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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Bennett, H.S.
The Pastons and Their England: Studies in an Age of Transition
(CUP, 1968).
Paperback. Covers lightly soiled and worn, otherwise a good copy. xvi + 260pp. Order No. NSBK-A12136
Keywords: 0521095131, Paston letters, letters, epistles, epistolary, fifteenth century, Renaissance, Early Modern, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
Price £4.00.
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Hamer, Margaret and Waller, Kathleen.
Pillow Lace: Book 3: Torchon Lace Part 1
(The Hive Printers, 1977).
Pamphlet. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A10632
Keywords: B0016LP0XO pillow lace, embroidery, embroiderers, needlework, sewers, sewing, Britain, British, England, English, history, stitching, stitches, techniques, crafts, pamphlet
Price £7.00.
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Smyth, Ethel.
As Time Went On:
(Longmans, Green, 1936).
Hardback. Black cloth with gilt lettering slightly rubbed and slightly marked at back, otherwise a good solid copy. xi + 339pp. Order No. NSBK-C16046
Keywords: Ethel Smyth, autobiography, autobiographies, history, letters, women, literature, Victorian, women's suffrage, women composers, music, suffragettes
Price £25.00.
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Pattinson, Juliette.
Behind Enemy Lines: Gender, Passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War
(Manchester UP, 2007).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly dented, slightly marked, otherwise very good dustwrapper. xv + 236pp. Order No. NSBK-D15079
Keywords: 9780719075698, SOE, Special Operations Executive, Second World War, World War II, gender, agents, women, spies, France, resistance, French
Price £34.95.
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Burgess, Robert G., ed.
Investigating Society:
(Longman, 1989).
Paperback. Very good. ix + 243pp. Order No. NSBK-A10592
Keywords: 0582355958, society sociology, sociological, methods, methodology, social sciences, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, child abuse, community, communities, gender, teachers, feminism, feminists
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Cowie, H, Harlow, C. and Emerson, R.
Rebuilding the Infrastructure: The Needs of English Cities and Towns
(Policy Studies Institute, 1984).
Paperback. Spine slightly chipped, map at back slightly torn, otherwise very good. 132pp. Order No. NSBK-A10595
Keywords: 0853742472, towns, cities, Britain, British, England, English, history, infrastructure, building, construction, twentieth century, 20th
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Brittain, Vera.
Envoy Extraordinary: A Study of Vijaya Pandit and her Contribution to Modern India
(George Allen and Unwin, 1965).
Hardback. Ex library with marks left by usual library stickers, otherwise good. 178pp. Order No. NSBK-C6260
Keywords: B0000CMONA, women's history, Vera Brittain, India, Indian, Vijaya Pandit, woman, Nehru, Gandhi, politics, Asia, Asian, ethnicity, women and politics. twentieth century
Price £7.49.
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Centre d'Investigacio Historica Dona, .
Duoda: Papers de Treball
(Centre d'Investigacio Historica Dona, University of Barcelona, 1991).
Centre d'Investigacio Historica de la Dona: 2: 1991. Paperback. Very good. 197pp. Order No. NSBK-A11220
Keywords: Centre d'Investigacio Historica de la Dona, University of Barcelona, history, papers de treball, journals, Spain, Spanish,
Price £5.00.
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Smitley, Megan.
The Feminine Public Sphere: Middle-class Women and Civic Life in Scotland, c. 1870 - 1914
(Manchester UP, 2009).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. ix + 178pp. Order No. NSBK-C14784
Keywords: 9780719079665, public sphere, separate spheres, middle classes, middle class, Scotland, Scots, Scottish, history, temperance, women's movement, women's suffrage, prohibition, women, civic life, Scottish women's organisations
Price £14.99.
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