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
Price £24.00.
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Black, Clementina ed.
Married Women's Work: Being the Report of an Enquiry Undertaken by the Women's Industrial Council
(G. Bell, 1915).
Hardback. Original red cloth slightly faded and edgeworn, otherwise very good. vi + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-C15617
Keywords: married women, work, industry, Women's Industrial Council, wages, employment, working conditions, family, poverty, Clementina Black, suffragists, suffragist, suffrage, Votes for Women, suffragettes, Britain, England, English, Britain, economic, social history, antiquarian
Price £15.00.
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Arnold-Forster, Frances.
Studies in Church Dedications or England's Patron Saints:
(Skeffington, 1899).
Volume II only of a three volume set. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, cloth faded and worn with chipping to spine & wear to edges. A good working copy. 569pp. Order No. NSBK-A14391
Keywords: B00GNE80N6, religion, religious, history, saints, patron saints, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, religious orders, church, churches, Christianity, antiquarian
Price £28.00.
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Anderson, Christopher.
The Domestic Constitution or the Family Circle: the Source and Test of National Stability
(W.P. Kennedy, Edinburgh, new & improved edition, 1847).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, embossed cloth rubbed / slightly marked, a little splitting top spine end & internally at spine, otherwise good, tight. xviii + 464pp. Order No. NSBK-A5355
Keywords: B000W6Q560, domestic, domesticity, contemporary comment, history, Britain, British, England, English, family, families, nineteenth century, domestic constitution, national stability, nation, nationhood, parenthood, civilisation, parents, instruction, advice books, moral, moral constitution, mores, morality, obedience, domestic education, domestic government, obligation, right, duties, duty, responsibility, responsibilities, domestic circles, reason, rational, religion, religious, educating children, antiquarian
Price £12.00.
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Larned, Walter Cranston.
Churches and Castles of Medieval France:
(Sampson Low, Marston, 1895).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, some wear to edges & darkening / patchiness to spine. Otherwise good. viii + 236pp. Order No. NSBK-A14990
Keywords: B0008B0X6C, Middle Ages, medieval, castles, castle, history, medieval, mediaeval, France, French, chateau, chateaux, cathedrals, churches, church, religion, religious, antiquarian
Price £26.00.
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Department of Education, Strathclyde Regional Council.
Scottish Women and the Vote: Sources for the History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in Scotland
(Strathclyde Regional Council).
Ringbound A4-size folder. A very useful collection of printed source material on the history of the women's suffrage movement in Scotland, with an emphasis on Glasgow and the West of Scotland. Ringbound folder. Very good. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C15728
Keywords: Scottish women, Scotland, sources, Votes for Women, suffragettes, suffrage, suffragette, social history, Scots, politics, Leah Leneman, West of Scotland, Western Scotland, Glasgow, WSPU, stored in antiquarian
Price £25.00.
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Gardner, Alice.
A Short History of Newnham College Cambridge:
(Bowes and Bowes, 1921).
Hardback. A little soiling and splashing to blue cloth, spine faded, otherwise good and firm. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-C15726
Keywords: Cambridge, women, Newnham College, history, social history, Oxbridge, women's education, stored as antiquarian
Price £11.00.
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