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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Mitchell, David.
Women on the Warpath: The Story of the Women of the First World War
(Jonathan Cape, 1966).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Some cracking internally at spine, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in worn, chipped dustwrapper. xvi + 400pp. Order No. NSBK-A14202
Keywords: B0000CMXCJ, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, munitions, Western Front, Pankhursts, women, women's history, WAAC, Pethick-Lawrence
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Pack of 6 Suffragette Greetings Cards, .
Assorted Designs, Suffragette Themes:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2003).
Pack of 6 greetings cards (6 different designs) which reproduce attractive images on suffragette themes. The images are printed in vibrant lithographic colours. (Please note that the sample electronic image, unlike the cards themselves, is watermarked with a Naomi Symes Books insignia and reduced in quality, to prevent image theft). Card measurements are 6 inches high by 4 inches wide and each card is complete with envelope. Blank interiors for your own message or for any occasion. Card 1: 'The Cat and Mouse Act', from a WSPU postcard, 1914. Card 2: Emmeline Pankhurst portrait from a modern, hand-painted oil painting, based on a photograph of her c.1909. Card 3: From a poster of 1908: Factory Acts - Regulations for Women. Card 4: 'The Modern Inquisition'. From A WSPU poster, depicting the forcible feeding of suffragettes in prison, from the time of the January 1910 General Election. Card 5: From a Women Writers' Suffrage League poster, 1909, in which justice, personified as a woman, defends the female sex from male prejudice. Card 6: 'The Suffragette 1d Weekly'. From a poster advertising 'The Suffragette' newspaper, c.1912. 6 Greetings Cards. Fine, new. pp. Order No. NSBK-C6628
Keywords: suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, women's rights, Votes for Women, women and politics, women's politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, greeting card, greeting cards, cards, suffragette images, suffragettes, envelopes, suffrage imagery, postcard, postcards, card, picture, pictures, cartoons, art, artist, artists, suffragette art, art, arts, artistry, illustration, illustrations, twentieth century, 20th century, portrayer, portrayer publishers, suffragette greetings cards, greetings card, cat and mouse act, liberals, liberal government, liberal party, pankhursts, pankhurst portraits, Emmeline Pankhurst, The Pankhursts, factory act, factory acts, women workers, woman worker, woman workers, modern inquisition, force feeding, forcible feeding, hunger strike, hunger strikes, prisons, imprisonment, imprisoned, suffragists, women's history, history, women, woman, acts of parliament, parliament, campaign, campaigners, women's rights, votes for women, voter, votes, women voter, woman voter, enfranchisement, enfranchise, The Franchise, colour images, Alfred Pearce, Mary Lowndes, The Suffragette Newspaper, propaganda, propagandists, drawing, drawings, painting, paintings, pankhurst, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera
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Cruickshank, Charles.
The German Occupation of the Channel Islands: The Official History of the Occupation Years
(The Guernsey Press Co. Ltd, 1975).
Paperback. Some illustrations loose, covers slightly worn, a good working copy only. xii + 370pp. Order No. NSBK-A6480
Keywords: 0902550020, Guernsey, occupation, Channel Islands, wars, warfare, Second World War, World War 2, World War Two, World War II, Europe, European, twentieth century, Nazi occupied territory, Nazi occupied territories
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Nicholson, Joyce.
What Society Does to Girls:
(Virago, 1977).
Paperback. Scratch to front cover, otherwise good. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-C12975
Keywords: 0860680215, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th
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International Labour Office, .
The War and Women's Employment: The Experience of the United Kingdom and the United States
(International Labour Office, Montreal, 1946).
Paperback. Covers torn and soiled, internally good. iii + 287pp. Order No. NSBK-C15487
Keywords: B071FC6HWJ, United Kingdom, Britain, British, England, English, USA, United States, employmemt, jobs, work, women's work, women and work, gender, twentieth century, 20th century
Price £52.95.
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Foster, Timothy R V.
101 Ways to Great Publicity:
(Kogan Page, 1993).
Paperback. Good+. 114pp. Order No. NSBK-H13764
Keywords: 0749409584, publicity, business, twentieth century, 20th
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Renshaw, Patrick.
Nine Days in May: The General Strike
(Eyre Methuen, 1975).
The story of the strike told in black and white photographs. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 134pp. Order No. NSBK-A13189
Keywords: 0413332608, strikes, General Strike, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, 1926
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Perryman, Nigel.
Brave New Britain: Francis Frith's Method of Post-War Life
(Frith Book Company, 2002).
Hardback. Good+ with chip to dustwrapper. 125pp. Order No. NSBK-A12264
Keywords: 1859375642, Francis Frith, post war, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, photos, photographs, pictures, images
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Stanhope, The Rt Hon Earl, ed.
The Extra Year: A Report of the Joint Committee of Investigation Representing the Association of Education Committees and the National Union of Teachers
(London UP, 2nd impress., 1938).
Hardback. Spine ends rubbed, some mottling to inside pages, otherwise good in worn and torn dustwrapper. xiii + 143pp. Order No. NSBK-C12697
Keywords: B000KY2XQA, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students, school leaving age, school leavers, extra year, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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