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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Hymowitz, Carol and Weissman, Michaele.
A History of Women in America:
(Bantam, 1978).
Abundantly illustrated. Paperback. Covers creased, otherwise good. 400pp. Order No. NSBK-C13066
Keywords: 0553207628, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, women's history
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Beilharz, Peter, Nyland, Chris, eds.
The Webbs, Fabianism and Feminism:
(Ashgate Publishing, 1998).
Hardback. Very good+. vi + 176pp. Order No. NSBK-C8705
Keywords: 184014307X, The Webbs, Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, Fabianism, feminism, feminists, socialism, Fabian Women's Group, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, rights of women, Women's Movement, National Standard for Manual Handling, Marxism, sociology, sociological, New Statesman
Price £14.00.
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Colbeck, Maurice.
Yorkshire:
(B. T. Batsford, 1976).
Hardback. Tiny splashes on page edges, otherwise very good. 200pp. Order No. NSBK-A6378
Keywords: 0713430591, Yorkshire, York, Teeside, Ryedale, Eskdale, moors, countryside, regional, Humberside, the Wolds, Holderness, coal, Sheffield, Black Prince, Robin Hood, Pennines, Aire, Ribble, rivers, Wharfe, Nidd, Ripon, Wensleydale, Swale, Tees
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James, Leighton S.
The Politics of Identity and Civil Society in Britain and Germany: Miners in the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890 - 1926
(Manchester UP, 2008).
Critical Labour Movement Studies. Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 226pp. Order No. NSBK-A14753
Keywords: 9780719074974, Critical Labour Movement Studies, Ruhr, miners, mining, South Wales, Welsh, coal mining, coal-mining, colleries, pits, coalfields, trade unions, labour movements, identity, history, Germany, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, German, coal industry, World War I, Great War
Price £38.00.
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Herzog, Marianne.
From Hand to Mouth: Women and Piecework
(Penguin, rpt., 1980).
Paperback. Good. 155pp. Order No. NSBK-C4791
Keywords: 0140220895, women, women and work, history, women's history, German, Germany, Europe, European, West Germany, Philips, Siemens, piecework, wages, unemployment, employment, jobs, factory work, industry, industries, industrial, labor, labour, labor market, labour market. twentieth century
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Howard, Cecil.
Mary Kingsley:
(Hutchinson, 2nd impression, 1957).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, otherwise good in chipped dustwrapper. 231pp. Order No. NSBK-C448
Keywords: B0007J1T72, Mary Kingsley, woman traveller, women travellers, woman traveler, women travelers, Victorian, nineteenth century, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, African, history, West Africa
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Wojtczak, Helena.
Mary Raleigh Richardson: The Suffragette Arsonist Who Slashed the Rokeby Venus
(Hastings Press, 2025).
Signed by the author. This first book-length biography of the militant suffragette Mary Raleigh Richardson reveals for the first time her true identity, ancestry, childhood and education, as well as her surprising - and exciting - international travels before she became embroiled in the suffrage struggle. During her time as a militant Mary was arrested nine times. Prepared to die for the cause, she adopted the hunger strike each time she was imprisoned, and was forcibly fed countless times. Her hunger strike medal boasted more bars than that of any other suffragette - something of which she remained proud for the rest of her life. Her most infamous deed was to use a cheap meat cleaver to inflict several gashes into Velasquez's Rokeby Venus, a world-famous and priceless painting. In a lesser-known and yet equally sensational attack she burned down a historic mansion near Hampton Court. During the war she continued to work for the vote, allying herself with both Sylvia Pankhurst's ELFS and the United Suffragists. Having joined the Labour Party she twice stood for Parliament, and in 1933 was briefly a member of Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Finding it did not align with her values she returned to socialism for the rest of her life. In retirement she penned Laugh a Defiance, a memoir of her suffrage days. The work is essential reading for suffrage scholars and those keen to explore the lives of the individual personalities within the militant movement. Paperback. Fine. 320pp. Order No. NSBK-C15912
Keywords: 9781904109600, signed by the author, suffragettes, Votes for Women, biography, biographies, social history, women's history, Mary Raleigh Richardson, hunger strikes, militancy,suffragette, Canada, Canadian politics, arson, militant
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Dorr, Rheta Childe.
What Eight Million Women Want:
(Craus, 1971 rpt of 1910 edit).
Hardback. Ex library, very good. xii + 339pp. Order No. NSBK-C2588
Keywords: B0006VUHP6, women's history, suffrage, United States, America, votes for women, suffragettes, women's rights,women's politics, Rheta Childe Dorr, culture clubs, salic law
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Gladwin, D. D.
The Canals of Britain:
(B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1973).
With illustrations by J. K. Ebblewhite. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some staining to top page edges, otherwise good in faded dustwrapper. 254pp. Order No. NSBK-A7037
Keywords: 07134049292, canals, rivers, water, waterways, Britain, British, history, England, English, Bridgewater, canal companies, company, boats, boatmen, lock-keepers, navvy, navvies, Waterways Research Centre, borrowed by RAS
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