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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Barnard, Mary.
Diary of an Optimist:
(The Larks Press, rpt., 1997).
Paperback. Very good+. 190pp. Order No. NSBK-C10352
Keywords: 0948400323, Mary Barnard, women, woman, women's studies, women's history, children, motherhood, mothers, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, home helps, rationing, food, clothing, shortages, teachers, education, counsellors, magistrates, journalists
Price £3.00.
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Kaye, Michael.
Child Welfare Outside the School:
(Oliver and Boyd, 1937).
Hardback. Some brown soiling to cloth and rubbing to edges, otherwise good. viii + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-A13584
Keywords: B00112B870, inter-war, inter war, child welfare, social welfare, home, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, housing, family, poverty, social history, health, employment, unemployment, leisure, delinquency, slums, slum, fitness, children
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Becke, A. F.
History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions: The Regular British Divisions Part 1
(Sherwood Press, 1990).
Based on Official Documents. The Regular British Divisions Part 1. By Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, a little curling to edges, covers soiled, internally good. ix + 130pp. Order No. NSBK-A14883
Keywords: 0948983019, First World War, World War I, history, battles, army, divisions, British, fighting, Western Front, order of battle
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Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
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Eckford, E. Stoddart and Fitzgerald, M. S.
Household Management: A Handbook of Domestic Economy and Hygiene
(Sir Isaac Pitman, 1927).
Fourth Impression. Hardback. Covers and spine slightly soiled, otherwise good. iv + 432pp. Order No. NSBK-A11853
Keywords: B000HC1SD4, E. Stoddart Eckman, M. S. Fitzgerald, domestic economy, hygiene, houses, households, household management, housewives, housewifery, homes
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Stodart, M.A.
Every Day Duties: in Letters to a Young Lady
(Photocopy only of R.B. Seeley edition, 1840).
Hardback. Library photocopy only, not an original. In good, sturdy, maroon library binding, a little scuffed at the back. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A13755
Keywords: B0008CKDZC, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, femininity, feminine, advice books, prayer, women's history, religion, private sphere, domesticity, politeness, manners, home, Sabbath, household, servants, social history, etiquette, religious
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Anderson, Mosa.
Henry Joseph Wilson: Fighter for Freedom, 1833 - 1914
(James Clarke, 1953).
Foreword by Lord Pethick-Lawrence. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings. A little wear to edges, otherwise very good. 86pp. Order No. NSBK-A13638
Keywords: B000W6QBW8, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, biographies, biography, Henry Joseph Wilson, Josephine Butler, reformers, social reform, Holmfirth, social welfare, Ireland, Opium Commission, Home Rule, Contagious Diseases Acts, Lord Pethick-Lawrence, politics, political, Victorian, Edwardian, 19th century, nineteenth century
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Gardiner, Juliet.
D-Day: Those Who Were There
(Collins & Brown, 1994).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, otherwise good in creased dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A5218
Keywords: 1855852047, D-Day, twentieth century, fighting, World War II, Second World War, Britain, British, England, English, France, French, Allies, Allied, Normandy beaches, Channel, Second Front, forces, military operations
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Innes, C. L.
Woman and Nation in Irish Literature and Society, 1880 - 1935:
(University Georgia Press, 1993).
Hardback. Very good. xii + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C15619
Keywords: 9780820315973, woman, women's history, Ireland, Irish, Eire, Irishness, colonial, colonialist, nationalist, Catholic, Catholicism, Protestantism, Protestants, Yeats, Joyce, Synge, Anna Parnell, Ladies Land League, Maud Gonne, Lady Gregory, Elizabeth Bowen, icons, iconography, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century, Britain, British, literature, novels, fiction, women writers, church, Easter Rising, patriots, patriotism, Irish Independence, Home Rule
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