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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Mackenzie, Norman and Jeanne, eds.
The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Volume Two, 1892-1905: All the Good Things of Life
(Virago, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xv + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-C6087
Keywords: 0860682102, Beatrice Webb, Sidney Webb, the Webbs, social reform, Edwardian, Victorian, LSE, London School of Economics, poor, poverty, trade unionism, local government, state, women's history, woman, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, diaries, diary, Virago
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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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Chinn, Carl.
They Worked All Their Lives: Women of the Urban Poor in England, 1880-1939
(MUP, 1988).
Hardback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good in faded dustwrapper. xi + 187pp. Order No. NSBK-A15085
Keywords: 9780719024368, urban poor, poverty, Carl Chinn, working class, women's history, social history, British, English, England, Britain, Birmingham, Midlands, charity, mothers, motherhood, Reports, women's work, trade unions, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, twentieth century, self-help, community, communities, debt, Clementina Black, working women
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Elwes, Richard.
First Poems:
(Hodder & Stoughton, rpt, 1941).
Hardback. Soiled / marked cream covers with gilt lettering, endpapers a little marked, otherwise good. 44pp. Order No. NSBK-C6755
Keywords: B000P1QEHM, poems, poets, poetry, Richard Elwes, Second World War, World War II, World War Two, social history, Europe, European, Poland, Finland, sonnets, verses, wars, twentieth century, 1940s
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Aldcroft, Derek H.
British Transport Since 1914: an Economic History
(David & Charles, 1975).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly discoloured dustwrapper. 336pp. Order No. NSBK-A7276
Keywords: 0715368788, economy, economic, transport, social history, British, Britain, England, English, twentieth century, technology, technological, transport industry, Derek H. Aldcroft, railways, roads, public ownership, shipping, civil aviation, trains
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Punch and Judy Poster, Reproduction of a Rare 1880 Image.
The True Story of Punch and Judy: Royal Polytechnic. New Entertainment by Damer Cape. Humourous, Musical, Pictorial, Tragical, Comical. New Views by A. Mayhew & J. Green. New Music, by Edouard Frewin & Alfred Lee. New songs by Damer Cape & New Effects by the Institution. Twice Daily
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007 reproduction of 1880 poster).
A reproduction of an attractive poster which promoted a Punch and Judy show at the Royal Polytechnic, Westminster, London, England in 1880. PAPER: A3 sized = 297mm x 420mm or 11.7 inches x 16.5 inches. IMAGE: 250mm x 400mm or 10 inches x 16 inches [approx]. 100 GMS matte poster paper, coated and treated. In full glossy colour: brownish-red, white and black. The online image is lessened in quality for speedy loading and watermarked to deter image theft. Fine condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-A13093
Keywords: Victorian, Punch and Judy, Punch & Judy, entertainment, leisure, posters, poster, reproductions, Portrayer Publishers, nineteenth century, London, 19th century, Britain, British, England, English, social history, magic, Punch and Judy shows, ventriloquists, ventriloquism, theatre, English theatre, music halls, puppets, puppetry, hand puppets, Damer Cape, Edouard Frewin, Alfred Lee
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James, Louis.
Fiction for the Working Man, 1830 - 50: A Study of the Literature Produced for the Working Classes in Early Victorian Urban England
(Penguin, rpt, 1974).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. xviii + 261pp. Order No. NSBK-A8755
Keywords: 014060037X, fiction, class, working class, working classes, nineteenth century, 19th century, workers, working men, social history, class consciousness, reading habits, reading matter, Britain, British, England, English, popular literature, Victorian, popular fiction, publishing, popular culture, history, urbanisation
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Kent, Susan Kingsley.
Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918 - 1931
(Palgrave, 2009).
Hardback. Covers slightly rubbed, otherwise very good+. ix + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A15716
Keywords: 9781403993335, politics, trauma, psyche, emotions, emotional, inter-war, inter war, twenties, psychology, social history, post World War I, Great War
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Macbain, ed, Alexander.
History of the Highland Clans:
(Eneas Mackay, 1900).
A good working copy. The second part of Skene's work. Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Some wear to edges. Spine damaged, (partly detached and revealing binding). Boards sl. loose. Contents firm. 175 - 427pp. Order No. NSBK-A15173
Keywords: B0008822GY, clans, Scots, Scottish, Scotland, history, highlanders, ancestry, social history, genealogy, Scottish Highlands
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