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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Dale Women's Institute, .
Dale: An Illustrated History
(Dale Women's Institute, Pennsylvania, 2000).
Paperback. Fine. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A9821
Keywords: 095386930X, Dale, Wales, Welsh, Dale Women's Institute, Britain, British, history, community, communities
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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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Department of Employment, .
Time Rates of Wages and Hours of Work: 1st April 1971
(HMSO, 1971).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some creasing to front cover, otherwise good. 327pp. Order No. NSBK-A14182
Keywords: 0113603738, wages, hours, work, time rates, employment, 1970s, seventies, manufacturing, industry, economy, textiles, factories, factory, engineering, social history, pay
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National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, .
The Constitutions, Rules and Handbook:
(National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, 1960).
Hardback. Very good. 129pp. Order No. NSBK-C8747
Keywords: B0000CKMTY, sixties, 1960s, National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, women's history, constitutions, rules, handbook, organisations, societies, Britain, British, female, England, English, membership
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Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, and Roger Leech.
Early Industrial Housing: the Trinity Area of Frome
(HMSO, 1981).
Supplementary Series. Paperback. Covers lightly rubbed, otherwise very good. viii + 44pp. Order No. NSBK-A7705
Keywords: 0117009075, Frome, Trinity Area, industrial housing, housing, houses, social history, architecture, architectural, buildings, homes, surveys, plans, streets, neighbourhood, town planning, regional studies, Britain, British, England, English, Somerset, urban, urbanisation, urban development, growth, 18th century, eighteenth century
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Prior, Mary, ed.
Women in English Society 1500-1800:
(Methuen, 1985).
Paperback. Covers slightly yellowed, otherwise good+. viii + 294pp. Order No. NSBK-D3319
Keywords: 9780416357103, women, women's history, sixteenth century, seventeenth century, eighteenth century, sexuality, gender, lactation, fertiility, widow, widowhood, bishop's wives, recusant, Tudor, Stuart
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Lie, Suzanne Stiver & O'Leary, Virginia, eds.
Storming the Tower: Women in the Academic World
(Kogan Page, 1990).
Paperback. Very good. 250pp. Order No. NSBK-C1222
Keywords: 1850918724, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, academic, higher education, education, educational, university, universities, colleges, academia, academe
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Crawford, Patricia ed.
Exploring Women's Past:
(George Allen and Unwin, 1983).
Paperback. Light soiling to page edges, otherwise very good+. 215pp. Order No. NSBK-C8716
Keywords: 9780868616049, women, woman, women's history, nuns, Western Australia, Victorian, spinsters, spinsterhood, prostitutes, prostitution
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Suffragette Poster, Modern Reproduction.
Votes for Women Wanted Everywhere:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007).
Paper: SRA3 = 320mm by 450mm. Image: A3 = 297mm by 420mm. 300 GMS gloss art high quality poster paper, coated and treated. Reproduction of an attractive suffragette poster advertising "Votes for Women", the Pethick-Lawrence edited newspaper, founded in October 1907. The colours are green, grey, purple and white and the image depicts a suffragette in contemporary dress standing in a field and holding aloft a copy of the newspaper. Poster. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C13071
Keywords: B000UZVP7M, Portrayer Publishers, suffragettes, suffragette poster, suffragette posters, Votes for Women, woman suffrage, history, women, enfranchisement, franchise, women's movement, politics, England, English, illustrations, suffrage, politics, images, imagery, women, women's, representations, pictures, poster, posters, enfranchisement, the franchise, reproductions, modern reproductions, print, prints, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, Britain, British, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera, newspapers, new design
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