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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Youngson, A. J.
Urban Development and the Royal Fine Arts Commissions:
(Edinburgh U.P, 1990).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. 186pp. Order No. NSBK-A4925
Keywords: 0748601147, urban development, Royal Fine Arts Commission, arts, artists, art, Edinburgh, fine arts, history, Britain, Scotland, Scots, Scottish, architecture, organisations, architects, town planners, city, cities, urban, towns, technology, authorities, capital, twentieth century, Edinburgh University, universities, bicentenary, eighteenth century, Scottish Enlightenment, Robert Adams, William Playfair
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Noin, Daniel and Woods, Robert, eds.
The Changing Population of Europe:
(Blackwell, 1993).
Paperback. Some sun-fading to spine and top edge, otherwise very good. xvi + 260pp. Order No. NSBK-J13875
Keywords: 0631189726, population, demography, demographic, Europe, European, history, society, geography, urbanisation, towns, urban growth, migration, family, fertility, mortality
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Graham, Frank.
The Geordie Netty: A Short History and Guide
(Howe Brothers, 1980).
Northern History Booklet No.1001. Paperback. Good+. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A11321
Keywords: B000RJVMEW, geordies, netty, netties, nettys, toilets, urination, W.C.s, water closets, urban, cities, city, towns, Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North-East, North East, history, booklet
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McInnes, Angus.
The English Town, 1660-1760:
(The Historical Association, 1980).
Pamphlet. Good. 38pp. Order No. NSBK-A5440
Keywords: 0852782349, towns, town, city, cities, urban, seventeenth century, eighteenth century, England, English, Britain, British, history, Angus McInnes, Historical Association, population, economy, economics, society, Shrewsbury, government, pamphlet
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Deacon, Bob, et al.
The New Eastern Europe: Social Policy, Past, Present and Future
(Sage, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. ix + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A9468
Keywords: 0803984391, social policy, history, Europe, Eastern Europe, East Europe, European, Soviet Union, communism, communist, market economy, democracy, welfare, childcare, working women, unemployed, poor, twentieth century, 20th
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Merriman, John M., ed.
French Cities in the Nineteenth Century:
(Holmes & Meier, 1981).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 304pp. Order No. NSBK-A3629
Keywords: 0841904642, France, French, cities, urban, history, towns, nineteenth century, Second Empire, Napoleon III, municipal, suburbs, urbanisation, city, cities, settlement, demography
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Kent, Graeme.
Poverty:
(B.T. Batsford, 1968).
Past into Present Series. Illustrated in black and white with pictures and photographs. Hardback. Spine ends rubbed, otherwise good in tatty dustwrapper. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-A12995
Keywords: 0713417544, poverty, poor, towns, urban, cities, workers, instituitions, Poor law, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, images, pictures
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Clark, Peter, ed.
The Early Modern Town: A Reader
(Longman & Open UP, 1976).
Paperback. Covers yellowed, a little creasing to spine, otherwise good. 332pp. Order No. NSBK-A5313
Keywords: 0582484057,Early Modern, town, towns, planning, urban, pre-industrial, English, England, Britain, British, history, economics, economy, London, Norwich, Sheffield
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Hammond, J.L. & Hammond, Barbara.
The Town Labourer:
(Longman, 1978).
Paperback. Front cover creased, otherwise very good. xlvii + 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A7559
Keywords: 0582480817, Hammond, urban labourers, town, work, industry, employment, poor, poverty, unemployment, urbanisation, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, history, town, towns, work, Britain, British, England, English, Hammonds, poor, factories, factory, factory system, power looms, industrial revolution, workers, class, working class, working classes, child labour, labour, labor, Lord Shaftesbury, trade unions, economic history, economy
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