Sayers, Peig.
An Old Woman's Reflections:
(OUP, rpt., 1978).
Translated from the Irish by Seamus Ennis and Introduced by W. R. Rodgers. Paperback. Very good. xiv + 131pp. Order No. NSBK-C4951
Keywords: 0192812394, women, woman, history, women's history, Ireland, Irish, Eire, Gaelic, Republic of Ireland, Southern Ireland, Great Blasket Island, County Kerry, oral history, storytelling, stories, tales, Peig Sayers
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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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Service, Robert W.
The Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man:
(T. Fisher Unwin, 1916).
Hardback. Some splitting internally at spine front and back. Endpapers partly detached, ex library. Boards stained, frayed at edges and soiled. A good working copy only. viii + 176pp. Order No. NSBK-A14891
Keywords: B000RNFXA2, Red Cross, verse, poems, poetry, World War I, First World War, Great War, social history, Robert W. Service
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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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Forster, Canon Leslie John.
Through a Glass Darkly: Notes on the Life of a Parish Priest
(St Helen's Church, 1998).
Edited by Paul Catcheside. Paperback. Covers lightly marked, otherwise very good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A14047
Keywords: 095328560X, priests, priest, religious, religion, history, parish priests, Canon Leslie John Forster, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, St Helen's Church, church, churches, Liverpool, ordination, blind, blindness, sight, Hollinfare Church, Great Budworth, Cheshire, Antrobus, Merseyside, autobiographies, autobiography
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King, Peter.
Women Rule the Plot: The Story of the 100 Year Fight to Establish Women's Place in Farm and Garden
(Duckworth, 1999).
Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C5406
Keywords: 0715629492, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, gardens, gardening, plots, unions, unionists, Women's Farm and Garden Union, earth, land, World War 1, World War One, Great War, wars, First World War, rural, country, countryside, agrarian, Lady Warwick, Gertrude Jekyll, Brend Colvin, Madeline Agar, suffrage, suffragettes, Women's Farm and Garden Association, associations, organisations, feminism, feminists, WFGA, Folly Farm, Highgrove, Chenies Manor, women and work, women's work, farming
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Moseley, M. J. & Sant, Morgan E. C.
Industrial Development in East Anglia:
(Geo Abstracts Ltd, 1977).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, some browning / soiling to cover boards, otherwise good. viii + 207pp. Order No. NSBK-A13333
Keywords: 0860940039, East Anglia, East Anglian, history, industry, industrial, geography, population, demography, environment, food production, Norwich, Cambridge, Ipswich, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Heath, Carl.
Military Service, Compulsory and Otherwise:
(Rationalist Peace Society, no date, circa First World War).
Leaflet no 2. Paperback. Slight browning and chipping to edges, otherwise very good. 2pp. Order No. NSBK-A14131
Keywords: pacifists, pacifism, pacifist, military service, compulsory military service, social history, Carl Heath, fighting, World War I, First World War, Great War, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, peace, peace movements
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Dix, Bernard and Williams, Stephen.
Serving the Public: Building the Union: The History of the National Union of Public Employees. Volume 1: The Forerunners 1889-1928
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1987).
Paperback. Near fine. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A13411
Keywords: 0853156468, Britain, British, England, English, NUPE, Union, Trade Unions, streets, wages, public health, New Unionism, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Victorian, Edwardian, municipal, urban, MEA, First World War, World war 1, Great War, labour, work, jobs, women workers, National Union of Public Employees, labor
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Crane Kalman, Gallery.
Winifred Nicholson b.1893: Paintings February 22 - March 11 1972
(Crane Kalman Gallery, 1972).
Exhibition catalogue: With an introductory article by P. G Konody. 14 plates (in B/W and colour). Booklet. Olive clrd crinkled card wrappers, with sunning to front & rear at all 4 edges,for approx 2" depth, o/w internally very good. 15pp. Order No. NSBK-F5498
Keywords: B00185CLVW, winifred nicholson, nicholson, nicholsons, winifred, watercolour, watercolours, art, artist, artists, painting, paintings, painter, painter, english, england, britain, british, great, twentieth century, 20th century, female, woman, women, females, letters, design correspondence, history, women writers, women writer, cornwall, st ives, modern, modernist, modernists, modernism, modernistic, impressionist, impressionists, impressionism, impressionistic, impressions, impression, writings, color, colors, booklet
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