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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Jones, Larry Eugene & Retallack, James, eds.
Elections, Mass Politics, & Social Change in Modern Germany: New Perspectives
(CUP, 1992).
Publications of the German Historical Institute. Hardback. Very good in slightly worn dustwrapper. viii + 430pp. Order No. NSBK-A3938
Keywords: 0521418461, election, politics, political, Germany, German history, twentieth century, gender, Publications of the German Historical Institute, government
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Hart, Clive.
An Admonition to the Students of Wittenberg: A Supplement to a New Argument Against Women, the Disputatio Nova Contra Mulieres of 1595
(Gilliland Press, 2000).
In pamphlet form. New book, fine. 46pp. Order No. NSBK-A2960
Keywords: 0953786706, student, Wittenberg, women, argument, admonition, mulieres, Acidalius, Gedik, Hunnius, Lutheranism, soul, pamphlet
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Davies, A. J.
To Build a New Jerusalem: The Labour Movement from the 1880s to the 1990s
(Michael Joseph, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in faded dustwrapper. vi + 344pp. Order No. NSBK-A8529
Keywords: 0718133943, labour labor, politics, political, Labour Party, Britain, British, England, English, history, organisations, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 19th, 20th, socialism, socialists
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Jackowska, Nicki.
Lighting a Slow Fuse: New and Selected Poems
(Enitharmon Press, 1998).
Paperback. Bottom cover bumped, otherwise very good. 106pp. Order No. NSBK-A9260
Keywords: 1900564114, poems, poets, poetry, Nicki Jackowska, literary, literature, women's history
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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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BBC, Radio Times Special.
Shoulder to Shoulder: How Women Fought for the Vote. A Full Illustrated Guide to the New BBC TV Series. Radio Times Special Magazine
(Radio Times, BBC, 1974).
The BBC series Shoulder to Shoulder aired in 1974 on BBC2. The six-part drama, which focused on the history of the women's suffrage movement, ran from April 3 to May 8, 1974. Paperback. Pages browned with age, light wear to edges, and front cover slightly split at top. Otherwise good+. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-C16014
Keywords: 9780563126522, stored with booklets, antiquarian, suffragettes, suffragette, Votes for Women, BBC, TV, programmes, programme,1970s, seventies, magazines, magazine, Radio Times Special, dramas, drama, television, women's movement, history
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Marstrand, Pauline, ed.
New Technology and the Future of Work and Skills:
(Frances Pinter, 1984).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, otherwise good+. xvi + 260pp. Order No. NSBK-A14981
Keywords: 0861763882, technology, work, unemployment, automated systems, employment
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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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McCall's Needlework and Crafts Magazine, .
McCall's New Book of Country Needlecrafts:
(W.H. Allen, 1984).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. 312pp. Order No. NSBK-J13503
Keywords: 0491033931, needework, crafts, sewing, seamstress, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, stitches, needlecrafts
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