North West Civic Trust, Norman Bilsborough.
The Treasures of Cheshire:
(North West Civic Trust, 2nd rpt, 1986).
Paperback. Very good. vi + 184pp. Order No. NSBK-A14088
Keywords: Cheshire, tourism, beauty spots, history, Chester, villages, churches, industrial archaeology, towns, countryside, architecture
Price £13.99.
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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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Crosland, Anthony.
Socialism Now and Other Essays:
(Jonathan Cape, 1974).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slighltly faded / creased dustwrapper. 260pp. Order No. NSBK-A15984
Keywords: 9780224009966, socialism, history, the Left, housing, towns, elections
Price £14.50.
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Mackenzie, Suzanne.
Visible Histories: Women and Environments in a Post-War British City
(McGill-Queen's UP, 1989).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 217pp. Order No. NSBK-C12005
Keywords: 0773507124, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, work, women's work, women and work, employment, city, cities, towns, environments, Brighton
Price £8.00.
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Flinn, M. W and Smout, T. C. eds.
Essays in Social History:
(Clarendon Press, 1974).
Edited for the Economic History Society. Paperback. Minor annotation, slightly shaky with tatty covers, a good working copy. xi + 289pp. Order No. NSBK-A5657
Keywords: 0198770170, social history, economy, economics, Britain, British, England, English, labour, labor, Industrial Revolution, industry, Sunday Schools, Manchester, Poor Laws, class, classes, towns, urban history, social reform, mortality, trade unions, women's history, trade unionism
Price £5.00.
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Stanley, Oliver; Buchan, John, Bressey, C. H.
British Bridges: an Illustrated Technical and Historical Record
(Public Works, Roads, Transport Congress, 1933).
With many photographic illustrations. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Splitting / cracking damage to exterior of spine, with some wear to all edges. Otherwise overall good. xxiv + 498pp. Order No. NSBK-A14968
Keywords: B000RZAQPW, bridges, history, technical, transport, history, technology, roads, infrastructure, public works, bridge, towns, crossing points, photos, photographs, pictures, illustrations
Price £35.00.
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Mullard, Maurice.
Understanding Economic Policy:
(Routledge, 1992).
Paperback. Good. xix + 318pp. Order No. NSBK-A8424
Keywords: 0415068827, economics, economy, Keynesianism, laissez-faire, free-market, managed, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century, 20th
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Greenall, R.L.
The Making of Victorian Salford:
(Carnegie Publishing, 2000).
Paperback. Edges soiled, otherwise good+. viii + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-A4545
Keywords: 1859360777, Salford, Manchester, Victorian, England, English, Britain, British, nineteenth century, history, social history, urban, industry, industrial, cotton, textiles, mills, factories, factory system, textile, towns, urbanisation
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Maclean, Mavis.
Surviving Divorce: Women's Resources After Separation
(Macmillan, 1991).
Paperback. Very good. viii + 151pp. Order No. NSBK-A14114
Keywords: 0333465342, divorce, marriage, family, separation, women, economic, welfare, remarriage, labour market, splitting up, single women, sociology
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King, Geoffrey.
Portrait of Knutsford:
(Sigma Leisure, 1988).
Paperback. Very good. 92pp. Order No. NSBK-A14050
Keywords: 1850581223, Knutsford, Cheshire, history, towns, town, Tatton Park, King Street, photos, photographs, pictures of Knutsford, Mobberley
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