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Book Synopsis Pearls before Poppies by : Rachel Trethewey
Download or read book Pearls before Poppies written by Rachel Trethewey and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1918, when the First World War was still being bitterly fought, prominent society member Lady Northcliffe conceived an idea to help raise funds for the British Red Cross. Using her husband’s newspapers, The Times and the Daily Mail, she ran a campaign to collect enough pearls to create a necklace, intending to raffle the piece to raise money.The campaign captured the public’s imagination. Over the next nine months nearly 4,000 pearls poured in from around the world. Pearls were donated in tribute to lost brothers, husbands and sons, and groups of women came together to contribute one pearl on behalf of their communities. Those donated ranged from priceless heirlooms –one had survived the sinking of the Titanic – to imperfect yet treasured trinkets.Working with Christie’s and the International Fundraising Committee of the British Red Cross, author Rachel Trethewey expertly weaves the touching story of a generation of women who gave what they had to aid the war effort and commemorate their losses.
Download or read book Pearl written by Fiona Lindsay Shen and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From their creation in the maw of mollusks to lustrous objects of infatuation and conflict, a revealing look at pearls’ dark history. This book is a beautifully illustrated account of pearls through millennia, from fossils to contemporary jewelry. Pearls are the most human of gems, both miraculous and familiar. Uniquely organic in origin, they are as intimate as our bodies, created through the same process as we grow bones and teeth. They have long been described as an animal’s sacrifice, but until recently their retrieval often entailed the sacrifices of enslaved and indentured divers and laborers. While the shimmer of the pearl has enticed Roman noblewomen, Mughal princes, Hollywood royalty, mavericks, and renegades, encoded in its surface is a history of human endeavor, abuse, and aspiration—pain locked in the layers of a gleaming gem.
Book Synopsis For King and Country by : Heather Jones
Download or read book For King and Country written by Heather Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a ground-breaking history of the British monarchy in the First World War and of the social and cultural functions of monarchism in the British war effort. Heather Jones examines how the conflict changed British cultural attitudes to the monarchy, arguing that the conflict ultimately helped to consolidate the crown's sacralised status. She looks at how the monarchy engaged with war recruitment, bereavement, gender norms, as well as at its political and military powers and its relationship with Ireland and the empire. She considers the role that monarchism played in military culture and examines royal visits to the front, as well as the monarchy's role in home front morale and in interwar war commemoration. Her findings suggest that the rise of republicanism in wartime Britain has been overestimated and that war commemoration was central to the monarchy's revered interwar status up to the abdication crisis.
Download or read book As We Were written by David Hargreaves and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 2186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fought between 1914 and 1918, World War One - The Great War - was the most titanic and devastating conflict the world had yet seen. Detailing the course of the war week-by-week and the intimate accounts and experiences of soldiers and civilians alike, As We Were offers insight like no other into a war that impacted generations the world over.
Download or read book Rats Alley written by Peter Chasseaud and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes it possible to comprehend, via the trench naming, the daily life in the trenches, the vast range of weaponry and the lethal nature of the titanic battles. Names such as Lovers Lane, Doleful Post, Cyanide Trench and Gangrene Alley are as revealing as any history. While based upon the British trenches, there is a comparison with French and German practice. While a poignant concordance of suffering and an intriguing study of language itself, this book is also a vital research tool for military and family historians.
Download or read book Tangled Souls written by Jane Dismore and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outrageously handsome, witty and clever, Harry Cust was reputed to be one of the great womanisers of the late Victorian era. In 1893, while a Member of Parliament, he caused public scandal by his affair with artist and poet Nina Welby Gregory. When she revealed she was pregnant, horror swept through their circle known as 'the Souls', a cultured, mostly aristocratic group of writers, artists and politicians who also rubbed shoulders with luminaries such as Oscar Wilde and H. G. Wells. For the rest of their lives, Harry and Nina would fight to rebuild their reputations and maintain the marriage they were pressurised to enter. In Tangled Souls, acclaimed biographer Jane Dismore tells the tumultuous story of the romance which threatened to tear apart this distinguished group of friends, revealing pre-war society at its most colourful and most conflicted.
Book Synopsis The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary by : Alice Cary
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary written by Alice Cary and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Harper's New Monthly Magazine written by Henry Mills Alden and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.
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Download or read book The Poetical Works of Alice and Phœbe Cary; with a Memorial of Their Lives written by Alice Cary and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary, With A Memorial of Their Lives by Mary Clemmmer. written by Alice Cary and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1877 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc.
Book Synopsis Pharmaceutice Rationalis: Or, An Exercitation of the Operations of Medicines in Humane Bodies by : Thomas Willis
Download or read book Pharmaceutice Rationalis: Or, An Exercitation of the Operations of Medicines in Humane Bodies written by Thomas Willis and published by . This book was released on 1679 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of an Enthusiast by : Cecilia Viets Jamison
Download or read book The Story of an Enthusiast written by Cecilia Viets Jamison and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Holy Land and Holy Writ by : John T. Durward
Download or read book Holy Land and Holy Writ written by John T. Durward and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
