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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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Coates, Tim, ed.
The Irish Book of Death and Flying Ships: From the Chronicles of Ancient Ireland
(Tim Coates, 2002).
Moments of History Series. Paperback. Fine. x + 163pp. Order No. NSBK-A13048
Keywords: 1843810034, Irish, Ireland, Eire, death, flying ships, myths, legends, Moments of History Series, medieval, Middle Ages, Dark Ages
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Keating, P.J., ed.
Working-class Stories of the 1890s:
(RKP, rpt, 1975).
Paperback. Creases to front cover, otherwise good. xvii + 157pp. Order No. NSBK-A450
Keywords: 0710082576, working-class stories, fiction, 1890s, East End, London, literature, Victorian, class, England, English, Britain, British
Price £9.00.
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Selby, Walford, D. ed.
Lancashire and Cheshire Records Preserved in the Public Record Office, London:
(Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, 1883).
Number 8 in the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society Series. Part II of a two-part set. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in original green/gilt decorated cloth. 225 - 626pp. Order No. NSBK-A11222
Keywords: B000HC77D4, Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, Lancashire & Cheshire Record Society, local history, records, archives, archival, documents, North West England, England, English, Britain, British, manuscripts, documents, sources, antiquarian, parish history, parishes, parochial, Public Record Office, Walford D. Selby, courts, medieval, Middle Ages, early modern, charters, calendars, indexes
Price £25.00.
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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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Gallyon, Margaret.
Margery Kempe of Lynn and Medieval England:
(Canterbury Press Norwich, 1995).
Paperback. Slight bump top corner, otherwise very good. xii + 226pp. Order No. NSBK-C8919
Keywords: 1853111112, fifteenth century, 15th century, early modern history, religion, religious, women, Margery Kempe, Lynn, Norfolk, Britain, British, England, English, Middle Ages, mediaeval, medieval, spiritual, devotional, chastity, pilgrimages, doctrine, church, medieval church, Christianity, prayer, meditation, clergy, lollards, lollardy, heresy, lollard, John Wyclif
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Borgstrom, Georg.
Japan's World Success in Fishing:
(Fishing News, 1964).
Hardback. Very good in slightly browned dustwrapper. 312pp. Order No. NSBK-A14128
Keywords: 0852380496, Japan, fish, fishing, economy, fisheries, Japanese, Asia, industry, Far East, oceans, seas, fishing industry
Price £12.50.
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Davies, Martin, ed.
Columbus in Italy: an Italian Versification of the Letter on the Discovery of the New World. With facsimiles of the Italian and Latin Editions of 1493
(British Library, 1991).
Hardback. Card covers slightly soiled, otherwise good. 56pp. Order No. NSBK-A6874
Keywords: 0712302638, New World, discovery of New World, Christopher Columbus, fifteenth century, American, America, Americas, voyages of exploration, medieval, mediaeval, Middle Ages, early modern, history, Spain, Spanish, Giuliano Dati, poems, poetry, poets, Italian, Italy, Rome, British Library
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Matthews, Caitlin and John.
The Arthurian Book of Days:
(Brockhampton Press, 1990).
The Greatest Legend in the World Retold Throughout the Year. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A4805
Keywords: 1860194214, legends, Arthurian, King Arthur, medieval, mediaeval, chronicles, Middle Ages
Price £5.00.
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Wethered, Newton.
Mediaeval Craftsmanship and the Modern Amateur: More Particularly With Reference to Metal and Enamel
(Longmans, Green, 1923).
With illustrations. Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Boards heavily soiled, a good working copy only. xii + 150pp. Order No. NSBK-A14995
Keywords: B000WZX852, crafts, craftsmanship, history, medieval, middle ages, metal, enamel, mediaeval, enamelling, sheet-metal, Etruscan, metals
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