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
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Wheeler, Wendy.
The Political Subject: Essays on the Self from Art, Politics and Science
(Lawrence and Wishart, 2000).
Paperback. Fine. 284pp. Order No. NSBK-A10345
Keywords: 0853159149, art, politics, science, twentieth century, 20th, history, literature, the self, identity, psychoanalysis, crowd psychology, crowds, modernisation, colonialism, political poetry, complexity theory, emotional literacy, ethics, masculinity, computer prosthetics
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Coates, Tim, ed.
Bloody Sunday: Lord Widgery's Report
(TSO, 2001).
Uncovered Editions. Moments of History Series. Paperback. Fine. 120pp. Order No. NSBK-A13049
Keywords: 0117024058, Bloody Sunday, Ireland, Irish, Northern Ireland, Ulster, twentieth century, 20th century, Lord Widgery, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Moments of History Series
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Monahan, Patricia.
Landscape Painting:
(Macdonald, 1985).
29 landscape painting projects illustrated step-by-step with advice on materials and techniques. Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled, slightly chipped dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A10233
Keywords: 0356107795, art, artists, painting, painters, Britain, British, England, English, crafts, twentieth century, 20th, techniques, watercolours
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Brenner, Reuven.
Rivalry: In Business, Science, Among Nations
(CUP, 1987).
Hardback. Minor annotation, otherwise very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A9767
Keywords: 0521331870, rivalry, twentieth century, 20th, entrepreneurs, Britain, British, history, industry, economy, economists, economics, business
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Butler, R.F and Prichard, M. H., eds.
The Society of Oxford Home-Students: Retrospects and Recollections (1879-1921)
(The Oxonian Press, 1921 ?).
Hardback. Very good. 141pp. Order No. NSBK-A12649
Keywords: B00088FGQC, The Society of Oxford Home Students, higher education, education, educational, university, universities, colleges, academia, academe, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, women's education
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Constantine, Stephen, ed.
Dominions Diary: The Letters of E. J. Harding, 1913-1916
(Ryburn Publishing, 1992).
Hardback. A slight waviness across tops of pages (the effects of minor damp), otherwise very good. 336pp. Order No. NSBK-A7418
Keywords: 1853310182, E. J. Harding, letters, correspondence, diaries, twentieth century, travel, the British Empire, Imperialism, 20th, Australia, New Zealand, South African, New Foundland, Canada, Canadian, autobiography, autobiographical, life history, life histories, colonies, colonialism, colony
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Cowie, H, Harlow, C. and Emerson, R.
Rebuilding the Infrastructure: The Needs of English Cities and Towns
(Policy Studies Institute, 1984).
Paperback. Spine slightly chipped, map at back slightly torn, otherwise very good. 132pp. Order No. NSBK-A10595
Keywords: 0853742472, towns, cities, Britain, British, England, English, history, infrastructure, building, construction, twentieth century, 20th
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Madoc-Jones, Beryl and Coates, Jennifer, ed.
An Introduction to Women's Studies:
(Blackwell, 1996).
Paperback. Very good+. xiv + 293pp. Order No. NSBK-C12452
Keywords: 0631192557, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's studies, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th
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Jamieson, Lynn, and Corr, Helen ed.
State, Private Life and Political Change:
(Macmillan, 1990).
Paperback. Near fine. xi + 247pp. Order No. NSBK-A9339
Keywords: 0333493699, twentieth century, politics, state, Britain, British, England, English, history, welfare state, masculinity, sexuality, nineteenth
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