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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Selby, Walford, D. ed.
Lancashire and Cheshire Records Preserved in the Public Record Office, London:
(Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, 1883).
Number 8 in the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society Series. Part II of a two-part set. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in original green/gilt decorated cloth. 225 - 626pp. Order No. NSBK-A11222
Keywords: B000HC77D4, Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, Lancashire & Cheshire Record Society, local history, records, archives, archival, documents, North West England, England, English, Britain, British, manuscripts, documents, sources, antiquarian, parish history, parishes, parochial, Public Record Office, Walford D. Selby, courts, medieval, Middle Ages, early modern, charters, calendars, indexes
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Dane, Clemence.
The Women's Side:
(Herbert Jenkins, 1926).
Hardback. A little fading / soiling to red cloth, especially at spine, otherwise good. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-C15928
Keywords: B00085URVY, Clemence Dane, women, antiquarian, suffragettes, education, votes, woman question, marriage
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Kilham, Walter H.
Mexican Architecture of the Vice-Regal Period:
(Longmans, Green, 1927).
Illustrated with 84 plates. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, spine faded with some wear to spine ends & corners, otherwise very good, solid. 221pp. Order No. NSBK-A15128
Keywords: B0014NWU2S, Mexico, Mexican, Vice-Regal, Central American, Central America, Americas, buildings, Mexico City, churches, palaces, antiquarian
Price £48.00.
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Dimbleby, David and Reynolds, David.
Oceans Apart: The Relationship Between Britain and America in the Twentieth Century
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1988).
Hardback. Very good. xvii + 408pp. Order No. NSBK-A12953
Keywords: 0340406666, Dimbleby, Atlantic, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, politics, political, politicians, government
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Selby, Walford D., ed.
Lancashire and Cheshire Records Preserved in the Public Record Office, London:
(Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, 1882).
Number 7 in the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society Series. Part I of a two-part set. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, minor damage to fly leaf, otherwise good+ in original green/gilt decorated cloth. xlii + 222pp. Order No. NSBK-A11221
Keywords: B000HC77CK, Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, Lancashire & Cheshire Record Society, local history, records, archives, archival, documents, North West England, England, English, Britain, British, manuscripts, documents, sources, antiquarian, parish history, parishes, parochial, Public Record Office, Walford D. Selby, Chester, Lancaster, courts, rolls, medieval, Middle Ages, early modern
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Lefebure, Molly.
The Bondage of Love: A Life of Mrs. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Victor Gollancz, 1986).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf. Ex library with minimal library stamps & stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 287pp. Order No. NSBK-C8897
Keywords: 0575038713, drugs, addiction, opium, Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, literature, biography, biographies, history, marriage, drug addiction, Britain, British, England, English, 18th century, eighteenth century, 19th century, nineteenth century, Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Robert Southey, romantics, romanticism, romantic period, Coleridges, Greta Hall
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Hayward, John F.
Chests of Drawers And Commodes: in the Victoria and Albert Museum
(HMSO, 1960).
Paperback. Ex library with minimal library markings. Spine a little creased, otherwise good. 44pp. Order No. NSBK-A14439
Keywords: B002C0RM0W, Victoria and Albert Museum, chests of drawers, commodes, history, furniture, antique furniture, cabinets
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Hughes, Emrys, ed.
Keir Hardie's Speeches and Writings: from 1888 to 1915
(Forward Printing and Publishing, 1915).
Hardback. Some fading to cloth at spine and top edge, otherwise good. xvi + 187pp. Order No. NSBK-A15994
Keywords: B00GHT6UQQ, antiquarian, Keir Hardie, Labour, Left, Labour Party, history, ILP, Independent Labour Party, socialism, socialist, speeches, literature, writings
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Arnold-Forster, Frances.
Studies in Church Dedications or England's Patron Saints:
(Skeffington, 1899).
Volume II only of a three volume set. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, cloth faded and worn with chipping to spine & wear to edges. A good working copy. 569pp. Order No. NSBK-A14391
Keywords: B00GNE80N6, religion, religious, history, saints, patron saints, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, religious orders, church, churches, Christianity, antiquarian
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