Holland, Dennis.
When I Could Nearly Walk:
(Co-operative Wholesale Society, 1997).
Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. 43pp. Order No. NSBK-A15055
Keywords: 0951738410, Runcorn, Cheshire, disabled, Dennis Holland, biography
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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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Moat, Florence and Sumner, Josephine.
The Concise Series of Practical Housecraft: I. Housewifery
(Longmans, Green, 1925).
Paperback. Original covers browned, spotted and worn. Spine split, otherwise good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-C15120
Keywords: B00174ZJ6I, booklets, booklet, housewifery, domesticity, history, antiquarian, domestic, Florence Moat, housework, housewives, washing, cleaning, shopping, interwar, inter-war
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Condell, Diana & Liddiard, Jean.
Working for Victory?: Images of Women in the First World War, 1914-1918
(RKP, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in slightly discoloured dustwrapper. xii + 201pp. Order No. NSBK-C7541
Keywords: 9781032284804, First World War, World War I, Great War, women and war, women and work, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, WW1, WWI, The Great War, Condell, Liddiard, Images, War, images of war, representation, representations, art
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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004 facsimile of 1918 text).
Clementina Black (1854 - 1922) was a campaigner committed to improving the plight of working women. In this work of 1918, she 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'. Examples of material included: 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. Paperback. New book, fine. x + 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C7548
Keywords: 0954476123, 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, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Portrayer reprints, Portrayer facsimiles, new titles
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Royal College of Nursing, Molly Case.
Album: It May Be for Sometime, it May be Forever
(RCN, 2017).
Poetry anthology inspired by ten nurses who kept scrapbooks during World War I. Paperback. Very good. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-C15688
Keywords: Molly Case, Royal College of Nursing, World War I, First World War, nursing, medicine, nurses, women and work, history, booklets
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Hamilton, Catherine.
The West Country is a Garden: A Wayfarer's Companion
(Bracken, 1993).
Select Editions in association with David Bateman. Hardback. Front endpapers slightly spotted, otherwise very good in slightly marked dustwrapper. 72pp. Order No. NSBK-A6540
Keywords: 185891034X, gardens, gardening, West Country, England, English, gardeners, horticulture, horticultural, horticulturalists, British, Britain, flowers, sketching, drawing, art, artists, plants
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Butt, J. and Clarke, I.F. eds.
The Victorians and Social Protest: A Symposium
(David and Charles/Archon, 1973).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 249pp. Order No. NSBK-A13449
Keywords: 071535776X, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, social protest, Robert Owen, O'Connor, Ireland, Irish, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Dickens, Self-Help, William Morris, Bernard Shaw, class, land
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Beamont, William.
Annals of the Lords of Warrington and Bewsey from 1587 to 1833: When Warrington Became a Parliamentary Borough. In Two Parts. Part I: Warrington. Part II: Bewsey. With Notices of Historical and Local Events
(Charles Simms, Manchester, Percival Pearse, Warrington, 1873).
Hardback. A little wear to corners, edges and spine ends, a little cracking internally at binding, otherwise good+, firm. xxiv + 165pp. Order No. NSBK-A13754
Keywords: B000WFVS9A, Warrington, Bewsey, Lords, history, 19th century, Victorian, nineteenth century, Boteler, Atherton, Lancashire, early modern, Dudley, Delamer, seventeenth century, eighteenth century, William Beamont, antiquarian
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White, E. W.
British Fishing-Boats and Coastal Crafts: Part I : Historical Survey
(HMSO, rpt., 1957).
Paperback. Good. 60pp. Order No. NSBK-A12961
Keywords: B0007K0JUY, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, boats, ships, marine, fish, fishing, coasts, crafts, coastal, maritime, history, England, Scotland, Ireland, Thames Estuary
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