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
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Baker, Kenneth.
The Turbulent Years: My Life in Politics
(Faber and Faber, 1993).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly worn, slightly creased dw. xiii + 498pp. Order No. NSBK-A6031
Keywords: 0571170773, Kenneth Baker, autobiography, autobiographical, life history, life histories, memoir, politics, political, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, Tory Party, Tories, Conservatives, Margaret Thatcher, Party Chairman, Cabinet, Poll tax, Education, British Telecom, ILEA, GLC
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Webb, Beatrice.
Beatrice Webb's Diaries, 1912-1924:
(Longmans, Green and Co, 1952).
Edited by Margaret L. Cole. With an introduction by Lord Beveridge. Hardback. Spine ends bumped, covers slightly worn, otherwise good in chipped, torn and worn dustwrapper. xxvi + 272pp. Order No. NSBK-C11987
Keywords: B0000CI9IH, Beatrice Webb, The Webbs, Sidney Webb, philanthropy, philanthropists, twentieth century, left- wing, socialism, socialists, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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Owen, Frank.
Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George His Life and Times
(Hutchinson, 1954).
Hardback. Spine ends bumped, otherwise good+ in heavily worn and torn dustwrapper. 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A13053
Keywords: B0000CJ0TW, Lloyd George, politics, political, politicians, government, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, Prime Ministers, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history
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Moynihan, Ruth Barnes, Russett, C. & Crumpacker, L.
Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women: Volume II: From 1865 to the Present
(Nebraska UP, 1993).
Paperback. Slight rippling at spine, otherwise very good+. xxii + 365pp. Order No. NSBK-C11926
Keywords: 0803282044, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century
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Mullard, Maurice.
Understanding Economic Policy:
(Routledge, 1992).
Paperback. Good. xix + 318pp. Order No. NSBK-A8424
Keywords: 0415068827, economics, economy, Keynesianism, laissez-faire, free-market, managed, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century, 20th
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Baldwin, Nick.
An Old Motor Kaleidoscope of Farm Tractors:
(Marshall, Harris and Baldwin, 1977).
Illustrated with black and white photographs. Hardback. Spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A12183
Keywords: 906116015, motors, tractors, vehicles, twentieth century, technology, farms, farming, farmers, agricultural, land, agrarian, agriculture, country, countryside, rural
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Blackmore, Betsy L.
The A B C of Needlework:
(Ralph, Holland and Co, 1906).
Containing 174 Original Diagrams, including Two Inset Plates. With a preface by Miss S. Loch. Hardback. Pencil annotation at back not affecting legibility, covers slightly stained, otherwise good. 123pp. Order No. NSBK-G11395
Keywords: B0008BXV20, needlework, needles, stitches, stitching, sewing, seamstresses, twentieth century, 20th, crafts, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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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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Marsh, David C.
The Changing Social Structure of England and Wales, 1871-1961:
(RKP, revised edition, 1965).
Hardback. Ex library with usual markings, but generally good in lightly worn, slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 273pp. Order No. NSBK-A967
Keywords: 0710033737, social structure, Wales, Welsh history, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, nineteenth century, twentieth century, classes, population, demography, demographic, family, families
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