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  • Everyday Fashion

    Interpreting British Clothing Since 1600

    Edited by Bethan Bide, Jade Halbert, Liz Tregenza ...
    Ordinary clothes have extraordinary stories. In contrast to academic and curatorial focus on the spectacular and the luxurious, Everyday Fashion makes the case that your grandmother's wardrobe is an archive as interesting and important as any museum store. From the moment we wake and get dressed in the morning until we get undressed again in the evening, fashion is a central medium through which ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

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  • Consuming Passions

    Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

    by Judith Flanders ...
    A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women, from the author of the bestselling ‘The Victorian House’.Imagine a world where only one in five people owns a book, where just one in ten has a knife or a fork – a world where five people out of every six do not own a cup to hold a hot ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Landscape Architecture

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Thompson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Landscape architecture plays an important role in shaping the places in which we live and work. But what is it? Landscape architects are involved, amongst other things, in the layout of business parks, the reclamation of derelict industrial sites, the restoration of historic city parks, and the siting and design of major pieces of infrastructure such as motorways, dams, power stations, and flood ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtime

    The Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtime

    by Joe Moran ...
    Why do so many people go on about queuing? Have we always been obsessed with traffic? And why do so many of us now eat lunch at our computers - al desko? We spend our days catching buses and trains, writing emails, shopping, queuing...But we know almost nothing about these activities. Exploring the history of these subjects as they come up during a typical day, starting with eating breakfast and ... Read more

    $14.79 CAD

  • Shopgirls

    The True Story of Life Behind the Counter

    by Dr Pamela Cox, Annabel Hobley ...
    ‘[Go] behind the glamorous shop fronts and the glitzy shop floors of Britain’s department stores... Here the hidden history is revealed.’ Saga MagazineMeet the shopgirls and hear their incredible true stories of life behind the counter.In this lively and colourful history, we join shopgirl Chili Bouchier on her journey from the small ladies’ department at Harrods to star of the silver screen, and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Keeping Up Appearances

    Fashion and Class Between the Wars

    by Catherine Horwood ...
    The British have always been concerned about accent, appearance and class, but at no time during the twentieth century was 'keeping up appearances' more important than during the 1920s and 1930s. From the impecunious youth anxious to create a favourable impression at the local tennis club dance to female office workers advised by the Daily Mail that women in business kept 'their position partly, ... Read more

    $10.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Women Who Saved the English Countryside

    by Matthew Kelly ...
    A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable womenIn Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and guarantees public access to green spaces. But this was not always so. Over the last 150 years, activists have campaigned tirelessly for the right to roam through the countryside and the vital ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • England: A Class of Its Own

    An Outsider's View

    by Professor Detlev Piltz ...
    A wry, affectionate and amusing take on English class and customs from an outsider's perspective.For years German lawyer and author Detlev Piltz has been observing England, its life, customs and above all its classes. He argues that whenever an English person meets another, they will immediately try and place the individual they are talking to in a class by their speech, deportment, clothing, ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • British Fashion Design

    Rag Trade or Image Industry?

    by Angela McRobbie ...
    British Fashion Design explores the tensions between fashion as art form, and the demands of a ruthlessly commercial industry. Based on interviews and research conducted over a number of years, Angela McRobbie charts the flow of art school fashion graduates into the industry; their attempts to reconcile training with practice, and their precarious position between the twin supports of the ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Lifestyle revolution

    How taste changed class in late 20th-century Britain

    by Ben Highmore ...
    In postwar Britain, journalists and politicians predicted that the class system would not survive a consumer culture where everyone had TVs and washing machines, and where more and more people owned their own homes. They were to be proved hopelessly wrong. Lifestyle revolution charts how class culture, rather than being destroyed by mass consumption, was remade from flat-pack furniture, ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Up in the Air

    A History of High Rise Britain

    by Holly Smith ...
    How the Rise Rise Tower Block came to symbolise the welfare state, and what went wrong - fron an award-winning debut historian.Up in the Air tells the story of Britain’s multi-storey council housing from its beginnings to the present day. Throughout its history, high rise has been a symbol of the welfare state for better or worse. Here, Holly Smith tells a new story from the perspective of those ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Back to the Shops

    The High Street in History and the Future

    by Rachel Bowlby ...
    What will become of the shops? More than ever, the high street appears to be under mortal threat, its shops boarded up as the sad 'bricks and mortar' survivals of a pre-online retail world. But behind the bleak appearance, there is more to see. Back to the Shops offers a set of short and surprising chapters, each one a window into a different shop type or mode of selling. Old shopping streets are ... Read more

    $13.39 CAD