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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Larkin, P. J.
European History for Certificate Classes: 1789 - 1970
(Hulton Educational, rpt, 1982).
Paperback. Some light creasing to covers and wear to edges, light soiling to page edges, otherwise good. 350pp. Order No. NSBK-A14194
Keywords: 0717507483, European history, revision, Europe, Napoleon, revolutions, Russia, Italy, France, Germany
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Warren, Kenneth.
The British Iron and Steel Sheet Industry Since 1840:
(G. Bell, 1970).
Hardback. Good+ in slightly chipped dustwrapper. xvi + 313pp. Order No. NSBK-A9881
Keywords: 0713515481, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, history, iron, steel, industry, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, twentieth, 20th
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Roberts, Robert.
A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum
(Fontana, 2nd impression, 1979).
Paperback. Light creasing to covers, newspaper article pasted to front endpaper, otherwise good. 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A10160
Keywords: 0006348947, education, schools, schooling, slums, housing, urban, cities, Britain, British, England, English, social history, Edwardian, industry, industrial, terraces, poverty, poor, cobbles, By Joe, cinema, magic lantern, railways, canals, Manchester, North West, Salford, Robert Roberts, apprentices, labour, labor, Labour party, Esperanto, TB, tuberculosis, working class, working classes, Charles de Gaulle
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Dauber, Roslyn and Cain, Melinda L.
Women and Technological Changes in Developing Countries:
(AAAS Selected Symposium, 1981).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, a little splashing to front board, otherwise good. xxii + 266pp. Order No. NSBK-C8446
Keywords: 0891587918, work, women, woman, women's history, twentieth century, 20th, Third World, developing countries, feminism, feminists, food, industry, industrial, Tangaye, Maya, Chan Kom, demographic, demography, mothers, development
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Huehns, G., ed.
Clarendon: Selections from the History of the Rebellion & the Life by Himself
(OUP, rpt, 1978).
Intro. by Hugh Trevor Roper. Hardback. Very good in faded dustwrapper. xxx + 492pp. Order No. NSBK-Z3568
Keywords: B000SBNVSY, Hugh Trevor Roper, rebellion, English Civil War, Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, Charles I, history, political philosophy, autobiography, revolution, William Laud, Oliver Cromwell, seventeenth century
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Gash, Norman.
Aristocracy and People: Britain, 1815 - 1865
(Arnold, rpt, 1988).
Paperback. Spine creased, minor pencil annotation, otherwise good+. 376pp. Order No. NSBK-A7498
Keywords: 0713161604, Norman Gash, aristocracy, class, classes, nineteeth century, text books, Victorian, 19th century, history, politics, social change, industry, industrial, constitution, government, Britain, British, England, English
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Burke, Peter, ed.
Economy and Society in Early Modern Europe: Essays from Annales
(RKP, 1972).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly faded dustwrapper. 169pp. Order No. NSBK-B3288
Keywords: 0710070918, annales, price revolution, economy, economic, Europe, European history, sixteenth century, seventeenth century, Hungary, Belgium
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McNeil, Robina and Walker, John S. F.
Warehouse Album: The Heritage Atlas 3. An Archaeological Miscellany from the University of Manchester and the Ten Districts of Greater Manchester
(Field Archaeology Centre, Manchester University, March 1997).
Paperback. Some creasing and scuffing to covers, otherwise very good. 59pp. Order No. NSBK-A14530
Keywords: 0952781352, city, urban, archaeological, warehouses, warehouse, Manchester, Greater Manchester, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, industrial archaeology, Leigh, Rochdale, exports, storage, cities, urbanisation
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West, Jenny, ed.
Windmills and Watermills: Open to View
(Society Protection of Ancient Buildings, 1981).
Booklet. A little thumb soiling to covers, otherwise good. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-A13350
Keywords: 0903090937, mills, history, watermills, windmills, flour, wool, cotton, textiles, industry, textile industry, paper, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, milling, millers, architecture, industrial architecture, booklet
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