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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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
Price £4.50.
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Liverpool Women's History, Second Chance to Learn Group.
Women's Work on the Waterfront, 1916 - 1987:
(Liverpool Women's History, 1987).
Paperback. Light soiling to covers and small sticker mark to front cover, otherwise good. 71pp. Order No. NSBK-C15113
Keywords: B004IZ4D5Q, Mersey, Merseyside, history, waterfront, Liverpool, ports, docklands, working women, docks,
Price £12.00.
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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
Price £22.00.
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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
Price £6.00.
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Carpenter, J. Estlin.
The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter:
(Macmillan, 2nd edition, 1881).
Hardback. Original cloth with spine ends and corners worn. Spine sunned, otherwise a very good, solid copy. xiv + 391pp. Order No. NSBK-A13865
Keywords: B000WSPERO, Mary Carpenter, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, biography, biographies, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, ragged schools, education, Bristol, social reform, reformatories for girls, poverty, teaching, teachers, reformatory schools, children, charity, philanthropy, childhood, Indian, India, female education, women's education
Price £46.00.
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Flanders, Allan.
Trade Unions:
(Hutchinson, rpt, 1967).
Hardback. Good in soiled dustwrapper. 176pp. Order No. NSBK-A3775
Keywords: 0090455614, trade unionism, trade unions, labour, industry, England, English, Britain, British, Trade Union Congress, collective bargaining, wages, employment, working conditions, class
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Maurice, Frederick D.
The Workman and the Franchise: Chapters from English History on the Representation and Education of the People
(A. Kelley, 1970 rpt of 1866 edit.).
Hardback. Fine. xvi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A2005
Keywords: 0678005923, franchise, politics, political reform, voting, election, Reform Acts, education, representation, Victorian, nineteenth century, workman, working-class, working class, electoral reform, Britain, British, England, English, history, Frederick Maurice, Maurice, Augustus M. Kelley reprints
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Colloms, Brenda.
Charles Kingsley: The Lion of Eversley
(Constable, 1975).
Hardback. Light foxing to dustwrapper and endpapers, otherwise very good. 400pp. Order No. NSBK-A9238
Keywords: 0094600201, Charles Kingsley, Eversley, men, biography, biographical life, history, lives, life histories, biographies, nineteenth century, Victorian, novels, fiction, poets, poetry, novelists, clergymen, social reformers, clergyman, Tories Radicals, Westward Ho, The Water Babies, Working Men's College, writers, literary, literature
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O'Dowd, Mary and Purvis, June, eds.
A History of the Girl: Formation, Education and Identity
(Palgrave, 2018).
Hardback. Very good. xiii + 266pp. Order No. NSBK-C15655
Keywords: 9783319692777, girls, girlhood, history, children, childhood, education, womanhood, girlhood, global
Price £55.00.
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