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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Aikin, Dr, & Barbauld, Mrs.
Evenings at Home: Consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces, for the Instruction and Amusement of Youth
(Ward, Lock, rpt, no date).
Illustrated by the brothers Dalziel. Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, corners rubbed & spine ends slightly split, some white staining at base of boards, otherwise good. viii + 456pp. Order No. NSBK-C349
Keywords: B001KG3N20, children's literature, amusement, instruction, Britain, British, England, English, history, Juvenile Budget Opened, Evenings at Home, Warrington, North West England, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Dr Aikin, education, educational, children's stories, Dissent, nonconformity, nonconformists, antiquarian
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Clutterbuck, Nesta, ed.
William Wordsworth, 1770-1970: Essays of General Interest on Wordsworth and his Time
(Trustees Dove Cottage, 1970).
Paperback. Good. 45pp. Order No. NSBK-A5739
Keywords: 0950123803, William Wordsworth, Lake Poets, Lake District, poets, poetry, poems, life histories, life history, biographies, biography, biographical, Dove Cottage, Romantics, Romantic, Cumbria, Romanticism, literature, literary
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Randell, Keith.
Luther and the German Reformation, 1517-55:
(Edward Arnold, 1988).
Paperback. Covers creased and slightly worn, otherwise good. vi + 101pp. Order No. NSBK-A14557
Keywords: 071317630X, Luther, Lutheranism, protestantism, German Reformation, 16th century, sixteenth century, Germany, religion, religious
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Spencer, Herbert.
Tumours Complicating Pregnancy, Labour and the Puerperium: Being The Lettsomian Lectures Delivered Before The Medical Society Of London, February and March 1920
(Harrison and Sons, 1920).
Very scarce. Hardback. Ex-library (St Bartholomew's Hospital College Library). Edges worn, otherwise a good copy. 78pp. Order No. NSBK-A13637
Keywords: B00126A1M8, Lettsomian Lectures, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, medicine, medical, women, women's history, pregnancy, maternity, pregnant, having a baby, health, tumours, cysts, cancer, growth, babies, motherhood, mothers, labour, London, 1920s, twenties, twentieth century, puerperium, cervix, cervical cancer, Caesarean section, antiquarian
Price £75.00.
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Proud, E. Dorothea.
Welfare Work: Employers' Experiments for Improving Working Conditions in Factories
(G. Bell, 3rd edition, 1918).
Foreword by David Lloyd-George. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers. some wear to edges, otherwise good. xx + 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C6760
Keywords: B000856JQQ, welfare, Great War, First World War, World War I, workers, working, factory system, factories, working conditions, women and work, working women, David Lloyd-George, social experiments, history, Catherine Helen Spence, E. Dorothea Proud, pay, wages, economic, economy, industry, industrial, twentieth century, antiquarian, factory legislation, factory labour, factory girls, labor
Price £19.50.
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Committee of Council on Education, .
Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education, With Appendices. 1840 - 41:
(William Clowes for HMSO, 1841).
Hardback. Light foxing to endpapers. Rubbing and light bumping to corners, otherwise very good, solid. 482pp. Order No. NSBK-C15097
Keywords: B002MXNYOM, 1840s, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, Committee of Council on Education, children, childhood, elementary education, school inspection, reports, minutes, enquiries, inquiries, antiquarian
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Kilham, Walter H.
Mexican Architecture of the Vice-Regal Period:
(Longmans, Green, 1927).
Illustrated with 84 plates. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, spine faded with some wear to spine ends & corners, otherwise very good, solid. 221pp. Order No. NSBK-A15128
Keywords: B0014NWU2S, Mexico, Mexican, Vice-Regal, Central American, Central America, Americas, buildings, Mexico City, churches, palaces, antiquarian
Price £48.00.
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Arnold-Forster, Frances.
Studies in Church Dedications: or England's Patron Saints
(Skeffington, 1899).
Volume I only of three. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers.Cloth worn. Front board shakey, spine cover partly hanging off. A good working copy. xxv + 520pp. Order No. NSBK-A14399
Keywords: B00GNE80N6, religion, religious, history, saints, patron saints, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, religious orders, church, churches, Christianity, antiquarian
Price £28.00.
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Earle, Alice Morse.
The Sabbath in Puritan New England:
(Corner House, 1969 rpt of 1891 text).
Hardback. Small hole in fly leaf/spine inside, some white powdery marking to boards, otherwise good in worn and torn dustwrapper. 335pp. Order No. NSBK-A10700
Keywords: 0879280050, Sabbath, Puritan New England, Sundays, religion, Puritans, puritanism, Protestantism, America, American, US, United States, religious, Christians, Christianity, seventeenth cnetury, 17th, Alice Morse Earle
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