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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Lemmen, Hans Van.
Victorian Tiles:
(Shire Publications Ltd, rpt., 1986).
In booklet form. Paperback. Good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A6018
Keywords: 0852635486, Victorian, tiles, tiling, art, artists, buildings, architecture, urban, decorative, decoration, history, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, interior design, designs, cities, city, towns, booklet
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Deacon, Bob, et al.
The New Eastern Europe: Social Policy, Past, Present and Future
(Sage, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. ix + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A9468
Keywords: 0803984391, social policy, history, Europe, Eastern Europe, East Europe, European, Soviet Union, communism, communist, market economy, democracy, welfare, childcare, working women, unemployed, poor, twentieth century, 20th
Price £7.00.
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McKelvey, Blake.
The City in American History:
(George Allen and Unwin, 1969).
Paperback. Some browning to covers, otherwise good. x + 229pp. Order No. NSBK-A5897
Keywords: 043010180, city, American, USA, United States, America, history, cities, city, towns, urban, planning, building, construction, colonial ports, metropolis, metropolitan, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, skyscrapers, architecture
Price £5.50.
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Darling, Jen.
Portrait of Warrington:
(Sigma Leisure, 1989).
Paperback. Ex Librrary with usual library stamps and stickers. viii + 88pp. Order No. NSBK-A15377
Keywords: 1850582076, Warrington, towns, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Loane, M.
The Queen's Poor: Life As They Find it in Town in Country
(Middlesex UP, 1998).
Introduction by Susan Cohen and Clive Fleay. Paperback. Slightly soiled, otherwise good. liii + 312pp. Order No. NSBK-A12701
Keywords: 1898253226, The Queen's Poor, poor, poverty, M. Loane, social investigations, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, towns, country, nurses, nursing. The Queen's Poor, working class, working-class, Martha Jane Loane
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King, Geoffrey.
Portrait of Knutsford:
(Sigma Leisure, 1988).
Paperback. Very good. 92pp. Order No. NSBK-A14050
Keywords: 1850581223, Knutsford, Cheshire, history, towns, town, Tatton Park, King Street, photos, photographs, pictures of Knutsford, Mobberley
Price £12.99.
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David, Joy.
Plymouth: The Waterfront City
(Allen of Derby, 2001).
Illustrated by Shirley Hole. Paperback. Very good+. 368pp. Order No. NSBK-A11962
Keywords: 0954097408, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Joy David, Plymouth, ports, harbours, waterfront, city, cities, towns
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Grace, Gerald.
Teachers, Ideology and Control: A Study in Urban Education
(RKP, 1978).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. xi + 264pp. Order No. NSBK-A13030
Keywords: 0710000154, education, ideology, teaching, teachers, urban, inner cities, urban schools, towns, sociology, England, English, Britain, British
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Orman, Richard A Van.
A Room for the Night: Hotels of the Old West
(Bonanza Books, 1967).
Hardback. Good in worn dustwrapper. xiii + 162pp. Order No. NSBK-A12716
Keywords: 025317600X, West, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, hotels, hospitality, catering, history, mining, miners, food, Cow Towns, towns, shacks, palaces, Western hotels, cowboys
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