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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Butler, Josephine E.
Some Thoughts on the Present Aspect of the Crusade: Against the State Regulation Of Vice
(Portrayer, 2002 reprint of 1874 text).
No 1 in the Open Archive Occasional Series. Booklet. New booklet, fine. 12pp. Order No. NSBK-C6304
Keywords: B001C3VNMS, Josephine E. Butler, education, social history, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, equality, gender roles, working women, women workers, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade, prostitution, prostitutes, State Regulation of Vice, Contagious Diseases Act, social purity, Liverpool, Open Archive Occasional Series, new title, booklet
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Jackson, Glenda.
Rise Up Women: The Suffragette Campaign in London
(Museum of London, 1992).
PAL VHS. Includes the anti--suffragette film Milling the Militants. VHS video. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15762
Keywords: Milling the Militants, social history, suffragettes, suffragette, women, women's, Emily Wilding Davison, London, England, Votes for Women, Glenda Jackson, Museum of London, suffragette campaign
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Hewitt, Graily.
The Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of the Diseases of Women: Including a Diagnosis of Pregnancy
(Longmans, Green, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged, 1868).
With numerous illustrations. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps. Boards darkened with rubbing to edges. One page loose, otherwise a good solid copy, though with a little marginal pencil annotation. xxxii + 700pp. Order No. NSBK-C13522
Keywords: B001009LFY, medical, medicine, pregnancy, women, women's history, health, illness, gynaecology, gynaecological, maternity, motherhood, pathology, diseases, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, uterus, uterine medicine, social history
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Simmons, Jack.
Life in Victorian Leicester:
(Leicester Museums, 1971).
Paperback. Good. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-A14236
Keywords: B001QXYCK4, Leicester, Leicestershire, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, 19th century, nineteenth century, local history, towns, urban, Midlands, social history
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Symes, Ruth A.
It Runs in the Family:
(The History Press, 2013).
In the quest to uncover our family history, we turn to written records, the family album and even heirlooms. However, they can often be difficult to interpret and sometimes pose more questions than they answer: Why didn't my ancestors smile for the camera? Why did great-grandfather wear a beard while his sons were clean-shaven? Why is my great-grandmother holding flowers in this photograph? Drawing on evidence from social history, women's history, and the histories of photography, art and fashion, and using examples from the lowly as well as the famous, Ruth Symes explores many aspects of ordinary life in the past - from the state of the nation's teeth, to the legal and economic connotations of wearing a wedding ring and even the business of keeping a dog. This fascinating volume aims to help family historians get to know their elusive ancestors by deciphering the wealth of personal and historical clues contained in photographs, documents and artefacts. Paperback. New book, fine. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-D15428
Keywords: 9780752497020, family history, family, families, Ruth Symes, genealogy, geneaolgical, social history, evidence, sources, research, women, old photographs, photography
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Forbes, Robert.
Sixty Years of Medical Defence:
(Medical Defence Union, 1948).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, wear to boards and damage to spine & fly leaf, but a good solid working copy. 92pp. Order No. NSBK-A6579
Keywords: B0000CJA05, medical claims, medical defence, history, health, social history, law, legal, 1940s, post war, post-war, Medical Defence Union, medicine, doctors, Britain, British, England, English, prosecutions, legal action
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Riding, Jacqueline.
Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre
(Head of Zeus, 2018).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to title pages, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. 386pp. Order No. NSBK-A15731
Keywords: 9781786695840, Peterloo, Peterloo Massacre, social history, protest, Manchester
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Brett, Alan.
Sunderland: People and Places
(Black Cat, 1990).
With many photographs. Paperback. Minor soiling, otherwise very good. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-A16124
Keywords: B0018Z2BVC, outsized booklet, booklets, Sunderland, social history, Tyne and Wear, North East, pictures, images, old photos, photographs
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Wojtczak, Helena.
Women of Victorian Sussex: their Status, Occupations,and Dealings With The Law, 1830-1870
(Hastings Press, 2003).
Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-C7234
Keywords: 1904109055, Victorian, Hastings, women, woman, nineteenth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English, provinces, provincial, regional studies, seaside, seaside towns, women's history, occupations, neighbourhood, community, communities, urban, urban history, St Leonards, gender, Sussex, Victorian prostitution, prostitutes, prostitute, infanticide, liquor, liquor trade. trade, motherhood, mothers, mother, occupation, occupations, infant murder, infant killing, infant killings, brothel, brothels, milliners, milliner, midwives, midwife, midwifery, drunkenness, drunkard, drunkards, drink, drinking, drinker, drinkers, 19th Century, Lewes, Brighton, status, law, laws, Hailsham, Helena Wojtczak, Chichester, Class, Classes
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