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
Price £24.00.
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Parr, Joy.
Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924
(Croom Helm, 1980).
Scarce. Hardback. Good condition, in faded and lightly soiled dustwrapper. 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A3988
Keywords: 0773505172, immigrants, apprentices, apprenticeship, Canada, Canadian history, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, emigrants, emigration, child, children, childhood, labor, labour, adoption, philanthropy, philanthropic, agricultural, domestic service, domestic servants, Evangelicals, migration
Price £11.99.
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Black, Jeremy.
The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1727-1731:
(Alan Sutton, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in slightly sunned, slightly marked dustwrapper. xvi + 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A5336
Keywords: 0862993008, Anglo-French, Anglo-French diplomacy, diplomatic, diplomatic relations, foreign policy, Europe, European, balance of power, France, Britain, British, French, history, domestic politics, Crown, monarchy, monarchies, Seville Alliance, eighteenth century
Price £7.95.
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McCrindle, Jean & Rowbotham, Sheila, Eds..
Dutiful Daughters: Women Talk About Their Lives
(Penguin, rpt, 1979).
Paperback. Pages browned, front cover clipped at top corner, a good working copy. 396pp. Order No. NSBK-C6499
Keywords: 9780140219456, women, women's lives, biography, domestic, sexual, women and work, female, experience, Janet Daly, Annie Williams, Annie Davison, Catherina Barnes, Maggie Fuller, Jean Mormont, Peggy Wood, Norah Kirk, Fiona McFarlane, Barbara Marsh, Pat Garland, Christine Buchan, Irene McIntosh, Linda Peffer, domestic, family, oral history, interviews, oral history interviews
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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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Ayers, Pat.
Women at War: Liverpool Women, 1939 - 45
(Liver Press, 1988).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, stickers and markings, fly leaf clipped. Minor pencil annotation, otherwise good. 58pp. Order No. NSBK-C15624
Keywords: Liverpool, oral history, World War II, women, wartime, the Home Front, munitions, the Blitz, Britain, British, England, English, history, Merseyside, North West, stored by piano
Price £5.50.
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Gardiner, Juliet.
D-Day: Those Who Were There
(Collins & Brown, 1994).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, otherwise good in creased dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A5218
Keywords: 1855852047, D-Day, twentieth century, fighting, World War II, Second World War, Britain, British, England, English, France, French, Allies, Allied, Normandy beaches, Channel, Second Front, forces, military operations
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Roberts, Cathy.
Women and Rape:
(Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989).
Paperback. Very good. x + 151pp. Order No. NSBK-A14358
Keywords: 0745006396, women, domestic violence, rape, abuse, masculinity, crime, relationships, sex, feminism, rapes
Price £9.50.
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Mitchell, David.
Women on the Warpath: The Story of the Women of the First World War
(Jonathan Cape, 1966).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Some cracking internally at spine, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in worn, chipped dustwrapper. xvi + 400pp. Order No. NSBK-A14202
Keywords: B0000CMXCJ, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, munitions, Western Front, Pankhursts, women, women's history, WAAC, Pethick-Lawrence
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Allen, Sheila and Wolkowitz, Carol.
Homeworking: Myths and Realities
(Macmillan, 1987).
Paperback. With newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good. x + 225pp. Order No. NSBK-A8666
Keywords: 033342364X, homeworking, women workers, domestic economy, hidden workforce, gender, casual labour, labor, twentieth century, women and work, sociology
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