MacDonagh, Oliver.
A Pattern of Government Growth, 1800-60: the Passenger Acts and their Enforcement
(Macgibbon Kee, 1961).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, including cancellation stamps, otherwise a good solid copy. 368pp. Order No. NSBK-A15848
Keywords: passenger acts, travel, transport, history, nineteenth century, colonial, Liverpool, ships, shipping, laws, Victorian
Price £14.00.
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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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Wiencek, Henry.
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves and the Creation of America
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004).
Paperback. Fine. ix + 404pp. Order No. NSBK-A10045
Keywords: 0374529515, America, USA, United States, George Washington, Presidents, slaves, slavery, black history, African-American, eighteenth century, Virginia
Price £6.95.
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Lemmen, Hans Van.
Victorian Tiles:
(Shire Publications Ltd, rpt., 1986).
In booklet form. Paperback. Good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A6018
Keywords: 0852635486, Victorian, tiles, tiling, art, artists, buildings, architecture, urban, decorative, decoration, history, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, interior design, designs, cities, city, towns, booklet
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Dale, A.W.W.
The Life of R.W. Dale of Birmingham:
(Hodder & Stoughton, rpt., 1902).
With portrait. Hardback. Spine ends frayed, red boards a little darkened/marked, otherwise good. x + 771pp. Order No. NSBK-A1779
Keywords: B0006DFVM8, biography, biographies, biographical, fathers, sons, nineteenth century, 19th, lives, life histories, life history, Birmingham, Midlands, R. W. Dale, theology, theologian, religion, religious, nonconformity, non-conformity, nonconformists, education, Australia, schools, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, Robert Dale
Price £16.00.
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Krass, Peter.
Sojourner Truth: Antislavery Activist
(Melrose Square Publishing, 1990).
Paperback. Very good. 169pp. Order No. NSBK-A5779
Keywords: 0870675591, slavery slaves, activist, activism, politics, political, black rights, black history, women's history, woman's history, Sojourner Truth, nineteenth century, America, American, USA, United States, Civil War, female, slaveowner, slavetrade, biography, biographer, biographical
Price £5.00.
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Rubinstein, David.
Victorian Homes:
(David and Charles, 1974).
Hardback. Boards lightly soiled, otherwise very good. 287pp. Order No. NSBK-A8040
Keywords: 071536765X, Victorian, homes, houses, nineteenth, 19th, century, residences, residential, class, architecture, architectural, classes, slums, housing, terraces, planning, sanitation, hot water, heating, lighting, flats, tenements, society
Price £12.00.
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Allen, Rick.
The Moving Pageant: Literary Sourcebook on London Street Life, 1700 - 1914
(Routledge, 1998).
Hardback. Very good. xiv + 249pp. Order No. NSBK-A13392
Keywords: 0415153077, London, 19th century, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, street life, streets, urban, 18th century, eighteenth century, poverty, novels, literature, literary, history, street-ballads, metropolis, Rick Allen
Price £10.00.
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Mackenzie, Norman & Jeanne, eds.
The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Volume I: 1873 - 1892. Glitter Around and Darkness Within
(Virago, rpt, 1986).
Volume I only. Paperback. Edges slightly curled, otherwise good. xxii + 386pp. Order No. NSBK-C4262
Keywords: 0860688461, Beatrice Webb, socialism, socialist, socialists, Fabian, Fabians, Fabian socialism, women, history, diaries, diary, Victorian, Sidney Webb, Charles Booth, Margaret Harkness, Joseph Chamberlain, nineteenth century, Virago, Webbs
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Flinn, M. W., ed.
Origins of the Industrial Revolution:
(Longman, rpt., 1979).
Problems and Perspectives in History. Paperback. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise good. x + 114pp. Order No. NSBK-A5705
Keywords: 0582313503, Industrial Revolution, industry, industrialisation, industrialization, work, employers, employees, eighteenth century
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