Author : Wilfrid Blunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Charities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036623556
Lady Muriel
Wilfrid Blunt
Lady Muriel Paget
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Lady Muriel (Paget).
Wilfrid Blunt
Author : Wilfrid Blunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:499627151
Lady Muriel (Paget). by Wilfrid Blunt Pdf
A Historical Dictionary of British Women
Cathy Hartley
Author : Cathy Hartley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135355333
A Historical Dictionary of British Women by Cathy Hartley Pdf
This reference book, containing the biographies of more than 1,100 notable British women from Boudicca to Barbara Castle, is an absorbing record of female achievement spanning some 2,000 years of British life. Most of the lives included are those of women whose work took them in some way before the public and who therefore played a direct and important role in broadening the horizons of women. Also included are women who influenced events in a more indirect way: the wives of kings and politicians, mistresses, ladies in waiting and society hostesses. Originally published as The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women, this newly re-worked edition includes key figures who have died in the last 20 years, such as The Queen Mother, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw, Elizabeth Jennings and Christina Foyle.
World War I in Central and Eastern Europe
Judith Devlin,John Paul Newman,Maria Falina
Author : Judith Devlin,John Paul Newman,Maria Falina
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781838609924
World War I in Central and Eastern Europe by Judith Devlin,John Paul Newman,Maria Falina Pdf
In the English language World War I has largely been analysed and understood through the lens of the Western Front. This book addresses this imbalance by examining the war in Eastern and Central Europe. The historiography of the war in the West has increasingly focused on the experience of ordinary soldiers and civilians, the relationships between them and the impact of war at the time and subsequently. This book takes up these themes and, engaging with the approaches and conclusions of historians of the Western front, examines wartime experiences and the memory of war in the East. Analysing soldiers' letters and diaries to discover the nature and impact of displacement and refugee status on memory, this volume offers a basis for comparison between experiences in these two areas. It also provides material for intra-regional comparisons that are still missing from the current research. Was the war in the East wholly 'other'? Were soldiers in this region as alienated as those in the West? Did they see themselves as citizens and was there continuity between their pre-war or civilian and military identities? And if, in the Eastern context, these identities were fundamentally challenged, was it the experience of war itself or its consequences (in the shape of imprisonment and displacement, and changing borders) that mattered most? How did soldiers and citizens in this region experience and react to the traumas and upheavals of war and with what consequences for the post-war era? In seeking to answer these questions and others, this volume significantly adds to our understanding of World War I as experienced in Central and Eastern Europe.
Female Philanthropy in the Interwar World
Eve Colpus
Author : Eve Colpus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474259705
Female Philanthropy in the Interwar World by Eve Colpus Pdf
Female philanthropy was at the heart of transformative thinking about society and the role of individuals in the interwar period. In Britain, in the aftermath of the First World War, professionalization; the authority of the social sciences; mass democracy; internationalism; and new media sounded the future and, for many, the death knell of elite practices of benevolence. Eve Colpus tells a new story about a world in which female philanthropists reshaped personal models of charity for modern projects of social connectedness, and new forms of cultural and political encounter. Centering the stories of four remarkable British-born women - Evangeline Booth; Lettice Fisher; Emily Kinnaird; and Muriel Paget - Colpus recaptures the breadth of the social, cultural and political influence of women's philanthropy upon practices of social activism. Female Philanthropy in the Interwar World is not only a new history of women's civic agency in the interwar period, but also a study of how female philanthropists explored approaches to identification and cultural difference that emphasized friendship in relation to interwar modernity. Richly detailed, the book's perspective on women's social interventionism offers a new reading of the centrality of personal relationships to philanthropy that can inform alternative models of giving today.
International Futurism in Arts and Literature
Günter Berghaus
Author : Günter Berghaus
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 3110156814
International Futurism in Arts and Literature by Günter Berghaus Pdf
This publication offers for the first time an inter-disciplinary and comparative perspective on Futurism in a variety of countries and artistic media. 20 scholars discuss how the movement shaped the concept of a cultural avant-garde and how it influenced the development of modernist art and literature around the world.
Kipling's Canadian
David Newton
Author : David Newton
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781450210874
Kipling's Canadian by David Newton Pdf
Fraser Hunter, graduate of the Royal Military College, Kingston, served first in India and China with the Bombay Lancers before joining the Survey of India and doing secretive work for the British Foreign Office. During the First World War and back in uniform again he was first Chief of Staff to the South Persia Rifles, then onto St Petersburg at the height of the Revolution. Following his escape across Siberia and onto New York and then the Western Front, he joined the Persian Cossacks in their campaign against the Bolsheviks. Back in the Survey and before retirement and politics in Ontario, he reached the upper echelons of their secretive work in India. His political career was as controversial as his military, illustrating a degree of integrity that would have endeared him to Rudyard Kipling.
Children, Poverty and Nationalism in Lithuania, 1900–1940
Andrea Griffante
Author : Andrea Griffante
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030308704
Children, Poverty and Nationalism in Lithuania, 1900–1940 by Andrea Griffante Pdf
This book discusses the emergence of care for orphaned, abandoned and poor children in Lithuania from the early twentieth century to the beginning of the Second World War. In particular, it focuses on how such practices were influenced by nationalist and political discourses, and how orphanages became privileged institutions for nation building. Emerging during the humanitarian crisis following the First World War, the Lithuanian orphaned and destitute children’s assistance network had an eminently ethno-national character, and existed in parallel with, and was challenged by, Polish poor child assistance institutions. By analysing such care for children, this book explores concepts such as the nation state and citizenship, as well as the connections between poverty, childhood and nationalism.
In Visible Touch
Terry Smith
Author : Terry Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226764125
In Visible Touch by Terry Smith Pdf
This collection of essays explores the representation of heterosexual masculinity embodied in modernist art. It examines such major modernists as Cezanne, Caillebotte, Matisse, Wyndham Lewis and Boccioni, to offer a history of how artists sought to shape their sexuality in their work.
The Sketch
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510028005158
The Sketch by Anonim Pdf
The Illustrated London News
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : London (England)
ISBN : MINN:31951001356700W
The Illustrated London News by Anonim Pdf
Cecil Beaton
Hugo Vickers
Author : Hugo Vickers
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781529316254
Cecil Beaton by Hugo Vickers Pdf
Cecil Beaton was one of Britain's greatest cultural icons - not just as a photographer capturing some of the most celebrated portraits of the 20th century but also as designer of the iconic sets and costumes for the films My Fair Lady and Gigi. In 1980, Beaton personally chose Hugo Vickers to be his biographer, entrusting him with his diaries and the entire body of letters he had written - both personally and professionally - over the course of his life. Drawing on five years of intensive research and interviews with the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote, Princess Grace of Monaco and Sir John Gielgud, Vickers' biography was an instant bestseller upon its publication in 1985. Exploring Beaton's metamorphosis from being the child of a staid middle-class family to an international figure mingling with the glittering stars of his age, the biography also details his great love for Greta Garbo and reveals his private sense of failure that the success he always wanted - as a playwright - eluded him. Republished in a new paperback edition in time for Bright Young Things, a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 2020, Cecil Beaton is the definitive and authorised biography of one of the world's most fascinating, famous and admired photographers.
Women in the War Zone
Anne Powell
Author : Anne Powell
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752469515
Women in the War Zone by Anne Powell Pdf
In our collective memory, the First World War is dominated by men. The sailors, soldiers, airmen and politicians about whom histories are written were male, and the first half of the twentieth century was still a time when a woman's place was thought to be in the home. It was not until the Second World War that women would start to play a major role both in the armed forces and in the factories and the fields. Yet there were some women who were able to contribute to the war effort between 1914 and 1918, mostly as doctors and nurses. In Women in the War Zone, Anne Powell has selected extracts from first-hand accounts of the experiences of those female medical personnel who served abroad during the First World War. Covering both the Western and the Eastern Fronts, from Petrograd to Basra and from Antwerp to the Dardanelles, they include nursing casualties from the Battle of Ypres, a young doctor put in charge of a remote hospital in Serbia and a nurse who survived a torpedo attack, albeit with serious injuries. Filled with stories of bravery and kindliness, it is a book that honours the often unsung contribution made by the female doctors and nurses who helped to alleviate some of the suffering of the First World War.
Radical Art and the Formation of the Avant-Garde
David Cottington
Author : David Cottington
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300265071
Radical Art and the Formation of the Avant-Garde by David Cottington Pdf
An authoritative re-definition of the social, cultural and visual history of the emergence of the “avant-garde” in Paris and London Over the past fifty years, the term "avant-garde" has come to shape discussions of European culture and modernity, ubiquitously taken for granted but rarely defined. This ground-breaking book develops an original and searching methodology that fundamentally reconfigures the social, cultural, and visual context of the emergence of the artistic avant-garde in Paris and London before 1915, bringing the material history of its formation into clearer and more detailed focus than ever before. Drawing on a wealth of disciplinary evidence, from socio-economics to histories of sexuality, bohemia, consumerism, politics, and popular culture, David Cottington explores the different models of cultural collectivity in, and presumed hierarchies between, these two focal cities, while identifying points of ideological influence and difference between them. He reveals the avant-garde to be at once complicit with, resistant to, and a product of the modernizing forces of professionalization, challenging the conventional wisdom on this moment of cultural formation and offering the means to reset the terms of avant-garde studies.
1916
Keith Jeffery
Author : Keith Jeffery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620402719
1916 by Keith Jeffery Pdf
So much of the literature on the First World War centers on the trench warfare of the Western Front, and these were essential battlegrounds. But the war was in fact truly a global conflict, and by focusing on a sequence of events in 1916 across many continents, historian Keith Jeffery's magisterial work casts new light on the Great War. Starting in January with the end of the catastrophic Gallipoli campaign, Jeffery recounts the massive struggle for Verdun over February and March; the Easter Rising in Ireland in April; dramatic events in Russia in June on the eastern front; the familiar story of the war in East Africa, where some 200,000 Africans may have died; and the November U.S. presidential race in which Woodrow Wilson was re-elected on a platform of keeping the United States out of the war--a position he reversed within five months. Incorporating the stories of civilians in all countries, both participants in and victims of the war, 1916: A Global History is a major addition to the literature and the Great War by a historian at the height of his powers.