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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Rowntree, B. Seebohm, ed.
Betting and Gambling: a National Evil
(Macmillan, 2nd edition, sixpenny edition, 1906).
Paperback. Wear to spine.Foxing to covers & front cover partly detached. A couple of internal pgs slightly torn, (not affecting text's legibility), otherwise a good working copy. 132pp. Order No. NSBK-A13344
Keywords: B000OIIMHG, gambling, betting, bets, Rowntree, Rowntrees, B. Seebohm Rowntree, history, hobbies, leisure, Edwardian, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women gamblers, male gamblers, sport, sports, York, stock exchange, crime, gamblers, citizenship, street betting, ethics, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Thompson, Allan.
The Dynamics of the Industrial Revolution:
(Edward Arnold, 1975).
Paperback. Spine faded, otherwise good. x + 174pp. Order No. NSBK-A4452
Keywords: 0713158417, Industrial Revolution, work, nineteenth century, historiography, history, Britain, British, England, English, eighteenth century, economic, economics, agriculture, population, demography, entrepreneurship, capital, religion, trade
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Markus, Julia.
Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
(Bloomsbury, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. viii + 382pp. Order No. NSBK-C7304
Keywords: 0747522960, women writers, woman's history, woman, poets, poetry, poems, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Robert Browning, marriage, marital, elopement, Italy, Italian, eloping, courtship, Victorian, nineteenth century, letters, correspondence, literature, literary, romance, Tennyson, Thackeray, Rossetti, William Story, Harriet Hosmer, Charlotte Cushman, George Sand, morphine, spiritualism, depression
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Meehan, Aidan.
Celtic Design: A Beginner's Manual
(Thames and Hudson, rpt., 1999).
With 258 illustrations. Paperback. Sticker mark on back, otherwise very good+. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A10657
Keywords: 0500276293, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Celtic, designs, art, artists, designers, crafts, craftspeople
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Mackerness, E.D.
A Social History of English Music:
(RKP, 1964).
Hardback. Black cloth slightly rubbed / flecked, page edges soiled, otherwise good+. x + 307pp. Order No. NSBK-A15819
Keywords: 9780837187051, social history, music, musicians, popular culture
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Lingard, Horace.
Hints and Ideas of a Practical Man for Unpractical People:
(Horace Lingard, privately printed, no date).
A booklet about plain and high class decorative painting for the home. Booklet. Red covers slightly darkened with a small mark to rear, otherwise good. 16pp. Order No. NSBK-A16032
Keywords: booklets, booklet, decoration, home decorating, painting and decorating, advice, palette, furniture, sign-writing, art, interior design, decor, history
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Burgess, Robert G., ed.
Issues in Educational Research: Qualitative Methods
(Falmer Press, 1985).
Paperback. Covers slightly yellowed, otherwise good. ix + 289pp. Order No. NSBK-A15115
Keywords: 9781850000358, education, educational, educational research, teaching
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Concannon, Dale.
Golf The Early Days: Royal and Ancient Game from its Origins to 1939
(Salamander, 1995).
Hardback. Large book, very good in dustwrapper. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A13178
Keywords: 0861018044, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, golf, golfing, golfers, sports, sportsmen, sporting, games
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Matthews, Kent and Benjamin, Dan.
US and UK Unemployment Between the Wars: A Doleful Story
(Institute of Economic Affairs, 1992).
Hobart Paperback 31. Paperback. Very good. xvi + 174pp. Order No. NSBK-A14142
Keywords: 0255363052, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, USA, America, United States, employment, unemployment, dole, poverty, inter-war, Depression, slump, economy, inter war
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