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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Webb, Mary.
Precious Bane:
(Virago, rpt., 1994).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. 288pp. Order No. NSBK-C5952
Keywords: 0860680630, Mary Webb, Precious Bane, Virago, Viragos, literature, literary, novels, novelists, fiction, Shropshire, twentieth century, women writers, woman writer
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Warren, Kenneth.
The British Iron and Steel Sheet Industry Since 1840:
(G. Bell, 1970).
Hardback. Good+ in slightly chipped dustwrapper. xvi + 313pp. Order No. NSBK-A9881
Keywords: 0713515481, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, history, iron, steel, industry, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, twentieth, 20th
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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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Walsh, Margaret, ed.
Motor Transport:
(Ashgate, 1997).
Studies in Transport History. Hardback. Fine. xxiii + 212pp. Order No. NSBK-A10253
Keywords: 1859283454, motors, motor industry, cars, automobiles, markets, marketing, bus, buses, transport, Locomobile, Britain, British, England, English, history, American, USA, United States, Canada, Canadian, twentieth century, 20th, travel
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Stewart, Angus, ed.
Contemporary Britain:
(RKP, 1983).
Paperback. Spine creased, covers edge worn, otherwise good. ix + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-A11311
Keywords: 071009406X, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, social welfare, twentieth century, 20th, politics, political, social, race relations, middle class
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Thompson, Paul.
The Edwardians: the Remaking of British Society
(Weidenfeld and Nicholson, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Slight split at base of spine, otherwise good in chipped, slightly soiled dustwrapper. xi + 382pp. Order No. NSBK-A15216
Keywords: 9780713432244, Edwardian, Britain, British, England, English, history, society, oral history, interviews, interview, Edwardians, social conditions, 20th century, twentieth century, social change
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Goldie, Grace Wyndham.
The Liverpool Repertory Theatre, 1911-1934:
(University of Liverpool Press, 1935).
Hardback. Piece missing at top of spine end, some fading/light marking to boards, otherwise good. 280pp. Order No. NSBK-A11163
Keywords: B00087QV9E, theatres, stage, plays, drama, literature, literary, actors, actresses, playwrights, writers, dramatic, theatrical, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Liverpool, Liverpudlian, Merseyside, Liverpool Repertory Theatre, twentieth century, 20th
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Huggett, Frank E.
The Coal Miner:
(The Educational Supply Association, 1955).
People's Jobs. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, spine worn, ink stain to one page, a working copy. 89pp. Order No. NSBK-J11333
Keywords: B0000CJ5H8, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, labour, labor, work, miners, pitmen, coal, mines, pits, collieries, colliery, jobs, employment, twentieth century, 20th, mining
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Chinn, Carl.
They Worked All Their Lives: Women of the Urban Poor in England, 1880-1939
(MUP, 1988).
Hardback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good in faded dustwrapper. xi + 187pp. Order No. NSBK-A15085
Keywords: 9780719024368, urban poor, poverty, Carl Chinn, working class, women's history, social history, British, English, England, Britain, Birmingham, Midlands, charity, mothers, motherhood, Reports, women's work, trade unions, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, twentieth century, self-help, community, communities, debt, Clementina Black, working women
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