Dresses and Dressmaking: From Late Georgians to the Edwardians, Paperback - Pam Inder

This book explores the history behind how woman's clothing were manufactured and worn between the French Revolution and World War I. Including full...

An instant bestseller when it was published in 1930, this glittering satire of Edwardian high society features a privileged brother and sister torn...

With her "choose-your-own-adventure" approach to sewing, Tanya Whelan offers an invaluable collection of patterns that empowers sewers to become de...

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'The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you'd be mad not to want to live there yourself' GUARDIANPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor...

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Reducere. DescriptionIn Laura Read's second poetry collection, the former poet laureate of Spokane, WA, weaves past and present together to create a portrait...

Publisher: Hirmer VerlagAuthor(s): Jessica RichardsonIllustration(s): 240 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 380Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this comprehensive and balanced history of modern Korea explores the social, economic, and political is...

DescriptionIn this book the much-debated problem of political organization in Mycenaean Greece (ca. 1400-1200 BC) is analysed and contextualised th...

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The first assessment of religious violence throughout the whole of Antiquity, with a particular focus on Late Antiquity where a much more nuanced p...

Fresh analysis of elite public giving in the Greek cities in all periods of ancient history, highlighting it as a structural feature of polis socie...

Bring History to LifeWhether you wish you could time travel to the court of Versailles or the Highlands of Scotland, this comprehensive guide will ...

The River Nile fascinated the Romans and appeared in maps, written descriptions, philosophical texts, poems and landscape paintings. This book exam...

DescriptionSince antiquity, Roman architecture and planning have inspired architects and designers. In this volume, Diane Favro and Fikret Yeg l of...

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Reducere. A Washington Post Book World RaveHarriet McBryde Johnson's witty and highly unconventional memoir opens with a lyrical meditation on death and ends...

Fresh analysis of elite public giving in the Greek cities in all periods of ancient history, highlighting it as a structural feature of polis socie...

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Reducere. This monograph uses an archaeological approach to decipher folk classification of animals in ancient societies. Ningning Dong collates faunal data ...

Stunning previously unpublished photographs documenting the end of steam railways in the East Anglia area.Illustrations: 180 Illustrations, unspeci...

'Late modernist poetics' explores the uncanny afterlife of modernist ideals in the second half of the twentieth century. Contextually and theoretic...

With stunning previously unpublished photographs documenting the end of steam railways of the G.W.R.Illustrations: 180 Illustrations, unspecified

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Challenging the long-standing idea that translations do not bear the same literary or historical weight as the supposed originals upon which they a...

China's Grandmothers explores the status and lives of grandmothers in China from the late Qing to the present. Using a wide range of historical and...

In Western Europe the Golden Age of Islamic metalwork in Iran was (and is) generally considered to be the earlier period, and later metalwork was c...

DescriptionIn the '50s and '60s, Simplicity released their popular line of Jiffy sewing patterns, which had minimal pattern pieces and simple const...

Reducere. Here is a holistic approach to childbirth that examines this profound rite-of-passage not as a medical event but as an act of self-discovery. Exerc...

A haunting, cinematic portrait of Berlin as seen by an alienated expatEight years after moving to Berlin from his native New York, photographer Rom...

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A glittering portrait of fashionable Edwardian high society, seen through the lives of a brother and sister torn between their ties to the past and...

Tailor-make your wardrobe with this essential dressmaking guide.Discover everything you need to know to design, create, and customize your clothes....

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Jingdezhen to the World: The Lurie Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Late Ming Dynasty, Hardcover

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Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonAuthor(s): Mikhail SuslovNumber of pages: 302Collection: Soviet and Post-Soviet Polit...

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Throughout its long history, home dressmaking has been a formative experience in the lives of millions of women. In an age of relative affluence an...

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All the most horrible facts about the Gorgeous Georgians ready for readers to uncover, including what they used squashed fish eyes for and all the ...

Explores a lost world of women's dominance.Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Wendy GamberNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 1997...

Reducere. Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy, the fourth collection from award-winning poet Amorak Huey, is an unflinching, humorous meditation on America...

This book analyses beautiful and varied style of Edwardian domestic architecture within a broad context, including Edwardian political thought and ...

Another fast-paced and warm-hearted thriller from award-winning writer, and former MP, Alan Johnson.Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): ...

A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes today.Publi...