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
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Rabb, Theodore K and Rotberg, Robert I.
The Family in History: Interdisciplinary Essays
(Harper Torchbooks, 1973).
Paperback. Covers soiled and slightly torn, otherwise a good working copy. vii + 235pp. Order No. NSBK-C9490
Keywords: 0061317578, family, families, history, social history, men, women, children, domesticity, women, women's history
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Mackeith, Margaret.
Shopping Arcades: A Gazetteer of Extant British Arcades, 1817 - 1939
(Mansell Publishing, 1985).
Hardback. Some yellowing to boards, otherwise good+. viii + 166pp. Order No. NSBK-A13518
Keywords: 0720117585, architecture, shopping, shopping arcades, shopping malls, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, leisure, retail, retailing, social history, shops, architectural, shop design, consumerism, consumer, buying, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, twentieth century, inter-war
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Marshall, Susan E.
Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign Against Woman Suffrage
(Wisconsin UP, 1997).
Hardback. New book, fine. xii + 347pp. Order No. NSBK-C5474
Keywords: 0299154602, anti-suffrage, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, America, American, United States, USA, gender, class, campaigns, protest, sisterhood, politics, male attitudes, antisuffrage, organisations, organizations, suffragettes, suffragette, franchise, enfranchisement, history, women's history, political activists
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Aquarius Publications, .
Chronicles of Warrington:
(Aquarius Publications, new format edition, 1981).
Chronicles of Warrington was originally published in book form in 1892 by Sunrise Publishing as a 230 page publication, each page measuring only 4 and a half inches deep and and 2 and a half inches across. These original pages are arranged in two column lengths in this new presentation. The title of the original book was - Warrington as it Was, As it Is, and As it Might Be. Paperback. Some sun-fading and light soiling to covers, a little wear to edges, otherwise good condition. 68pp. Order No. NSBK-A16115
Keywords: stored with booklets, Warrington, Lancashire, Cheshire, history, social history, Victorian, nineteenth century, North-West, England, market towns, urban, urbanisation
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Poole, Vera E.
The Small School:
(Victor Gollancz, 1952).
Hardback. Good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. 168pp. Order No. NSBK-A13839
Keywords: Vera E. Poole, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, slums, social workers, twentieth century
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Joyce, Patrick.
Work, Society & Politics: the Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England
(Rutgers UP, rpt, 1984).
Paperback. Light scuffing to back cover, otherwise very good+. xxv + 356pp. Order No. NSBK-A9036
Keywords: 081351083X, factory, factories, nineteenth century, Victorian, England, English, Britain, British, social history, society, politics, class, paternalism, deference, labour, labor, 19th century, industry, factory system, Patrick Joyce, community, communities
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Kent, Susan Kingsley.
Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918 - 1931
(Palgrave, 2009).
Hardback. Covers slightly rubbed, otherwise very good+. ix + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A15716
Keywords: 9781403993335, politics, trauma, psyche, emotions, emotional, inter-war, inter war, twenties, psychology, social history, post World War I, Great War
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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
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Symes, Ruth A.
Family First: Tracing Relationships in the Past
(Pen and Sword, 2015).
Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents - these are the relationships that structure the family tree and fascinate the family historian. But how much do we really know about how our ancestors lived out these multiple roles? Buffeted this way and that by economic developments, legal changes, medical advances, Two World Wars, the rise of the Welfare State, women's emancipation and many other factors, relationships between members of our family in the past were subtly different to those of today and continually transforming. This book is both a social history of the period 1800-1950 and a practical guide on how to set about tracing and better understanding the relationships between members of your own family. What did it mean to be a father in this period, but also, how might you discover the father of an ancestor if his name is not mentioned on the birth certificate? What common ideas were held about the role of wives and mothers, but also, how were multiple births, stillbirths, abortions and infanticides dealt with in the records? What factors might have influenced the size of your ancestor's family, but also why were its children named as they were? Did pecking order in a family matter, but also, was it legal to marry a cousin, or the sister of a deceased wife? How long could people expect to live, but also what records can tell you more about the circumstances of your ancestors' last years? A final chapter considers relationships with neighbours, friends and club associates. Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C15530
Keywords: 9781473833883, family relationships, family trees, geneaology, geneaological, social history, ancestors, tracing ancestors, fathers, mothers, siblings, cousins, women, welfare state, infants, clubs, grandparents
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