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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Rothman, Sheila M.
Woman's Proper Place: A History of Changing Ideals and Practices, 1870 to the Present
(Basic Books Inc).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly torn dustwrapper. xiv + 322pp. Order No. NSBK-C12563
Keywords: 0465092039, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, domestic, domesticity, homes, housewife, housewifery, houses, roles
Price £8.00.
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Grigg, John.
Nancy Astor: A Revealing New Portrait of a Woman who Made History
(Hamlyn, 1980).
Illustrated with exclusive pictures from the Astor family album. Paperback. Covers slightly browned, otherwise very good. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A3947
Keywords: 0600205940, Nancy Astor, politics, politician, M. P., women and politics, Plymouth Sutton, Conservative party, Tory, party politics, House of Commons, Houses of Parliament, Britain, British, history, England, English, biography, women's history, twentieth century, Tories
Price £7.00.
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Braithwaite, Brian and Walsh, Noelle, eds.
Home Sweet Home: The Best of Good Housekeeping, 1922-1939
(Ebury Press, 1992).
Hardback. Good+ in torn and soiled dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A12608
Keywords: 0091774888, homes, houses, Good Housekeeping, magazines, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, readers, Rebecca West, ldy Violet Bonham-Caretr, E.F. Benson, Vera Brittain, Evelyn Waugh
Price £12.00.
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Thorns, David C.
Suburbia:
(MacGibbon & Kee, 1972).
Hardback. Good+. 175pp. Order No. NSBK-A13420
Keywords: 0261632612, suburbia, towns, cities, city, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, housing, houses
Price £9.00.
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Mayhew, Henry.
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts. Volume 2
(Caliban Books, 1981).
Paperback. Spine a little browned. A few light marks to card covers, otherwise very good. 335pp. Order No. NSBK-A13115
Keywords: 0904573214, Victorian, 1840s, forties, 19th century, nineteenth century, labour, poor, poverty, Henry Mayhew, social surveys, social investigations, sanitation, oral history, wages, sweated labour, poor law, employment, hucksters, alcohol, drinking, housing, coal, pawn-broking, tailoring, pubs, publicans, public houses, London
Price £19.95.
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Christie's, .
Christies: Fine Irish Paintings and Drawings:
(Christie Scotland Limited, 1989).
Friday 26th May 1989. Paperback. Crease to front cover, otherwise good+. 203pp. Order No. NSBK-A12289
Keywords: B000IV5ODE, art, artists, painters, paintings, Christies, auctioneers, auction houses, Ireland, Irish, Eire
Price £6.00.
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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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Stevenson, D. Alan.
The World's Lighthouses before 1820:
(OUP, 1959).
Large format. Hardback. Green cloth. Ex-library but very good copy with minimal library stamps in rather soiled dustwrapper, chipped at edges and with a small piece torn out of top edge. xxiv + 310pp. Order No. NSBK-A14228
Keywords: B0000CKDV2, lighthouses, lighthouse, sea, oceans, safety, marine, maritime, navigation, engineering, history, towers, harbours, architecture, architectural
Price £45.00.
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McNeil, Robina and Walker, John S. F.
Warehouse Album: The Heritage Atlas 3. An Archaeological Miscellany from the University of Manchester and the Ten Districts of Greater Manchester
(Field Archaeology Centre, Manchester University, March 1997).
Paperback. Some creasing and scuffing to covers, otherwise very good. 59pp. Order No. NSBK-A14530
Keywords: 0952781352, city, urban, archaeological, warehouses, warehouse, Manchester, Greater Manchester, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, industrial archaeology, Leigh, Rochdale, exports, storage, cities, urbanisation
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