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Read, Anthony & Fisher, David.
The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence
(Jonathan Cape, 1997). Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, overall good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xxv + 565pp. Order No. NSBK-A8691
Keywords: 0224039563, India, Indian, history, independence, Indian independence, Empire, imperial, imperialism, British Empire, Raj, politics, Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah, Far East, Far Eastern
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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Kineton/The Roundwood Press, 1974). Hardback. Covers slightly soiled, marginal pencil annotation not affecting legbility, otherwise very good. xvi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C11001
Keywords: 0900093307, women, woman, gender, 1920s, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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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
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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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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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Gollancz, Sir Israel.
The Pardon of Piers Plowman:
(Cumberlege, 1945). Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture. Read 28 February 1945. Paperback. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise good. 55pp. Order No. NSBK-A12818
Keywords: B0007KFEJK, Sir Israel Gollancz, Piers Plowman, ploughman, poems, poets, poetry, literature, literary, mediaeval, medieval, Middle Ages, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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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
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Walton, John K. & Walvin, James, eds.
Leisure in Britain, 1780-1939:
(MUP, 1983). Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, otherwise good+ in slightly faded, slightly creased dustwrapper. 241pp. Order No. NSBK-A2320
Keywords: 071900912X, leisure, entertainment, social history, recreation, Victorian, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, twentieth century, England, English, Britain, British, hobbies, working class, working classes, middle class, middle classes, class, John Walton, Jim Walvin, James Walvin, Walton, Leisure in Britain
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Benson, Larry D., ed.
The Learned and the Lewd: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature
(Harvard UP, 1974). Paperback. Covers slightly stained and torn, internally good. x + 405pp. Order No. NSBK-A12892
Keywords: 0674518888, Chaucer, Chaucerian, medieval, mediaeval, Middle Ages, literature, literary, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Kolankiewicz, George and Lewis, Paul G.
Poland: Politics, Economics and Society
(Pinter, 1988). Marxist Regimes. Paperback. Very good. xx + 210pp. Order No. NSBK-A14958
Keywords: B001BDCBXO, Polish, Poland, history, politics, economics, economy, society, Eastern Europe
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