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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The Labour Party, .
Discrimination Against Women: Report of a Labour Party Study Group
(The Labour Party, 1972).
Opposition Green Paper. Paperback. Covers browned, otherwise good. 45pp. Order No. NSBK-C10598
Keywords: 0900507306, women, woman, women's history, women's movement, feminism, women's studies, feminists, Britain, British, England, English, government, opposition, green paper, discrimination, equal rights, equal pay, Labour party, socialism, twentieth century, education, work, industrial training, employment, pay, social services, social security, taxation, law
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Haldane, A. R. B.
Three Centuries of Scottish Posts: An Historical Survey to 1836
(Edinburgh UP, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xiv + 336pp. Order No. NSBK-A5427
Keywords: 0852241488, Scottish, Scots, Scotland, Scotch, history, post, postal service, post office, letters, correspondence, mail, posts, despatches, postmasters, post offices, penny postage, stamps, Haldane
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Greve, John; Page, Dilys & Greve, Stella.
Homelessness in London:
(Scottish Academic Press, 1971).
Paperback. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise very good, ex-library. xix + 303pp. Order No. NSBK-A3723
Keywords: 0701118067, homeless, homelessness, sociology, history, twentieth century, London, housing, homes, metropolis, social services, England, Britain, English, British
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Foot, M. R. D.
SOE: The Special Operations Executive, 1940 - 1946
(BBC, rpt, 1985).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 280pp. Order No. NSBK-A15730
Keywords: 9780313270147, Second World War, World War II, history, SOE, secret service, resistance
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Johnston, R. J and Doornkamp, J. C., eds.
The Changing Geography of The United Kingdom:
(Methuen, 1982).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, page edges soiled and covers creased, otherwise good. xviii + 430pp. Order No. NSBK-A8567
Keywords: 0416748104, geography, geographical, United Kingdom, agriculural, agriculture, water, transport, land, energy, industrial, manufacturing, service industries, cities, city, rural, pollution
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Heclo, Hugh and Wildavsky, Aaron.
The Private Government of Public Money: Community and Policy in British Political Administration
(Macmillan, rpt, 1977).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, some soiling / light thumbing to cloth,otherwise good. xxiii + 399pp. Order No. NSBK-A15847
Keywords: 9780333145005, govenment, politics, Britain, British, finance, fiscal, policy, money, monetary, history, civil service
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McGann, Susan; Crowther, Anne and Dougall, Rona.
A History of the Royal College of Nursing 1916-90: A Voice for Nurses
(Manchester University Press, 2009).
Hardback. Very good. x + 358pp. Order No. NSBK-C14628
Keywords: 9780719077951, nursing, nurses, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, hospitals, Royal College of Nursing, managers, NHS, National Health Service, training, unions, unionism, trade unionism, women and work
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Summerfield, Penny.
Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives:
(MUP, 1998).
Paperback. Fly leaf clipped, spine creased, minor pencil annotation, with newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C2122
Keywords: 0719044618, wartime, women's history, women's work, World War II, Second World War, World War Two, social history, oral history, popular culture, war effort, home front, domestic front, gender relations, gender roles, cultural representations, films, magazines, media, Women's Land Army, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, WAAF, Women's Royal Navy Service, WRNS
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McGann, Susan; Crowther, Anne and Dougall, Rona.
History of the Royal College of Nursing 1916-90: A Voice for Nurses
(Manchester UP, 2009).
Paperback. Fine. x + 358pp. Order No. NSBK-C14752
Keywords: 9780719077968, nursing, nurses, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, hospitals, Royal College of Nursing, managers, NHS, National Health Service, training, unions, unionism, trade unionism, women and work
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