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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Coates, Ken and Topham, Anthony.
Industrial Democracy in Great Britain: A Book of Readings and Witnesses for Workers' Control
(Macgibbon and Kee, 1968).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly worn, slightly marked dustwrapper. xxxvi + 431pp. Order No. NSBK-A14555
Keywords: 0901740888, labour, labor, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, trade unionism, industrial democracy, industrialisation, working classes, trade disputes, wages, pay, Labour Party, shop stewards
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Strachan, Will R.
Knutsford Historical and Archaeological Association:
(Knutsford Historical and Archaeological, Association, Spring 1978).
Volume 1. Number 1. Booklet. Cream card covers slightly discoloured with age, otherwise good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A15967
Keywords: booklets, history, Cheshire, Knutsford Historical and Archaeological Association, archaeology, Peover, local history, Knutsford, Manchester
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Three Modern Pankhurst Badges, .
The Pankhursts: Photographic Images of Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst on Three Attractive Plated Badges
(Portrayer Publisher, 2004).
3 X badges with a high gloss finish and secure safety-pin fittings to the rear. Featuring period images (photographic) of the faces of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst and daughters Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst. Circular-shaped. 25mm diameter. Presented inside a small poly-bag. Badges. New, in fine condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-C8753
Keywords: Votes For Women, suffrage, woman suffrage, pin, badge, pin back, pinback, pins, suffragette, suffragettes, suffragist, suffragists, women, women's history, social history, Britain, British, England, English, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, jewellery, Sylvia Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, Christabel Pankhurst, the Pankhursts, Pankhurst, badges, Edwardian, Portrayer Publishers, suffragette ephemera
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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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Minta, Stephen.
Love Poetry in Sixteenth Century France: A Study in Themes and Traditions
(MUP, 1977).
Hardback. Pages slightly browned, otherwise very good in slightly creased dw. vi + 173pp. Order No. NSBK-A5961
Keywords: 0719006767, Early Modern, France, French, history, poets, poetry, poets, sixteenth century, poetic tradition, Pleiade, Italian lyricism, lyrics, courtly tradition, Clement Marot, Maurice, Sceve, Ronsard, de Bellay, love poetry, Stephen Minta
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Scott, A. F.
The Early Hanoverian Age, 1714-1760: Commentaries on an Era
(Croom Helm, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in spine-faded dustwrapper. 175pp. Order No. NSBK-A9097
Keywords: 0709904153, Hanover, Hanoverian, Britain, British, England, English, history, eighteenth, century, 18th, writings, paintings, engravings, drawings, cockfighting, coffee houses, highwaymen, South Sea Bubble, Black Hole of Calcutta, Richardson, Pope
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Ryan, John and Jeuda, Basil.
Railway Postcard Scenes of Cheshire:
(Cheshire Libraries, 1987).
Paperback. Spine sun-faded and lightly creased, otherwise good, large format. pp. Order No. NSBK-A14899
Keywords: B001AGI5CS, Cheshire, steam trains, railways, postcards, postcard, history, locomotives, history, Chester, Northwich, Wirral, Crewe, lines, travel, transport
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White, E. W.
British Fishing-Boats and Coastal Crafts: Part I : Historical Survey
(HMSO, rpt., 1957).
Paperback. Good. 60pp. Order No. NSBK-A12961
Keywords: B0007K0JUY, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, boats, ships, marine, fish, fishing, coasts, crafts, coastal, maritime, history, England, Scotland, Ireland, Thames Estuary
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Joannou, Maroula.
'Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows': Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change, 1918-38
(Berg, 1995).
Hardback. Slight crease to back cover, otherwise very good. xii + 236pp. Order No. NSBK-H8038
Keywords: 0854969098, women's writing, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, woman, female, feminism, feminists, consciousness, social change, twentieth century, 20th, politics, feminist-materialist, class, lesbianism, lesbians, domestic, domesticity, literature, literary, novels, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Rosamund Lehmann, Radclyffe Hall, autobiographies, autobiography
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