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
Price £7.50.
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Jamieson, Bill.
An Illustrated Guide to the British Economy:
(Duckworth, 1998).
Foreword by Sir Alan Walters. Paperback. Fine. xi + 355pp. Order No. NSBK-A11290
Keywords: 0715627856, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial
Price £6.00.
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Aronson, Hugh.
Our Village Homes: Present Conditions and Suggested Remedies
(Thomas Murby, 1913).
With a preface by Lord Henry Bentinck. Hardback. Cloth rather soiled, some rubbing / fraying to extremities, otherwise a good solid copy. x + 150pp. Order No. NSBK-A13844
Keywords: B001IVIPUM, villages, village, history, town planning, housing, houses, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, housing schemes, social history, housing conditions, homes, rural areas, countryside, health, rural depopulation, agriculture, labourers' cottages, cottage, Hugh Aronson, social conditions, architecture, house building
Price £70.00.
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Stone, Dorothy.
The National: The Story of a Pioneer College: The National Training College of Domestic Subjects
(Brighton Polytechnic Press, 1973).
Hardback. Very good. xvi + 399pp. Order No. NSBK-C8860
Keywords: 0904167003, The National Training College of Domestic Subjects, education, women's history, women, woman, gender, pioneers, Dorothy Stone, Surrey, Brighton, Home Economics, domestic, domesticity, cooking, cooks, cookery, nineteenth century, twentieth century, training, domestic sciences, 19th, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, Victorian, Edwardian, schools, teaching, training colleges, catering
Price £13.00.
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Davis, Jean.
Straw Plait:
(Shire Publications, 1981).
Shire Album, no 78. Pamphlet. A little wear to edges, rear cover slightly marked near spine, otherwise a good copy. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-C15763
Keywords: stored with pamphlets, booklets, history, Shire Album, Straw Plait, plaiting, straw plaiting, crafts, crafting, countryside, rural, hats, hat-making, Midlands, bonnets, hat trade, social history
Price £22.00.
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Leffingwell, Albert.
Illegitimacy and the Influence of Seasons Upon Conduct: Two Studies in Demography
(Swan Sonnenschein, 1892).
With maps and diagrams. Scarce. Hardback. Original red cloth darkened / soiled / stained, some wear to spine ends & corners, one map partly detached - otherwise good. viii + 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C10974
Keywords: B000HBZSGI, illegitimacy, illegitimate, mothers, single mothers, motherhood, demography, population, demographic, morals, morality, moral, women, women's history, 1890s, Victorian, 19th century, seasons, regions, regional, unmarried women, bastardy, poverty, infants, infancy, babies, birth, childbirth, chastity, birth rate, birth-rates, fertility, mortality, birth rates, birthrates, insanity, madness, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, pregnancy, expectant mothers, antiquarian
Price £32.00.
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Towner, Margaret.
Dollhouse Furniture: The Collector's Guide to Selecting and Enjoying Miniature Masterpieces
(Courage Books, 1993).
Hardback. Very good in creased dustwrapper. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-A6954
Keywords: 1561383252, female, women, women's history, girls' education, girls, girlhood, dolls houses, dollhouse furniture, furniture, Britain, British, England, English, miniatures, toys, games, collectors. collecting, making dolls houses
Price £8.00.
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Waller, Robert and Criddle, Byron.
The Almanac of British Politics:
(Routledge, 1996).
Paperback. Near fine. lxxx + 981pp. Order No. NSBK-A11071
Keywords: 0415118050, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, almanac, twentieth century, 20th
Price £6.99.
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Baker, Michael H.
Railways to the Coast: Britain's Seaside Lines Past and Present
(Patrick Stephens Limited, 1990).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A12053
Keywords: 1852600586, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, transport, trains, railways, rail, seaside, coasts, coastal, lines, tracks
Price £5.00.
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Townsend, Henry.
Robert Wilson Black:
(Carey Kingsgate Press, 1954).
Temperance worker; President of the United Kingdom Alliance, 1932-52. Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled / chipped dustwrapper. 222pp. Order No. NSBK-A3230
Keywords: B0000CIX5B, Baptism, Baptist, Robert Wilson Black, Free Churches, temperance, Baptist Union, evangelicalism, United Kingdom Alliance, religion, baptists, dissent, dissenters, nonconformists, nonconformity, nonconformist
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