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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Broughton, Trev Lynn & Anderson, Linda.
Women's Lives / Women's Times: New Essays on Auto/biography
(New York UP, 1997).
Paperback. Very good. xvii + 291pp. Order No. NSBK-C3077
Keywords: 9780791433980, women writers, autobiography, biography, auto/biography, theory
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Taylor, Barbara.
Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
(Harvard UP, 1983).
Paperback. Very good. xviii + 402pp. Order No. NSBK-A15616
Keywords: 9780674270237, chartism, socialism, feminism, Victorian, utopian, utopianism, trade unions, trade unionism, women, history, Barbara Taylor, nineteenth century, Victorian, Robert Owen, Owenism, Owenites, Britain, British, England, English, history, Virago, chartists, chartist, chartist movement, 19th century, women, women's history
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Westaway, K. M.
Old Girls in New Times: The Story of Some of the Work done by the Old Girls of Bedford High School During Nearly Six Years of War, 1939-1945
(F.R. Hockliffe Ltd, 1945).
Hardback. Torn paper cover loose, stitching exposed, otherwise good. 102pp. Order No. NSBK-C12669
Keywords: B0007JZKHW, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's work, women and work, employment, girls, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students, Bedford High School, Bedfordshire, girls' schools, war work, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century
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Philips, Deborah & Haywood, Ian.
Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions
(Leicester UP, 1998).
Hardback. Fine. 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C4312
Keywords: 071850058X, post war, postwar, post-war, fiction, fictions, literature, women, woman, literary history, 1950s, working women, women and work, texts, discourses, gender, femininity, women employees, Britain, British, England, English
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McCloskey, Donald, N., ed.
Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840: Papers and Proceedings of the MSSB Conference on the New Economic History of Britain, 1840-1930, held at Eliot House, Harvard University, 1-3 September 1970
(Methuen, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in sl faded dw. xv + 439pp. Order No. NSBK-A4659
Keywords: 0416082408, Mathematical Social Science Board, economy, economists, economics, demography, capital, capitalism, Britain, British, history, steam, 416082408, Victorian, nineteenth century, industry, industrial, Atlantic economy, American iron production
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Knox, Patty.
New Directions in Fair Isle Knitting:
(Lark Books, 2000).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly creased dustwrapper. 119pp. Order No. NSBK-A13376
Keywords: 093727416X, knitting, kitters, Fair Isle knitting, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Pollard, Andrew; Purvis, June; Walford, G., eds.
Education, Training and the New Vocationalism: Experience and Policy
(Open UP, 1988).
Hardback. Very good. viii + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A15692
Keywords: 9780335158454, education, training, vocational education
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Morrow, John.
Young England: The New Generation: a Selection of Primary Texts
(Leicester UP, 1999).
Hardback. Very good in laminated boards. xii + 196pp. Order No. NSBK-A3717
Keywords: 0718501454, Young England, 1840s, Benjamin Disraeli, The Condition of England, politics, society, George Smythe, Victorian, nineteenth century, England, English, Britain, British, Lord John Manners, Tory, Toryism, Tories, philosophy, history, ideas, Conservatism, Conservatives, Conservative, aristocracy, ruling classes
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Eastwood, G. F.
Queen Elizabeth's: A New History of the Ancient Grammar School of Blackburn
(J. Dickenson, 1967).
Hardback. Very good in chipped/torn dustwrapper repaired with sellotape. xx + 126pp. Order No. NSBK-C6262
Keywords: B000HBXWK2, Blackburn, schools, schooling, education, children, girls' schools, girls schools, Britain, British, England, English, history, Queen Elizabeth's, Lancashire
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