Manchester Women's History Group, .
Resources for Women's History in Greater Manchester:
(National Museum of Labour History, 1993).
An invaluable guide to archival material in over forty institutions, which resulted from a major project of retrieval and recovery undertaken by the Manchester Women's History Group. It uncovers a fascinating array of material of use to all those interested in researching the history of women: film, photographs, oral history tapes, manuscripts, artifacts & printed sources. Paperback. Very good. iv + 172pp. Order No. NSBK-C679
Keywords: 0950712019, Manchester, Greater Manchester, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, Manchester Women's History Group, sources, resources, National Museum of Labour History
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Cambridge Women's Studies Group, .
Women in Society:
(Virago, rpt, 1985).
Paperback. Some pencil markings to title page and in a few places in text, sticker mark and creasing to paper covers, otherwise good. 313pp. Order No. NSBK-C6427
Keywords: 0860680835, feminists, feminist, feminism, sociology, Cambridge Women's Studies Group, England, English, Britain, British, feminist theory, family, state, work, sexuality, families, motherhood, sexual difference, Ludmilla Jordanova, Denise Riley
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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
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Department of Employment, .
Time Rates of Wages and Hours of Work: 1st April 1971
(HMSO, 1971).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some creasing to front cover, otherwise good. 327pp. Order No. NSBK-A14182
Keywords: 0113603738, wages, hours, work, time rates, employment, 1970s, seventies, manufacturing, industry, economy, textiles, factories, factory, engineering, social history, pay
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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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Women's Social and Political Union, Replica Badge (Suffragettes).
Sowing the Seeds of Suffrage: Modern Reproduction Suffragette Badge in Enamel
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004).
High quality modern reproduction enamel badge (with epoxy seal). A collectable modern replica of an original WSPU badge. (Women's Social and Political Union). Size: 25mm (1 inch) diameter: Circular shape. Hard enamel-type finish. Gold-plated back and gold-plated, safe, butterfly clutch-pin to rear. Presented inside a small poly-bag. The design, as used by the WSPU, features a woman scattering the seeds of woman suffrage, and the colours are those associated with the suffragette movement - purple, green and white. The writing around the circumference of the badge reads (at top) ' Votes For Women' and (at bottom) 'Women's Social and Political Union'. Badge. Mint condition, new. pp. Order No. NSBK-C8808
Keywords: B0032U1Q76, Votes For Women, suffrage, woman suffrage, pins, badge, badges, pin back, pinbacks, suffragette, suffragettes, suffragists, women, women's history, social history, Britain, British, England, English, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, enamel, enamels, jewellery, jewelry, brooch, brooches, Edwardian, women's movement, Britain, British, England, English, Portrayer Publishers, suffragette ephemera
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Dyment, Clifford.
The Railway Game: an Early Autobiography
(Readers Union, rpt, 1963).
Hardback. Very good in browned, slightly worn dustwrapper. 218pp. Order No. NSBK-A4710
Keywords: B0000EERAV, British, Britain, England, English, autobiographies, autobiography, railway, steam, railway game, Clifford Dyment, autobiography, child, boy, children, childhood, 1920s, 1930s, interwar, inter-war, inter war, history, boyhood, youth, poems, poet, poets, poetry
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Cheshire Federation Women's Institutes, .
The Cheshire Village Book:
(Countryside Books, 1990).
Paperback. Spine creased, a little coffee staining and creasing to rear pages, otherwise good. 254pp. Order No. NSBK-A14317
Keywords: 1853060755, Cheshire Federation Women's Institutes, Cheshire, villages, rural, countryside, farms, Cheshire Plain
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Heinemann, Margot, Labour Research Department.
Britain's Coal: A Study of the Mining Crisis
(Victor Gollancz, 1944).
Foreword by Will Lawther. Hardback. Spine faded, otherwise very good. 195pp. Order No. NSBK-A13478
Keywords: B0006AQV84, coal, coal mining, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, history, miners, colliers, crisis, 1940s, nationalisation, wages, health, safety, dangers, accidents, mines, labour, monopoly, management
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Royal Commission Historical Monuments, .
Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Buckinghamshire
(HMSO, 1986).
Paperback. Small sticker mark on front cover, otherwise very good. 30pp. Order No. NSBK-A3384
Keywords: 0113000065, nonconformity, nonconformist, chapels, Dissent, meeting-houses, Buckinghamshire, English heritage, British, Britain, England, religion, Bethels, Georgian, Christopher Stell, buildings, architecture, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, religion
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