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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Sandys, Celia.
The Young Churchill: The Early Years of Winston Churchill
(Dutton, rpt., 1995).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A12522
Keywords: 0525940480, Winston Churchill, politics, political, politicians, government, Prime Ministers, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, children, childhood, infancy, twentieth century, 20th
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Allen, G.C.
The Structure of Industry in Britain: A Study in Economic Change
(Longman, 3rd edit., 1972).
Paperback. Page edges soiled, otherwise good. viii + 271pp. Order No. NSBK-A10075
Keywords: industry, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, Britain, British, history, England, English, labour, labor, labour organisation, economics, economic, twentieth century, twentieth, Allen
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Noble, Peter.
British Theatre:
(British Yearbooks, 1946?).
Foreword by Laurence Olivier. Hardback. Corners rubbed, otherwise very good. 388pp. Order No. NSBK-A3887
Keywords: B0006D9566, theatre, stage, drama, dramatic, history, Britain, British, England, English, theater, blackout, twentieth century,
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Worthen, John.
D.H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912
(CUP, rpt., 1992).
Paperback. Crease to front cover, some foxing / soiling to page edges - a good working copy. xviii + 626pp. Order No. NSBK-A12540
Keywords: 0521437725, D. H. Lawrence, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, biography, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, Edwardian
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McFeely, Mary Drake.
Women's Work in Britain and America from the Nineties to World War I: An Annotated Bibliography
(G.K. Hall, 1982).
Hardback. Near fine. xxv + 140pp. Order No. NSBK-C10513
Keywords: 0816185042, Britain, British, England, English, history, work, women's work, women and work, labour, labor, gender, employment, America, American, USA, United States, US, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 20th, bibliography, bibliographies, Edwardians
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Marwick, Arthur, Emsley, C., and Simpson, W., eds.
Total War and Historical Change: Europe 1914-1955
(Open UP, 2001).
Paperback. Very good. viii + 299pp. Order No. NSBK-A9526
Keywords: 0335207936, wars, warfare, Europe, European, history, twentieth century, 20th, military, social, political, First World War, Second World War
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Pack of 6 Suffragette Greetings Cards, .
The Suffragette: 1d Weekly
(Portrayer Publishers, 2003).
Pack of 6 greetings cards (all featuring the same design) which reproduce an original poster advertising " The Suffragette" newspaper, circa. 1912. The image is printed in vibrant lithographic colours and depicts a young lady in the countryside, by a gate, holding high a copy of 'The Suffragette' newspaper (Please note that the sample electronic image, unlike the cards themselves, is watermarked with a Portrayer insignia and reduced in quality, to prevent image theft). Card measurements are 6 inches high by 4 inches wide and each card is complete with cellophane wrapper and envelope. Blank interiors for your own message or for any occasion. 6 Greetings Cards. Fine, new. pp. Order No. NSBK-F6550
Keywords: suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, women's rights, Votes for Women, women and politics, women's politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, greeting card, greeting cards, cards, suffragette images, propaganda, envelopes, suffrage imagery, postcard, postcards, card, picture, pictures, cartoons, art, artist, artists, bartels, m bartels, suffragette art, art, arts, artistry, illustration, illustrations, twentieth century, 20th century, twentieth centuries, portrayer, portrayer publishers, suffragette greetings cards, greetings card, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera
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Barnes, H. Gorell and Montmorency, J. E. G. de.
The Divorce Commission: The Majority and Minority Reports Summarised, with Appendices on the History of Divorce; Foreign and Colonial Divorce Laws; Proposed Divorce Circuits in England and Wales; Names of Women after Divorce
(P. S. King, 1912).
Prefaces by Guthrie and Dibdin. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers, some wear to edges, otherwise good. xvi + 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A13882
Keywords: B000WFGD0O, divorce, marriage, break-down of marriage, Divorce Commission, reports, social history, divorce circuits, legal, law, family, twentieth century
Price £32.00.
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Brenner, Reuven.
Rivalry: In Business, Science, Among Nations
(CUP, 1987).
Hardback. Minor annotation, otherwise very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A9767
Keywords: 0521331870, rivalry, twentieth century, 20th, entrepreneurs, Britain, British, history, industry, economy, economists, economics, business
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