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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Tylecote, Mabel.
The Future of Adult Education:
(Fabian Society, 1960).
Paperback. Good, in booklet form. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-C5209
Keywords: 071631214X, education, adult education, higher education, history, Fabian, Fabians, Fabian Society, fabianism, adults, Mabel Tylecote, twentieth century, social history, students, WEA, Workers' Educational Association
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Maccoby, S.
English Radicalism: the End?
(George Allen Unwin, 1961).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, dustwrapper browned, soiled and chipped, otherwise good. 640pp. Order No. NSBK-A14583
Keywords: B001CEIN5C, work, industry, radicals, radicalism, twentieth century, protests, Dr Maccoby, popular, propaganda, class, Lloyd George, Labour, General Strike, Asquith, social reform, First World War
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Walton, John K. and Walvin, James.
Leisure in Britain, 1780 - 1939:
(MUP, 1983).
Paperback. Ex library, spine creased, usual library markings, otherwise good. vi + 241pp. Order No. NSBK-A13843
Keywords: 071901946X, leisure, entertainment, social history, recreation, Victorian, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, twentieth century, England, English, Britain, British, hobbies, working class, working classes, middle class, middle classes, class, John Walton, Jim Walvin, James Walvin, Walton, Leisure in Britain
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Seaton, Jamie and Jessie.
The Seaton Collection: Exclusive Knitting Designs by Jamie and Jessie Seaton
(Century, 1989).
Photography by Frank Herholdt. Hardback. Spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-G10511
Keywords: 0712623671, knitting, sweaters, jumpers, knitters, designs, Jamie Seaton, Jessie Seaton, Britain, British, England, English, history, patterns, twentieth century, 20th
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Sharp, Evelyn.
Rebel Women:
(Portrayer, 2003 facsimile of the 1st edit. of 1910).
A special edition of this highly sought-after work of suffragette fiction, in smart bespoke binding. Walnut finish boards with blue & green head and tail bands. Coloured endpapers. A series of descriptive sketches about the suffragette movement. Hardback. Fine condition. 135pp. Order No. NSBK-C6498
Keywords: 0954476107, suffragettes, suffrage, women's history, Rebel Women, Edwardian, New Woman, Votes for Women, Evelyn Sharp, Britain, British, England, English, enfranchisement, woman suffrage, woman, women writers, fiction, social protest, political women, politics, collector's editions, literature, twentieth century, 20th century, Portrayer, Portrayer's, Portrayer Publishers, fictional, writing, stories, sketches
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Oakley, Ann.
Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents Early Years
(Flamingo, 1997).
Paperback. Spine creased and cover edges worn, otherwise good. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C10416
Keywords: 0006550134, parents, Richard Titmuss, Kay Titmuss, Kay Miller, welfare state, biography, biographies, autobiography, autobiographies, feminism, feminists, family, social history, families, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, 20th
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Belsey, Catherine and Moore, Jane, eds.
The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism
(Macmillan, 1989).
Paperback. Very good. x + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-C8565
Keywords: 0333446038, gender, women, men, literary criticism, literary critics, history of ideas, twentieth century, 20th, gender, literature, readings
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Boxer, Marilyn Jacoby.
When Women Ask the Questions: Creating Women's Studies in America
(The Johns Hopkins UP, 1998).
Hardback. Fine. xix + 360pp. Order No. NSBK-C11265
Keywords: 0801858348, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, twentieth century, 20th
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Beik, Mildred Allen.
The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization
(Pennsylvania University Press, 1996).
Paperback. Near fine. xxx + 447pp. Order No. NSBK-A10290
Keywords: 0271015675, immigrants, immigration, America, American, USA, US, United States, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, unionization, unionisation, Pennsylvania, Windber, miners, mining, coal, coalminers, coalmining, Berwind-White Coal Mining Company, New Deal, United Mine Workers, ethnicity, ethnic
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