Mayhew, Henry.
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts. Volume 3
(Caliban Books, 1981).
Paperback. Spine lightly browned, otherwise very good. 277pp. Order No. NSBK-A13116
Keywords: 0904573222, Victorian, 1850, 19th century, nineteenth century, labour, poor, poverty, Henry Mayhew, social surveys, social investigations, sanitation, oral history, wages, sweated labour, poor law, employment, work, thieves, theft, robbery, London, tramps, vagrancy, lodging houses, housing, food, earnings, child labour, boot and shoe trade, beggars, asylums, clothes, boot and shoe makers
Price £19.95.
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Barnett, Henrietta.
Canon Barnett: His Life, Work and Friends
(John Murray, 1918).
With newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, plus a typed and signed letter by Henrietta Barnett. Complete in two volumes. Hardbacks. Minor yellow highlighting, lacking spine covers.Good working copies, vol I firm; vol II firm also though with splitting inside at spine. xxiv + 302; xii + 415pp. Order No. NSBK-A15635
Keywords: Henrietta Barnett, Canon Barnett, Samuel Augustus Barnett, housing, social conditions, Octavia Hill, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, Victorian, Edwardian, biography, biographies, social reform, philanthropy, Toynbee, state relief, social problems, poverty
Price £30.00.
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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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Evans, Mary and Ungerson, Clare, eds.
Sexual Divisions: Patterns and Processes
(Tavistock Publications, 1983).
Paperback. Good. x + 213pp. Order No. NSBK-C9139
Keywords: 0422784400, women, women's history, woman, women's studies, labour, labor, sexual division of labour, female subordination, schools, the law, mental health services, housing, employment, work, women and work, women's work, women workers, unemployment
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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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Greve, John; Page, Dilys & Greve, Stella.
Homelessness in London:
(Scottish Academic Press, 1971).
Paperback. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise very good, ex-library. xix + 303pp. Order No. NSBK-A3723
Keywords: 0701118067, homeless, homelessness, sociology, history, twentieth century, London, housing, homes, metropolis, social services, England, Britain, English, British
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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
Price £14.00.
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Roberts, Robert.
A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum
(Fontana, 2nd impression, 1979).
Paperback. Light creasing to covers, newspaper article pasted to front endpaper, otherwise good. 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A10160
Keywords: 0006348947, education, schools, schooling, slums, housing, urban, cities, Britain, British, England, English, social history, Edwardian, industry, industrial, terraces, poverty, poor, cobbles, By Joe, cinema, magic lantern, railways, canals, Manchester, North West, Salford, Robert Roberts, apprentices, labour, labor, Labour party, Esperanto, TB, tuberculosis, working class, working classes, Charles de Gaulle
Price £5.50.
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Rossiter, Jenny.
Nobler and Better Things: Octavia Hill's Life and Work
(Octavia, 2012).
Paperback. Light edgewear, otherwise very good. 66pp. Order No. NSBK-C15628
Keywords: 9780957307308, Octavia Hill, booklets, housing, urban, open spaces, Victorian, London, slums, social history, women's history
Price £7.99.
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Jackson, Alan A.
The Middle Classes, 1900-1950:
(David St John Thomas, 1991).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, otherwise good in faded dustwrapper. 363pp. Order No. NSBK-A9293
Keywords: 0946537674, class, middle classes, middle class, middle-class, twentieth century, 20th, housing, detached, semi-detached, men, women, masculinity, femininity
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