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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Goodman, Philomena.
Women, Sexuality and War:
(Palgrave, 2002).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to front endpapers, a little rubbing to dustwrapper, otherwise very good+. xii + 180pp. Order No. NSBK-C4987
Keywords: 0333760867, war, women, woman, sex, sexuality, history, femininity, morals, social history, World War II, Second World War, morale, Home Front, British, Britain, England, English, gender roles, female identity, social relations, gender relations, separate spheres, public, private, services, wartime, Mass Observation, patriotism, conscription, Women's Land Army, WLA, Women's Royal Air Force, WRAF, Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, ATS, Women's Auxiliary Airforce, WAAF, Women's Voluntary Services, WVS, war effort
Price £45.00.
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Aldcroft, Derek H.
British Transport Since 1914: an Economic History
(David & Charles, 1975).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly discoloured dustwrapper. 336pp. Order No. NSBK-A7276
Keywords: 0715368788, economy, economic, transport, social history, British, Britain, England, English, twentieth century, technology, technological, transport industry, Derek H. Aldcroft, railways, roads, public ownership, shipping, civil aviation, trains
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Abraham, Katharine and McKersie, Robert, eds.
New Developments in the Labor Market: Toward a New Institutional Paradigm
(MIT Press, 1990).
Hardback. Very good + in dustwrapper. 299pp. Order No. NSBK-A10265
Keywords: 0262011182, economics, institutions, economy, twentieth century, 20th, labour markets, labor, employers, employees, workers, public policy
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Aronson, Hugh.
Our Village Homes: Present Conditions and Suggested Remedies
(Thomas Murby, 1913).
With a preface by Lord Henry Bentinck. Hardback. Cloth rather soiled, some rubbing / fraying to extremities, otherwise a good solid copy. x + 150pp. Order No. NSBK-A13844
Keywords: B001IVIPUM, villages, village, history, town planning, housing, houses, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, housing schemes, social history, housing conditions, homes, rural areas, countryside, health, rural depopulation, agriculture, labourers' cottages, cottage, Hugh Aronson, social conditions, architecture, house building
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Waters, William.
Stained Glass from Shrigley and Hunt of Lancaster and London:
(Centre for North-West Regional Studies, Lancaster University, 2003).
Hardback. Fine. 88pp. Order No. NSBK-A14728
Keywords: 9781862201408, stained glass, stained glass windows, religion, religious, Shrigley and Hunt, glass houses, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Centre for North-West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster, art, William Walters, church windows, church architecture
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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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Corporation of Nottingham, .
Records of the Borough of Nottingham: Being a Series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corporation of Nottingham. Vol IX. 1836 - 1900
(Corporation of Nottingham, 1956).
Hardback. Light mottling to cloth, otherwise very good in chipped, slightly worn, lightly soiled dustwrapper. 462pp. Order No. NSBK-A14074
Keywords: B001M5CF0U, records, volume nine, 9, IX, Nottingham, borough, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Nottinghamshire, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th century, social history, housing, town, urban, urbanisation, towns, markets, Nottinghamshire, schools, public health, sewers, police, buildings, Midlands
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Minett, E. P. and Severn, A. G. M.
Practical Tropical Sanitation: A Pocket Book for Sanitary Inspectors in the Tropics
(Balliere, Tindall and Cox, 1927).
Hardback. Boards slightly soiled, otherwise good. 180pp. Order No. NSBK-A13464
Keywords: sanitary inspectors, sanitation, public health, water, tropics, sewage, refuse disposal, rubbish, abbatoirs, food, markets
Price £32.00.
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Ouvry, Elinor Southwood.
Extracts from Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1864 - 1911:
(Adelphi Book Shop, London, 1933).
Foreword by Neville Chamberlain. Card covers. Spine darkened, edges of covers slightly chipped / slightly curled, some chipping to spine, internally very good. iii + 64pp. Order No. NSBK-C4295
Keywords: B001QVTYT0, open spaces, housing, housing management, house, houses, Octavia Hill, London, philanthropy, women, woman, philanthropist, philanthropists, town planning, social history, welfare, towns, city, cities, fellow workers, fellow-workers, housing reformers, housing reformer, slum, slums, property, poor, poverty, nineteenth century, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century
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