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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Mallock, W.H.
The Nation as a Business Firm: An Attempt to Cut a Path Through the Jungle
(Adam and Charles Black, 1910).
Hardback. Boards heavily worn but internally good. xi + 268pp. Order No. NSBK-A13090
Keywords: B000KWX9VK, business, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, poor, class, classes, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Roethel, Hans Konrad.
Modern German Painting:
(Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1958).
60 Illustrations in Colour, 28 in black and white. Foreword by Sir John Rothenstein. Hardback. Oversized book, some foxing to pages not affecting legibility, small piece cut out of fly leaf, otherwise good+ in rather tatty dustwrapper. 104pp. Order No. NSBK-A10487
Keywords: B0000CK2IE, German, Germany, painting, painters, art, artists, illustrations, images, Hans Konrad Roethel, twentieth century, 20th, Europe, European
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Sochen, June.
Movers and Shakers: American Women Thinkers and Activists, 1900-1970
(Quadrangle, 1973).
Hardback. Top of spine slightly torn, otherwise good+ in slightly chipped dustwrapper. xi + 320pp. Order No. NSBK-A11864
Keywords: 0812903609, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, activists, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, twentieth century, 20th, politics, political, politicians, government
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Sinclair, J. B and Fenn, R. W. D.
Just the Right Man: John Richard Worthington Poole-Hughes, 1916-1988: Bishop of South West Tanganyika, 1962-1974, and Bishop of Llandaff 1975-1985
(Cadoc Books, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. 177pp. Order No. NSBK-A10039
Keywords: 0951686518, John Richard Worthington Poole-Hughes, Tanzania, Tanganyika, bishops, religion, religious, Christians, Christianity, African, twentieth century, Wales, Welsh, biography, biographies, lives, life history, life histories, missionaries, missionary
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Laffin, John.
Panorama of the Western Front:
(Sutton Publishing, rpt., 1996).
Hardback. Good+ in chipped and worn dustwrapper. viii + 120pp. Order No. NSBK-J12653
Keywords: 1856279014, Western Front, panorama, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Crosby, Alan G.
A Society with No Equal: The Chetham Society, 1843-1993
(Chetham Society, 1993).
Hardback. Very good. ix + 86pp. Order No. NSBK-A13577
Keywords: 1859360017, Chetham Society, Manchester, society, societies, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Key, Ellen.
The Renaissance of Motherhood:
(Source Book Press/ G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914).
Hardback. Very good. vi + 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C13633
Keywords: Ellen Key, Sweden, Swedish, feminist, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century
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Brown, George.
In My Way: The Political Memoirs of Lord George-Brown
(Book Club Associates, rpt., 1971).
Hardback. Very good in edge worn dustwrapper. 299pp. Order No. NSBK-A9356
Keywords: 057500696X, political, politics, memoirs, Lord George-Brwon, George Brown, Britain, British, history, Labour party, Labour, Peabody Buildings, twentieth century, 20th, MPs, Members of Parliament
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Bazin, Germain.
Impressionist Paintings in the Louvre:
(Thames and Hudson, 1958).
With coloured illustrations. Hardback. Covers slightly worn, otherwise good+. 320pp. Order No. NSBK-A9961
Keywords: B0000CK1GY, impressionists, impressionism, Louvre, paintings, painters, art, artists, France, French, Europe, European, history, twentieth century, 20th
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