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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Dyer, Colin.
Population and Society in Twentieth Century France:
(Hodder & Stoughton, 1978).
Paperback. A little scuffing to covers, otherwise good+. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-A8683
Keywords: 0340219106, France, French, history, population, demography, demographic, social history, statistics, statistical, mortality, fertility, population rates, birth rates, birth-rates, migration
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Redclift, Nanneke and Sinclair, M. Thea.
Working Women: International Perspectives on Labour and Gender Ideology
(Routledge, 1991).
Paperback. Covers slightly browned, otherwise very good. x + 242pp. Order No. NSBK-A14563
Keywords: 0415018439, women and work, working women, labour, workforce, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, gender, employment, mining, trade unions, factories
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Plaut, James S.
The Story of Steuben Glass:
(H. Bittner and Co, 1951).
Paperback. Ex library. Back cover soiled, wear to edges, otherwise good, solid. 31pp. Order No. NSBK-A14372
Keywords: B0007I2REM, glass, Steuben glass, American, USA, glassmakers, history, museums, ornaments
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Kekewich, Margaret Lucille.
Princes and Peoples: France and the British Isles, 1620-1714. An Anthology of Primary Sources
(MUP, 1994).
Paperback. Light edge wear, otherwise very good. xiv + 257pp. Order No. NSBK-A5960
Keywords: 0719045738, France, French, Europe, European, history, British, Britain, princes, people, royal family, monarchs, royalty, seventeenth century, eighteenth century, Early Modern, states, absolutism, constitution
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Malcolmson, R.W.
Life and Labour in England, 1700-1780:
(Hutchinson, 1981).
Paperback. Covers browned. Page edges slightly soiled, light crease to front cover, otherwise good. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A8959
Keywords: 0091443814, land, labour, labor, England, English, Britain, British, history, work, workers, labourers, laborers, eighteenth century, 18th, craftsmen, cottagers, servants, casual labourers, housewives, husbandmen, social history, living, culture, plebeian, authority, relationships, villages, villagers, rural, country, countryside, agriculture, agricultural, farmers, farming, education, charity, crime, religion, politics
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Fletcher, Winston.
Keeping the Vision Alive: The Story of Barnado's 1905-2005
(Barnado's, 2005).
Richly illustrated with photographs. Paperback. Near fine. 157pp. Order No. NSBK-A12615
Keywords: 190465911X, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Barnado's, charity, charities, philanthropy, children, child, twentieth century, 20th
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Armstrong, Robin.
The Painted Stream: A River Warden's Life
(J. M. Dent and Sons, rpt., 1985).
Foreword by Sir Michael Hodern. Hardback. Very good+ in slightly torn and creased dustwrapper. 158pp. Order No. NSBK-A10432
Keywords: 0460047027, rivers, water, streams, river wardens, fish, fishing, angling, anglers, fishermen, fisherman, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, 20th, conservation, conservationists, bailiffs, wardens
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British Assoc. Advancement of Science, .
Scientific Survey of South-Eastern Scotland:
(British Ass. Science, 1951).
With folding map. Paperback. Covers sunned / faded, otherwise very good. 207pp. Order No. NSBK-A3361
Keywords: B0000CI8C0, science, survey, Scotland, South-Eastern, British, Britain, history, geography, population, Roman, agriculture, education, geology, Edinburgh, weather, climate
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Webb, Catherine, ed.
Industrial Co-operation: the Story of a Peaceful Revolution
(Co-op Union Ltd, 8th edition, 1919).
Hardback. Edges worn, otherwise good. xxii + 287pp. Order No. NSBK-A4063
Keywords: B000HBVYJS, cooperation, co-operation, history, industry, industrial, Catherine Webb, co-operative movement, Britain, British, England, English, labour, Robert Owen, Rochdale Pioneers, co-operatives, wholesale, production, cooperation
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