Uglow, Jenny.
A Little History of British Gardening:
(Chatto and Windus, 2004).
Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled dustwrapper. 342pp. Order No. NSBK-A8592
Keywords: 0701169281, gardens, gardening, Britain, British, England, English, Jenny Uglow, history, gardeners, flowers, plants, ornamental, social history, horticulture, horticultural
Price £12.50.
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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004 facsimile of 1918 text).
Clementina Black (1854 - 1922) was a campaigner committed to improving the plight of working women. In this work of 1918, she 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'. Examples of material included: 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. Paperback. New book, fine. x + 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C7548
Keywords: 0954476123, 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, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Portrayer reprints, Portrayer facsimiles, new titles
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Irvine, William.
Apes, Angels and Victorians: A Joint Biography of Darwin and Huxley
(Readers Union/Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1956).
Hardback. Good+ in soiled dustwrapper. 278pp. Order No. NSBK-A12045
Keywords: B0000CJ6RW, apes, angels, Victorians, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, Charles Darwin, Aldous Huxley, science, scientists
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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
Price £7.99.
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Bayly, Mary.
Ragged Homes: and How to Mend Them
(James Nisbet & Co, 1859).
Possibly a first edition. Impossible to be sure as one intro page is missing - the page between the preface and the opening of the text. Frontispiece also lacking. Ex library (Royal Edinburgh Infirmary) with usual library stamps and markings. Hardback. Ex library with usual stamps and markings, a firm copy. Original embossed royal blue boards, with attractive gilt decoation to the spine & front. Edges & corners worn. Good. viii + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-C16052
Keywords: poverty, poor, Victorian, social history, antiquarian, housing, homes, domesticitiy, nineteenth century
Price £95.00.
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Davis, Jean.
Straw Plait:
(Shire Publications, 1981).
Shire Album, no 78. Pamphlet. A little wear to edges, rear cover slightly marked near spine, otherwise a good copy. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-C15763
Keywords: stored with pamphlets, booklets, history, Shire Album, Straw Plait, plaiting, straw plaiting, crafts, crafting, countryside, rural, hats, hat-making, Midlands, bonnets, hat trade, social history
Price £22.00.
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Stewart, Alexander P. & Jenkins, Edward.
The Medical and Legal Aspects of Sanitary Reform:
(Leicester UP, 1969 rpt of 1867 2nd edit).
Intro by M.W. Flinn. Hardback. Very good in soiled dustwrapper. 100pp. Order No. NSBK-A4851
Keywords: 718550072, medical, history, M. W. Flinn, social history, welfare, Britain, British, England, English, legal, sanitary reform, public health, sanitary conditions, Public Health Acts, nineteenth century, Victorian, social improvements, social reforms, Royal Sanitary Commissions, Disraeli, Disraelian Conservatism, Alexander P. Stewart, Edward Jenkins
Price £13.00.
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Mahood, Linda.
The Magdalenes: Prostitution in the Ninteenth Century
(Routledge, 1990).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in spine-faded dustwrapper. ix + 205pp. Order No. NSBK-C15703
Keywords: 9780415001663, nineteenth century, 19th, prostitutes, prostitution, history,women, gender, Britain, British, social history
Price £28.00.
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Aronson, Hugh.
Our Village Homes: Present Conditions and Suggested Remedies
(Thomas Murby, 1913).
With a preface by Lord Henry Bentinck. Hardback. Cloth rather soiled, some rubbing / fraying to extremities, otherwise a good solid copy. x + 150pp. Order No. NSBK-A13844
Keywords: B001IVIPUM, villages, village, history, town planning, housing, houses, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, housing schemes, social history, housing conditions, homes, rural areas, countryside, health, rural depopulation, agriculture, labourers' cottages, cottage, Hugh Aronson, social conditions, architecture, house building
Price £70.00.
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Tottenham History Workshop, .
How Things Were: Growing Up in Tottenham, 1890 - 1920
(Tottenham History Workshop, 1981).
Booklet. Good. 108pp. Order No. NSBK-A15968
Keywords: B0083K9D0W, booklets, London, social history, Tottenham, Edwardian, family, working classes, working class, South Tottenham Workers' Educational Association
Price £11.50.
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