Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004 facsimile of 1918 text).
Clementina Black (1854 - 1922) was a campaigner committed to improving the plight of working women. In this work of 1918, she 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'. Examples of material included: 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. Paperback. New book, fine. x + 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C7548
Keywords: 0954476123, 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, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Portrayer reprints, Portrayer facsimiles, new titles
Price £7.50.
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Henny, E. and Byett, J. D.
Modern Home Laundrywork:
(J.M. Dent and Sons, rpt., 1948).
Illustrated with photographs and drawings of different types of laundry equipment, methods of folding items of clothing etc. Hardback. Good. x + 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A10644
Keywords: women, women's history, homes, Britain, British, homekeeping, housekeeping, housewifery, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, laundry, washing, stains, cotton, linen, fabrics, cleaning, rayon, nylon, family wash, domestic, domesticity, laundrywork, reagents, equipment, water, soap, women's work, textiles, housewife, housewives, clothes, clothing
Price £7.00.
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Calder, Jenni.
The Victorian Home:
(Book Club, 1977).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-C3742
Keywords: 0713408170, domestic sphere, housing, home, domesticity, women, woman, housing, Victorian, nineteenth century, homes, family, Jenni Calder, Britain, British, England, English
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Simpson, M. A. and Lloyd, T. H., eds.
Middle Class Housing in Britain:
(David and Charles, Archon Books, 1977).
Hardback. Very good in slightly faded, slightly chipped dustwrapper. 217pp. Order No. NSBK-A14055
Keywords: B000VZXQGY, middle class, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, housing, classes, class system, houses, homes, architecture, city, cities, towns, social conditions, Exeter, Glasgow, Hampstead, Royal Leamington Spa, Nottingham, Sheffield
Price £17.99.
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Eckford, E. Stoddart and Fitzgerald, M. S.
Household Management: A Handbook of Domestic Economy and Hygiene
(Sir Isaac Pitman, 1927).
Fourth Impression. Hardback. Covers and spine slightly soiled, otherwise good. iv + 432pp. Order No. NSBK-A11853
Keywords: B000HC1SD4, E. Stoddart Eckman, M. S. Fitzgerald, domestic economy, hygiene, houses, households, household management, housewives, housewifery, homes
Price £12.00.
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Partington, Jim.
The Two-Up and Two-Downer (With a Taste for Honey): the Crowded Life of a Lancashire Lad
(Fabians Publishers, 1972).
Autobiography. Leftist reminiscences of self-made Lancashire man, born 1908, dedicated to Lord Brockway of ILP. "I attended meetings in Bradford [where] he showed me the Political Path I should follow. Although I have devoted much of my life to the acquisition of material possessions, I have never deviated from his Philosophy". Hardback. Very good in slightly worn and slightly chipped dustwrapper. xiv + 257pp. Order No. NSBK-A1550
Keywords: B000HBVSLC, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Lancashire, lads, boys, homes, houses, terraces, twentieth century, 20th, Jim Partington, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories
Price £6.00.
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National Trust, .
Dunham Massey:
(The National Trust, rpt., 1999).
Paperback. Good+. 65pp. Order No. NSBK-A11997
Keywords: Dunham Massey, houses, stately homes, Cheshire, aristocrats, aristocracy
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Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, and Roger Leech.
Early Industrial Housing: the Trinity Area of Frome
(HMSO, 1981).
Supplementary Series. Paperback. Covers lightly rubbed, otherwise very good. viii + 44pp. Order No. NSBK-A7705
Keywords: 0117009075, Frome, Trinity Area, industrial housing, housing, houses, social history, architecture, architectural, buildings, homes, surveys, plans, streets, neighbourhood, town planning, regional studies, Britain, British, England, English, Somerset, urban, urbanisation, urban development, growth, 18th century, eighteenth century
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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.
The Home: Its Work and Influence
(AltaMira, 2002).
Introduction by Michael S. Kimmel. A Reprint ofr the 1903 edition. Paperback. Fine. xx + 347pp. Order No. NSBK-C13628
Keywords: 0759103062, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, homes, households, family, families, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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Creighton, John.
Cheshire: a Portrait in Words and Pictures
(Sigma Press, 1987).
Paperback. Good. 156pp. Order No. NSBK-A14071
Keywords: 1850580928, Cheshire, illustrations, photographs, history, towns, mills, stately homes
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