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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Fairfield, Helen.
Patchwork: Over 20 New and Original Projects for You to Make
(Octopus, rpt, 1982).
Hardback. Good+, large format. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-G14297
Keywords: 070641344X, sewing, needlework, patchwork, patchwork quilts, technique
Price £10.00.
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O'Barr, Jean F, ed.
Women and a New Academy: Gender and Cultural Contexts
(University of Wisconsin Press, 1989).
Hardback. Very good. 174pp. Order No. NSBK-C15998
Keywords: 9780299119300, women, education, feminism
Price £17.95.
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Perryman, Nigel.
Brave New Britain: Francis Frith's Method of Post-War Life
(Frith Book Company, 2002).
Hardback. Good+ with chip to dustwrapper. 125pp. Order No. NSBK-A12264
Keywords: 1859375642, Francis Frith, post war, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, photos, photographs, pictures, images
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Taylor, Barbara.
Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
(Harvard UP, 1983).
Paperback. Very good. xviii + 402pp. Order No. NSBK-A15616
Keywords: 9780674270237, chartism, socialism, feminism, Victorian, utopian, utopianism, trade unions, trade unionism, women, history, Barbara Taylor, nineteenth century, Victorian, Robert Owen, Owenism, Owenites, Britain, British, England, English, history, Virago, chartists, chartist, chartist movement, 19th century, women, women's history
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Padgett, Stephen and Burkett, Tony.
Political Parties and Elections in West Germany: The Seach for a New Stability
(C. Hurst and Co, 1986).
Paperback. Sticker mark to front cover, handwritten dedication inside, otherwise very good. xi + 308pp. Order No. NSBK-A11051
Keywords: 0312001002, politics, political, politicians, government, West Germany, German, Europe, European, parties, elections
Price £14.00.
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Benson, Allan L.
The New Henry Ford:
(Funk and Wagnalls, 1923).
Illustrated. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, cloth rather worn and faded with light soiling. Contents good and firm. 360pp. Order No. NSBK-A14289
Keywords: B000WG9UYY, Henry Ford, biography, biographies, Ford, Ford Motor Company, cars, automobiles, car, history, manufacturing, racing, Detroit, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States
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Webster, Frank.
The New Photography: Responsibility in Visual Communication
(Calder, 2nd impression, 1985).
Paperback. Good+. viii + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-A14573
Keywords: 0714538019, photography, photographs, camera, ethical photography, sociology, media, advertising, social attitudes, political correctness
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Liddle, Roger.
The New Case for Europe: The Crisis in British Pro-Europeanism - and How to Overcome it
(Fabian Society, 2005).
Fabian Ideas 615. Paperback. Very good. vi + 81pp. Order No. NSBK-A11179
Keywords: 0716306158, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Europe, European, twentieth century, 20th
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Lewis, Charlie and O'Brien, Margaret, eds.
Reassessing Fatherhood: New Observations on Fathers and the Modern Family
(Sage, 1987).
Paperback. With newspaper reviews pasted to front and back endpapers, otherwise good. v + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-A14211
Keywords: 9780803980204, family, families, masculinity, fatherhood, fathers, men, parents, parenthood, sociology, Britain, Australia, Scandinavia, North America
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