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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Roberts, Robert.
A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum
(Fontana, 2nd impression, 1979).
Paperback. Light creasing to covers, newspaper article pasted to front endpaper, otherwise good. 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A10160
Keywords: 0006348947, education, schools, schooling, slums, housing, urban, cities, Britain, British, England, English, social history, Edwardian, industry, industrial, terraces, poverty, poor, cobbles, By Joe, cinema, magic lantern, railways, canals, Manchester, North West, Salford, Robert Roberts, apprentices, labour, labor, Labour party, Esperanto, TB, tuberculosis, working class, working classes, Charles de Gaulle
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Coates, Tim, ed.
Bloody Sunday: Lord Widgery's Report
(TSO, 2001).
Uncovered Editions. Moments of History Series. Paperback. Fine. 120pp. Order No. NSBK-A13049
Keywords: 0117024058, Bloody Sunday, Ireland, Irish, Northern Ireland, Ulster, twentieth century, 20th century, Lord Widgery, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Moments of History Series
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Wardle, David.
English Popular Education, 1780-1970:
(CUP, 1970).
Paperback. Good. viii + 182pp. Order No. NSBK-A1366
Keywords: 0521096316, education, state education, teaching, school, schools, schooling, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students
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Williams, Rosemary.
The Beginner's Guide to Painting Watercolours:
(Magna Books, rpt, 1994).
Commissioned artwork by Elaine Alderson. Hardback. Very good in spine-faded very good dustwrapper. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-J13028
Keywords: 1854224328, art, artists, painters, paintings, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, watercolours
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Exwood, Maurice and Lehmann, H. L., eds.
The Journal of William Shellinks' Travels in England, 1661-1663:
(Royal Historical Society, 1993).
Camden Fifth Series, Volume I. Translated from the Dutch. Hardback. Very good. 196pp. Order No. NSBK-A13452
Keywords: 0861931351, Dutch, Netherland, seventeenth century, travel, traveller, traveler, William Shellinks, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, journals, diaries
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Manton, Jo.
Mary Carpenter and the Children of the Streets:
(Heinemann, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly yellowed dustwrapper creased at edges. 268pp. Order No. NSBK-C13437
Keywords: 9780435325695, children, childhood, Mary Carpenter, streets, poverty, poor, crime, criminals, child abuse, juvenile delinquency, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, beggars, begging, prisons, Bristol, India
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Silberston, D. M.
Youth in a Technical Age: A Study of Day Release
(Max Parrish, 1959).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 228pp. Order No. NSBK-A12200
Keywords: B0000CK8NX, youth, young people, technical schools, day release, edcuation, adult education, higher education, vocational courses, post office, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Wheeler, Barry, ed.
Spare the Rod: Journal of a Victorian Schoolmaster in Dorset, 1863 - 64
(Winterbourne Press, 1988).
Booklet. Spine faded, covers lightly soiled, otherwise good. 36pp. Order No. NSBK-A13308
Keywords: 0950828947, Dorset, Victorian, 19th, century, nineteenth, history, schools, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, education, 1860s, journals, teachers, diaries, booklet
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McGreevy, Thomas.
Inflation Can be Cured: A Definite Plan
(Villiers Publications Ltd, 1980).
Hardback. Good+ in soiled, wavy dustwrapper. 308pp. Order No. NSBK-A11292
Keywords: 0950665509, inflation, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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