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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Archer, R. L.
Secondary Education in the Nineteenth Century:
(Frank Cass, 1966 rpt of 1921 text).
Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 363pp. Order No. NSBK-A8490
Keywords: B0000CN56C, education, schools, schooling, Britain, British, England, English, history, technical education, classical humanism, public schools, private schools, grammars, scientific movement, Royal Commissions, females, women's education, popular, Wales, welsh, State, curriculum , methods
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Pratt, Edwin A.
Licensing and Temperance in Sweden, Norway and Denmark:
(John Murray, 1907).
Hardback. Ex library with small library stamps on spine & rear of title page, otherwise very good, clean, bright. x + 117pp. Order No. NSBK-A1824
Keywords: B000H3YTBQ, temperance, licensing, alcohol, drink, pub, public house, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Scandinavia, pubs
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Abrams, Lynn & Harvey, Elizabeth, eds.
Gender Relations in German History: Power, Agency and Experience from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
(UCL, 1996).
Hardback. With newspaper review pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good. x + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-A15090
Keywords: 9781857284843, Germany, German, history, Europe, European, gender, gender norms, gender relations, body, sexuality, power, public, private, separate spheres, abortion, morality, sexual morality, femininity, masculinty, gender roles, conformity, nonconformity, racial policy, propaganda, feminism, fertility, illegitimacy, women, female
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Cage, R. A. ed.
The Working Class in Glasgow, 1750 - 1914:
(Croom Helm, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xix + 203pp. Order No. NSBK-A15275
Keywords: 9780709934158, Glasgow, poor, working classes, Scotland, Scottish, history, social history, Victorian, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Edwardian, housing, poverty, public health
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Thorns, David C.
Suburbia:
(MacGibbon & Kee, 1972).
Hardback. Good+. 175pp. Order No. NSBK-A13420
Keywords: 0261632612, suburbia, towns, cities, city, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, housing, houses
Price £9.00.
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Ridley, Annie E.
Frances Mary Buss and her Work for Education:
(Longmans, Green, 1895).
Hardback. Some light wear to the edges, spotting to early pages, otherwise good, firm. viii + 399pp. Order No. NSBK-C5115
Keywords: B07FT3XRFG, education, women, history, women's education, Frances Mary Buss, North London Collegiate School for Ladies, Public Day School for Girls, school, schools, schooling, Victorian, nineteenth century, biography, biographies, English, British, England, Britain, training, training colleges, higher education, adult education, female, university education, universities, Annie E. Ridley
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Walvin, James.
Victorian Values:
(Andre Deutsch, 1987).
A Companion to the Granada Television Series. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xi + 171pp. Order No. NSBK-A7200
Keywords: 0233981063, Victorian, social history, nineteenth century, society, Britain, British, England, English, James Walvin, Jim Walvin, values, morality, paternalism, laissez faire, health, education, poverty, public health
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Phillips, Janet and Peter.
Victorians at Home and Away:
(Croom Helm, 1978).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A8407
Keywords: 0856646881, Victorians, England, English, Britain, British, nineteenth century, 19th, Crystal Palace, Christian Soldiers, music, queens, royalty, monarchs, Queen Victoria, businessmen, professionals, shopkeepers, manners, fashions, women, the poor, poverty, soldiers, soccer, racing, cricket, public schools, missionary, missionaries
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Ward Lock, .
Paint Finishes for Home Decorators: A Step by Step Guide to Mastering Decorating Techniques
(Ward Lock, 1997).
Creating a Home. Paperback. Very good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-G12267
Keywords: 0706376560, art, artists, painters, paintings, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, homes, houses, interior decoration, decor, twentieth century
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