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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Monger, David.
Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain: The National War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale
(Liverpool UP, 2012).
Hardback. Near fine in dustwrapper. xiv + 310pp. Order No. NSBK-A15698
Keywords: 9781846318306, patriotism, First World War, Great War, propaganda, civilian morale, social history, NWAC, World War I
Price £32.00.
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Moat, Florence and Sumner, Josephine.
The Concise Series of Practical Housecraft: I. Housewifery
(Longmans, Green, 1925).
Paperback. Original covers browned, spotted and worn. Spine split, otherwise good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-C15120
Keywords: B00174ZJ6I, booklets, booklet, housewifery, domesticity, history, antiquarian, domestic, Florence Moat, housework, housewives, washing, cleaning, shopping, interwar, inter-war
Price £16.00.
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Wilson, Trevor.
The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War, 1914 - 1918
(Polity Press, rpt, 1988).
Paperback. Spine slightly creased, page edges lightly soiled, with newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise a good copy. xvi + 864pp. Order No. NSBK-A15761
Keywords: 9780745606453, Great War, World War I, fighting, home front, Western Front, history
Price £20.50.
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Rabb, Theodore K and Rotberg, Robert I.
The Family in History: Interdisciplinary Essays
(Harper Torchbooks, 1973).
Paperback. Covers soiled and slightly torn, otherwise a good working copy. vii + 235pp. Order No. NSBK-C9490
Keywords: 0061317578, family, families, history, social history, men, women, children, domesticity, women, women's history
Price £6.00.
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Williams, Neville.
Powder and Paint: A History of the Englishwoman's Toilet, Elizabeth I - Elizabeth II
(Longmans Green, 1957).
Hardback. Grey cloth darkened, but a good solid copy, in soiled, chipped, edgeworn dustwrapper. xiii + 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A15817
Keywords: B0000CJPXG, fashion, beauty, cosmetics, history, make-up, perfume, hairdressing, social history, women's, coiffure, salons
Price £12.50.
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Public Schools Commission, .
Public Schools Commission: First Report. Vol I: Report
(HMSO, 1968).
Paperback. Ex lib with usual lib stamps, cvrs soiled. xviii + 237pp. Order No. NSBK-A3243
Keywords: 112700012, public school, schooling, education, Britain, British, history, teacher, pupil, boarding school, independent school, private education
Price £8.00.
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Beamont, William.
Annals of the Lords of Warrington and Bewsey from 1587 to 1833: When Warrington Became a Parliamentary Borough. In Two Parts. Part I: Warrington. Part II: Bewsey. With Notices of Historical and Local Events
(Charles Simms, Manchester, Percival Pearse, Warrington, 1873).
Hardback. A little wear to corners, edges and spine ends, a little cracking internally at binding, otherwise good+, firm. xxiv + 165pp. Order No. NSBK-A13754
Keywords: B000WFVS9A, Warrington, Bewsey, Lords, history, 19th century, Victorian, nineteenth century, Boteler, Atherton, Lancashire, early modern, Dudley, Delamer, seventeenth century, eighteenth century, William Beamont, antiquarian
Price £35.00.
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Howarth, Patrick.
The Year is 1851:
(Collins, 1951).
Hardback. Cover boards faded & slightly grubby, otherwise good. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A4165
Keywords: B0000CHXDX, Victorian, ninetenth century, Golden Age, Prince Albert, Exhibition of 1851, history, Queen Victoria, Great Exhibition
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Shaw, Marion, ed.
Man Does, Woman Is: an Anthology of Work and Gender
(Fab. & Fab., 1995).
Hardback. Very good in edgeworn dustwrapper. xiii + 256pp. Order No. NSBK-C753
Keywords: 0571165583, work, women and work, gender, labour, women's work, sexual equality, sex disrimination, jobs, women workers, working women, woman worker, woman workers, 20th century, twentieth century, labour, labor, gender roles, division of labour, gender division of labour
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