Fashion in the 1940s (Shrimpton Jayne)(Paperback)

Fashion in the 1940s (Shrimpton Jayne)(Paperback)

This book reveals the impact of wartime on British fashion, how a spirit of utility, make-do and mend unleashed a whole new creativity among Britain's women starved of high fashion by rationing. Many of these home dressmakers copied the high-end looks. Women doing war work created new street

Victorian Fashion (Shrimpton Jayne)(Paperback)

The sweeping crinolines, corsets, bustles, bonnets, and parasols of Victorian Britain are indispensable to our period dramas, and their influences can still be seen within burlesque and steampunk fashions. This is no surprise, as nineteenth-century clothing was so wide-ranging and decorative. We

Fashion and Family History: Interpreting How Your Ancestors Dressed (Shrimpton Jayne)(Paperback)

Studying dress history teaches us much about the past. In this skillfully illustrated, accessible and authoritative book, Jayne Shrimpton demonstrates how fashion and clothes represent the everyday experiences of earlier generations, illuminating the world in which they lived.As Britain evolved

1940s Fashion (Kay Fiona)(Paperback)

Despite - or perhaps because of - the privations of war, the 1940s was one of the greatest decades for fashion in Britain. The designs and fashions of the 1930s would linger on through the early years of the Second World War but with shortages and rationing firmly in place, the Utility clothing

Tracing Your Ancestors Through Family Photographs: A Complete Guide for Family and Local Historians (Shrimpton Jayne)(Paperback)

Jayne Shrimpton's complete guide to dating, analysing and understanding family photographs is essential reading and reference for anyone undertaking genealogical and local history research. Using over 150 old photographs as examples, she shows how such images can give a direct insight into the past

Woman in the Mirror (Avedon Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Richard Avedon redefined portrait and fashion photography in the 20th century. In the 1940s Avedon burst onto the fashion scene, infusing his photographs with touches of realism and the fantastic. His images were among the first to replace the stiff poses of the past with energetic action scenes

1940s Home (Evans Paul)(Paperback / softback)

The history of the British home in the 1940s is dominated by the Second World War. In the first five years of the decade homes were adapted to better survive the affects of bombing. The 1930s home became the wartime home with the addition of anti-blast tape to the windows, sandbags round the door,

The Notion of Authority (Kojeve Alexandre)(Paperback)

In The Notion of Authority, written in the 1940s in Nazi-occupied France, Alexandre Koj ve uncovers the conceptual premises of four primary models of authority, examining the practical application of their derivative variations from the Enlightenment to Vichy France. This foundational text,

Bird's Nest Soup (Greally Hanna)(Paperback)

The author spent the best part of the 1940s and 1950s incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital in the Irish Midlands. 'Mentally well, but unclaimed' - this sums up her horrendous situation. In those days, there was no way out for an unclaimed patient. This title intends to recount the terrible

Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds (Brown Jayna)(Paperback)

In Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of creative worldmaking. Brown explores the

In the Shadow of the Yali (Dervis Suat)(Paperback)

Set in a changing Istanbul, this rediscovered 1940s classic from a pioneering Turkish author tells the story of a forbidden love and its consequences. Raised by her grandmother in one of the famed yalıs, elegant yet crumbling, that line the Bosphorus, Celile occupies a unique space between the

Vikings in Britain and Ireland (Carroll Jayne)(Paperback / softback)

Wrecking of the Orion (Baldwin Jayne)(Paperback / softback)

White Houses (Bloom Amy)(Paperback / softback)

Hidden love in the White House in 1930s and 1940s America, from a master storyteller at the height of her

The Nimrod (Chorlton Martyn)(Paperback)

With its roots dating back to the late 1940s in the de Havilland Comet airliner, the Nimrod already had pedigree when it first appeared in the late 1960s in place of the Shackleton in the Maritime Reconnaissance role. Fewer than fifty were built for the RAF, the type being steadily upgraded

The Glamorous Dead (Gates Suzanne)(Paperback)

Set in the dream factory of the 1940s, this glittering debut novel follows a young Hollywood hopeful into a star-studded web of scandal, celebrity, and murder . . . The chipped pink nail polish is a dead giveaway--no pun intended. When a human thumb is discovered near a Hollywood nightclub, it

Fashion Ethics (Thomas Sue)(Paperback)

Fashion Ethics provides a comprehensive overview of the ethical issues in the fashion industry, from collection design concept to upcycling and closed loop production. This book answers an urgent need for a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental ethics of the fashion industry.Sue Thomas

Dorothea Lange Book One (Lange Dorothea)(Paperback)

Dorothea Lange's documentary work in the 1930s and 1940s set a standard for photography. In this book, her photographs are presented with context and details, and in the photo essay format that the Farm Security Administration had in mind when they commissioned this large scale

Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria (Mayer Adam)(Paperback)

Since the 1940s, Marxist thought has developed considerably in Nigeria. Long gone are the days when Marxism meant imported pamphlets and a rootless foreign ideology. The history of 'Naija' or Nigerian Marxism is also that of the country's labor movement, its feminist movement, its social thought,

The Craft of Musical Composition, Book I: Theory (Hindemith Paul)(Paperback)

(Schott). Originally published in the 1940s, Paul Hindemith's remakable textbooks are still the outstanding works of their kind. In contrast to many musical textbooks written by academic musicians, these were produced by a man who could play every instrument of the orchestra, could compose a

Late Modernism (Fitzpatrick Anne)(Paperback)

An examination of the art movement known as Late Modernism from its beginnings in the 1940s to its decline in the 1970s, including an introduction to great artists and

The War of Words (Burke Anthony)(Paperback)

When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated 'Motivorum' project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. Whereas the third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become canonical theoretical documents. A

The Woman on the Orient Express (Ashford Lindsay Jayne)(Paperback)

Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Christie boards the Orient Express in disguise. But unlike her famous detective Hercule Poirot, she can't neatly unravel the mysteries she encounters on this fateful journey.Agatha isn't the only passenger on board with secrets. Her

Girl in the Headlines (Jayne Hannah)(Paperback)

The headlines say she killed her family. The truth? She doesn't remember.Andrea McNulty goes to sleep on her eighteenth birthday with a near-perfect life. The next morning, she wakes up covered in blood. Her parents were killed in the middle of the night...and she's the prime suspect.Andrea McNulty