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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Yates, S. A. Thompson.
Notes, Mainly Concerning Painted Windows: Made During a Journey in Italy and Switzerland with my brother, Edw. P. Thompson, February 15 to May 5, 1898
(Henry Young and Sons, 1898).
Scarce. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Cloth darkened, with a little wear to edges, otherwise good. 35pp. Order No. NSBK-A14285
Keywords: B0008CLOLY, painted windows, stained glass, history, Switzerland, Italy, Italian, Swiss, art, architecture, antiquarian, travel, journeys, church, churches, religious, architecture, window, cathedral, European, Christianity, Christian
Price £55.00.
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Hastings, George W.
Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science: London Meeting, 1862
(John W. Parker, 1863).
Hardback. Original cloth faded, with a little wear to extremities, otherwise very good and solid. 922pp. Order No. NSBK-A15307
Keywords: B00EBVYDJI, Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, antiquarian, Victorian, social history, 19th, nineteenth century
Price £32.00.
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Selby, Walford, D. ed.
Lancashire and Cheshire Records Preserved in the Public Record Office, London:
(Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, 1883).
Number 8 in the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society Series. Part II of a two-part set. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in original green/gilt decorated cloth. 225 - 626pp. Order No. NSBK-A11222
Keywords: B000HC77D4, Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, Lancashire & Cheshire Record Society, local history, records, archives, archival, documents, North West England, England, English, Britain, British, manuscripts, documents, sources, antiquarian, parish history, parishes, parochial, Public Record Office, Walford D. Selby, courts, medieval, Middle Ages, early modern, charters, calendars, indexes
Price £25.00.
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Clutterbuck, Nesta, ed.
William Wordsworth, 1770-1970: Essays of General Interest on Wordsworth and his Time
(Trustees Dove Cottage, 1970).
Paperback. Good. 45pp. Order No. NSBK-A5739
Keywords: 0950123803, William Wordsworth, Lake Poets, Lake District, poets, poetry, poems, life histories, life history, biographies, biography, biographical, Dove Cottage, Romantics, Romantic, Cumbria, Romanticism, literature, literary
Price £4.00.
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Allibone, Finch.
In Pursuit of the Robber Baron: Recreating the Journeys of Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and "The Terror of the World"
(Lennard Publishing, 1988).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. x + 190pp. Order No. NSBK-A2532
Keywords: 1852910038, Italy, Balkans, Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Byzantium, Norman, 11th century, Robert Guiscard
Price £2.00.
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Burton, Hester.
Barbara Bodichon, 1827-1891:
(John Murray, 1949).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings. Some sun-fading and cracking intermally at spine, and a little wear to corners, otherwise good. xii + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-C1250
Keywords: B0006D73UQ, Barbara Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, women's rights, Pre-Raphaelite, law, marriage, Britain, England, British, English, history, women's history education, suffrage, marriage reform, biography, biographies, Hitchin, Girton, women's movement, Victorian, nineteenth century, Votes for Women, antiquarian
Price £18.00.
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Hattatt, Lance.
Gardening in a Small Space:
(Parragon, rpt, 1999).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 255pp. Order No. NSBK-G5226
Keywords: 0752524607, gardens, garden, garden design, gardening, British, Britain, English, England, landscape gardening, landscape design, horticulture, horticultural, planting, flowers, plants, small spaces, space, kitchen gardens, cottage gardens, small gardens, hobbies, perennials, patios
Price £7.00.
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Real Photographic Suffragette Postcard, Original.
Suffragettes' Parade. March 3rd 1913. Washington DC: Women Representing Foreign Countries
(I. & M. Ottenheimer, Baltimore, MD., 1913).
An original real photographic postcard for collectors of original suffragette / Votes for Women memorabilia. On March 3, 1913, the National American Woman Suffrage Association - NAWSA - organised a woman suffrage parade and demonstration in Washington DC. (Pennsylvania Avenue). It was timed to coordinate with Woodrow Wilson's presidential inauguration, the following day. The marchers were jeered and attacked, and had to fight their way through the mob, and the resulting publicity focused the country's attention on the issue of Woman Suffrage. This is an original, contemporary postcard, issued at the time, and shows suffragette women in costume, representing different foreign countries. Photo by Harris-Ewing. On the back of the card, there's a handwritten contemporary message in ink: 'This was taken at 2nd Street - that is the reason they took such a good photo'. The card has not been posted and there is no stamp or postmark. Rear is a little browned and darkened, naturally with age. Postcard. Front of card slightly soiled, and lower right hand corner has suffered damage, the area of a thumb, with actual loss to the photo. Edges & corners slightly worn. Overall good. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15727
Keywords: suffragette ephemera, suffragette postcards, history, original postcards, women's suffrage, suffragettes, woman suffrage, Votes for Women, women's movement, antiquarian, parade, procession, antiquarian, American, United States of America, USA, Washington, collectible, National American Woman Suffrage Association
Price £85.00.
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Gardner, Alice.
A Short History of Newnham College Cambridge:
(Bowes and Bowes, 1921).
Hardback. A little soiling and splashing to blue cloth, spine faded, otherwise good and firm. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-C15726
Keywords: Cambridge, women, Newnham College, history, social history, Oxbridge, women's education, stored as antiquarian
Price £11.00.
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