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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
Price £7.50.
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Thomas, David St John.
The Country Railway:
(Penguin Books, 1976).
Paperback. Covers creased, a little brown marking/staining to a few pages not affecting legibility, otherwise good. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A8295
Keywords: 0140048278, railways, railway, trains, transport, country, countryside, transport, technology, platforms, bridges, embankments, viaducts, architecture, ninetenth, century, 19th, twentieth, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, steam
Price £5.00.
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Hewitt, H. J.
The Building of the Railways in Cheshire Down to 1860:
(E. J. Morten, 1972).
Hardback. Some light soiling to cloth, otherwise good in soiled dustwrapper. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A6064
Keywords: 0901598437, railways, steam trains, trains, transport, Cheshire, England, English, Britain, British, construction, communications, North-West, North West, Victorian, nineteenth century
Price £11.75.
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Parr, Joy.
Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924
(Croom Helm, 1980).
Scarce. Hardback. Good condition, in faded and lightly soiled dustwrapper. 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A3988
Keywords: 0773505172, immigrants, apprentices, apprenticeship, Canada, Canadian history, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, emigrants, emigration, child, children, childhood, labor, labour, adoption, philanthropy, philanthropic, agricultural, domestic service, domestic servants, Evangelicals, migration
Price £11.99.
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Armstrong, Richard.
Powered Ships: the Beginnings
(Ernest Benn, 1975).
Hardback. Ex library with usual marks left by library stamps / stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A3753
Keywords: 0510126111, ship, ships, powered, transport, economic, history, seas, commerce, commercial, travel, steamer, steamers, steam, navigation, nautical, maritime
Price £4.00.
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Dyhouse, Carol.
Feminism and the Family in England, 1880-1939:
(Basil Blackwell, 1989).
Out-of-print paperback. Paperback. Scattered ink annotation not affecting legibility, otherwise good. vi + 204pp. Order No. NSBK-C5789
Keywords: 0631167366, feminism, women, history, family, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, twentieth century, domestic, domesticity, marriage, sexuality, private sphere, separate spheres, economic, reproduction, childbirth, childcare, families
Price £16.00.
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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
Price £6.50.
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Hadfield, Charles.
British Canals: An Illustrated History
(David and Charles, 1974).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, ex library with usual library markings. pages 279-290 partially detached, otherwise good in faded dustwrapper. 356pp. Order No. NSBK-A7982
Keywords: 0715367005, Britain, British, canals, waterways, water, eighteenth century, 18th, 19th, transport, goods, Birmingham, Basingstoke, Pontcysyllte, canal mania, seas, ports, railways, Manchester Ship Canal, borrowed by RAS
Price £8.00.
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Bailey, Brian.
Britain's Industrial Past:
(Whittet Books, 1985).
Paperback. Covers slightly creased, otherwise very good. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A7399
Keywords: 090548343X, industrial, Britain, British, England, English, history, heritage, railways, railwaymen, boilers, Bromsgrove, Maharajah of Benares, Stoke Row, Blisworth tunnel, tunnels, transport, manufacturing, factories, factory, industrialisation, industrialization, industrial archaeology
Price £2.00.
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Whyte, Andrew.
Jaguar: The Definitive History of a Great British Car
(Patrick Stephens, 1985).
Foreword by Sir William Lyons. Hardback. Very good in edgeworn dustwrapper. 252pp. Order No. NSBK-H13934
Keywords: 0850597463, Jaguar, cars, vehicles, transport, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
Price £10.00.
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