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The Gentleman's Daughter

The Gentleman's Daughter

Amanda Vickery - 2003
What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? In this lively and controversial book, Amanda Vickery invokes women's own accounts of their intimate and ...
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Gender, taste, and material culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830

Gender, taste, and material culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830

John Styles, Amanda Vickery - Business & Economics - 2006 - 358 pages
Between 1700 and 1830, men and women in the English-speaking territories framing the Atlantic gained unprecedented access to material things. The British Atlantic was an empire ...
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The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital
Women, Privilege, and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present
Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England
The town house in Georgian London

The town house in Georgian London

Rachel Stewart - Architecture - 2009 - 272 pages
Stepping away from conventional analyses of materials or style and into the previously unexplored world of the house owner, this book takes a fresh look at both the social, as ...
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The dress of the people: everyday fashion in eighteenth-century England

The dress of the people: everyday fashion in eighteenth-century England

John Styles - 2007 - 432 pages
The material lives of ordinary English men and women were transformed in the years following the restoration of Charles II in 1660. Tea and sugar, the fruits of British ...
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Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

Mary Beard - History - 2010 - 368 pages
'This marvellous book won the Wolfson History Prize and is a model of subtle but accessible writing about the past' Judith Rice, Guardian'Classicist Mary Beard has had a great ...
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Up and Down Stairs

Up and Down Stairs

Jeremy Musson - History - 2009 - 384 pages
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Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two