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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Heath, Carl.
Military Service, Compulsory and Otherwise:
(Rationalist Peace Society, no date, circa First World War).
Leaflet no 2. Paperback. Slight browning and chipping to edges, otherwise very good. 2pp. Order No. NSBK-A14131
Keywords: pacifists, pacifism, pacifist, military service, compulsory military service, social history, Carl Heath, fighting, World War I, First World War, Great War, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, peace, peace movements
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Suffragettes, DVD format.
The Suffragettes: the Story of Emmeline Pankhurst
(Pegasus Entertainment, 2006 DVD release of 1994 recording).
PAL format DVD. Number of discs: 1. Classification: Exempt. Run Time: 52 minutes. DVD. New, fine condition, in cellophane. pp. Order No. NSBK-C13723
Keywords: B000HLDAG8, Emmeline Pankhurst, Pankhursts, feminism, feminists, feminist history, Votes for women, suffragettes, suffrage movement, Britain, British History, Edwardian, women and politics, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU, England, Britain, history, England, English, British, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, Christabel Pankhurst, E. Sylvia Pankhurst, NUWSS, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, franchise, enfranchisement, Asquith, gender, socialist, socialists, socialism, World War I, First World War, Great War, Annie Kenney, prisons, television programmes, television programme, TV, Christmas gifts, dvds, dvd, DVD, Pegasus Entertainment, teaching aids, suffragette ephemera
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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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Bass Ratcliff and Gretton Limited, .
Excursion to Scarborough: Friday July 24th, 1914
(Bass Museum, reprint, 1977).
A charming booklet. On the very eve of the First World War, this detailed guide prepares Bass employees and their families for their day excursion to Scarborough by train. Illustrated. Booklet. Fine. 40pp. Order No. NSBK-A6872
Keywords: B000IZA06Q, Scarborough, seaside, holidays, outings, Britain, British, England, English, Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, towns, spa towns, working classes, working class, excursions, working class excursions, leisure, entertainment, recreation, train journeys, trains, railways, days out, day out, days-out, day-out, tramways, amusements, Bass, industrial workers, Bass Ratcliff and Gretton Limited, Ratcliff, Gretton, stations, twentieth century, World War I, Great War, First World War, pre-war, Bass Museum, Bass outings, booklet
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James, Leighton S.
The Politics of Identity and Civil Society in Britain and Germany: Miners in the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890 - 1926
(Manchester UP, 2008).
Critical Labour Movement Studies. Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 226pp. Order No. NSBK-A14753
Keywords: 9780719074974, Critical Labour Movement Studies, Ruhr, miners, mining, South Wales, Welsh, coal mining, coal-mining, colleries, pits, coalfields, trade unions, labour movements, identity, history, Germany, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, German, coal industry, World War I, Great War
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King, Peter.
Women Rule the Plot: The Story of the 100 Year Fight to Establish Women's Place in Farm and Garden
(Duckworth, 1999).
Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C5406
Keywords: 0715629492, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, gardens, gardening, plots, unions, unionists, Women's Farm and Garden Union, earth, land, World War 1, World War One, Great War, wars, First World War, rural, country, countryside, agrarian, Lady Warwick, Gertrude Jekyll, Brend Colvin, Madeline Agar, suffrage, suffragettes, Women's Farm and Garden Association, associations, organisations, feminism, feminists, WFGA, Folly Farm, Highgrove, Chenies Manor, women and work, women's work, farming
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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Alan Sutton, 1985).
Paperback. Creases to back cover, otherwise good. xii + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A13483
Keywords: 0862991579, women, woman, gender, 1920s, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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Service, Robert W.
The Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man:
(T. Fisher Unwin, 1916).
Hardback. Some splitting internally at spine front and back. Endpapers partly detached, ex library. Boards stained, frayed at edges and soiled. A good working copy only. viii + 176pp. Order No. NSBK-A14891
Keywords: B000RNFXA2, Red Cross, verse, poems, poetry, World War I, First World War, Great War, social history, Robert W. Service
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Cowles, Virginia.
The Kaiser:
(Collins, 1963).
Hardback. Good+ in torn dustwrapper. 446pp. Order No. NSBK-A11889
Keywords: B0000CLXLT, Kaiser, Germany, Germans, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, Queen Victoria
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