The Rise And Fall Of The British Nanny

Author : Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571321704
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny written by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1972, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy's The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny became an instant classic of social history - a groundbreaking study of the golden era of an extraordinary and exclusive British institution. Drawing upon extensive paper research and interviews with former nannies and their charges, Gathorne-Hardy offers 'a study of a unique and curious way of bringing up children, which evolved among the upper and upper-middle-classes during the nineteenth century, flourished for approximately eighty years and then, with the Second World War, vanished for ever.' The nanny hereby earns her place in the story of the British Empire; also in the histories of psychology, child-rearing and British ruling class mores. 'Marvellously researched and beautifully written.' W. H. Auden, Observer 'Enough to delight the sternest critic.' Auberon Waugh, Harpers & Queen

Author : Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny written by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louise Heren
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473880408
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Nannies & the Great War written by Louise Heren and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1912, Norland childrens nurse Kate Fox was travelling by train heading to the British military station at Nowshera on the Afghan border to care for the premature baby born to the bases commanding officer. Two years later, Kate was escaping from Germany in the first days of the Great War, leaving behind her adored German royal charges and all her personal possessions. Due to their prestige as the crme-de-la-crme of Edwardian childrens nurses to Europes royal and wealthy families, Kate was one among many Norland nannies who witnessed the early days of the War on the Continent with all its tumult and fear. Some fled for home; others managed to stay for a while. And yet others gave up their privileged way of life to undertake war work as nurses in Flanders and refugee camps.The stories in this book are the nannies eye-witness accounts described in their correspondence with their beloved Norland Institute. These previously unpublished letters recount a version of womens Great War history that has remained untold until now. British Nannies and the Great War is the true story of a group of Edwardian, highly trained and opinionated women in the First World War. For the first time in a century, the Norland nannies unique stories of escape from enemy territory, their experiences at home and the Front during the War, and their thoughts on how the conflict changed their role in post-Edwardian Britain are told in their own words.

Author : Mass Observation
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571280846
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pub and the People written by Mass Observation and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass Observation was founded in 1937 with the aim of researching the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. One of its best-loved publications is The Pub and the People (1943), a unique study of one of Britain's best-loved pastimes, describing how people behaved in pubs, what and how much they drank, and the decor and layout of the average pre-war alehouse. Alongside sociological interest it offers amusing insights into an era when supping pints was only for the roughest customers, and beer was considered helpful not only to general health ('There is no bad ale, so Grandma said') but also (contra the porter in Macbeth) to the act of love. 'The authors of this book have unearthed much curious information.' George Orwell, Listener 'Anyone with an interest in the history of beer and pubs in Britain ought to read it.' Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog

Author : Anne Mcclintock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135209103
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial Leather written by Anne Mcclintock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between race and sexuality, fetishism and money, gender and violence, domesticity and the imperial market, and the gendering of nationalism within the zones of imperial and anti-imperial power.

Author : Annmarie Adams
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773522398
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture in the Family Way written by Annmarie Adams and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture in the Family Way explores the relationship between domestic architecture, health reform, and feminism in late nineteenth-century England. Annmarie Adams examines the changing perceptions about the English middle-class house from 1870 to 1900, highlighting how attitudes toward health, women, home life, and even politics were played out in architecture.

Author : Katherine Holden
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750951664
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nanny Knows Best written by Katherine Holden and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nanny know best

Author : E. S. Turner
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571295185
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What the Butler Saw written by E. S. Turner and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A book which goes on a special shelf in my library.' P.G. Wodehouse What the Butler Saw (1962) is one of E.S. Turner's most pertinent and illuminating 'social histories', an exploration of the 'upstairs/downstairs' relationship across three centuries of English life. Drawing on literature, contemporary accounts and household manuals, Turner describes in fascinating detail how it came to be that the upper classes felt a need for an ever larger household staff, engaged in every imaginable form of drudgery; and, accordingly, how those in service - from high to low, butler to footman, housemaid to au pair - had to give satisfaction to their masters and mistresses while also, on occasions, contending with physical blows, tantrums, and (in the cases of some unfortunate servant girls) threats to their virtue.

Author : Alison Adburgham
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571295916
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silver Fork Society written by Alison Adburgham and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the years when George IV ruled the United Kingdom, first as Prince Regent then as King, his extravagant tastes served to characterize the times - the Regency period being identified strongly with new trends in British architecture, fashion and culture. The literary expression of this era was the genre of so-called 'silver fork' novels set in fashionable London society. Initially devoured as authentic insights into the rarefied world of the best social circles, these novels were thus serving as etiquette primers for growing numbers of nouveaux riches. The detail and décor of the novels gives them an enduring socio-historical interest, hence the value of Alison Adburgham's study, first published in 1983, which offers astute readings of such 'silver fork' specialists as Disraeli, Bulwer-Lytton, and Catherine Gore. With an assured eye for the social context of these works, Adburgham explores the class tensions and complex social interactions behind the high sheen of the silver fork.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004446591
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the international cast of contributors to this volume being “in fashion” is about self-presentation; defining how fashion is presented in the visual, written, and performing arts; and about design, craft manufacturing, packaging, marketing, and archives.