Payne, P. L.
British Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century:
(Macmillan, 1974).
Studies in Economic History. Paperback. Soiling to covers, ink annotations, a good working copy only. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-A9143
Keywords: 333116461, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, 19th, history, Victorian, economics, economy, entrepreneurs, industrial revolution, industry, business, commerce
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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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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
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Summerfield, Penny.
Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives:
(MUP, 1998).
Hardback. Very good. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C14460
Keywords: 071904460X, wartime, women's history, women's work, World War II, Second World War, World War Two, social history, oral history, popular culture, war effort, home front, domestic front, gender relations, gender roles, cultural representations, films, magazines, media, Women's Land Army, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, WAAF, Women's Royal Navy Service, WRNS
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Allen, G.C.
The Structure of Industry in Britain: A Study in Economic Change
(Longman, 3rd edit., 1972).
Paperback. Page edges soiled, otherwise good. viii + 271pp. Order No. NSBK-A10075
Keywords: industry, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, Britain, British, history, England, English, labour, labor, labour organisation, economics, economic, twentieth century, twentieth, Allen
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Trinder, Barrie.
The Darbys of Coalbrookdale:
(Phillimore, revised reprint, corrected, 1981).
Paperback. Very good. 79pp. Order No. NSBK-A8361
Keywords: 0850333059, Darbys, Coalbrookdale, industry, industrial, history, economy, economic, Shropshire, Darby family, iron, iron industry, iron works, Industrial Revolution
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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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Bass Ratcliff and Gretton Limited, .
Excursion to Scarborough: Friday July 24th, 1914
(Bass Museum, reprint, 1977).
A charming booklet. On the very eve of the First World War, this detailed guide prepares Bass employees and their families for their day excursion to Scarborough by train. Illustrated. Booklet. Fine. 40pp. Order No. NSBK-A6872
Keywords: B000IZA06Q, Scarborough, seaside, holidays, outings, Britain, British, England, English, Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, towns, spa towns, working classes, working class, excursions, working class excursions, leisure, entertainment, recreation, train journeys, trains, railways, days out, day out, days-out, day-out, tramways, amusements, Bass, industrial workers, Bass Ratcliff and Gretton Limited, Ratcliff, Gretton, stations, twentieth century, World War I, Great War, First World War, pre-war, Bass Museum, Bass outings, booklet
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Ward, J.T.
The Factory System:
(David and Charles, 1970).
Hardback. Very good. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-A11470
Keywords: 0715348957, factory, industrial revolution, history, factories, industry
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Derry, T. K. and Jarman, T. L.
Modern Britain: Life and Work through Two Centuries of Change
(Cox and Wyman, 1979).
Paperback. Very good. 390pp. Order No. NSBK-A9773
Keywords: 0719535468, modern Britain, British, history, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 19th, 20th, Victorian, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization
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