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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Spender, Dale.
The Writing or the Sex: or, Why You Don't Have to Read Women's Writing to Know it's No Good
(Pergamon Press, 1989).
Paperback. Cover edges slightly bent, lacks title page, otherwise very good. x + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-H10747
Keywords: 0080331793, writing, writers, sex, females, women writers, woman writer, Dale Spender, literature, literary, reading, history of ideas, feminism, feminists, literary criticisim, twentieth century, 20th
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Ziegler, Philip.
London at War, 1939-1945:
(BCA, 1995).
Hardback. Stamped 'damaged' but no obvious faults, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. viii + 372pp. Order No. NSBK-A9576
Keywords: 1856193845, London, capital, wars, Second World War, twentieth century, World War II, Two, 2, cities, city, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Oakes, Claudia M.
United States Women in Aviation, 1930-1939:
(Smithsonian Institution, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. 70pp. Order No. NSBK-C12441
Keywords: 0874747090, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, aviation, planes, aeroplanes, twentieth century, 20th, aviators, pilots
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Wilson, Charles.
First With the News: The History of W. H. Smith, 1792-1972
(Guild Publishing, 1985).
Hardback. Very good. xiv + 510pp. Order No. NSBK-A12029
Keywords: 0224021567, W. H. Smith, news, newspapers, companies, company, business, businesses, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, eighteenth, twentieth, 18th, 20th, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Ward, James.
Psychology Applied to Education: A Series of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Education
(CUP, 1926).
Edited by G. Dawes Hicks. Hardback. Some foxing to endpapers, minor marginal pencil annotation, boards slightly marked & rubbed at edges, otherwise a good copy. xiii + 188pp. Order No. NSBK-A6466
Keywords: B00086JRU0, psychology, psycholoical, education, educational, history of ideas, twentieth century, theoretical, theory
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Hawkins, Kevin.
British Industrial Relations, 1945-1975:
(Barrie and Jenkins, 1976).
Hardback. Good with very minor ink annotation. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-A9909
Keywords: 0214202739, Britain, British, twentieth century, post war, trade unions, trade unionists, labour, labor, work, wages
Price £3.00.
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Phelps, Humphrey, ed.
Forest of Dean: England of One Hundred Years Ago. Photograph Collection
(Alan Sutton, 1992).
Paperback. Oversized book. A little wear to edges, otherwise very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A13331
Keywords: 0750903031, Forest of Dean, history, sepia, photographs, photography, images, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 19th century, prints, Gloucestershire, rural, Cinderford, Coleford, Littledean, social history
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Allen, Oliver E.
Decorating with Plants:
(Time-life Books, rpt., 1988).
Paperback. Very good. 158pp. Order No. NSBK-A12263
Keywords: 0705405753, plants, flowers, gardening, gardeners, horticulture, horticulturalists, home decor, decoration, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th
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Gourevitch, Peter Alexis.
Paris and the Provinces: The Politics of Local Government Reform in France
(George Allen and Unwin, 1980).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, otherwise very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiii + 251pp. Order No. NSBK-A7754
Keywords: 0043520952, France, French, Europe, European, history, local government, provinces, reform, Gaullists, Communists, Socialists, Christian Democrats, Independents, twentieth century, 20th, provincial
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