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The Diaries of Nella Last

Writing in War and Peace

By: Patricia Malcolmson,Robert Malcolmson

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The Diaries of Nella Last

Writing in War and Peace

By: Patricia Malcolmson,Robert Malcolmson

The complete collection of the diaries of Nella Last 'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value...' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed three volumes of her vivid and moving diaries, written during the Second World War and its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project - and the basis for BAFTA-winning drama Housewife 49 starring Victoria Wood. The Diaries of Nella Last, brings together into a single volume the best of Nella's prolific outpourings, including a great deal of new, unpublished material from the war years. Capturing the everyday trials and horrors of wartime Britain and the nation's transition into peacetime and beyond, Nella's touching and often humorous narrative provides an invaluable historical portrait of what daily life was like for ordinary people in the 1940s and 1950s. Outwardly Nella's life was commonplace; but behind this mask were a penetrating mind and a lively pen. As David Kynaston said on Radio 4, Nella Last 'will come to be seen as one of the major twentieth century English diarists.

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1847658466

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Nella Last's Peace

The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49

By: Patricia Malcolmson,Robert Malcolmson

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Nella Last's Peace

The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49

By: Patricia Malcolmson,Robert Malcolmson

Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen - a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing, pondering, and disclosing. Nella, 55 when the war ends, writes of what ordinary people felt during those years of privation, hope and the re-building of Britain, providing a moving and inspiring account of the years that shaped the society we live in today. Her diary offers a detailed, moving and humorous narrative of the changing experiences of ordinary people at this time, and thoughts on the aftermath of war and whether 'peace' really meant peace, for everyone.

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1847651275

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Nella Last in the 1950s

Further diaries of Housewife, 49

By: Patricia Malcolmson,Robert Malcolmson

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Nella Last in the 1950s

Further diaries of Housewife, 49

By: Patricia Malcolmson,Robert Malcolmson

I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. Sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed the first two volumes of her uniquely detailed and moving diaries, written during World War II and its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project, and the basis for BAFTA-winning drama Housewife 49 starring Victoria Wood. This third compelling volume sees Nella, now in her sixties, writing of what ordinary people felt during those years of growing prosperity in a modernising Britain. Her diary offers a detailed, moving and humorous narrative of daily life at a time that shaped the society we live in today. It is an account that's full of surprises as we learn more about her relationship with 'my husband' (never 'Will') and her fears of nuclear war. Outwardly Nella's life was commonplace; but behind this mask were a penetrating mind and a lively pen. As David Kynaston said on Radio 4, Nella Last 'will come to be seen as one of the major twentieth century English diarists.

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1847652867

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Me and My Hair

A Social History

By: Patricia Malcolmson

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Me and My Hair

A Social History

By: Patricia Malcolmson

Good hair day? Bad hair day? Hair has always evoked strong emotions. In this fascinating book, Patricia Malcolmson examines how British women over the past 150 years have managed their hair, from the extravagant styles of the late nineteenth century to the ‘anything goes' attitude of today, taking in along the way the daring bobs of the 1920s, the wartime styles of women in uniform, the slavish copying of Hollywood stars, the beehive, the hippy and the Goth. In Me and My Hair you'll hear the voices of women from around Britain talking about their hair - whether it’s their longing to have ‘Shirley Temple’ curls, the visits of the nit nurse, their first home perm, roasting under hood dryers, going platinum blonde, hilarious experiments with hair extensions, or fears of going grey.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1909183164

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9781909183162

Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England

By: Patricia Phillippy

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Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England

By: Patricia Phillippy

In Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England Patricia Phillippy examines the crucial literal and figurative roles played by women in death and mourning during the early modern period. By examining early modern funerary, liturgical and lamentational practices, as well as diaries, poems and plays, she illustrates the consistent gendering of rival styles of grief in post-Reformation England. Phillippy emphasises the period's textual and cultural constructions of male and female subjects as predicated upon gendered approaches to death. She argues that while feminine grief is condemned as immoderately emotional by male reformers, the same characteristic that opens women's mourning to censure enable its use as a means of empowering women's speech. Phillippy calls on a wide range of published and archival material that date from the Reformation to well into the seventeenth century, providing a study that will appeal to cultural as well as literary historians.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521814898

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9780521814898

Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference

Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World

By: Patricia Akhimie

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Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference

Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World

By: Patricia Akhimie

Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference reveals the relationship between racial discrimination and the struggle for upward social mobility in the early modern world. Reading Shakespeare’s plays alongside contemporaneous conduct literature - how-to books on self-improvement - this book demonstrates the ways that the pursuit of personal improvement was accomplished by the simultaneous stigmatization of particular kinds of difference. The widespread belief that one could better, or cultivate, oneself through proper conduct was coupled with an equally widespread belief that certain markers (including but not limited to "blackness"), indicated an inability to conduct oneself properly, laying the foundation for what we now call "racism." A careful reading of Shakespeare’s plays reveals a recurring critique of the conduct system voiced, for example, by malcontents and social climbers like Iago and Caliban, and embodied in the struggles of earnest strivers like Othello, Bottom, Dromio of Ephesus, and Dromio of Syracuse, whose bodies are bruised, pinched, blackened, and otherwise indelibly marked as uncultivatable. By approaching race through the discourse of conduct, this volume not only exposes the epistemic violence toward stigmatized others that lies at the heart of self-cultivation, but also contributes to the broader definition of race that has emerged in recent studies of cross-cultural encounter, colonialism, and the global early modern world.

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Routledge

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1351125028

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Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England

By: Patricia Crawford

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Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England

By: Patricia Crawford

This collection of essays contains a wealth of information on the nature of the family in the early modern period. This is a core topic within economic and social history courses which is taught at most universities. This text gives readers an overview of how feminist historians have been interpreting the history of the family, ever since Laurence Stone's seminal work FAMILY, SEX AND MARRIAGE IN ENGLAND 1500-1800 was published in 1977. The text is divided into three coherent parts on the following themes: bodies and reproduction; maternity from a feminist perspective; and family relationships. Each part is prefaced by a short introduction commenting on new work in the area. This book will appeal to a wide variety of students because of its sociological, historical and economic foci.

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1317876865

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Mary Astell

Theorist of Freedom from Domination

By: Patricia Springborg

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Mary Astell

Theorist of Freedom from Domination

By: Patricia Springborg

Philosopher, theologian, educational theorist, feminist and political pamphleteer, Mary Astell was an important figure in the history of ideas of the early modern period. Among the first systematic critics of John Locke's entire corpus, she is best known for the famous question which prefaces her Reflections on Marriage: 'If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?' She is claimed by modern Republican theorists and feminists alike but, as a Royalist High Church Tory, the peculiar constellation of her views sits uneasily with modern commentators. Patricia Springborg's study addresses these apparent paradoxes, recovering the historical and philosophical contexts to her thought. She shows that Astell was not alone in her views; rather, she was part of a cohort of early modern women philosophers who were important for the reception of Descartes and who grappled with the existential problems of a new age.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139447769

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9781139447768

The Brontes

By: Patricia Ingham

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The Brontes

By: Patricia Ingham

The novels of Charlotte and Emily Bronte have become canonical texts for the application of twentieth century literary and cultural theory. Along with the work of their sister, Anne, their texts are regarded as a sources of diversity in themselves, full of conflictual material which different schools of criticism have analysed and interpreted. This book shows how the Brontes writings engage with the major issues which dominate twentieth century theoretical work. The essays are grouped under broad schools of theory- biographical; feminist; marxist; psychoanalytical and postcolonial.

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131788163X

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The Integrated Circus

The New Right and the Restructuring of Global Markets

By: M. Patricia Marchak

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The Integrated Circus

The New Right and the Restructuring of Global Markets

By: M. Patricia Marchak

In The Integrated Circus Patricia Marchak examines the relationship between the emergence of the New Right and the development of a global marketplace after the Second World War. Focusing on the political organization and neo-conservative ideologies of the New Right, Marchak scrutinizes the connections between technological change, the debt and environmental crises, mounting Islamic fundamentalism, the end of the Cold War, and the rise of the Japanese and other Asian-Pacific economies and the decline in American hegemony.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773511490

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9780773511491

The Unfinished Legacy

A Brief History of Western Civilization

By: Mark A. Kishlansky,Patrick J. Geary,Patricia O'Brien

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The Unfinished Legacy

A Brief History of Western Civilization

By: Mark A. Kishlansky,Patrick J. Geary,Patricia O'Brien

Concise and engaging, The Unfinished Legacy, 2E, brings the study of Western Civilization alive with comprehensive coverage of a wide array of characters and events.

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0673980723

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A Brief History of Western Civilization

The Unfinished Legacy

By: Mark A. Kishlansky,Patrick J. Geary,Patricia O'Brien

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A Brief History of Western Civilization

The Unfinished Legacy

By: Mark A. Kishlansky,Patrick J. Geary,Patricia O'Brien

* Four Color Design. The new four-color format enhances the value of the maps and graphics and makes the book more visually exciting, more accessible, and easier to read. * Primary Sources. Selections from primary source documents designed to stimulate student interest in history. Each source is accompanied by an explanatory headnote that provides the necessary historical context. * Geographical Tours of Europe. Thematic tours, each accompanied by a map, to guide the student around the changing contours of the geography of Western history. * TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE: Discovering Western Civilization On-Line. This end-of-chapter annotated website resource links students to top-rated sites of documents, images, and cultural resources. * Updated scholarship and coverage in the post-World War II chapters. * Special Feature Essays will be available on the Companion Website. There will be a link in the Discovering Western Civilization On-Line section. * Balanced approach that spotlights comprehensive coverage of social history within a traditional, political framework. * Increased Coverage of Hellenism recognizes how Hellenism influenced the cultures of the western Mediterranean. * The Visua

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0321097009

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The Diaries of Nella Last

Writing in War and Peace

By: Patricia Malcolmson,Robert Malcolmson

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Writing in War and Peace

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Nella Last's Peace

The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49

By: Patricia Malcolmson,Robert Malcolmson

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The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49

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Book's by Patricia Malcolmson

The Diaries of Nella Last

The Diaries of Nella Last

Nella Last's Peace

Nella Last's Peace

Nella Last in the 1950s

Nella Last in the 1950s

Me and My Hair

Me and My Hair

Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England

Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England

Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference

Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference

Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England

Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England

Mary Astell

Mary Astell

The Brontes

The Brontes

The Integrated Circus

The Integrated Circus

The Unfinished Legacy

The Unfinished Legacy

A Brief History of Western Civilization

A Brief History of Western Civilization

The Diaries of Nella Last

The Diaries of Nella Last

Nella Last's Peace

Nella Last's Peace

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