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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Beaney, Jan.
Embroidery: New Approaches
(Pelham Books, 1978).
Photographs by Dudley Moss. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, sellotape on fly leaf and inside front cover, otherwise good in dustwapper. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C13102
Keywords: 0720710723, embroidery, sewing, stitches, stitching, needlework, women, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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Krejci, Jaroslav.
Social Change and Stratification in Postwar Czechoslovakia:
(Macmillan, 1972).
Hardback. Some moulding to boards, internally good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 207pp. Order No. NSBK-A3613
Keywords: 0333134958, social, society, stratification, postwar, Czechoslovakia, Czech, class, status, history, socio-economic, economic, wealth, income, occupations
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Coates, Ken and Topham, Anthony.
Industrial Democracy in Great Britain: A Book of Readings and Witnesses for Workers' Control
(Macgibbon and Kee, 1968).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly worn, slightly marked dustwrapper. xxxvi + 431pp. Order No. NSBK-A14555
Keywords: 0901740888, labour, labor, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, trade unionism, industrial democracy, industrialisation, working classes, trade disputes, wages, pay, Labour Party, shop stewards
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Skidelsky, Robert.
Interests and Obsessions: Historical Essays
(Macmillan, rpt., 1994).
Paperback. Fine. xvii + 446pp. Order No. NSBK-A10688
Keywords: 0333616650, history, historical essays, Robert Skidelsky, Victorian, twentieth century, nineteenth, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, politicians
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Rowntree, Isabella Ann.
Poems:
(Maurice L. Rowntree, 1930).
Scarce collection of poems by the Scarborough poet Isabella Ann Rowntree. With illustrations by Isobel M. and Eirene W. Rowntree, her grandchildren. Card covers. Some light foxing to pages, especially endpapers. Card covers lightly soiled, & yellowed with age at edges - but overall a good copy. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-C15951
Keywords: Scarborough, Yorkshire, women poets, woman poet, 1930s, thirties, Rowntrees, verse, North Yorkshire, social history, inter-war, antiquarian, poetry, inter war, Isabella Ann Rowntree, Isobel M. Rowntree, Eirene W. Rowntree, stored with booklets
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Bottrell, Julia.
How to Paint on Glass:
(Search Press, rpt., 1997).
Paperback. Very good+. 79pp. Order No. NSBK-G12229
Keywords: 0855328096, glass, stained glass, crafts, art, artists, painters, paintings, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Hillocks, Rev J. L.
Life and Struggles:
(John S. Marr, no date).
Edited by Rev. Geo. Gilfillan. Hardback. Lacks fly leaf and title page, red boards darkened, board edges and corners worn, otherwise good. xii + 184pp. Order No. NSBK-A5917
Keywords: B00086WSME, Dundee, Edinburgh, Scotland, Scottish, social history, religion, religious, biographies, biography, education, schools, life struggles, autobiography, autobiographies, Rev. J.L. Hillocks, Scots, Britain, British, Victorian, nineteenth century, philanthropy, philanthropists, self-education, self-help, work ethic, self-taught, self-made man, antiquarian
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Kelly's, .
Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes for 1919:
(Kelly's Directories, 1919).
45th Annual Edition. Hardback. Original red cloth with black and gilt detail. Some light soiling and light wear to cloth, espec. at edges, otherwise good+, solid. xvii + 1741pp. Order No. NSBK-A15210
Keywords: B002VDA1PI, Kelly's directories, Kelly's handbook, Kelly, upper class, upper classes, titles, history, titled, class, social structure, aristocracy
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Smith, Joan.
Femmes de Siecle: Stories from the '90s: Women Writing at the End of Two Centuries
(Chatto & Windus, 1992).
Paperback. Ink inscription to fly leaf, otherwise good. 303pp. Order No. NSBK-C6905
Keywords: 0701139846, women writers, woman writers, women's writing, New women, New woman, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century, 20th, femmes de siecle
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