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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
Price £24.00.
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Clarke, Patricia.
The Governesses: Letters from the Colonies, 1862-1882
(Hutchinson, 1985).
Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled, slightly chipped dustwrapper. xii + 236pp. Order No. NSBK-C4092
Keywords: 0091608503, colonies, governess, governesses, imperialism, history, pedagogy, teaching, letters, colonialism, Victorian, nineteenth century, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Female Middle Class Emigration Society, emigration, immigration, Australian, emigrants, immigrants
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Pickering, W.F.S.
A Social History of the Diocese of Newcastle, 1882-1982:
(Oriel, 1981).
Foreword by Alan Vidler. Hardback. Very good in slightly worn dustwrapper. xiv + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-A3702
Keywords: 0853621896, Newcastle, diocese, diocesan, religion, Church, North East, Church of England, Anglican, Northumbria, Tyneside, bishopric, Established Church, 0853621896
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Bernstein, David J.
The Mystery of the Bayeux Tapestry:
(Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated, 1986).
Illustrated. Hardback. Very good in slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. 272pp. Order No. NSBK-Z14712
Keywords: Bayeux Tapestry, needlework, sewing, France, tapestries, Norman Conquest, Normandy, Normans, Anglo-Saxon, embroidery, French, history, early medieval, Middle Ages
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Goldberg, P.J.P., Ed.
Women in Medieval English Society:
(Sutton, 1997).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xvii + 229pp. Order No. NSBK-C6511
Keywords: 0750916400, women, medieval, history, England, English, Britain, British, gender, marriage, family, Middle Ages, Peter Biller, P.J.P. Goldberg
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Selby, Walford, D. ed.
Lancashire and Cheshire Records Preserved in the Public Record Office, London:
(Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, 1883).
Number 8 in the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society Series. Part II of a two-part set. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in original green/gilt decorated cloth. 225 - 626pp. Order No. NSBK-A11222
Keywords: B000HC77D4, Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, Lancashire & Cheshire Record Society, local history, records, archives, archival, documents, North West England, England, English, Britain, British, manuscripts, documents, sources, antiquarian, parish history, parishes, parochial, Public Record Office, Walford D. Selby, courts, medieval, Middle Ages, early modern, charters, calendars, indexes
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Duggan, Joseph J.
A Guide to Studies on the Chanson du Roland:
(Grant and Cutler, 1976).
Paperback. Very good+. 133pp. Order No. NSBK-A12872
Keywords: 072930017X, Chanson du Roland, mediaeval, medieval, Middle Ages, literature, literary, poems, poets, poetry
Price £11.00.
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Stewart, Angus, ed.
Contemporary Britain:
(RKP, 1983).
Paperback. Spine creased, covers edge worn, otherwise good. ix + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-A11311
Keywords: 071009406X, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, social welfare, twentieth century, 20th, politics, political, social, race relations, middle class
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Planche, J.R.
A History of British Costume: From Ancient Times to the Eighteenth century
(Senate, 2001 (1834)).
Paperback. Very good. xx + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-J13428
Keywords: 1859585507, fashion, clothes, dress, costumes, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, eighteenth, seventeenth, sixteenth, fifteenth, fourteenth, century, medieval, mediaeval, 18th, 17th, 16th, 15th, Middle Ages
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Benson, Larry D., ed.
The Learned and the Lewd: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature
(Harvard UP, 1974).
Paperback. Covers slightly stained and torn, internally good. x + 405pp. Order No. NSBK-A12892
Keywords: 0674518888, Chaucer, Chaucerian, medieval, mediaeval, Middle Ages, literature, literary, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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