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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Mackeith, Margaret.
Shopping Arcades: A Gazetteer of Extant British Arcades, 1817 - 1939
(Mansell Publishing, 1985).
Hardback. Some yellowing to boards, otherwise good+. viii + 166pp. Order No. NSBK-A13518
Keywords: 0720117585, architecture, shopping, shopping arcades, shopping malls, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, leisure, retail, retailing, social history, shops, architectural, shop design, consumerism, consumer, buying, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, twentieth century, inter-war
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Spink, Henry Hawkes.
The Gunpowder Plot And Lord Mounteagle's Letter: Being a Proof, With Moral Certitude, of the Authorship of the Document Together With Some Account of the Whole Thirteen Gunpowder Conspirators, Including Guy Fawkes
(Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1902).
Being a Proof, With Moral Certitude, of the Authorship of the Document Together With Some Account of the Whole Thirteen Gunpowder Conspirators, Including Guy Fawkes. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. A little cracking internally at spine. Cloth dark, with wear to edges & fraying /a little splitting externally at spine. Else good. xxxvi + 412pp. Order No. NSBK-A14860
Keywords: B000ZGAJIW, Guy Fawkes, Gunplowder Plot, conspiracy, history, 17th century, seventeenth century, government, politics, Yorkshire, treason, early modern
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Pinion, F.B. ed.
Thomas Hardy and the Modern World: A Symposium
(Thomas Hardy Society, 1974).
Papers Presented at the 1973 Summer School. Paperback. Light soiled / yellowing to covers, otherwise very good. ix + 161pp. Order No. NSBK-A15816
Keywords: 9780904398045, Thomas Hardy, writers, fiction, literature, fiction, Thomas Hardy Society
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Lapping, Brian and Radice, Giles.
More Power to the People: Young Fabian Essays on Democracy in Britain
(Longmans, rpt., 1968).
Paperback. Good+. viii + 196pp. Order No. NSBK-A12928
Keywords: B0000CO5MI, Fabians, essays, socialism, socialists, people, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
Price £6.00.
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Pinto-Duschinsky, Michael.
Political Thought of Lord Salisbury, 1854 - 68:
(Constable, 1967).
Hardback. Light orange / white staining to cloth, ex library with usual library stamps, otherwise good. 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A15921
Keywords: 9780094514805, Lord Salisbury, Victorian, nineteenth century, politics
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Pillai, Vijayan K. and Shannon Lyle W., eds.
Developing Areas: A Book of Readings and Research
(Berg, 1995).
Paperback. Fine. xi + 552pp. Order No. NSBK-A7030
Keywords: 1859730027, politics, political, development, developmental, economic, economy, economics, twentieth century, 20th, AIDs, Central American, North America, United States, Third World, Fourth World, colonialism, colonialists, colonies, colony, social, ecosystems
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Hill, Miranda.
The Fairy Spinner: and Out of Date or Not?
(Marcus Ward & Co, 1875).
Illustrated. Hardback. Some natural foxing with age, especially to endpapers, some wear to edges and spine ends, otherwise good in pictorial boards with gilt titles. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A16009
Keywords: antiquarian, Miranda Hill, Victorian, nineteenth century, fiction, women writers, literature, illustrated
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Mappen, Ellen.
Helping Women at Work: The Women's Industrial Council, 1889-1914
(Hutchinson, 1985).
Paperback. Very good. 134pp. Order No. NSBK-C1218
Keywords: 0091594715, Britain, British, England, English, history, Edwardian, women's work, women and work, The Women's Industrial Council, women's history, women
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Kanter, Hannah, Lefanu, Sarah et al, eds.
Sweeping Statements: Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, 1981 - 83
(Women's Press, 1984).
Paperback. Good. 307pp. Order No. NSBK-C15768
Keywords: 9780704339309, literature, women's liberation movement, feminist movement, feminism
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