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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Rodaway, Angela.
A London Childhood:
(Virago, rpt with new intro,1985).
Paperback. With a newspaper review pasted to inner cover, otherwise very good. xvii + 158pp. Order No. NSBK-C15903
Keywords: 9780860686408, autobiographies, autobiography, women, social history, London, working class, classes, stored near piano
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Surman, Phyllis.
Eliza of Otmoor:
(Oxprint, 1976).
Scarce. Paperback. Covers soiled, with a little bumping to corners, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise a good copy. 49pp. Order No. NSBK-C15833
Keywords: stored with the booklets, booklet, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Otmoor, women's history, family history, Islip, rural, villages, social history, village, Eliza of Otmoor, Coggins, farming
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Golby, John; Waites, Bernard, et al.
Between Two Wars:
(Open UP, rpt, 1995).
War, Peace & Social Change Series: Europe, 1900 - 1955, Book III only. Paperback. Top corner slightly bumped, otherwise very good. 280pp. Order No. NSBK-A1004
Keywords: 0335093086, war, interwar, inter war, inter-war, origins World War II, origins Second World War, Germany, Italy, Soviet Union, Britain, France, history, international politics, rivalries, War, Peace and Social Change Series, Book III, Book 3, Book Three
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Lambert, Sharon.
Irish Women in Lancashire, 1922-1960: their Story
(Centre for North West Regional Studies, 2001).
Paperback. Some soiling / foxing to page edges and endpapers, otherwise good. xii + 129pp. Order No. NSBK-C4253
Keywords: 1862201102, Ireland, Irish, women, Irish women, history, Britain, British, England, English, immigration, immigrant, immigrants, emigration, emigrants, emigrant, Lancashire, oral history, social history, life stories, autobiography, autobiographies, Sharon Lambert, Dublin, Wigan, Preston, Lancaster, Liverpool, Lancaster University, Catholic, Catholics, Catholicism, female, national identity, family, families, North West, Centre for North West Regional Studies
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McCloskey, Donald, N., ed.
Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840: Papers and Proceedings of the MSSB Conference on the New Economic History of Britain, 1840-1930, held at Eliot House, Harvard University, 1-3 September 1970
(Methuen, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in sl faded dw. xv + 439pp. Order No. NSBK-A4659
Keywords: 0416082408, Mathematical Social Science Board, economy, economists, economics, demography, capital, capitalism, Britain, British, history, steam, 416082408, Victorian, nineteenth century, industry, industrial, Atlantic economy, American iron production
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Frolich, Paul.
Rosa Luxemburg:
(Pluto, 2nd impression, 1983).
Paperback. Very good. xx + 329pp. Order No. NSBK-A14589
Keywords: 0902818198, Rosa Luxemburg, women, working classes, working class movement, biography, biographies, communism, communist, Communist Party, Germany, German, socialism, socialist, socialists, Social Democratic Party
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Suffragettes, .
Reproduction Votes for Women Badge: Votes for Women Shield in a Square
(Portrayer, 2010).
Attractive plated metal brooch / badge with firm safety-pin fitment at the rear for affixing to clothes. A faithful reproduction of the original. The image displays the words "Votes for Women" on a white sash in the middle of a purple and green shield. The badge itself is square in shape. 25mm by 25mm. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15005
Keywords: badges, brooches, jewellery, history, suffragettes, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, social history, Votes for Women, campaign, women's movement, suffragette ephemera, replica suffragette ephemera
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Church, R. A.
The Great Victorian Boom, 1850 - 1873:
(Macmillan, rpt, 1988).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A7728
Keywords: 0333143507, economy, economic, social history, economic boom, Great Victorian Boom, mid-Victorian, 19th century, British, Britain, England, English, free trade, monetary, fiscal, prices, capital, investment, exports, imports
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Suffragette Poster, Modern Reproduction.
Votes for Women Wanted Everywhere:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007).
Paper: SRA3 = 320mm by 450mm. Image: A3 = 297mm by 420mm. 300 GMS gloss art high quality poster paper, coated and treated. Reproduction of an attractive suffragette poster advertising "Votes for Women", the Pethick-Lawrence edited newspaper, founded in October 1907. The colours are green, grey, purple and white and the image depicts a suffragette in contemporary dress standing in a field and holding aloft a copy of the newspaper. Poster. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C13071
Keywords: B000UZVP7M, Portrayer Publishers, suffragettes, suffragette poster, suffragette posters, Votes for Women, woman suffrage, history, women, enfranchisement, franchise, women's movement, politics, England, English, illustrations, suffrage, politics, images, imagery, women, women's, representations, pictures, poster, posters, enfranchisement, the franchise, reproductions, modern reproductions, print, prints, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, Britain, British, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera, newspapers, new design
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