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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Cook, Olive.
The English Country House:
(Book Club Associates, 1974).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A11456
Keywords: English manors, houses, countryside
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Morris, R. J.
Cholera, 1832: the Social Reponse to an Epidemic
(Croom Helm, 1976).
General editors: J. F. C. Harrison and Stephen Yeo. Scarce. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in faded, chipped, lightly soiled dustwrapper. 228pp. Order No. NSBK-A13440
Keywords: 0856643777, cholera, epidemics, diseases, water, water supplies, sanitation, 19th century, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, sanitary, urban, urbanisation, medical, medicine, science, morality, class, Sunderland, Manchester, hospitals, Edinburgh, quarantine, public health, illness, sickness, towns, cities, town, city
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Partington, Jim.
The Two-Up and Two-Downer (With a Taste for Honey): the Crowded Life of a Lancashire Lad
(Fabians Publishers, 1972).
Autobiography. Leftist reminiscences of self-made Lancashire man, born 1908, dedicated to Lord Brockway of ILP. "I attended meetings in Bradford [where] he showed me the Political Path I should follow. Although I have devoted much of my life to the acquisition of material possessions, I have never deviated from his Philosophy". Hardback. Very good in slightly worn and slightly chipped dustwrapper. xiv + 257pp. Order No. NSBK-A1550
Keywords: B000HBVSLC, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Lancashire, lads, boys, homes, houses, terraces, twentieth century, 20th, Jim Partington, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories
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Dundee Municipal Statutes, .
Dundee Municipal Statutes: Being Acts of Parliament Administered by the Corporation of Dundee Relating to The Town Council as Such, and also as Coming in Place of the Commissioners of Police; and Including Recent Amendment of Acts (Separately Printed) of Dundee Gas and Dundee Water Commissioners, 1872-1898
(Winter, Duncan & Co, n.d).
Hardback. Spine ends and corners slightly worn, slight bubbling to cloth, otherwise very good. 471pp. Order No. NSBK-A5663
Keywords: B001EVRYBW, Dundee, Scotland, Scots, Scottish, history, Britain, British, towns, cities, city, Corporation, Acts of Parliament, government, local government, political, politics, statutes, gas, water, commissioners, public health, municipal facilities, urban, laws, legal, police, policemen, Victorian, nineteenth century, municipal corporations, Dundee Municipal Statutes
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Simon, E.D.
The Anti-Slum Campaign:
(Longmans, 2nd Impression, 1933).
Very scarce. Hardback. Cloth sun faded and worn at edges, internally good. viii + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A4069
Keywords: B000KYQ3D4, Manchester, slums, anti-slum campaign, housing, cities, urban history, North West, England, English, Britain, British, Addison Act, rents, Greenwood Act, town planning, urbanisation, conurbation, dwellings, houses, building, city, local government, local authorities, Chamberlain Act, Wheatley Act, Hilton Young Acts, slum clearance, housing shortage, tenants, Homes for Heroes, Simons, E.D. Simon, Ernest Simon, poverty, poor
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Brittain, Vera.
Poems of the War and After:
(Victor Gollancz, first edition, 1934).
Ex-Wigan Free Public Library. A signed first edition copy. Inscription reads: 'With best wishes to Wigan, and Wigan Public Library from Vera Brittain. Wigan, December 7th, 1936'. Scarce, for the collector. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps.(Wigan Library). Cream cloth soiled, lacks spine cover, but contents firm, solid. Collectible though a working copy. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-C16020
Keywords: Vera Brittain, First World War, Great War, poems, verse, poetry, signed, women, women's history, social history, grief, mourning, signed editions, first editions, first edition, World War I, Wigan, Wigan Free Public Library, Lancashire, interwar, inter war, 1930s, thirties, antiquarian, collectible, literature, women writers, pacifism, pacifists
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Walvin, James.
Victorian Values:
(Andre Deutsch, 1987).
A Companion to the Granada Television Series. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xi + 171pp. Order No. NSBK-A7200
Keywords: 0233981063, Victorian, social history, nineteenth century, society, Britain, British, England, English, James Walvin, Jim Walvin, values, morality, paternalism, laissez faire, health, education, poverty, public health
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Archer, R. L.
Secondary Education in the Nineteenth Century:
(Frank Cass, 1966 rpt of 1921 text).
Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 363pp. Order No. NSBK-A8490
Keywords: B0000CN56C, education, schools, schooling, Britain, British, England, English, history, technical education, classical humanism, public schools, private schools, grammars, scientific movement, Royal Commissions, females, women's education, popular, Wales, welsh, State, curriculum , methods
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Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
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