Women, Horseracing and Gender: Becoming 'One of the Lads'
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How do the class and gender inequalities found in horse-racing affect the working practices of women...
Fred Astaire
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Joseph Epstein's Fred Astaire investigates the great dancer's magical talent, taking up the story of...
Romantic English Homes
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Romantic English Homes is an inspirational collection of truly timeless houses. Robert O'Byrne has...
Real and Imagined
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During the Heian period (794-1185), the sacred mountain Kinpusen, literally the "Peak of Gold," came...
A Spencer Love Affair: Eighteen Century Theatricals at Blenheim Palace and Beyond
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A Spencer Love Affair is the true story of the love affair and marriage between the 4th Duke of...
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red
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At the turn of the twentieth century, Ellen Rimbauer became the young bride of Seattle industrialist...
ClareR (5721 KP) rated Caledonian Road in Books
Sep 16, 2024
Caledonian Road shows the repercussions of Covid and Brexit (none of it positive), and how those with money think they can get away with whatever they want to.
There are characters that you can really get your teeth in to, many of them rather unpleasant. The main character, a university academic called Campbell Flynn, is struggling with his life. He grew up working class in Glasgow, and has married in to minor aristocracy. He likes to think that he hasn’t lost touch with his origins - but has he?
There’s a lot going on in this novel - too much to write here - and you’re really better off reading it for yourself! It’s a chunk of a book, but it sped by. I loved it.
BookwormMama14 (18 KP) rated The World of Downton Abbey in Books
Jan 2, 2019
The World of Downton Abbey is a companion guide to the second season of the beloved BBC Masterpiece show Downton Abbey. Not only does it outline the lives of the Crawley family during the first World War, but also gives us a peek at the lives of the real aristocracy of England. Family life, style, life in service, romance and war are a few of the topics covered in Jessica Fellowes book.
I greatly enjoyed reading and learning more about British culture. It helps me to understand the characters in the show better, as well as characters in the books I read. There is a lot of history to be found in period dramas and I do love learning about it. I was happy to learn that the show has a historical advisor Alastair Bruce (known as The Oracle) that does not hide in the shadows. He makes certain that everything is proper and accurate. Any Downton enthusiast would enjoy this book, but it is also a great read for learning more about the era.
Kathmandu: Biography of a City
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One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old...