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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Women's Freedom League, .
Report of the Annual Conference, February 1908: and Balance Sheet, Oct. - Dec. 1907
(Portrayer, 2002 facs. of 1908 text).
Number 2 in the Open Archive Series. Booklet. New booklet, fine. 16pp. Order No. NSBK-C5190
Keywords: 0954263251, woman suffrage, suffragettes, women's suffrage, Britain, British, England, English, Votes for Women, enfranchisement, Portrayer, Open Archive Series, women's movement, politics, Edwardian, twentieth century, Women's Freedom League, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, conference, conferences, Cicely Hamilton, Teresa Billington-Greig, Charlotte Despard, reports, documents, sources, protest, social protest, booklet
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Department of Employment, .
Time Rates of Wages and Hours of Work: 1st April 1971
(HMSO, 1971).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some creasing to front cover, otherwise good. 327pp. Order No. NSBK-A14182
Keywords: 0113603738, wages, hours, work, time rates, employment, 1970s, seventies, manufacturing, industry, economy, textiles, factories, factory, engineering, social history, pay
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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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Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, and Roger Leech.
Early Industrial Housing: the Trinity Area of Frome
(HMSO, 1981).
Supplementary Series. Paperback. Covers lightly rubbed, otherwise very good. viii + 44pp. Order No. NSBK-A7705
Keywords: 0117009075, Frome, Trinity Area, industrial housing, housing, houses, social history, architecture, architectural, buildings, homes, surveys, plans, streets, neighbourhood, town planning, regional studies, Britain, British, England, English, Somerset, urban, urbanisation, urban development, growth, 18th century, eighteenth century
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National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, .
The Constitutions, Rules and Handbook:
(National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, 1960).
Hardback. Very good. 129pp. Order No. NSBK-C8747
Keywords: B0000CKMTY, sixties, 1960s, National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, women's history, constitutions, rules, handbook, organisations, societies, Britain, British, female, England, English, membership
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Joannou, Maroula.
'Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows': Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change, 1918-38
(Berg, 1995).
Hardback. Slight crease to back cover, otherwise very good. xii + 236pp. Order No. NSBK-H8038
Keywords: 0854969098, women's writing, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, woman, female, feminism, feminists, consciousness, social change, twentieth century, 20th, politics, feminist-materialist, class, lesbianism, lesbians, domestic, domesticity, literature, literary, novels, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Rosamund Lehmann, Radclyffe Hall, autobiographies, autobiography
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Suffragette Poster, .
Torturing Women in Prison: Vote Against the Government
(Portrayer Publishers, reprint, 2003).
A modern reproduction of this suffragette poster, originally produced by The National Women's Social and Political Union. Printed with archival inks on premium paper (200 GSM, Silk Art, photographic print). Size of the paper is 450mm x 320mm and image is approx 435mm x 305mm. Poster shows a prison cell in which a woman is being forcibly held down in a chair by a man and a woman, whilst another man pours liquid down a tube into the woman's nose. Written on the prison wall are the words "votes for women". Poster. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C6877
Keywords: B001F12JES, Portrayer Publishers, suffragettes, suffragette poster, suffragette posters, Votes for Women, woman suffrage, history, women, enfranchisement, franchise, women's movement, politics, England, English, cartoons, suffrage, politics, anti-suffrage, male attitudes, images, imagery, women, women's, representations, pictures, poster, posters, enfranchisement, the franchise, reproductions, modern reproductions, print, prints, torture, force feed, force, feed, feeding, force feeding, forced feeding, forced, forced to eat, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, Britain, British, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera
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Plowden, Alison.
Tudor Women: Queens and Commoners
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979).
Hardback. Light stain to top margin of pages, top of front board and interior of slightly wavy dustwrapper, otherwise a good copy. vii + 182pp. Order No. NSBK-C7052
Keywords: 0297775499, Tudor women, Tudors, women's history, woman, queens, commoners, medieval, middle ages, gender, Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, England, English, Britain, British, Early Modern, royalty, monarchs
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Rowbotham, Sheila.
A Century of Women: the History of Women in Britain and the United States
(Viking, 1997).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xiv + 753pp. Order No. NSBK-C2138
Keywords: 0140279024, women's history, America, American, United States, USA, women, American Women's history, Britain, British
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