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
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Harty, Russell.
Mr Harty's Grand Tour:
(Century, 1988).
Illustrated by Jane Lake Birt. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-A10769
Keywords: 071261849X, Russell Harty, tours, travel, Europe, European, Grand Tour, twentieth century
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Hobbs, Margaret and Sangster Joan.
The Woman Worker, 1926-1929:
(Canadian Committee on Labour History, 1999).
Paperback. Near fine. 284pp. Order No. NSBK-A12324
Keywords: 1894000013, Canada, Canadian, labour history, labor history, work, worker, employees, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, twentieth century, 20th
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Issel, William.
Social Change in the United States, 1945-1983:
(Macmillan, 1985).
Paperback. Crease to front cover, otherwise good+. xi + 228pp. Order No. NSBK-A12567
Keywords: 0333367383, social changes, class, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, twentieth century, 20th
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Pugh, Martin.
The Pankhursts:
(Penguin, 1913).
Paperback. Very good. xviii + 537pp. Order No. NSBK-C15779
Keywords: 0140290389, Pankhursts, Martin Pugh, politics, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, militants, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th, Sylvia, Christabel, women's history, Emmeline, the vote, women's rights, the women's movement, emancipation, woman, woman's, womans
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Gardiner, Juliet.
D-Day: Those Who Were There
(Collins & Brown, 1994).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, otherwise good in creased dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A5218
Keywords: 1855852047, D-Day, twentieth century, fighting, World War II, Second World War, Britain, British, England, English, France, French, Allies, Allied, Normandy beaches, Channel, Second Front, forces, military operations
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Phelps, Humphrey, ed.
Forest of Dean: England of One Hundred Years Ago. Photograph Collection
(Alan Sutton, 1992).
Paperback. Oversized book. A little wear to edges, otherwise very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A13331
Keywords: 0750903031, Forest of Dean, history, sepia, photographs, photography, images, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 19th century, prints, Gloucestershire, rural, Cinderford, Coleford, Littledean, social history
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Leapman, Michael.
Kinnock:
(Unwin Hyman, 1987).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. xi + 217pp. Order No. NSBK-A11896
Keywords: 0044400063, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, politics, political, politicians, government, 20th, Neil Kinnock, Labour Party, Labour, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history
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Fawcett, Henry and Millicent Garrett.
The Works of Henry and Millicent Fawcett, 1863-1924:
(Thoemmes Press, 1995 facsimile rpt of the 1878 edition).
Complete in 8 volumes, as follows: Free Trade and Protection; Pauperism; The Economic Position of the British Labourer; Manual of Political Economy; Tales in Political Economy; Political Economy for Beginners; What I Remember; Essays and Lectures. Hardbacks. Near fine. 2363pp. Order No. NSBK-C7544
Keywords: 1855063670, Free Trade and Protection, Pauperism, The Economic Position of the British Labourer, Manual of Political Economy, Tales in Political Economy, Political Economy for Beginners, What I Remember, Essays and Lectures. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Millicent Fawcett, Henry Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, Fawcett, The Fawcetts, victorian writers, political thought, complete works, works, poverty, pauper, writing, writings, writings of, works of, Fawcett set, full set, Thoemmes, Thoemmes Press, 20th century, twentieth century, tariffs, 19th century, nineteenth Century, poverty, essays, essay
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Humphries, Steve, Mack, Joanna and Perks, Robert.
A Century of Childhood:
(Sidgwick and Jackson/ Channel Four, rpt., 1988).
A Channel Four Book. Hardback. With newspaper cuttings pasted to inside front cover, otherwise good in slightly edgeworn dustwrappe. 176pp. Order No. NSBK-A12932
Keywords: 0283997559, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th
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