ex library, spine creased, usual library markings, otherwise good. vi + 241pp. Order No. NSBK-A13843
Keywords: 071901946X, leisure, entertainment, social history, recreation, Victorian, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, twentieth century, England, English, Britain, British, hobbies, working class, working classes, middle class, middle classes, class, John Walton, Jim Walvin, James Walvin, Walton, Leisure in Britain
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Mehl, Dieter.
Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction to His Narrative Poetry
(CUP, 1986).
Paperback. Good. viii + 243pp. Order No. NSBK-A12825
Keywords: 0521318882, poems, poets, poetry, Chaucher, Geoffrey Chaucer, medieval, mediaeval, Middle English, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Spaull, Hebe.
The Co-operative Movement in the World Today:
(Barrie and Rockliff, 1965).
With an introduction by W. P. Watkins. Hardback. Good in slightly soiled/worn dustwrapper. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A5038
Keywords: B0000CMR1N, Co-operative Movement, co-op, co-operative, Britain, British, Europe, European, USA, Canada, America, Southern Asia, Far East, Middle East, Northern Africa, Caribbean, South America, Australasia, government, work, labour, labor, British Commonwealth, devloping countries, twentieth century, world
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Swindells, Julia, ed.
The Uses Of Autobiography:
(Taylor and Francis, 1995).
Gender and Society: Feminist Perspectives on the Past and Present. Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. ix + 227pp. Order No. NSBK-A15614
Keywords: 9780748403653, autobiography, self history, life history, life histories, lives, memoirs, Ruth Symes, Ruth A. Symes, Julia Swindells, women, Africa, USA, Middle East, France, New Zealand, Britain, autobiographers, life writing, Catharine Cappe
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Clarke, Patricia.
The Governesses: Letters from the Colonies, 1862-1882
(Hutchinson, 1985).
Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled, slightly chipped dustwrapper. xii + 236pp. Order No. NSBK-C4092
Keywords: 0091608503, colonies, governess, governesses, imperialism, history, pedagogy, teaching, letters, colonialism, Victorian, nineteenth century, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Female Middle Class Emigration Society, emigration, immigration, Australian, emigrants, immigrants
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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Alan Sutton, 1985).
Paperback. Creases to back cover, otherwise good. xii + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A13483
Keywords: 0862991579, women, woman, gender, 1920s, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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