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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Roche, Tony and Monahan, Patricia.
Decorating with Stencils: Innovative Designs Step-by-Step Instructions Templates
(George Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, board edges worn, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-G13067
Keywords: 0789200945, decoration, decorating, stencils, designs, patterns, homes, houses, wallpaper, decor, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Ross, James.
The Power I Pledge: Being a Centenary Study of the Life of William Quarrier and the Work he Pioneered
(Robert MacLehose, 1971).
Hardback. Very good. 118pp. Order No. NSBK-A5303
Keywords: 0950203408, William Quarrier, Glasgow, children, child, philanthropy, Scotland, Scottish, Scotch, Scots, Homelea, history, nineteenth century, Victorian, Quarrier's homes
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Walvin, James.
English Urban Life, 1776-1851:
(Hutchinson, 1984).
Paperback. Covers slightly browned, otherwise good. vii + 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A7558
Keywords: 0091561515, James Walvin, England, English, history, Britain, British, towns, cities, city, urban, metropolitan, metropolis, population, demographic, demography, housing, homes, houses, streets, machinery, social class, classes, poverty, urbanisation, urbanization, poor, public order, law enforcement
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Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
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Jones, Joanna.
Doing Up Old Junk: How to Revamp Shabby Furnishings with Style
(BCA, rpt., 1994).
Hardback. Fly leaf clipped, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-G12647
Keywords: 1853913855, junk, crafts, design, homes, furnishings, style, twentieth century, 20th, revamping, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK,
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Ostroff, Eugene.
Photographing The Frontier:
(Smithsonian Institution, 1976).
An exhibition researched and organized by Eugene Ostroff, Curator of Photography, National Museum of History and Technology. Developed and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1975-1978. Booklet. Covers soiled, otherwise good. 31pp. Order No. NSBK-A11145
Keywords: B000GKEHS0, photography, photographic, photos, cameras, frontier,US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, twentieth century, 20th, booklet
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West, Elliott.
Growing Up With the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier
(New Mexico UP, rpt., 1997).
Paperback. Back cover soiled, otherwise good+. xxiv + 343pp. Order No. NSBK-A9556
Keywords: 0826311555, nineteenth century, 19th, American, literature, literary, novels, frontiers, Wild West, twentieth century, 20th, Trans-Mississippi West, children, childhood, USA
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Foote, Cheryl J.
Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912:
(Colorado UP, 1990).
Hardback. Near fine in dustwrapper. xviii + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-C9061
Keywords: 0870812157, woman, woman, New Mexico, Victorian, American, America, United States, USA, New Mexican frontier, Edwardian, nineteenth century, twentieth, 19th, 20th, Harriet shaw, Catherine Gorman, missionary, missionaries, women's work, women and work, Katie Bowen, Anna Maria Morris, Santa Fe Trail, Ellen Williams, Josephine Clifford, Alice Blake, Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Pueblo Indians
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Arnold, Eleanor, ed.
Voices of American Homemakers:
(Indiana UP, 1985).
Paperback. Very good. 295pp. Order No. NSBK-C11859
Keywords: 0253207991, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, oral history, States, homemakers, family, families, family values, rural, oral histories, education, courtship, marriage, child rearing, farms, farming, farmers, agricultural, land, agrarian, agriculture, country, countryside, rural
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