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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Perry, Elisabeth Israels.
Belle Moskowitz: Feminine Politics and the Exercise of Power in the Age of Alfred G. Smith
(Routledge, 1992).
Paperback. Some foxing / mottling to page edges, otherwise good. xv + 280pp. Order No. NSBK-C4461
Keywords: 0415905451, America, American, USA, United States, women's history, feminine, feminist, femininsts, politics, Belle Moskowitz, power, twentieth century, Alfred G. Smith
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Brooke, David.
The Railway Navvy: That Despicable Race of Men
(David and Charles, 1983).
Hardback. Very good in slightly browned dustwrapper. 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A13480
Keywords: 071538449X, trains, railways, history, railway workers, railway navvy, navvies, railwaymen, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, construction workers, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Balaklava Railway, Crimea, Crimean War, railway building, locomotives
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Lowndes, G.A.N.
The Silent Social Revolution: an Account of the Expansion of Public Education in England & Wales, 1895-1935
(OUP, 1969).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings, boards slightly soiled, otherwise good. xii + 274pp. Order No. NSBK-A681
Keywords: B000J0SJOA, Britain, British, England, English, history, Wales, Welsh, education, public education, state education, revolution, twentieth century, 20th century, educationalist, educational, school, schools, schooling, classes
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Hunt, Leigh.
Captain Sword and Captain Pen: A Poem. With a Preface, Remarks on War and Notes Detailing the Horrors on Which the Poem is Founded
(Charles Gilpin, 3rd edition, 1849).
All edges gilt. Hardback. Small. Ex library with usual library stamps. Original decorated boards sunned, damage to spine ends, light wear to edges. A little splitting internally at binding, otherwise good. 101pp. Order No. NSBK-A14261
Keywords: B0014HXZ3C, poems, poetry, Leigh Hunt, nineteenth century, war, wars, military, 19th century
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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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Hayes, A.J. & Gowland, D.A., eds.
Scottish Methodism in the Early Victorian Period: the Scottish Correspondence of the Rev Jabez Bunting, 1800 - 57
(Edinburgh UP, 1981).
Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled, slightly chipped dustwrapper. viii + 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A4122
Keywords: 0852244126, Scotland, Scottish, Methodists, Methodism, Reverend Jabez Bunting, nineteenth century, Dissent, nonconformity, nonconformists, letters, correspondence, Church of Scotland, preachers, Methodist Connexion, history, chapels, chapel building
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Delisle, Francoise.
The Return of Havelock Ellis: Or, Limbo or the Dove?
(Regency Press, 1968).
Hardback. Good in soiled/worn/chipped dustwrapper. 111pp. Order No. NSBK-A7434
Keywords: B0000COCJX, Havelock Ellis, Francoise Delisle, materialisations, materializations, telepathy, history of ideas, mediums, spiritualism, spiritual, sittings, seances, death, psychics, twentieth century, 20th
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Sandys, Celia.
Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive:
(HarperCollins Publishers, 1999).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xvi + 233pp. Order No. NSBK-A13173
Keywords: 0002570173, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history , Winston Churchill, Boer War, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Prime Minister, South Africa, Cape Town
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Wilson, Andrew, ed.
The Modern Physician: Being a Complete Guide to the Attainment and Preservation of Health
(Caxton Publishing, 1913).
Volume IV ONLY of five. Frontispiece portrait lacks tissue paper covering. Hardbacks. Original green / gilt cloth a little marked and rubbed, with wear to edges, otherwise a good solid copy. Single volume only, Vol 4. viii + 296pp. Order No. NSBK-A7370
Keywords: B000881XCI, social history, Edwardian health, twentieth century, medical, medicine, medical history, Dr Andrew Wilson, Britain, British, England, English, physicians, physician, welfare, organs, circulation, treatments, symptoms, ailments, diseases, women, men, children, doctors, illnesses, hygiene, fevers, vaccinations, drugs, exercise, exercising, exercises
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