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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The Times, .
British War Production, 1939 - 1945: a Record
(Printing House Square, 1945).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, cloth slightly marked, otherwise very good. viii + 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A15072
Keywords: B000LBZSGY, Second World War, war production, World War II, economy, industry, heavy industry, home front, domestic, war effort, war effort, transport, history, industries
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Horsfield, Margaret.
Biting the Dust: The Joys of Housework
(Fourth Estate, 1998).
Paperback. Fading to spine, light edge-wear, otherwise very good. xi + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-C6189
Keywords: 1857026756, domestic, domesticity, women and work, women's work, woman, women's history, housewives, housewife, housewifery, homemaking, homemaker, houses, home, household, chores, housemaids, Mrs Beeton, cleanliness, cleaning, Hannah Cullwick, Cleanliness Institute, cleaners, flappers, dusting
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Clayton, Tim and Craig, Phil.
Finest Hour:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 2000).
Revised edition. Paperback. Very good. x + 422pp. Order No. NSBK-A11891
Keywords: 0340766352, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, Home Front
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Stafford, D. C.
The Economics of Housing Policy:
(Croom Helm, 1978).
Hardback. Spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise very good+ in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 163pp. Order No. NSBK-A10549
Keywords: 0856641596, housing policy, houses, homes, Britain, British, England, English, history, housing problem, public expenditure, government, political, politics, twentieth century, 20th, owner-occupation, rented, private
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Herbert, Michael.
The Wearing of the Green: a Political History of the Irish in Manchester
(IBRG, 2001).
Paperback. New book, fine. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A4434
Keywords: 0954137809, Irish, Manchester, history, politics, political, Michael Herbert, Irish in Britain Representation Group, Ireland, Irish independence, United Irishmen, Fenianism, Fenians, Home Rule, Republicanism, nationalism, emigration, emigrants, immigration, immigrants, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Mancunians, North West, England, English, Britain, British
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Creighton, John.
Cheshire: a Portrait in Words and Pictures
(Sigma Press, 1987).
Paperback. Good. 156pp. Order No. NSBK-A14071
Keywords: 1850580928, Cheshire, illustrations, photographs, history, towns, mills, stately homes
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Summerfield, Penny.
Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives:
(MUP, 1998).
Hardback. Very good. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C14460
Keywords: 071904460X, wartime, women's history, women's work, World War II, Second World War, World War Two, social history, oral history, popular culture, war effort, home front, domestic front, gender relations, gender roles, cultural representations, films, magazines, media, Women's Land Army, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, WAAF, Women's Royal Navy Service, WRNS
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Simon, E.D.
The Anti-Slum Campaign:
(Longmans, 2nd Impression, 1933).
Very scarce. Hardback. Cloth sun faded and worn at edges, internally good. viii + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A4069
Keywords: B000KYQ3D4, Manchester, slums, anti-slum campaign, housing, cities, urban history, North West, England, English, Britain, British, Addison Act, rents, Greenwood Act, town planning, urbanisation, conurbation, dwellings, houses, building, city, local government, local authorities, Chamberlain Act, Wheatley Act, Hilton Young Acts, slum clearance, housing shortage, tenants, Homes for Heroes, Simons, E.D. Simon, Ernest Simon, poverty, poor
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Nicholson, Mavis.
What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?: Women in World War II
(Chatto & Windus, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 264pp. Order No. NSBK-A8523
Keywords: 0701133562, war, Second World War, women, history, women's, World War II, Home Front, twentieth century, domestic front, land army, land girls, oral history, WAAF, wartime, wartime brides, widows, war effort, woman, female, social history
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