Willard, Frances E.
Glimpses of Fifty Years: the Autobiography of an American Woman
(Source Book Press, rpt, 1970).
Complete, unabridged republication of 1889 Chicago edition. Intro. by Hannah Whitall Smith. Hardback. Slight darkening / light marking to red boards, otherwise very good. xvi + 698pp. Order No. NSBK-C1593
Keywords: B0008C0JOM, Frances Willard, Hannah Whitall Smith, Hannah Smith, America, American women, American women's history, United States, USA, autobiography, history, Chicago, nineteenth century, women's history, women, autobiographies, Women's Christian Temperance Union, WCTU, W.C.T.U
Price £22.00.
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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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Jordan, Tim and Lent, Adam.
Storming the Millennium: The New Politics of Change
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1999).
Paperback. Very good. vi + 218pp. Order No. NSBK-A12738
Keywords: 0853158738, politics, political, politicians, government, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK millennium
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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
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Perryman, Nigel.
Brave New Britain: Francis Frith's Method of Post-War Life
(Frith Book Company, 2002).
Hardback. Good+ with chip to dustwrapper. 125pp. Order No. NSBK-A12264
Keywords: 1859375642, Francis Frith, post war, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, photos, photographs, pictures, images
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Schreiner, Olive.
Woman and Labor:
(Virago, rpt, 1985).
Paperback. A little creasing / rubbing to spine, otherwise very good. 283pp. Order No. NSBK-C1821
Keywords: 0860680460, Olive Schreiner, literature, women and work, labour, labor, feminism, feminist, history, equal rights, equal opportunities, Virago, Viragos
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Roberts, Elizabeth.
A Woman's Place: an Oral History of Working-Class Women, 1890-1940
(Blackwell, reissue, 1985).
Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. vii + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C4152
Keywords: 0631147543, oral history, Elizabeth Roberts, Lancaster, Barrow, Preston, working class, working classes, family, marriage, work, leisure, motherhood, mothers, neighbourhood, North West, Northern, England, British, Britain, English, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Edwardian
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Eastwood, G. F.
Queen Elizabeth's: A New History of the Ancient Grammar School of Blackburn
(J. Dickenson, 1967).
Hardback. Very good in chipped/torn dustwrapper repaired with sellotape. xx + 126pp. Order No. NSBK-C6262
Keywords: B000HBXWK2, Blackburn, schools, schooling, education, children, girls' schools, girls schools, Britain, British, England, English, history, Queen Elizabeth's, Lancashire
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Liddle, Roger.
The New Case for Europe: The Crisis in British Pro-Europeanism - and How to Overcome it
(Fabian Society, 2005).
Fabian Ideas 615. Paperback. Very good. vi + 81pp. Order No. NSBK-A11179
Keywords: 0716306158, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Europe, European, twentieth century, 20th
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Shriver, William P.
Immigrant Forces: Factors in the New Democracy
(The Presbyterian Department, 1913).
Illustrated with black and white photographs. Hardback. Spine ends bumped, covers slightly worn, otherwise good+. ix + 277pp. Order No. NSBK-A13824
Keywords: B000RY9D3E, immigration, immigrants, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, , democracy, Ellis Island, aliens
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