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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Lovell, Terry, ed.
British Feminist Thought: A Reader
(Basil Blackwell, 1990).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. ix + 385pp. Order No. NSBK-C12333
Keywords: 0631169148, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, history of ideas, twentieth century, 20th
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Pretty, David A.
The Rural Revolt that Failed: Farm Workers' Trade Unions in Wales, 1889-1950
(Cardiff UP, 1989).
Hardback. Fine. 291pp. Order No. NSBK-A11037
Keywords: 0708310249, Britain, British, history, United Kingdom, UK, Wales, Welsh, Welshmen, Welshman, farms, farming, farmers, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth, 20th, Labour Movement, rural, countryside, country
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Masani, Zareer.
Indira Gandhi: A Biography
(Hamish Hamilton, 1975).
Hardback. Minor pencil annotation, otherwise good+ in slightly creased, slightly soiled dustwrapper. 331pp. Order No. NSBK-A7157
Keywords: 024189042X, India, Indian, Indira, Gandhi, politics, politicians, political, biography, biographical, biographies, life histories, life history, lives, twentieth century, Asian, Asia, Prime Minister, government
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Stock, Catherine McNichol and Johnston, R., eds.
The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America
(Cornell UP, 2001).
Paperback. Fine. xii + 335pp. Order No. NSBK-A9517
Keywords: 0801487714, country, countryside, state, America, American, politics, political rural, countryside, country, state, land, African Americans, Victorian, twentieth century, nineteenth, 20th, 19th, USA
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Butler, Lord.
The Art of the Possible: The Memoirs of Lord Butler
(Hamish Hamilton, 1971).
Hardback. Good in chipped dustwrapper. x + 274pp. Order No. NSBK-A9373
Keywords: 0241020077, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, lives, life histories, politics, political, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, politicians, Lord Butler, memoirs, Suez, Conservatives, Tories, Tory Party
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Pack of 10 Suffragette Greetings Cards, .
Votes for Workers:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2009).
Pack of 10 greetings cards (all featuring the same design). Card measurements are 6 inches high by 4 inches wide and each card is complete with cellophane wrapper and envelope. Blank interiors for your own message or for any occasion. The image is printed in vibrant colours and is taken from a suffragette poster, created by W.F. Winter, and originally produced by the Artists' Suffrage League (date unknown). Image (in shades of brown, cream and sand) shows weary and dejected British working woman at a sewing machine, with the slogan "Votes for Workers" beneath it. Please note that the sample electronic image, unlike the cards themselves, is watermarked and reduced in quality, to prevent image theft. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C14486
Keywords: suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, women's rights, Votes for Women, women and politics, women's politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, greeting card, greeting cards, cards, suffragette images, suffragettes, propaganda, suffrage imagery, card, picture, pictures, art, artist, artists, suffragette art, art, arts, artistry, illustration, illustrations, twentieth century, 20th century, twentieth century, portrayer, portrayer publishers, suffragette greetings cards, greetings card, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera, new, Artists' Suffrage League
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Naudin, J-B, Plazy, G. and Saulnier, J.
Cezanne: A Taste of Provence
(Ebury Press, 1995).
Hardback. Large book, very good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A13190
Keywords: 0091808499, Paul Cezanne, art, artists, painters, paintings, French, France, twentieth century, Provence
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Griffin, Alan R.
The Miners of Nottinghamshire, 1914-1944: A History of the Nottinghamshire Miners' Unions
(George Allen and Unwin, 1962).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, otherwise good, a clean copy in chipped and slightly soiled dustwrapper. 323pp. Order No. NSBK-A7069
Keywords: B0000CLGM1, Alan R Griffin, miners, mining, pits, trade unionism, trade unions, trade unionists, coal mines, A. J. Cook, Herbert Smith, G. A. Spencer, F. B. Varley, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, twentieth century, Britian, British, England, English, wages, economy, economists, Nottinghamshire Miners' Association, coal-owners, employers, employees, the Left, profits, Nationalization, shovels shovel filling, 1921 Lockout, Conciliation Board, 20th, colliers, coal mining, colliery, collieries, coal-mining
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Davies, Stuart.
By the Gains of Industry: Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1885 - 1985
(Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1985).
Paperback. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-A7881
Keywords: 0709301316, Birmingham, art, gallery, galleries, Midlands, Victorian, collections, museum, museums, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, history, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, 19th century, nineteenth century
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