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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Sherrill, Charles H.
Mosaics in Italy, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, and Greece:
(John Lane, 1933).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. A little splitting to spine at rear, spine cloth faded & marked, otherwise good+. xiii + 304pp. Order No. NSBK-A14909
Keywords: B00089TYLY, mosaics, Near East, Middle East, history, Italy, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Greek, art, Syrian, Italian, Palestinian, Turkish, religion, religious
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Hijab, Nadia.
Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work
(CUP, rpt, 1989).
Paperback. Very good. xiv + 176pp. Order No. NSBK-C4379
Keywords: 052126992X, Arab, Arabs, Arabian, women, Arab countries, Arab laws, Middle East, Middle Eastern, Arabian laws, Nadia Hijab, women and work, work, family, families, workforce, work force, status, Jordan, Jordanian, Arab Gulf, gender, Arab Gulf states, working women, Islam, Islamic, Moslem, Muslim
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Walton, John K. and Walvin, James.
Leisure in Britain, 1780 - 1939:
(MUP, 1983).
Paperback. Ex library, spine creased, usual library markings, otherwise good. vi + 241pp. Order No. NSBK-A13843
Keywords: 071901946X, leisure, entertainment, social history, recreation, Victorian, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, twentieth century, England, English, Britain, British, hobbies, working class, working classes, middle class, middle classes, class, John Walton, Jim Walvin, James Walvin, Walton, Leisure in Britain
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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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Shonfield, Zuzanna.
The Precariously Privileged: A Professional Family in Victorian London
(OUP, 1987).
Hardback. With newspaper cutting pasted to inside front cover, otherwise good in dustwrapper. ix + 266pp. Order No. NSBK-C463
Keywords: 0192122657, class, professional, Victorian, London, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, middle class
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Spaull, Hebe.
The Co-operative Movement in the World Today:
(Barrie and Rockliff, 1965).
With an introduction by W. P. Watkins. Hardback. Good in slightly soiled/worn dustwrapper. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A5038
Keywords: B0000CMR1N, Co-operative Movement, co-op, co-operative, Britain, British, Europe, European, USA, Canada, America, Southern Asia, Far East, Middle East, Northern Africa, Caribbean, South America, Australasia, government, work, labour, labor, British Commonwealth, devloping countries, twentieth century, world
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Leeds, E. Thurlow.
The Archaeology of the Anglo-Saxon Settlements:
(Clarendon, OUP, 1913).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, some browing to spine area, otherwise good. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A14985
Keywords: B0006AH3GI, archaeology, archaeological, Anglo-Saxon, settlements, history, Saxons, Angles, Dark Ages, Jutes, pottery, jewellery
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Mehl, Dieter.
Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction to His Narrative Poetry
(CUP, 1986).
Paperback. Good. viii + 243pp. Order No. NSBK-A12825
Keywords: 0521318882, poems, poets, poetry, Chaucher, Geoffrey Chaucer, medieval, mediaeval, Middle English, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Rowbotham, Judith.
Good Girls Make Good Wives: Guidance for Girls in Victorian Fiction
(Blackwell, 1989).
Paperback. Some sunfading to covers, otherwise good+. viii + 301pp. Order No. NSBK-C4162
Keywords: 0631163964, wives, wife, girls, education, fiction, literature, Judith Rowbotham, Victorian, nineteenth century, childhood, middle class, middle classes, reading habits, domesticity, private sphere, separate spheres, femininity, feminine, novels, L.T. Meade, history, social control, Charlotte Mary Yonge, women
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