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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Sinclair, Catherine.
Modern Society: or, The March of Intellect. The Conclusion of Modern Accomplishments
(William Whyte, Edinburgh, rpt, 1838).
Hardback. Original leather with gilt embossed decoration, and all edges gilt. Some wear to edges, especially at spine. A little shakey internally at spine but overall good, solid. viii + 470pp. Order No. NSBK-C15843
Keywords: Catherine Sinclair, accomplishments, ninteenth century, women's history, antiquarian, novel, morality, novels, literature, Scotland, Scottish
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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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Beamont, William.
Annals of the Lords of Warrington and Bewsey from 1587 to 1833: When Warrington Became a Parliamentary Borough. In Two Parts. Part I: Warrington. Part II: Bewsey. With Notices of Historical and Local Events
(Charles Simms, Manchester, Percival Pearse, Warrington, 1873).
Hardback. A little wear to corners, edges and spine ends, a little cracking internally at binding, otherwise good+, firm. xxiv + 165pp. Order No. NSBK-A13754
Keywords: B000WFVS9A, Warrington, Bewsey, Lords, history, 19th century, Victorian, nineteenth century, Boteler, Atherton, Lancashire, early modern, Dudley, Delamer, seventeenth century, eighteenth century, William Beamont, antiquarian
Price £35.00.
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Halley, Robert.
Lancashire: its Puritanism and Nonconformity
(Tubbs And Brook, 1869).
In two volumes. Map of Lancashire present, though a little torn. Covers boards partly detached at spine. Hardbacks. Condition poor. Both vols in need of total rebind. Ex library, covers worn with stamps on front, all pages present but some loose. Overall shaky, working copies only. xi + 492; viii + 525pp. Order No. NSBK-A14471
Keywords: B00271VZDG, Lancashire, nonconformity, puritanism, religion, religious, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Dissent, nonconformists, Reformation, Presbyterianism, abbey, religious houses, priories, monasteries, abbeys, priory, early modern, antiquarian, churches, church, Christianity
Price £52.00.
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Burton, Hester.
Barbara Bodichon, 1827-1891:
(John Murray, 1949).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings. Some sun-fading and cracking intermally at spine, and a little wear to corners, otherwise good. xii + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-C1250
Keywords: B0006D73UQ, Barbara Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, women's rights, Pre-Raphaelite, law, marriage, Britain, England, British, English, history, women's history education, suffrage, marriage reform, biography, biographies, Hitchin, Girton, women's movement, Victorian, nineteenth century, Votes for Women, antiquarian
Price £18.00.
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Soulsby, Lucy H. M.
The Use of Leisure: I. Some Thoughts on the Education of Girls. II. Our Duty to Our Neighbour
(Longmans, Green, 1900).
Booklet. Paperback. Small format, hand-held. Paper covers slightly chipped, otherwise very good. 54pp. Order No. NSBK-A14994
Keywords: B0017ZN49G, stored with booklets, education, girls, girlhood, leisure, booklets, booklet, antiquarian, history, femininity, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Edwardian, training
Price £22.00.
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Gardner, Alice.
A Short History of Newnham College Cambridge:
(Bowes and Bowes, 1921).
Hardback. A little soiling and splashing to blue cloth, spine faded, otherwise good and firm. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-C15726
Keywords: Cambridge, women, Newnham College, history, social history, Oxbridge, women's education, stored as antiquarian
Price £11.00.
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Sandford, Mrs John.
Woman: in her Domestic and Social Character
(Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, 2nd edition, 1832).
Hardback. Re-backed, very smartly. A little soiling to boards, and rubbing to spine, otherwise very good. x + 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C16005
Keywords: antiquarian section, woman, nineteenth century, 19th, Mrs John Sandford, female, history
Price £26.00.
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Arnold-Forster, Frances.
Studies in Church Dedications: or England's Patron Saints
(Skeffington, 1899).
Volume I only of three. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers.Cloth worn. Front board shakey, spine cover partly hanging off. A good working copy. xxv + 520pp. Order No. NSBK-A14399
Keywords: B00GNE80N6, religion, religious, history, saints, patron saints, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, religious orders, church, churches, Christianity, antiquarian
Price £28.00.
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