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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Butler, Josephine E.
Truth Before Everything:
(Dyer Brothers, first edition, 1897).
For the collector. Pamphlet. Light foxing to paper covers, minor biro date written on top corner front cover, otherwise very good. 24pp. Order No. NSBK-C15465
Keywords: B0187JJR04, pamphlet, pamphlets, Josephine E. Butler, social history, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, equality, gender roles, working women, prostitution, prostitutes, State Regulation of Vice, Contagious Diseases Act, social purity, Liverpool, reprints, working girls, philanthropy, philanthropists, Truth Before Everything, booklet
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Mason, Michael.
The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes:
(Oxford UP, 1994).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+ in slightly dull dustwrapper. xi + 256pp. Order No. NSBK-C8975
Keywords: 0198122926, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, sexuality, masculinity, femininity, sex, gender, morals, moralism, social history, sexual ideology, women, men, free love, evangelicalism, chastity, free thought, Malthus, Malthusian, prostitutes, prostitution, birth control, contraception, Annie Besant, Charles Bradlaugh, celibacy, marriage, Britain, British, England, English
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Lillington, Kenneth, ed.
For Better For Worse: an Anthology of Courtship and Marriage
(Angus & Robertson, 1979).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. 157pp. Order No. NSBK-C3428
Keywords: 0207958262, courtship, marriage, social history, anthology, poems, prose, engagement, betrothal, literature, extracts, marital relations, weddings
Price £6.00.
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Hudson, Pat.
The Industrial Revolution:
(Edward Arnold, 1992).
Paperback. Good. xi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C8170
Keywords: 9780713165319, industry, industrial, industrial revolution, social history, economy, economic, labour, labor, Pat Hudson, technology, demography, commerce, consumption, class, work
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St. John Ambulance Association, .
First Aid to the Injured: the Authorised Textbook of the St. John Ambulance Association
(St. John Ambulance Association, 39th edition, 9th impression, 1939).
Hardback. Spine damaged (part of cloth peeled away & a small hole to spine edge), otherwise a good firm copy with a little rubbing to edges. 294pp. Order No. NSBK-A7231
Keywords: St. John Ambulance Association, first aid, health, social history, twentieth century, ambulances, Britain, British, England, English, sickness, injured, injuries, caring for the sick, patients, advice books
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Barnes, H. Gorell and Montmorency, J. E. G. de.
The Divorce Commission: The Majority and Minority Reports Summarised, with Appendices on the History of Divorce; Foreign and Colonial Divorce Laws; Proposed Divorce Circuits in England and Wales; Names of Women after Divorce
(P. S. King, 1912).
Prefaces by Guthrie and Dibdin. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers, some wear to edges, otherwise good. xvi + 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A13882
Keywords: B000WFGD0O, divorce, marriage, break-down of marriage, Divorce Commission, reports, social history, divorce circuits, legal, law, family, twentieth century
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Enamel Reproduction Suffragette Badge, Clover Design.
N.U.W.S.S. Badge. Clover Design: Modern Replica:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004).
Women's Suffrage: high quality modern reproduction enamel badge. (Hard enamel-type finish, no epoxy sealing). Size: 25mm (1 inch) diameter, circular shape. Brass back and gold-plated safety-pin with safe locking ring to rear. This badge is a modern replica of an original of the period, featuring the words " Women's Suffrage" and cast in green, white and a pearlised translucent deep ruby red. Presented inside a small poly-bag. Badge. New, fine - wrapped in polythene wrapper. pp. Order No. NSBK-C8168
Keywords: B0032Q2DHC, Votes For Women, suffrage, woman suffrage, pin, button, badges, pin back, pinback, pins, suffragette, suffragettes, suffragettes' badges, suffragist, suffragists, women, women's history, woman history, women history, social history, Britain, British, England, English, enamel, enamels, jewellery, jewelry, clovers, NUWSS, N.U.W.S.S, emblems, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, Christmas gifts, Portrayer Publishers, suffragette ephemera
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Gash, Norman.
Aristocracy and People: Britain, 1815 - 1865
(Arnold, rpt, 1988).
Paperback. Spine creased, minor pencil annotation, otherwise good+. 376pp. Order No. NSBK-A7498
Keywords: 0713161604, Norman Gash, aristocracy, class, classes, nineteeth century, text books, Victorian, 19th century, history, politics, social change, industry, industrial, constitution, government, Britain, British, England, English
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James, Louis.
Fiction for the Working Man, 1830 - 50: A Study of the Literature Produced for the Working Classes in Early Victorian Urban England
(Penguin, rpt, 1974).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. xviii + 261pp. Order No. NSBK-A8755
Keywords: 014060037X, fiction, class, working class, working classes, nineteenth century, 19th century, workers, working men, social history, class consciousness, reading habits, reading matter, Britain, British, England, English, popular literature, Victorian, popular fiction, publishing, popular culture, history, urbanisation
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