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English Food: A People’s History
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The whys and wherefores of frivolities in stone, shells, plaster, even glass and steel. An illustrated survey.
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Barbara Cartland's daughter, Princess Diana's stepmother, who is said to left the Althorp estate with just a few bin bags of clothes. She was irrepressible, controversial - and perfectly man... read more
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Neutral for fifty years in his work for the BBC, now he tells us what he thinks and thought about all those prime ministers, presidents, elections and scandals.
Keep Talking: A Broadcasting Life
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Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses
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A mix of memoir and analysis that recognises the challenges facing us now and salutes the social progress of the last five decades.
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To misquote Peter Sellers, some of the greatest Tudors started their lives as children... An impeccably researched account.
Tudor Children
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From 1945 to the present. This is also a defence of the unprecedented progress of the last decades, faltering now.
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
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A portrait of the scandalous Oxford club, of which EW was briefly secretary, and looks at the lives of several of his contemporaries too. Seven of them found their way into Brideshead... The... read more
Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club
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A thematic approach combining social history with the political: the household as well as nationhood.
Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
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With Glenconners, Mitfords and Bertrand Russell in the mix, Toynbee is superb on privilege, class and progressive politics.
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So many of K-S's photographs have been misattributed to Cecil Beaton that she has been neglected. She was admired by Man Ray and Paul Nash; her circle included Cocteau, Connolly and Fonteyn.
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These small utopias were described by one interviewee - a gardener with an impressively Eeyore-like dispostiion - as '51 per cent hard work, and 49 per cent disappointment'. They've never be... read more
The Allotment
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A powerful portrait of the Roma since their appearance in Medieval Europe, and of the many forms of persecution they have suffered.
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Country houses were repositories of the finest food in the land, but their tables fell into decline around WW1. Chapters examine all parts of food production (including the game, fish, cerea... read more
Cooking & Dining in the Victorian Country House ...
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The pioneering struggle of early C20th women gardeners, who were excluded from the profession on account of their sex by such august bodies as the RHS. Fiona Davidson's previous book was The... read more
An Almost Impossible Thing
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Land of Shame and Glory: Britain 2021-22
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The British empire observed through the lens of a single day: the 29th September 1923, when the Mandate for Palestine became law and the British empire reached its maximum extent, just as i... read more
One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink
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A characteristically particular and original look at social change from the author of the hugely successful Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979 and others.
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Following High Minds, The Age of Decadence and Staring at God, this is the fourth in his series on the changing face of Britain. It covers the period 1919-1939.
Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars
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Despite its often fraught encounters with democracy, science and secular culture, the Catholic Church's story in the modern era is one of remarkable survival.
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"Very little white satin, very few lace veils; a most pitiful business!" grumbled Mrs Elton at the marriage of Emma and the divine Mr Knightley. How times have changed!
Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen
Hardback £25.00