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17 produkter
Charleston
A Bloomsbury House & Garden
Av Quentin Bell, Virginia Nicholson
Häftad, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
271 kr
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The newly revised and updated Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden is the definitive publication on the Bloomsbury Group's rural outpost in the heart of the Sussex Downs.“It’s absolutely perfect…”, wrote the artist Vanessa Bell when she moved to Charleston in 1916. For fifty years, Vanessa and …
All the Rage
Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960
Häftad, 2025
165 kr
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'Sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes' -Sunday TimesAt the heart of this history is the female body. The century-span between the crinoline and the bikini witnessed more mutations in the ideal western woman's body shape than at any other period. …
Among the Bohemians
Experiments in Living 1900-1939
Häftad, 2003
181 kr
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Virginia Nicholson's Among the Bohemians is a portrait of England's artistic community in the first half of the twentieth century, engaged in a grand experiment.Subversive, eccentric and flamboyant - the Bohemians ate garlic and didn't always wash; they painted and danced and didn't care what …
Singled Out
How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War
Häftad, 2008
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
210 kr
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Virginia Nicholson's Singled Out is the touching and beautifully told 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 change society.In 1919 a generation of young women discovered that there were, quite …
Millions Like Us
Women's Lives in the Second World War
Häftad, 2012
171 kr
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In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's Second World War, through a host of individual women's experiences. 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 …
Singled Out
How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War
E-bok, 2008
108 kr
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In 1919 a generation of young women discovered that there were, quite simply, not enough men to go round, and the statistics confirmed it. After the 1921 Census, the press ran alarming stories of the 'Problem of the Surplus Women - Two Million who can never become Wives...'. This book is about …
Among the Bohemians
Experiments in Living 1900-1939
E-bok, 2003
108 kr
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'Racy, vivacious, warm-hearted. Offers an illuminating and well-researched portrait of life among the artists, a century ago' TLSSubversive, eccentric and flamboyant, the artistic community in the first half of the twentieth century were ingaged in a grand experiment.The Bohemians ate garlic and …
Millions Like Us
Women's Lives in the Second World War
E-bok, 2011
108 kr
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In 1942 Cora Johnston is grieving over the death of her young husband, torpedoed in the Atlantic; Aileen Morris is intercepting Luftwaffe communications during the siege of Malta - and Clara Milburn, whose son was captured after Dunkirk, is waiting, and waiting ...We tend to see the Second World …
Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War
Häftad, 2008
443 kr
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Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes
The Story of Women in the 1950s
Häftad, 2016
236 kr
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In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm.Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century, and discover a world peopled by women with radiant smiles, clean …
Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes
The Story of Women in the 1950s
E-bok, 2015
108 kr
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In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm.Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century, and discover a world peopled by women with radiant smiles, clean …
How Was It For You?
Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s
Häftad, 2020
125 kr
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'One of the great social historians of our time. No one else makes history this fun' Amanda Foreman'How Was It For You? subtly but powerfully subverts complacent male assumptions about a legendary decade' David Kynaston--------------------------------"A feeling that we could do whatever we liked …
How Was It For You?
Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s
E-bok, 2019
108 kr
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'One of the great social historians of our time. No one else makes history this fun' Amanda Foreman'How Was It For You? subtly but powerfully subverts complacent male assumptions about a legendary decade' David Kynaston--------------------------------"A feeling that we could do whatever we liked …
All the Rage
Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960
E-bok, 2024
45 kr
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''Sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes'' - Sunday Times At the heart of this history is the female body. The century-span between the crinoline and the bikini witnessed more mutations in the ideal western woman''s body shape than at any other …
All the Rage
Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960
Inbunden, 2024
280 kr
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'No one else makes history this fun' AMANDA FOREMAN'All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes' SARAH DITUM, SUNDAY TIMES'Wonderfully engaging' HARPER'S BAZAARAt the heart of this history is the female body.The century-span between the …
Millions Like Us
Women''s Lives in the Second World War
Ljudbok, 2012
154 kr
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Virginia Nicholson''s Millions Like Us: Women''s Lives in the Second World War. A special multi-voice recording featuring five actresses that bring to life the hundreds of personal testimonies, diary entries and books that make up this superb study. …
