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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Braithwaite, Brian and Walsh, Noelle, eds.
Home Sweet Home: The Best of Good Housekeeping, 1922-1939
(Ebury Press, 1992).
Hardback. Good+ in torn and soiled dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A12608
Keywords: 0091774888, homes, houses, Good Housekeeping, magazines, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, readers, Rebecca West, ldy Violet Bonham-Caretr, E.F. Benson, Vera Brittain, Evelyn Waugh
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George, M. Dorothy.
English Political Caricature to 1792: A Study of Opinion and Propaganda
(Clarendon Press, 1959).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good + in tattered and torn dustwrapper. xii + 237 + 96 platespp. Order No. NSBK-A15527
Keywords: B005VYUFIC, drawings, caricatures, politics, political, opinions, press, media, eighteenth century, seventeenth century, Dorothy M. George
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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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Backhouse, Janet.
The Lindisfarne Gospels:
(Phaidon, rpt., 1991).
Paperback. Very good. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A11935
Keywords: 0714824615, Linisfarne, Holy Island, Lindisfarne Gospels, religion, religious, Christians, Christianity, church, churches, Northumbria, illuminated manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon, St Cuthbert, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Lapping, Brian and Radice, Giles.
More Power to the People: Young Fabian Essays on Democracy in Britain
(Longmans, rpt., 1968).
Paperback. Good+. viii + 196pp. Order No. NSBK-A12928
Keywords: B0000CO5MI, Fabians, essays, socialism, socialists, people, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Spink, Henry Hawkes.
The Gunpowder Plot And Lord Mounteagle's Letter: Being a Proof, With Moral Certitude, of the Authorship of the Document Together With Some Account of the Whole Thirteen Gunpowder Conspirators, Including Guy Fawkes
(Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1902).
Being a Proof, With Moral Certitude, of the Authorship of the Document Together With Some Account of the Whole Thirteen Gunpowder Conspirators, Including Guy Fawkes. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. A little cracking internally at spine. Cloth dark, with wear to edges & fraying /a little splitting externally at spine. Else good. xxxvi + 412pp. Order No. NSBK-A14860
Keywords: B000ZGAJIW, Guy Fawkes, Gunplowder Plot, conspiracy, history, 17th century, seventeenth century, government, politics, Yorkshire, treason, early modern
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Arac, Jonathan.
Commissioned Spirits: The Shaping of Social Motion in Dickens, Carlyle, Melville, and Hawthorne
(Rutgers UP, 1979).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly soiled / worn dustwrapper. xiii + 200pp. Order No. NSBK-A3244
Keywords: 0813508746, literature, America, American literature, United States, USA, Charles Dickens, Carlyle, Melville, Hawthorne
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Maclure, Stuart.
The Inspectors' Calling: HMI and the Shaping of Educational Policy, 1945 - 1992
(Hodder & Stoughton, 2000).
Hardback. Fine. xxxiv + 350pp. Order No. NSBK-A13399
Keywords: 0340753919, HMI, inspectors, schools inspectors, education, educational, history, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, post war, post-war, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students
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Pillai, Vijayan K. and Shannon Lyle W., eds.
Developing Areas: A Book of Readings and Research
(Berg, 1995).
Paperback. Fine. xi + 552pp. Order No. NSBK-A7030
Keywords: 1859730027, politics, political, development, developmental, economic, economy, economics, twentieth century, 20th, AIDs, Central American, North America, United States, Third World, Fourth World, colonialism, colonialists, colonies, colony, social, ecosystems
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