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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
Price £24.00.
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Weaver, Mary Jo.
New Catholic Women: A Contemporary Challenge to Traditional Religious Authority
(Indiana UP, 1995).
Paperback. Very good. xxvi + 272pp. Order No. NSBK-C5027
Keywords: 0253209935, Catholic, Catholicism, religion, religious, women, woman, history, reloigion, religious, Roman Catholic, Americ, American, United States, USA
Price £7.00.
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Oppenheim, Baron Max Von.
Tell Halaf: A New Culture in Oldest Mesopotamia
(Putnam, English translation, 1931).
Translated by Gerald Wheeler. Hardback. Ex-Wigan library with usual library stamps and markings, cloth rather darkened with some light marking / soiling, otherwise good+, solid. xvi + 337pp. Order No. NSBK-A16045
Keywords: B0031JOSYG, Mesopotamia, Mesopotamian, history, archaeology, excavations, excavation, ancient, statues, carvings, Tell Halaf, Syria, Asia, Syrian
Price £64.00.
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Graham Bishop of Willesden's Commission, Objects and Policy of the Mothers' Union.
New Dimensions: Report of the Bishop of Willesden's Commission on the Objects and Policies of the Mothers' Union
(SPCK Publishing, 1972).
Paperback. Light discolouration of covers, otherwise very good. xii + 305pp. Order No. NSBK-C15917
Keywords: 9780281026821,Bishop of Willesden's Commission on the Objects and Policies of the Mothers' Union, motherhood, stored in hall with Gs
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BBC, Radio Times Special.
Shoulder to Shoulder: How Women Fought for the Vote. A Full Illustrated Guide to the New BBC TV Series. Radio Times Special Magazine
(Radio Times, BBC, 1974).
The BBC series Shoulder to Shoulder aired in 1974 on BBC2. The six-part drama, which focused on the history of the women's suffrage movement, ran from April 3 to May 8, 1974. Paperback. Pages browned with age, light wear to edges, and front cover slightly split at top. Otherwise good+. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-C16014
Keywords: 9780563126522, stored with booklets, antiquarian, suffragettes, suffragette, Votes for Women, BBC, TV, programmes, programme,1970s, seventies, magazines, magazine, Radio Times Special, dramas, drama, television, women's movement, history
Price £25.00.
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Hopkins, Edward J.
The Organ: its History and Construction. A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure & Capabilities of the Organ, with Specifications and Suggestive Details for Instruments of all Sizes. Intended as a Handbook for the Organist and the Amateur. Preceded by an Entirely New History of the Organ by Edward F. Rimbault
(Robert Cocks and Co, 3rd edition, 1877).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers in soiled library binding. Binding repaired inside, to strengthen it.Small tear to fold-out plan of organ. A good, firm working copy. xxxi + 636pp. Order No. NSBK-A14237
Keywords: B0006AEBFE, instruments, musical instruments, organ, organs, history, construction, organists, keyboards, church music, organ-building
Price £98.00.
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Benson, Allan L.
The New Henry Ford:
(Funk and Wagnalls, 1923).
Illustrated. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, cloth rather worn and faded with light soiling. Contents good and firm. 360pp. Order No. NSBK-A14289
Keywords: B000WG9UYY, Henry Ford, biography, biographies, Ford, Ford Motor Company, cars, automobiles, car, history, manufacturing, racing, Detroit, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States
Price £17.00.
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Grigg, John.
Nancy Astor: A Revealing New Portrait of a Woman who Made History
(Hamlyn, 1980).
Illustrated with exclusive pictures from the Astor family album. Paperback. Covers slightly browned, otherwise very good. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A3947
Keywords: 0600205940, Nancy Astor, politics, politician, M. P., women and politics, Plymouth Sutton, Conservative party, Tory, party politics, House of Commons, Houses of Parliament, Britain, British, history, England, English, biography, women's history, twentieth century, Tories
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Lovenduski, Joni and Outshoorn, Joyce, eds.
The New Politics of Abortion:
(Sage, 1986).
Paperback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good. 175pp. Order No. NSBK-C15836
Keywords: 9780803980075, abortion, abortion rights, pro-life, pregnancy, reproductive rights
Price £17.99.
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Bristow, Joseph.
Sexuality: The New Critical Idiom
(Routledge, 1997).
The New Critical Idiom. Paperback. Good+. ix + 248pp. Order No. NSBK-C12833
Keywords: 0415084946, sexuality, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, homosexuality, heterosexuality, heterosexuals, gays
Price £12.00.
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