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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Wallas, Graham.
The Life of Francis Place, 1771-1854:
(George Allen and Unwin, rpt., 1918).
Hardback. Pages browned, covers worn, otherwise a good copy. xiv + 415pp. Order No. NSBK-A10349
Keywords: B000HU8TTM, Chartists, Chartist movement, Chartism, radicalism, popular protest, nineteenth century, Victorian, socialism, reform, politics, franchise, votes, suffrage, working class, representation, working-class, classes, radicals, Britain, British, England, English, history, Francis Place, biography, biographies, biographical, life history, life histories, lives, eighteenth century, 18th
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Sheridan, Dorothy, ed.
Wartime Women: A Mass-Observation Anthology of Women's Writing, 1937 - 1945
(Phoenix Press, rpt, 2000).
Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. xiv + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-C5912
Keywords: 1842122134, war, Second World War, World War II, mass-observation, mass observation, people, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, mass observation studies
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Suffragette Poster, .
Votes for Workers:
(Portrayer Publishers, reprint, 2003).
A modern reproduction of this suffragette poster, created by W.F. Winter, and originally published by the Artists' Suffrage League (date unknown). Printed with archival inks on premium paper (200 GSM, Silk Art, photographic print). Poster (in shades of brown, cream and sand) shows weary and dejected British working woman at a sewing machine, with the slogan "Votes for Workers" beneath it. Size of the paper is 450mm x 320mm and image is approx 435mm x 305mm. Poster. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C6880
Keywords: B001F42LJ8, suffragettes, suffragette poster, suffragette posters, Votes for Women, woman suffrage, history, women, enfranchisement, franchise, women's movement, politics, England, English, cartoons, suffrage, politics, anti-suffrage, male attitudes, images, imagery, women, women's, representations, pictures, poster, posters, enfranchisement, the franchise, reproductions, modern reproductions, print, prints, workers, worker, women workers, woman worker, votes, vote, voter, voting, working classes, working class, W.F. Winter, The Artists' Suffrage League, Britain, British, Portrayer Publishers, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera
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Hollett, David.
The Pioneer Ramblers, 1850 - 1940:
(Ramblers' Association, North Wales Area, 2002).
Foreword by Nick Barrett. Paperback. New book, fine. 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A6867
Keywords: 1901184544, Victorian, nineteenth century, history, social history, socialism, socialist, socialists, utopian, utopias, utopia, Robert Blatchford, Clarion Club, Clarion Movement, Clarion, Clarion Newspaper, Clarion Clubs, Clarion Fellowship, rambling clubs, ramblers, rambling club, exercise, hobbies, entertainment, working class, working classes, Britain, British, England, English, nature, natural, rambling, countryside, rambles, country, rural, North Wales Ramblers' Association, Ramblers' Association, Ramblers' Clubs, Duke of Atholl, walking, walkers, Access, access, open spaces, commons, tramping, recreation, Clarion Ramblers, pedestrians, trespassers, trespass, holidays, holiday, FHA, Friendship Holidays Association, Holiday Fellowship, hiking, long distance walking, youth hostels, youth hostelling, Edwardian, twentieth century, Commons Preservation Society
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Jones, David.
Chartism and the Chartists:
(Allen Lane, 1975).
Paperback. Spine faded, otherwise good. 229pp. Order No. NSBK-A1536
Keywords: 0713909226, Chartism, Chartists, Chartist movement, history, radicalism, universal male suffrage, British radicals, radicalism, England, English, Britain, class, labour, nineteenth century, 19th century
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Wedin, Carolyn.
Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of the NAACP
(John Wiley & Sons, 1998).
Foreword by David Levering Lewis. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xv + 367pp. Order No. NSBK-C10243
Keywords: 0471168386, American, USA, United States, USA, Civil Rights Movement, civil rights, black history, Mary White Ovingham, NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, feminism, feminists, race, racism, slavery, class
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Marsh, David C.
The Changing Social Structure of England and Wales, 1871-1961:
(RKP, revised edition, 1965).
Hardback. Ex library with usual markings, but generally good in lightly worn, slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 273pp. Order No. NSBK-A967
Keywords: 0710033737, social structure, Wales, Welsh history, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, nineteenth century, twentieth century, classes, population, demography, demographic, family, families
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Swindells, Julia.
Victorian Writing and Working Women: the Other Side of Silence
(Polity Press, 1985).
Paperback. Good+. 236pp. Order No. NSBK-C4041
Keywords: 0745600727, Victorian, nineteenth century, writing, women, work, women writers, gender, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, novels, autobiography, autobiographies, literature
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Tazawa, Yutaka, et al.
Japan's Cultural History: A Perspective
(Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, rpt., 1988).
Paperback. Very good. 120pp. Order No. NSBK-A9063
Keywords: B000B3DYKE, Japan, Japanese, culture, art, Buddhists, warrior class, archaic age, Orient, Buddhism, history
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