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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Ouvry, Elinor Southwood.
Extracts from Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1864 - 1911:
(Adelphi Book Shop, London, 1933).
Foreword by Neville Chamberlain. Card covers. Spine darkened, edges of covers slightly chipped / slightly curled, some chipping to spine, internally very good. iii + 64pp. Order No. NSBK-C4295
Keywords: B001QVTYT0, open spaces, housing, housing management, house, houses, Octavia Hill, London, philanthropy, women, woman, philanthropist, philanthropists, town planning, social history, welfare, towns, city, cities, fellow workers, fellow-workers, housing reformers, housing reformer, slum, slums, property, poor, poverty, nineteenth century, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century
Price £26.50.
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Robson, William A.
The Government and Misgovernment of London:
(George Allen and Unwin, 2nd edition,1948).
A little splitting internally at spine. Hardback. Ex library with library stamps and cancellation marks, edges worn, cloth faded espec at spine. Otherwise a good working copy. 518pp. Order No. NSBK-A15878
Keywords: B0007J0752, London, England, Britain, government, history, public services, stored in hall
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Towner, Margaret.
Dollhouse Furniture: The Collector's Guide to Selecting and Enjoying Miniature Masterpieces
(Courage Books, 1993).
Hardback. Very good in creased dustwrapper. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-A6954
Keywords: 1561383252, female, women, women's history, girls' education, girls, girlhood, dolls houses, dollhouse furniture, furniture, Britain, British, England, English, miniatures, toys, games, collectors. collecting, making dolls houses
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Raitz, Karl, ed.
A Guide to the National Road:
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
Illustrated with more than 300 maps and photographs. Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. xxiv + 392pp. Order No. NSBK-A10360
Keywords: 0801851564, National Road, highways, roads, traffic, American, America, USA, United States, Chesapeake Bay, Mississippi River, Congress, Maryland, Cumberland, National Historic Register, travel, motor courts, road houses, gas stations, diners, transport
Price £22.00.
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Turns, Keith.
The Independent Bus: Historical Survey of Some Independent Bus Operators
(David and Charles, 1974).
Hardback. A little foxing to page edges, otherwise very good in spine-faded very good dustwrapper. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A13857
Keywords: 0715364383, transport, bus, buses, history, transport, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, bus operators, independent bus operators, public transport
Price £15.00.
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Ridley, Annie E.
Frances Mary Buss and her Work for Education:
(Longmans, Green, 1895).
Hardback. Some light wear to the edges, spotting to early pages, otherwise good, firm. viii + 399pp. Order No. NSBK-C5115
Keywords: B07FT3XRFG, education, women, history, women's education, Frances Mary Buss, North London Collegiate School for Ladies, Public Day School for Girls, school, schools, schooling, Victorian, nineteenth century, biography, biographies, English, British, England, Britain, training, training colleges, higher education, adult education, female, university education, universities, Annie E. Ridley
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Stanley, Oliver; Buchan, John, Bressey, C. H.
British Bridges: an Illustrated Technical and Historical Record
(Public Works, Roads, Transport Congress, 1933).
With many photographic illustrations. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Splitting / cracking damage to exterior of spine, with some wear to all edges. Otherwise overall good. xxiv + 498pp. Order No. NSBK-A14968
Keywords: B000RZAQPW, bridges, history, technical, transport, history, technology, roads, infrastructure, public works, bridge, towns, crossing points, photos, photographs, pictures, illustrations
Price £35.00.
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Waters, William.
Stained Glass from Shrigley and Hunt of Lancaster and London:
(Centre for North-West Regional Studies, Lancaster University, 2003).
Hardback. Fine. 88pp. Order No. NSBK-A14728
Keywords: 9781862201408, stained glass, stained glass windows, religion, religious, Shrigley and Hunt, glass houses, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Centre for North-West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster, art, William Walters, church windows, church architecture
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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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