Hareven, Tamara K. and Langenbach, Randolph.
Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City in New England
(Methuen, 1979).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xiii + 395pp. Order No. NSBK-A3210
Keywords: 0416721605, city, industrial, Amoskeag, America, American, American history, labour history, labor history, Amoskeag, United States, USA manufacturing company, textile, Merrimack, New Hampshire, factory, immigration, oral history
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Garrett, John.
British Poetry Since the Sixteenth Century: A Student's Guide
(Macmillan, 1986).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 248pp. Order No. NSBK-A12801
Keywords: 0333413717, poems, poets, poetry, literary, literature, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th
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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
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Lauder, J.P. and Biggs, R. H..
Ships in Bottles:
(Percival Marshall, 1954).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise a good working copy in creased cover. 74pp. Order No. NSBK-A15526
Keywords: ship in bottles, ships, boats, shipping, maritime, marine, ornaments, history
Price £9.00.
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Sayers, Peig.
An Old Woman's Reflections:
(OUP, rpt., 1978).
Translated from the Irish by Seamus Ennis and Introduced by W. R. Rodgers. Paperback. Very good. xiv + 131pp. Order No. NSBK-C4951
Keywords: 0192812394, women, woman, history, women's history, Ireland, Irish, Eire, Gaelic, Republic of Ireland, Southern Ireland, Great Blasket Island, County Kerry, oral history, storytelling, stories, tales, Peig Sayers
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Thompson, Paul.
The Edwardians: the Remaking of British Society
(Weidenfeld and Nicholson, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Slight split at base of spine, otherwise good in chipped, slightly soiled dustwrapper. xi + 382pp. Order No. NSBK-A15216
Keywords: 9780713432244, Edwardian, Britain, British, England, English, history, society, oral history, interviews, interview, Edwardians, social conditions, 20th century, twentieth century, social change
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O'Brien, P.
Warrington Academy, 1757-86: its Predecessors & Successors
(Owl Books, 1989).
Hardback. Very good in slightly dented dustwrapper. 164pp. Order No. NSBK-A1889
Keywords: 095143330X, Britain, British, England, English, history, Warrington, Lancashire, education, rational education, Warrington Academy, nonconformity, nonconformists, Dissent, North West, Lucy Aikin, John Aiken, Anna Laetitia Aikin, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Dissenters, Unitarian, Unitarians, Unitarianism, theology, Joseph Priestley, John Aikin, Lucy Aikin, Anna Laetitia Aikin, Mrs Barbauld, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Manchester
Price £14.00.
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Somerville, E. OE., and Ross, Martin.
Some Irish Yesterdays:
(T. Nelson & Sons, 1916).
Hardback. Cloth faded and lightly soiled, otherwise good. 281pp. Order No. NSBK-A10422
Keywords: B000857Z8C, Ireland, Irish, history, Somerville & Ross, Somerville and Ross, Victorian, Edwardian
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Cottrell, Robert. D.
The Grammar of Silence: A Reading of Marguerite de Navarre's Poetry
(Catholic Uni. America, 1986).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C4382
Keywords: 0813206154, Marguerite de Navarre, poetry, poets, women poets, France, French, women writers, Renaissance, literature, literary criticism, early modern history, history, early modern, fifteenth century, sixteent century, mystical literature, 15th century, 16th century, Christian poetry, Henry II
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Brittain, Vera.
Born 1925: A Novel of Youth
(Virago, 1982).
Paperback. Good. 379pp. Order No. NSBK-C5942
Keywords: 0860682706, Vera Brittain, Adrian Cadbury, wars, warfare, Europe, European, Nazi Germany, German, pacifism, First World War, World War I. World War One, Great War, novels, novelists, women writers, woman writer, women's history, twentieth century, literature, literary, fiction, Britain, British, England, English, history
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