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Virginia Nicholson
"A panoramic social history that chronicles the quest for beauty in all its contradictions--and how it affects the female body."--
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From the popular historian and author of Among the Bohemians and How Was It For You? comes a new offering, unbuttoning the multi-layered, hundred-year-history of women's lives through fashion and…
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We tend to see the Second World War as a man’s war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. But in conditions of Total War millions of…
Almost three-quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behind a generation of women who…
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Subversive, eccentric and flamboyant - the Bohemians ate garlic and didn’t always wash; they painted and danced and didn’t care what people thought. They sent their children to co-ed schools…
Tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm. This book reconstructs the real 1950s, through…
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Tells the story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by war; and in their turn helped…
The real story of women in the 1960s- Flower Power, the Pill, Miniskirts … Tupperware and ideal homes
Turn the page back to the 1960s, a decade whose radiant light-show…
Iris Origo
Iris Origo and her husband had been settled at their rural estate of La Foce since 1924. When the Second World War broke out Origo, an Englishwoman, had divided loyalties…
Quentin Bell,Virginia Nicholson
Fascinating personal account by Quentin Bell and his daughter Virginia Nicholson of this extraordinary house, its history and the lives of those who lived in it.
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Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was one of the greatest British artists of the twentieth century, first coming to international prominence with his famous ‘white reliefs’ of the 1930s. A pioneer of…
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It is a collection of works by individuals from all walks of life, including psychiatrists, religious scholars, astrolegers, Jungian analysts, journalists and economists. The characteristic of the karmic concept that…
S. Nicholson
This popular anthology explores karma from many points of view, including Christianity, Judaism, Hindu yogic philosophy, and Buddhism. Essays by psychologists, scientists, and philosophers.
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
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First full-length survey of the Temple Church, from its foundation in the twelfth century to the Second World War.
