Burnett, John, ed.
Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly soiled and browned dustwrapper. 364pp. Order No. NSBK-A2267
Keywords: 0713906820, working class, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, working classes, autobiographies, men, women, women's, labour, labor, labouring classes, laboring classes, domestic servants, housemaids, domestic service, skilled workers, labour aristocracy, John Burnett
Price £11.50.
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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
Price £24.00.
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Stuart, Dorothy Margaret.
The English Abigail:
(Macmillan, 1946).
Hardback. Ex library with minor marks left by stickers, edges worn, otherwise good. 221pp. Order No. NSBK-C3359
Keywords: B0007IW8V0, abigail, domestic service, servant, women adn work, women's work, literature, novel, fiction
Price £20.00.
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Lummis, Trevor and Marsh, Jan.
The Woman's Domain: Women and the English Country House
(Viking, 1990).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xii + 221pp. Order No. NSBK-C13893
Keywords: 0670816809, Hardwick Hall, women's history, women, Trevor Lummis, Jan Marsh, Arlington Court, Wallington, Belton House, Saltram, English country houses, Bess of Hardwick, domestic servants, domestic service
Price £10.00.
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Rendall, Jane.
Women in an Industrialising Society, 1750-1880:
(Blackwell, rpt., 1991).
Paperback. Light edge-wear, otherwise very good. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-C7322
Keywords: 9780631153030, Jane Rendall, industrialisation, industrialization, industry, women, woman, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, 18th, 19th, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, work, employment, labor, labour, domestic, domesticity, economics, economy, economic, women and work
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Johnson, Peter, ed.
The Structure of British Industry:
(Unwin Hyman, 2nd edit., 1988).
Paperback. Some creasing/fading to spine -otherwise good. xi + 401pp. Order No. NSBK-A9819
Keywords: 0043381464, Britain, British, England, English, history, structure, agriculture, North Sea oil, gas, coal, steel, pharmaceuticals, synthetic fibres, information technology, motor vehicles, food processing, construction, retailing, rail transport, domestic air transport, domestic air transport, insurance, medical care, tourism, twentieth century, 20th
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Gardiner, Juliet.
D-Day: Those Who Were There
(Collins & Brown, 1994).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, otherwise good in creased dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A5218
Keywords: 1855852047, D-Day, twentieth century, fighting, World War II, Second World War, Britain, British, England, English, France, French, Allies, Allied, Normandy beaches, Channel, Second Front, forces, military operations
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Becke, A. F.
History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions: The Regular British Divisions Part 1
(Sherwood Press, 1990).
Based on Official Documents. The Regular British Divisions Part 1. By Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, a little curling to edges, covers soiled, internally good. ix + 130pp. Order No. NSBK-A14883
Keywords: 0948983019, First World War, World War I, history, battles, army, divisions, British, fighting, Western Front, order of battle
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Black, Jeremy.
The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1727-1731:
(Alan Sutton, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in slightly sunned, slightly marked dustwrapper. xvi + 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A5336
Keywords: 0862993008, Anglo-French, Anglo-French diplomacy, diplomatic, diplomatic relations, foreign policy, Europe, European, balance of power, France, Britain, British, French, history, domestic politics, Crown, monarchy, monarchies, Seville Alliance, eighteenth century
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Anon, .
Every Woman's Book of Home-making Home Making:
(The Amalgamated Press Ltd, 1940 (?)).
First edition. Hardback. Edges slightly chipped, otherwise very good. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C13375
Keywords: B000VJKA4G, every woman, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, homemaking, domestic, domesticity, housewives, housewife, housewifery, filed with the An's (purple cloth spine with no titles), home-making, home making, filed under A horizontal
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