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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Aikin, Dr, & Barbauld, Mrs.
Evenings at Home: Consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces, for the Instruction and Amusement of Youth
(Ward, Lock, rpt, no date).
Illustrated by the brothers Dalziel. Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, corners rubbed & spine ends slightly split, some white staining at base of boards, otherwise good. viii + 456pp. Order No. NSBK-C349
Keywords: B001KG3N20, children's literature, amusement, instruction, Britain, British, England, English, history, Juvenile Budget Opened, Evenings at Home, Warrington, North West England, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Dr Aikin, education, educational, children's stories, Dissent, nonconformity, nonconformists, antiquarian
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McCloskey, Donald, N., ed.
Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840: Papers and Proceedings of the MSSB Conference on the New Economic History of Britain, 1840-1930, held at Eliot House, Harvard University, 1-3 September 1970
(Methuen, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in sl faded dw. xv + 439pp. Order No. NSBK-A4659
Keywords: 0416082408, Mathematical Social Science Board, economy, economists, economics, demography, capital, capitalism, Britain, British, history, steam, 416082408, Victorian, nineteenth century, industry, industrial, Atlantic economy, American iron production
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White, Florence, ed.
How to Wash Clothes at Home: Containing Simple and Complete Instructions
(Florence White, 1901).
An advice book, recommending the best methods of carrying out laundry work. A very interesting one of its kind, with illustrations and lots of detail of interest to the social historian. Paperback. Original covers slightly soiled and creased at edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C15121
Keywords: clothes, clothing, washing clothes, laundry, laundry work, working women, domesticity, antiquarian, social history, ironing, starching, booklets, boiling, advice books, linen, booklet, booklets
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Soulsby, Lucy H. M.
The Use of Leisure: I. Some Thoughts on the Education of Girls. II. Our Duty to Our Neighbour
(Longmans, Green, 1900).
Booklet. Paperback. Small format, hand-held. Paper covers slightly chipped, otherwise very good. 54pp. Order No. NSBK-A14994
Keywords: B0017ZN49G, stored with booklets, education, girls, girlhood, leisure, booklets, booklet, antiquarian, history, femininity, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Edwardian, training
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Wojtczak, Helena.
Women of Victorian Sussex: their Status, Occupations,and Dealings With The Law, 1830-1870
(Hastings Press, 2003).
Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-C7234
Keywords: 1904109055, Victorian, Hastings, women, woman, nineteenth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English, provinces, provincial, regional studies, seaside, seaside towns, women's history, occupations, neighbourhood, community, communities, urban, urban history, St Leonards, gender, Sussex, Victorian prostitution, prostitutes, prostitute, infanticide, liquor, liquor trade. trade, motherhood, mothers, mother, occupation, occupations, infant murder, infant killing, infant killings, brothel, brothels, milliners, milliner, midwives, midwife, midwifery, drunkenness, drunkard, drunkards, drink, drinking, drinker, drinkers, 19th Century, Lewes, Brighton, status, law, laws, Hailsham, Helena Wojtczak, Chichester, Class, Classes
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Clifford-Smith, J.L.
Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science: Manchester Meeting, 1879
(Longmans Green, 1880).
Hardback. Spine is rather worn with some loss to spine cover at both ends. Corners rubbed, original embossed cloth otherwise good, contents solid. 820pp. Order No. NSBK-C15306
Keywords: B00EBVKBRQ, Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, social history, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, antiquarian
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Lethaby, W. R.
Leadwork: Old and Ornamental and For The Most Part English
(Macmillan, 1893).
Illustrated. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Some ink stains to cloth, top half of spine cover lacking. Spine and edges worn. Internally good and solid. viii + 148pp. Order No. NSBK-A14960
Keywords: B002PEAQY4, lead, leadwork, antiquarian, buildings, decoration, history, architecture, roofs, gutters, fountains, craftsmanship, statues
Price £60.00.
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Edwards, Ralph.
A History of the English Chair:
(HMSO, 1951).
Victoria and Albert Museum. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings, otherwise good and firm in green library binding. 30 + 120pp. Order No. NSBK-A15024
Keywords: B0006DA4BG, antiques, chairs, history, furniture
Price £13.00.
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Brereton, Geoffrey.
French Comic Drama from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century:
(Methuen, 1977).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly faded dustwrapper. x + 290pp. Order No. NSBK-A7244
Keywords: 0416782205, French, France, Europe, European, literature, comedy, comic, drama, entertainment, Renaissance, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth century, dramatists, playwrights, stages, theatres, history, farce, romantic, burlesque, bourgeois
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