Maurice, C. Edmund, ed.
Life of Octavia Hill: as Told in her Letters
(Macmillan, rpt, 1914).
Hardback. Some foxing to early pages, minor yellow highlighting to text, rubbing to edges and spine ends, otherwise a good solid copy. vii + 591pp. Order No. NSBK-C4485
Keywords: B01M9FUK1S, Octavia Hill, biography, biographies, autobiographies, autobiography, letters, housing, Victorian social reformers, reform, philanthropy, town planning, open spaces, settlements, dwellings, poverty, poor, paupers, pauperism, Britain, England, English, British, National Trust, commons, working class, working classes
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Roche, Daniel.
The People of Paris: An Essay in Popular Culture in the 18th Century
(Berg, rpt, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. 277pp. Order No. NSBK-A13324
Keywords: 090758246X, Paris, Parisian, France, French, history, Ancien Regime, 18th century, eighteenth century, popular culture, crowd studies, population, housing, consumption, consumers, popular dress, fashion, reading habits, social history, customs
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Lyster, Robert A.
A First Course in Hygiene:
(University Tutorial Press, rpt, 1946).
Hardback. Blue cloth darkened and marked in places, corners worn, otherwise good. viii + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-A6371
Keywords: health, hygiene, social welfare, social hygiene, history, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, Robert A. Lyster, body, ventilation, text books, foods, digestion, cooking, nervous system, dwellings, housing, heating, water supply, diseases, infection, houses, diets
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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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Myrdal, Gunnar.
The Cost of Living in Sweden, 1830 - 1930:
(P. S. King, 1933).
Assisted by Sven Bouvin. Institute for Social Sciences, University of Stockholm. Hardback. Page edges foxed. Ex library with minimal library stamps. Some scuffing to cloth, and a little splitting externally to spine. Otherwise a good, solid, firm copy. x + 251pp. Order No. NSBK-A13356
Keywords: B000H47BVU, Institute for Social Sciences, University of Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish, economy, economic, cost of living, 19th century, twentieth century, prices, wages, budgets, clothing, housing, history
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Mallory, Keith.
The Bristol House:
(Redcliffe Press, 1985).
Paperback. A little curling to cover edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A9729
Keywords: 0905459997, homes, houses, Bristol, housing, cities, city, towns, great house, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, 18th, eighteenth, architecture, architectural
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Hobhouse, Emily.
The Brunt of War and Where it Fell:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007 facsimile of the 1902 edition).
A facsimile edition of a very scarce book. Complete with a map and all illustrations. Hardback. Good in blue cloth. xvi + 357pp. Order No. NSBK-C13227
Keywords: 0954476131, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs, self history, self histories, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, Boer War, Boers, South Africa, Africa, African, wars, South African War, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, century, Emily Hobhouse, camps, war camp, war camps, concentration camps, camp, POW, prisoners of war, enemy, enemies, soldiers, soldier, Cape, Cape Colony, children, child, Chamberlain, homes, housing, deprivation, starvation, Britain, British, England, English, troop, troops, battle, battles, battallions, propaganda, battallion, living conditions, Southern Africa, Southern African, Afrikaan, Afrikaans, Veld, scorched earth policy, charity, philanthropy, Portrayer Publishers
Price £25.95.
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Hill, Octavia.
Our Common Land:
(Macmillan, 1877).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, some wear to spine, spine ends, edges and corners. Cloth a little marked / rubbed -else good / solid. vi + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-C6431
Keywords: B001P1SGF4, housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, town planning, urban history, open spaces, countryside, Britain, England, British, English, history, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment, district visiting, volunteer visitors, commons, charity, charities, COS, C.O.S., Charity Organisation Society
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Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
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Calder, Jenni.
The Victorian Home:
(Book Club, 1977).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-C3742
Keywords: 0713408170, domestic sphere, housing, home, domesticity, women, woman, housing, Victorian, nineteenth century, homes, family, Jenni Calder, Britain, British, England, English
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