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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Heath, Carl.
Military Service, Compulsory and Otherwise:
(Rationalist Peace Society, no date, circa First World War).
Leaflet no 2. Paperback. Slight browning and chipping to edges, otherwise very good. 2pp. Order No. NSBK-A14131
Keywords: pacifists, pacifism, pacifist, military service, compulsory military service, social history, Carl Heath, fighting, World War I, First World War, Great War, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, peace, peace movements
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Pearson, Jeffrey.
Cheshire Tales of Mystery and Murder:
(Countryside Books, 2002).
Paperback. Good. 126pp. Order No. NSBK-A14316
Keywords: 1853067687, Cheshire, mystery, murder, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, ghosts, myths
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Philips, Deborah & Haywood, Ian.
Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions
(Leicester UP, 1998).
Hardback. Fine. 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C4312
Keywords: 071850058X, post war, postwar, post-war, fiction, fictions, literature, women, woman, literary history, 1950s, working women, women and work, texts, discourses, gender, femininity, women employees, Britain, British, England, English
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Woodward, Sir Llewellyn.
The Age of Reform, 1815-1870:
(Book Club Associates/OUP, 2nd edit., 1979).
The Oxford History of England. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper with slightly faded spine. xviii + 681pp. Order No. NSBK-A12105
Keywords: 0198217110, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, politics, political, politicians, government
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Holbrook-Jones, Mike.
Supremacy and Subordination of Labour: The Hierarchy of Work in the Early Labour Movement
(Heinemann Educational, 1982).
Hardback. Very good in spine-faded dustwrapper. xi + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A8640
Keywords: 0435824171, class, classes, class structure, heirarchy, social, society, working-class, working-class, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian, work, workers, employers, employees, employment, jobs, labour, labor, miners, coal, spinners, engineers, men, man, Maxist, Marxism, industrial revolution, labour history, labor history, Britain, British, England, English, history, sociology, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists
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Coates, Tim, ed.
Bloody Sunday: Lord Widgery's Report
(TSO, 2001).
Uncovered Editions. Moments of History Series. Paperback. Fine. 120pp. Order No. NSBK-A13049
Keywords: 0117024058, Bloody Sunday, Ireland, Irish, Northern Ireland, Ulster, twentieth century, 20th century, Lord Widgery, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Moments of History Series
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Haraszti, Eva.
Chartism:
(Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1978).
Hardback. Good in chipped, edgeworn dustwrapper. 276pp. Order No. NSBK-A12315
Keywords: 963051477X, Chartism, Chartists, politics, political, politicians, government, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Camden Miscellany, .
Chronology, Conquest and Conflict in Medieval England:
(CUP, 1997).
Camden Miscellany XXXIV. Hardback. Very good. 285pp. Order No. NSBK-A13555
Keywords: 0521631092, medieval, mediaeval, conquests, wars, Camden Miscellany, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Edwards, H. J.
The Evening Institute: Its Place in the Educational System of England and Wales
(National Institute of Adult Education, 1961).
Hardback. Spine ends bumped, otherwise good+ in torn and edgeworn dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A11867
Keywords: B0000CL4ZT, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students, Evening Institute, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Wales, Welsh
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