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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Symons, Julian.
The General Strike:
(Cresset Library, rpt, 1987).
Paperback. Spine and front cover lightly creased, otherwise good. xviii + 259pp. Order No. NSBK-A8882
Keywords: 0091729289, General Strike, Britain, British, history, England, English, nineteen twenties, unions, trade unions, trades unions, trade unionism, strikes, industrial action, 1920s, inter-war, interwar, inter war
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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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Gyford, C. Barrington.
The Skipper Ashore: Being Some More Letters from the Skipper of a Tramp Steamer, about his Experiences Ashore in Various Parts of the World. With Photographs Sent by the Writer
(Isaac Pitman, 1938).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, boards worn especially at edges, some soiling to page edges, otherwise a good solid copy. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A14089
Keywords: B0014IF138, maritime, travel, ships, boats, skippers, history, C. Barrington Gyford, letters, correspondence, Europe, East, Arabia, Middle East, Sudan, steamers, photographs, sea travel, adventure, seas, inter-war, inter war
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Dyment, Clifford.
The Railway Game: an Early Autobiography
(Readers Union, rpt, 1963).
Hardback. Very good in browned, slightly worn dustwrapper. 218pp. Order No. NSBK-A4710
Keywords: B0000EERAV, British, Britain, England, English, autobiographies, autobiography, railway, steam, railway game, Clifford Dyment, autobiography, child, boy, children, childhood, 1920s, 1930s, interwar, inter-war, inter war, history, boyhood, youth, poems, poet, poets, poetry
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Neale, Douglas.
Guide For Husbands and Wives or A Manual Of Wisdom:
(William Lovett, revised edition, 1938).
Paperback. Very good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A13675
Keywords: B00126A4I4, advice books, 1930s, thirties, husbands, wives, marriage, family, sex, birth control, family planning, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, family limitation, mothers, motherhood, maternity, contraception, contraceptives, inter-war, interwar, inter war, confinement, babies, health
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Chazal, E. L. de.
Guide Elementaire D'Hygiene Infantile: a L'Usage des Infirmieres et des Meres de Famille
(Port Louis, P. G. Bumstead, 2nd edition, 1924).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. Front cover loose, otherwise good in firm, slightly marked library binding. 150pp. Order No. NSBK-A13886
Keywords: B001A6JL6W, child welfare, interwar, inter-war, inter war, family, medicine, hygiene, France, French, children, childhood, health, enfants, mothers, motherhood, history, 1920s, illnesses, childhood illnesses, ailments, remedies, infant mortality, medical
Price £24.00.
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Jones, Stephen G.
Workers at Play: a Social and Economic History of Leisure, 1918 - 1939
(RKP, 1986).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. viii + 286pp. Order No. NSBK-A4346
Keywords: 0710206356, leisure, recreations, recreation, social history, interwar, inter war, inter-war, hobbies, sport, gambling, boxing, men, women, economic, holidays, drinking, pub, pubs, public houses, popular culture, cinema, working class, working classes, pastimes, voluntary organisations, clubs, working men's clubs, labour, entertainment, Britain, British, England, English
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Tillyard, Frank.
Unemployment Insurance in Great Britain, 1911 - 48:
(Thames Bank Pub. Co, 1949).
Hardback. Very good in chipped, slightly browned dustwrapper. ix + 233pp. Order No. NSBK-A13287
Keywords: B001IVGWXE, unemployment, insurance, national insurance, dole, twentieth century, inter-war, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, contributions, benefits, social welfare, poor relief, out-of-work, history
Price £14.00.
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Kaye, Michael.
Child Welfare Outside the School:
(Oliver and Boyd, 1937).
Hardback. Some brown soiling to cloth and rubbing to edges, otherwise good. viii + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-A13584
Keywords: B00112B870, inter-war, inter war, child welfare, social welfare, home, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, housing, family, poverty, social history, health, employment, unemployment, leisure, delinquency, slums, slum, fitness, children
Price £11.99.
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