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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Christie's, .
Christies: Fine Irish Paintings and Drawings:
(Christie Scotland Limited, 1989).
Friday 26th May 1989. Paperback. Crease to front cover, otherwise good+. 203pp. Order No. NSBK-A12289
Keywords: B000IV5ODE, art, artists, painters, paintings, Christies, auctioneers, auction houses, Ireland, Irish, Eire
Price £6.00.
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Roche, Tony and Monahan, Patricia.
Decorating with Stencils: Innovative Designs Step-by-Step Instructions Templates
(George Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, board edges worn, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-G13067
Keywords: 0789200945, decoration, decorating, stencils, designs, patterns, homes, houses, wallpaper, decor, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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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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Dawson, Keith and Wall, Peter.
Public Health and Housing:
(OUP, 1970).
Society and Industry in the Nineteenth Century No 6. A Documentary Approach. Booklet. Mark to cover and first page marked with library stamp, otherwise good. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-H14307
Keywords: 0199130221, publich health, health, houses, housing, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, booklet
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Liveing, Henry G. D..
Records of Romsey Abbey: An Account of the Benedictine House of Nuns, With Notes on the Parish Church and Town (A.D. 907 - 1558)
(Warren and Son, 1912).
Abridged edition. Some pages uncut. Compiled from manuscript and printed records. Illustrated. Hardback. Light foxing, & slight rubbing to spine ends, otherwise very good in gilt-decorated navy cloth. xi + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-A8614
Keywords: B001OZTZSS, Romsey Abbey, Middle Ages, medieval, mediaeval, Romsey, history, religious houses, nuns, nunneries, nun, convents, convent, benedictine nuns, parish history, religion, religious, faith, Christians, Christianity, dissolution of the monasteries, foundations, clergy, women, female, women's history
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Thomis, Malcolm I.
Old Nottingham:
(David and Charles, 1968).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. 200pp. Order No. NSBK-A7631
Keywords: 071534305X, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, regions, Britain, British, history, England, English, towns, Castle Rock, law, High Pavement, Thomas Bailey of Basford, Goose Fair, Luddites, Trade unions, trade unionism, enclosure, pubs, public houses
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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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Simpson, M. A. and Lloyd, T. H., eds.
Middle Class Housing in Britain:
(David and Charles, Archon Books, 1977).
Hardback. Very good in slightly faded, slightly chipped dustwrapper. 217pp. Order No. NSBK-A14055
Keywords: B000VZXQGY, middle class, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, housing, classes, class system, houses, homes, architecture, city, cities, towns, social conditions, Exeter, Glasgow, Hampstead, Royal Leamington Spa, Nottingham, Sheffield
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Miller, Miranda.
Bed and Breakfast: Women and Homelessness Today
(The Women's Press, 1990).
Paperback. Good. ix + 178pp. Order No. NSBK-C9725
Keywords: 0704342049, women, woman, women's studies, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, homes, houses, homeless, homelessness, family, families, violence, domestic violence, children, bed and breakfasts, hotels, hostels, landlords, tenants, residences, feminism, feminists, twentieth century, 20th
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