Various Authors, .
Titus of Salts:
(Watmoughs Ltd, 1976).
Paperback. Very good. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A14918
Keywords: 0903775050, Saltaire, Titus of Salts, social history, philanthropy, Yorkshire, Bradford, industry, factories, factory system, mills, textiles, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, 19th century, nineteenth century
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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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Aldcroft, Derek H.
British Transport Since 1914: an Economic History
(David & Charles, 1975).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly discoloured dustwrapper. 336pp. Order No. NSBK-A7276
Keywords: 0715368788, economy, economic, transport, social history, British, Britain, England, English, twentieth century, technology, technological, transport industry, Derek H. Aldcroft, railways, roads, public ownership, shipping, civil aviation, trains
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St. John Ambulance Association, .
Home Nursing: the Authorized Textbook of the St. John Ambulance Association
(St. John Ambulance Association, 4th edition, 5th reprint, Oct. 1938).
Hardback. Covers a little soiled / darkened with some wear to white titles & motif, otherwise good, though with a few creased pages. 272pp. Order No. NSBK-A6772
Keywords: B000E7YF9G, St. John Ambulance Association, first aid, health, social history, twentieth century, ambulances, Britain, British, England, English, sickness, injured, injuries, caring for the sick, patients, advice books
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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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White, Florence, ed.
How to Wash Clothes at Home: Containing Simple and Complete Instructions
(Florence White, 1901).
An advice book, recommending the best methods of carrying out laundry work. A very interesting one of its kind, with illustrations and lots of detail of interest to the social historian. Paperback. Original covers slightly soiled and creased at edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C15121
Keywords: clothes, clothing, washing clothes, laundry, laundry work, working women, domesticity, antiquarian, social history, ironing, starching, booklets, boiling, advice books, linen, booklet, booklets
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Roche, Daniel.
The People of Paris: An Essay in Popular Culture in the 18th Century
(Berg, rpt, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. 277pp. Order No. NSBK-A13324
Keywords: 090758246X, Paris, Parisian, France, French, history, Ancien Regime, 18th century, eighteenth century, popular culture, crowd studies, population, housing, consumption, consumers, popular dress, fashion, reading habits, social history, customs
Price £14.00.
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Goodman, Philomena.
Women, Sexuality and War:
(Palgrave, 2002).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to front endpapers, a little rubbing to dustwrapper, otherwise very good+. xii + 180pp. Order No. NSBK-C4987
Keywords: 0333760867, war, women, woman, sex, sexuality, history, femininity, morals, social history, World War II, Second World War, morale, Home Front, British, Britain, England, English, gender roles, female identity, social relations, gender relations, separate spheres, public, private, services, wartime, Mass Observation, patriotism, conscription, Women's Land Army, WLA, Women's Royal Air Force, WRAF, Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, ATS, Women's Auxiliary Airforce, WAAF, Women's Voluntary Services, WVS, war effort
Price £45.00.
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Angell, Norman.
The Policy Behind Armaments:
(National Peace Council, 1911).
National Peace Council, Economic Series, No 1. Paperback. Some rusting to staples, otherwise very good. 8pp. Order No. NSBK-A13965
Keywords: B001E4X1M0, armaments, arms, defence policy, before the First World War, peace, pacifism, social history, Norman Angell, peace movement
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Golby, J.M., ed.
Culture and Society in Britain, 1850-1890: a Source Book of Contemporary Writings
(OUP, rpt with corrections, 1992).
Paperback. Covers slightly edge-worn, otherwise good+. xiii + 342pp. Order No. NSBK-A983
Keywords: 0198711123, Britain, British, England, English, history, culture, society, social history, cultural, Victorian, nineteenth century
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