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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Ostroff, Eugene.
Photographing The Frontier:
(Smithsonian Institution, 1976).
An exhibition researched and organized by Eugene Ostroff, Curator of Photography, National Museum of History and Technology. Developed and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1975-1978. Booklet. Covers soiled, otherwise good. 31pp. Order No. NSBK-A11145
Keywords: B000GKEHS0, photography, photographic, photos, cameras, frontier,US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, twentieth century, 20th, booklet
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Mackay, Robert.
The Test of War: Inside Britain, 1939-45
(UCL, 1999).
Paperback. Fine. viii + 247pp. Order No. NSBK-A15369
Keywords: 1857286359, Second World War, World War 2, II, wars, twentieth century, Britain
Price £21.00.
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Proud, E. Dorothea.
Welfare Work: Employers' Experiments for Improving Working Conditions in Factories
(G. Bell, 3rd edition, 1918).
Foreword by David Lloyd-George. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers. some wear to edges, otherwise good. xx + 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C6760
Keywords: B000856JQQ, welfare, Great War, First World War, World War I, workers, working, factory system, factories, working conditions, women and work, working women, David Lloyd-George, social experiments, history, Catherine Helen Spence, E. Dorothea Proud, pay, wages, economic, economy, industry, industrial, twentieth century, antiquarian, factory legislation, factory labour, factory girls, labor
Price £19.50.
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Allen, Oliver E.
Decorating with Plants:
(Time-life Books, rpt., 1988).
Paperback. Very good. 158pp. Order No. NSBK-A12263
Keywords: 0705405753, plants, flowers, gardening, gardeners, horticulture, horticulturalists, home decor, decoration, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th
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Joannou, Maroula.
'Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows': Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change, 1918-38
(Berg, 1995).
Hardback. Slight crease to back cover, otherwise very good. xii + 236pp. Order No. NSBK-H8038
Keywords: 0854969098, women's writing, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, woman, female, feminism, feminists, consciousness, social change, twentieth century, 20th, politics, feminist-materialist, class, lesbianism, lesbians, domestic, domesticity, literature, literary, novels, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Rosamund Lehmann, Radclyffe Hall, autobiographies, autobiography
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Harty, Russell.
Mr Harty's Grand Tour:
(Century, 1988).
Illustrated by Jane Lake Birt. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-A10769
Keywords: 071261849X, Russell Harty, tours, travel, Europe, European, Grand Tour, twentieth century
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Huyghe, Rene.
Larousse Encyclopedia of Modern Art:
(Hamlyn, rpt., 1969).
Art and Mankind. Paperback. Oversize book, small tear to front cover, creasing to spine, otherwise good. 444pp. Order No. NSBK-A12223
Keywords: B0000CMRHB, Larousse, Encyclopedias, dictionary, dictionaries, Modern Art, art, artists, painters, paintings, twentieth century, 20th
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Jones, Larry Eugene & Retallack, James, eds.
Elections, Mass Politics, & Social Change in Modern Germany: New Perspectives
(CUP, 1992).
Publications of the German Historical Institute. Hardback. Very good in slightly worn dustwrapper. viii + 430pp. Order No. NSBK-A3938
Keywords: 0521418461, election, politics, political, Germany, German history, twentieth century, gender, Publications of the German Historical Institute, government
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Motz, Marilyn Ferris.
True Sisterhood: Michigan Women and their Kin, 1820-1920
(New York State UP, 1983).
Hardback. Very good. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-C5274
Keywords: 0873957156, Michigan, USA, United States, America, American, women, American women's history, sisterhood, home, family, nineteenth century, Victorian, kin network, Marilyn Ferris Motz, white women, Protestant, twentieth century, Bentley Library, correspondence, letters, diary, diaries, photographs, language, cult of domesticity, women's history, house
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