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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Bray, Maurice I.
Railway Picture Postcards:
(MPC, rpt., 1991).
Paperback. Spine and front cover creased, otherwise good. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A6230
Keywords: 0861903137, railways, steam trains, trains, transport, engines, vehicles, travel, postcards, pictures, nineteenth century, twentieth century, railway ships, docks, royal trains, bridges, tunnels, viaducts, Great Western Railway, locomotives, trams, traffic, The London and North Western Railway, photographs, photography, collectors, hobbies, hobby, entertainment, leisure, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Chrisp, Peter.
Evacuation:
(University of Susex Library, 1987).
Ringbound booklet. Very good. 20pp. Order No. NSBK-A13211
Keywords: 0850870194, Mass Observation, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, twentieth century, 20th Century, Blitz, Mass-Observation, Peter Chrisp, University of Sussex, 1939, 1940s, forties, home front, domestic front, social history, evacuation, evacuees, children, childhood, evacuation scheme, archive
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Wolff, Theodore F.
The Many Masks of Modern Art:
(Christian Science Monitor, 1989).
Hardback. Very good in slightly rubbed dustwrapper. xiii + 205pp. Order No. NSBK-J13224
Keywords: 0875102026, modern art, artists, Theodore F. Wolff, history, twentieth century, paintings, sculptures
Price £16.50.
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Yarwood, Derek.
Outrages - Fatal & Other: A Chronicle of Cheshire Crime, 1612-1912
(Didsbury Press, 1991).
Signed by the author. Paperback. Front cover slightly creased, otherwise good. v + 233pp. Order No. NSBK-A1866
Keywords: 1872325017, crime, Cheshire, Victorian, murder, violence, Britain, British, England, English, history, seventeenth century, eighteenth century, twentieth century
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Davis, Lance E and Cull, Robert J.
International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820-1914:
(CUP, 1994).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. vii + 166pp. Order No. NSBK-A13196
Keywords: 0521460549, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, Edwardian
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Somerville, Claire & Watson, Helena.
Birth and Power: an Examination of Some Mass-Observation Writing
(Uni of Sussex, 1996).
Paperback. New booklet, fine. 14pp. Order No. NSBK-C5338
Keywords: 850870348, Mass Observation, Mass-Observation, social investigations, surveys, twentieth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English, sociology, Mass Observation team, 20th century, social research, Mass-Observation Archive, methodology, research, methodological, Sussex University, Occasional Papers, birth, motherhood, maternity, childbirth, mothers
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Chapple, J. A. V.
Documentary and Imaginative Literature: 1880-1920
(Blandford Press, 1970).
From the series 'History and Literature'. Hardback. Very good in slightly discoloured dustwrapper. 395pp. Order No. NSBK-A9674
Keywords: 0713736054, literature, literary, history, historical, Great Depression of Agriculture, Socialism, Imperialism, the Boer War, Liberal Party, suffragette movement, First World War, Victorian, twentieth century, 20th, 19th
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Lewis, Jon E.
True World War I Stories: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War
(Robinson, rpt, 1999).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good+. 425pp. Order No. NSBK-A14176
Keywords: 1841190950, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, autobiographies, autobiography, memories, Somme, Loos, Ypres, Western Front
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Bagwell, Philip S.
Doncaster: Town of Train Makers, 1853-1990
(Doncaster, 1991).
Signed by the author. Hardback. Outsized book, very good+. vii + 136pp. Order No. NSBK-A12364
Keywords: 0906976375, trains, railways, transport, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Doncaster, manufacture, engineering, plant works, factory, factories, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, industry, work
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