Queen Bees. Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition, Paperback - S

The story of the six extraordinary hostesses who shaped British society in the inter-war years: Lady Astor, Lady Colefax, Lady Londonderry, Lady Cu...

Debt and bad management drove Abraham Gesner off his farm in Nova Scotia's bucolic Annapolis Valley in 1825. It turned out to be a stroke of luck. ...

What did it mean to be a 'rebel woman' in the interwar years? Taking the form of a multiple biography, this book traces the struggles, passions and...

DescriptionAfter the austerity, horror, and bloodshed of World War I, France longed for joy, light-heartedness, and sexual freedom. Men and newly e...

Benjamin Weaver, the quick-witted pugilist turned private investigator, returns in David Liss's sequel to the Edgar Award-winning novel, A Conspira...

A tender, unsettling collection of writing capturing a continent on the brink of further upheaval.Publisher: Granta BooksAuthor(s): Joseph RothTran...

Picturing England between the Wars offers a richly illustrated study of the interplay of word and image in representations of the English countrysi...

Publisher: Hodder EducationAuthor(s): Terry FiehnIllustration(s): colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 136Collection: Discovering the Past for GCSE...

Martin Kitchen's compelling account of Europe between the wars sets the twenty-year crisis within the context of the profound sense of cultural mal...

From the 1880s to the Second World War, Campbell Road, Finsbury Park (known as Campbell Bunk), had a notorious reputation for violence, for breedin...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE - "A beautiful and deeply moving book."--Sally Rooney, author of Normal...

Reducere. "Gripping . . . A valuable recounting of a lurid and little-known episode in American history." -- Washington Post Beginning in the summer of 1903,...

Tying in with the 100-year anniversary of the First World War Armistice, this title explores the huge global aftershocks of the end of the Great Wa...

Publisher: Monash University PublishingAuthor(s): Dr Patricia, OAM ClarkeNumber of pages: 240Collection: Australian HistoryPublication date: 2013Di...

Description Don Rose came to the U.S. from England in 1908, when he was 18, entering through Ellis Island like countless other immigrants. By 1941...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Chris (University of Lincoln, UK) O'RourkeIllustration(s): 18 bw illusNumber of pages: 224Collection...

Bounded by the Great War on one side and by the looming shadow of the Second World War on the other, the inter-war period has characteristically be...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Greco-Persian Wars, then keep reading...This cultural prominence was on full display during ...

Reducere. From a Harvard historian, this riveting portrait of four trailblazing American journalists highlights the power of the press in the interwar period...

Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence and instability that blighted many European countries between the two wo...

Britain and Africa in the twenty-first century offers the first book-length study of how Britain's relationship with Africa has fared since the fal...

A witty and touching account of ten inspirational figures that makes us reconsider conventional ideas of the fifties woman.

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. As the Mages of the Citadel fight amongst themselves and prepare for war against the Forest, Mielitta, a despised servant, has her own battle to fa...

Describes the crucial role celebrities played in the emergence of two competing narratives about COVID-19, one a pro-science narrative that advocat...

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Britain and Africa in the twenty-first century offers the first book-length study of how Britain's relationship with Africa has fared since the fal...

The methods developed by British intelligence in the early twentieth century continue to resonate today. Much like now, the intelligence activity o...

A major and controversial new biography of one of the most compelling and contradictory figures in modern British life.

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Tudors, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book: The Tudors: A Captivat...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Professor Eckart (University of Tubingen, Germany) GoebelTranslator: James C. WagnerNumber of pages:...

Reducere. Do you ever wish there were no bugs to bother you when you go outside? Not thinking it through, Queen Libertine flies into a rage when a tiny sweat...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Napoleonic Wars, then keep reading...The Napoleonic Wars, which took place between 1803 and ...

Brings together some of the seminal interventions which have structured the development of stardom and celebrity studies, while crucially combining...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): The Perils of Interpreting Henrietta HarrisonIllustration(s): 1 map. 36 b/w illus.Number of pages: ...

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