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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Gosden, P. H. J. H.
How They Were Taught:
(Basil Blackwell, 1969).
An Anthology of Contemporary Accounts of Learning and Teaching in England, 1800-1950. Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good in browned, chipped dustwrapper. xii + 299pp. Order No. NSBK-A6041
Keywords: 0631113207, teaching, teachers, learning, schools, schooling, education, educational, England, English, history, Britain, British, nineteenth century, twentieth century, board schools, voluntary schools, primary, secondary, sciences, education of women, women's education, experimental schools, teacher training, universities
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Field, Frank.
The Minimum Wage: Its Potential and Dangers
(Heinemann/Policy Studies Institute, rpt., 1984).
Hardback. Good+ in dustwrapper. viii + 117pp. Order No. NSBK-A12927
Keywords: 0435833006, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, Frank Field, politics, political, politicians, government, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial
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England, Joe, editor.
Changing Lives: Workers' Education in Wales, 1907 - 2007
(Welsh People's History Society, 2007).
Paperback. Very good+. vi + 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A14197
Keywords: B001SGXJE4, Wales, Welsh, history, education, twentieth century, schools, WEA, working classes, adult education, workers, Workers' Educational Association
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Hutchinson, T. W.
Economics and Economic Policy in Britain, 1946-1966: Some Aspects of their Inter-relations
(George Allen and Unwin, 1968).
Hardback. Good in slightly browned, slightly chipped dustwrapper. 307pp. Order No. NSBK-A5959
Keywords: B000KYXBAW, economics, economic policy, economy, Britain, British, England, English, policy, policies, post-war, twentieth century
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Huxley, Elspeth.
Gallipot Eyes: A Wiltshire Diary
(Century, rpt., 1988).
Paperback. Spine creased and page edges soiled, otherwise good. 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A7976
Keywords: 0712623779, diary, diaries, Elspeth Huxley, women writers, woman writer, women's history, twentieth century, 20th, Wiltshire
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Marsh, David C.
The Changing Social Structure of England and Wales, 1871-1961:
(RKP, revised edition, 1965).
Hardback. Ex library with usual markings, but generally good in lightly worn, slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 273pp. Order No. NSBK-A967
Keywords: 0710033737, social structure, Wales, Welsh history, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, nineteenth century, twentieth century, classes, population, demography, demographic, family, families
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Bolt, Christine.
Feminist Ferment: "The Woman Question" in the USA and England, 1870-1940
(UCL Press, 1995).
Paperback. New book, fine. vii + 125pp. Order No. NSBK-C1500
Keywords: 1857283821, USA, America, American, history, woman question, women, feminism, feminists, feminist, Victorian, Edwardian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, women's history, England, English
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Brivati, Brian and Cockett, Richard, eds.
Anatomy of Decline: The Political Journalism of Peter Jenkins
(Cassell, 1995).
With an introduction by Polly Toynbee and Foreword by David Owen. Hardback. Near fine in slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. Book plate stuck to fly leaf. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-A10134
Keywords: 0304344761, politics, political, Peter Jenkins, journalism, journalists, twentieth century, media, newspapers, journals, Magazines, Washington correspondent
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Stanhope, The Rt Hon Earl, ed.
The Extra Year: A Report of the Joint Committee of Investigation Representing the Association of Education Committees and the National Union of Teachers
(London UP, 2nd impress., 1938).
Hardback. Spine ends rubbed, some mottling to inside pages, otherwise good in worn and torn dustwrapper. xiii + 143pp. Order No. NSBK-C12697
Keywords: B000KY2XQA, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students, school leaving age, school leavers, extra year, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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