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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Gibbens, T.C.N. and Prince, Joyce.
Shoplifting: A Report On Research Carried Out Under The Auspices Of The I.S.T.D.
(Institute Study Treatment of Delinquency, 1962).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, rear cover soiled, some tearing to spine ends. A good working copy. 168pp. Order No. NSBK-A13916
Keywords: B0011CWJSM, shoplifters, shoplifting, shops, retail, thieves, theft, sociology, Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency, 1960s, sixties, crime, criminals, women, shopping, women shoplifters, Holloway Prison
Price £10.00.
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Moat, Florence and Sumner, Josephine.
The Concise Series of Practical Housecraft: I. Housewifery
(Longmans, Green, 1925).
Paperback. Original covers browned, spotted and worn. Spine split, otherwise good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-C15120
Keywords: B00174ZJ6I, booklets, booklet, housewifery, domesticity, history, antiquarian, domestic, Florence Moat, housework, housewives, washing, cleaning, shopping, interwar, inter-war
Price £16.00.
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Zagorin, Perez.
The Court and the Country: the Beginning of the English Revolution
(RKP, rpt, 1977).
Hardback. Ex library, very good in slightly faded, slightly marked dustwrapper. xiv + 366pp. Order No. NSBK-A2989
Keywords: 0710064152, English Civil War, English Revolution, court, country, Puritanism, Long Parliament, Charles I, Britain, British, England, English, history, revolution
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Bolos, Jordi and Busqueta, Joan J.
Territori i Societat a l'Edat Mitjana: Història, Arqueologia, Doumentació
(Universitat de Lleida, 2000).
1999 - 2000. Vol III. Paperback. Fine. 454pp. Order No. NSBK-A9304
Keywords: 8484090914, Universitat de Lleida, history, Mitjana, Spain, Spanish, mediaeval, medieval, Middle Ages
Price £14.00.
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Esher, Reginald Viscount.
The Tragedy of Lord Kitchener:
(John Murray, rpt, 1921).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Boards worn and marked. Some splitting internally at spine, a good working copy. xv + 219pp. Order No. NSBK-A15067
Keywords: B000L9ILRY, Lord Kitchener, World War I, Great War, First World War, Western Front, army, military
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Kipling, Rudyard, ed.
The Irish Guards in the Great War:
(Macmillan, 1923).
Volume II. The Second Battalion and Appendices. Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Edges slightly worn, some fraying to spine edges, otherwise good. vi + 310pp. Order No. NSBK-D15250
Keywords: B0006DMHC0, Kipling, Irish Guards, Ireland, Great War, World War I, fighing, battalions, Loos, Somme, Arras, history, Bourlon Wood
Price £25.00.
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Finney, Brian.
The Inner I: British Literary Autobiography of the Twentieth Century
(Faber and Faber, 1985).
Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled dustwrapper. 286pp. Order No. NSBK-A9679
Keywords: 0571133118, literature, literary, autobiography, autobiographical, autobiographies, lives, life histories, life history, Britain, British, history, England, English, twentieth century, 20th
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Mackenzie, Norman and Jeanne, eds.
The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Volume I: 1873 - 1892. Glitter Around and Darkness Within
(Virago, 1982).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xxii + 386pp. Order No. NSBK-C6086
Keywords: 0860682099, Beatrice Webb, socialism, socialist, socialists, Fabian, Fabians, Fabian socialism, women, history, diaries, diary, Victorian, Sidney Webb, Charles Booth, Margaret Harkness, Joseph Chamberlain, nineteenth century, Virago, Webbs
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Hartford, William F.
Where is Our Responsibility?: Unions and Economic Change in the New England Textile Industry, 1870-1960
(Massachusetts Press, 1996).
Hardback. Very good+. x + 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A12362
Keywords: 1558490221, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, New England, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, , Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, textiles, factories, factory, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, industry, work
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