Soulsby, Lucy H. M.
The Use of Leisure: I. Some Thoughts on the Education of Girls. II. Our Duty to Our Neighbour
(Longmans, Green, 1900).
Booklet. Paperback. Small format, hand-held. Paper covers slightly chipped, otherwise very good. 54pp. Order No. NSBK-A14994
Keywords: B0017ZN49G, stored with booklets, education, girls, girlhood, leisure, booklets, booklet, antiquarian, history, femininity, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Edwardian, training
Price £22.00.
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Holmes, M.R., London Museum.
Arms and Armour in Tudor and Stuart London:
(HMSO, 1957).
Booklet. Ex library. Soiled paper covers present but completely detached, a good working copy of this booklet. 39 + platespp. Order No. NSBK-A15743
Keywords: B0000CJQTQ, arms, armaments, London, Tudors, Stuarts, history, early modern, stored with antiquarian
Price £11.00.
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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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Redman, William.
Illustrated Handbook Of Information On Pewter And Sheffield Plate: With Full Particulars Of Touch Marks, Maker's Marks, etc
(William Redman, 1903).
Hardback. Boards darkened and slightly soiled. Attractive gilt lettering and design to front board, a little wear to edges, otherwise good. 76pp. Order No. NSBK-A14374
Keywords: B002AGIAOK, pewter, old pewter, sheffield plate, metals, metal, pewter ware, history, antiquarian, collecting sheffield plate
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Hillocks, Rev J. L.
Life and Struggles:
(John S. Marr, no date).
Edited by Rev. Geo. Gilfillan. Hardback. Lacks fly leaf and title page, red boards darkened, board edges and corners worn, otherwise good. xii + 184pp. Order No. NSBK-A5917
Keywords: B00086WSME, Dundee, Edinburgh, Scotland, Scottish, social history, religion, religious, biographies, biography, education, schools, life struggles, autobiography, autobiographies, Rev. J.L. Hillocks, Scots, Britain, British, Victorian, nineteenth century, philanthropy, philanthropists, self-education, self-help, work ethic, self-taught, self-made man, antiquarian
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Kilham, Walter H.
Mexican Architecture of the Vice-Regal Period:
(Longmans, Green, 1927).
Illustrated with 84 plates. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, spine faded with some wear to spine ends & corners, otherwise very good, solid. 221pp. Order No. NSBK-A15128
Keywords: B0014NWU2S, Mexico, Mexican, Vice-Regal, Central American, Central America, Americas, buildings, Mexico City, churches, palaces, antiquarian
Price £48.00.
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Corfe, Tom.
Swan in Sunderland:
(Eyewitness, Sunderland Polytechnic, 1979).
Ringbound booklet. Covers and page edges rather foxed, otherwise good. 30pp. Order No. NSBK-A16098
Keywords: Joseph Wilson Swan, history, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, North East, social history, England, Britain, lighting, lamps, photography, science, electricity, Tom Corfe, electric, Victoria, Victorian, stored in antiquarian section
Price £26.50.
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Honey, W. B.
Victoria and Albert Museum: A Handbook for the Study of Glass Vessels of All Periods and Countries and a Guide to the Museum Collection
(Ministry of Education, 1946).
Hardback. Ex library in library binding, with usual library stamps and markings, edges worn, otherwise good. 169pp. Order No. NSBK-A16036
Keywords: B000S5HB7W, Victoria and Albert Museum, history, glass, antiquarian
Price £16.95.
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Besant, Annie.
An Autobiography:
(3rd impression with new preface, second edition, 1908).
Illustrated. Hardback. Fly leaf loose, frontispiece and intro pages shakey, splitting internally at spine, otherwise a good working copy with wear to edges. 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C15764
Keywords: Annie Besant, memoir, autobiography, religion, women's history, religious, theosophy, life story, autobiographies, antiquarian
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White, Florence, ed.
How to Wash Clothes at Home: Containing Simple and Complete Instructions
(Florence White, 1901).
An advice book, recommending the best methods of carrying out laundry work. A very interesting one of its kind, with illustrations and lots of detail of interest to the social historian. Paperback. Original covers slightly soiled and creased at edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C15121
Keywords: clothes, clothing, washing clothes, laundry, laundry work, working women, domesticity, antiquarian, social history, ironing, starching, booklets, boiling, advice books, linen, booklet, booklets
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