Swindells, Julia.
Victorian Writing and Working Women: the Other Side of Silence
(Polity Press, 1985).
Paperback. Good+. 236pp. Order No. NSBK-C4041
Keywords: 0745600727, Victorian, nineteenth century, writing, women, work, women writers, gender, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, novels, autobiography, autobiographies, literature
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Jones, P. M.
The Peasantry in the French Revolution:
(CUP, rpt, 1989).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. xiv + 306pp. Order No. NSBK-A7643
Keywords: 052133716X, peasants, peasantry, peasant, French Revolution, France, eighteenth century, 18th century, Europe, European, European, class, serfs, serfdom, rural, agrarian, Ancien Regime, revolt, social history, Rural Code, Terror, land, Counter-Terror, rising expectation, Georges Lefebvre, National Assembly, seigneurialism
Price £6.00.
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Rubinstein, David.
Victorian Homes:
(David and Charles, 1974).
Hardback. Boards lightly soiled, otherwise very good. 287pp. Order No. NSBK-A8040
Keywords: 071536765X, Victorian, homes, houses, nineteenth, 19th, century, residences, residential, class, architecture, architectural, classes, slums, housing, terraces, planning, sanitation, hot water, heating, lighting, flats, tenements, society
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Shonfield, Zuzanna.
The Precariously Privileged: A Professional Family in Victorian London
(OUP, 1987).
Hardback. With newspaper cutting pasted to inside front cover, otherwise good in dustwrapper. ix + 266pp. Order No. NSBK-C463
Keywords: 0192122657, class, professional, Victorian, London, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, middle class
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Burn, James Dawson.
The Autobiography of a Beggar Boy:
(Europa Publications, 1978).
Edited by David Vincent. Hardback. Good in slightly creased / torn / browned dustwrapper. v + 205pp. Order No. NSBK-A2992
Keywords: 090511826X, poverty, nineteenth-century, working-class autobiographies, autobiography, beggars, trade unionism, radicalism, Oddfellows movement, Britain, British, England, English, history
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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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Thompson, Thea.
Edwardian Childhoods:
(RKP, reprint, 1982).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers and a little waviness to a few pages, otherwise good. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A6236
Keywords: 0710093357, child, children, Edwardian, infancy, family, Britain, British, England, English, history, childhood, reminiscences, memories, memory, autobiographies, autobiography, autobiographical, class, povert, poor, paupers, working class, working classes, lower orders
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Prandy, K., Stewart, A. and Blackburn, R. M.
White-Collar Unionism:
(Macmillan, 1983).
Cambridge Studies in Sociology. Paperback. Very good. viii + 172pp. Order No. NSBK-A11338
Keywords: 0333328906, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, white-collar work, white collar unionism, class, classes, class system, twentieth century, 20th, staff associations
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Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan.
The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny:
(Book Club Associates, 1973).
Hardback. A good working copy in slightly soiled dustwrapper. 350pp. Order No. NSBK-C12373
Keywords: 0340126795, nanny, nursery, family, baby, motherhood, class, servant, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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Harrison, J.F.C.
A History of the Working Men's College, 1854-1954:
(RKP, 1954).
Hardback. A little soiling to cloth, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise good+. xix + 215pp. Order No. NSBK-A4091
Keywords: B0000CIYZB, Working Men's College, education, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, class, George Tansley, adult education, mature students, WEA, Working Men's Association, clubs, Britain, British, England, English, working classes, working class, class, higher education, illiteracy, illiterate, literate, literacy, working men's colleges
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