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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White, E. W.
British Fishing-Boats and Coastal Crafts: Part I : Historical Survey
(HMSO, rpt., 1957).
Paperback. Good. 60pp. Order No. NSBK-A12961
Keywords: B0007K0JUY, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, boats, ships, marine, fish, fishing, coasts, crafts, coastal, maritime, history, England, Scotland, Ireland, Thames Estuary
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Smith, Angela.
Discourses Surrounding British Widows of the First World War:
(Bloomsbury, 2013).
Hardback. Fine. x + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-C15573
Keywords: 9781780932019, widows, widowhood, history, Great War, women, World War I
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Watts, John I.
The First Fifty Years of Brunner, Mond & Co, 1873 - 1923:
(Brunner, Mond & Co., 1923).
Hardback. Original boards slightly worn / rubbed, light soiling to spine, otherwise a good, solid copy. 106pp. Order No. NSBK-A14710
Keywords: B0000EEHSY, business, industry, Northwich, Brunner, Mond, soda, ammonia, salt, Cheshire, brine, companies, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, works, Winnington, Middlewich, Sandbach, workers, employment, chemical industry, chemicals
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Royal College of Nursing, Molly Case.
Album: It May Be for Sometime, it May be Forever
(RCN, 2017).
Poetry anthology inspired by ten nurses who kept scrapbooks during World War I. Paperback. Very good. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-C15688
Keywords: Molly Case, Royal College of Nursing, World War I, First World War, nursing, medicine, nurses, women and work, history, booklets
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Brash, J. I., ed.
Papers on Scottish Electoral Politics, 1832-1854:
(T. & A Constable, 1974).
Hardback. Slight wear to spine ends, otherwise very good. lxiv + 305pp. Order No. NSBK-A5569
Keywords: 0950026077, Scottish, Scotland, Scots, history, electoral, elections, politics, nineteenth century, 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, British history, Britain, voting, voters, franchise, Whigs, Whig government
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Bolos, Jordi and Busqueta, Joan J.
Territori i Societat a l'Edat Mitjana: Història, Arqueologia, Doumentació
(Universitat de Lleida, 2000).
1999 - 2000. Vol III. Paperback. Fine. 454pp. Order No. NSBK-A9304
Keywords: 8484090914, Universitat de Lleida, history, Mitjana, Spain, Spanish, mediaeval, medieval, Middle Ages
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Gardiner, Juliet, ed.
What is History Today?:
(Macmillan, rpt, 1989).
Paperback. Spine faded, newspaper reviews pasted to front endpaper, otherwise good. vi + 167pp. Order No. NSBK-A15667
Keywords: history, methodology, practice of history
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Thomis, Malcolm I.
The Town Labourer and the Industrial Revolution:
(B.T. Batsford, 1974).
Paperback. Spine faded, otherwise very good. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-A5486
Keywords: 0713428333, town labourers, Industrial Revolution, social history, Britain, British, England, English, workers, work, industry, urban, urbanisation, towns, factory, factories, trade unions, trade unionism, trade union, collectives, combinations, Combination Laws, factory system, handloom weavers
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Wightman, Clare.
More than Munitions: Women, Work and the Engineering Institutions, 1900-1950
(Longman, 1999).
Paperback. A little soiling to page edges, otherwise good+. viii + 207pp. Order No. NSBK-C7738
Keywords: 9780582414358, munitions, women, gender, work, employment, jobs, employees, engineering, engineers, twentieth century, factories, factory, industry, industries, world wars, Second World War, World War 1, One, I, World War Two, II, 2, Britain, British, England, English, history
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