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Author | : Rachel Trethewey |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2019-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0750987170 |
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In February 1918, when the First World War was still being bitterly fought, prominent society member Lady Northcliffe conceived an idea to help raise funds for the British Red Cross. Using her husband’s newspapers, The Times and the Daily Mail, she ran a campaign to collect enough pearls to create a necklace, intending to raffle the piece to raise money.The campaign captured the public’s imagination. Over the next nine months nearly 4,000 pearls poured in from around the world. Pearls were donated in tribute to lost brothers, husbands and sons, and groups of women came together to contribute one pearl on behalf of their communities. Those donated ranged from priceless heirlooms –one had survived the sinking of the Titanic – to imperfect yet treasured trinkets.Working with Christie’s and the International Fundraising Committee of the British Red Cross, author Rachel Trethewey expertly weaves the touching story of a generation of women who gave what they had to aid the war effort and commemorate their losses.
Author | : Rachel Trethewey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-07 |
Genre | : Fund raising |
ISBN | : 9780750992091 |
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The moving story of the 1918 Red Cross Pearl Necklace Appeal, and the women who donated pearls in soldiers' memory
Author | : Fiona Lindsay Shen |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2022-10-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1789146224 |
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From their creation in the maw of mollusks to lustrous objects of infatuation and conflict, a revealing look at pearls’ dark history. This book is a beautifully illustrated account of pearls through millennia, from fossils to contemporary jewelry. Pearls are the most human of gems, both miraculous and familiar. Uniquely organic in origin, they are as intimate as our bodies, created through the same process as we grow bones and teeth. They have long been described as an animal’s sacrifice, but until recently their retrieval often entailed the sacrifices of enslaved and indentured divers and laborers. While the shimmer of the pearl has enticed Roman noblewomen, Mughal princes, Hollywood royalty, mavericks, and renegades, encoded in its surface is a history of human endeavor, abuse, and aspiration—pain locked in the layers of a gleaming gem.
Author | : Heather Jones |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 591 |
Release | : 2021-09-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108682960 |
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This is a ground-breaking history of the British monarchy in the First World War and of the social and cultural functions of monarchism in the British war effort. Heather Jones examines how the conflict changed British cultural attitudes to the monarchy, arguing that the conflict ultimately helped to consolidate the crown's sacralised status. She looks at how the monarchy engaged with war recruitment, bereavement, gender norms, as well as at its political and military powers and its relationship with Ireland and the empire. She considers the role that monarchism played in military culture and examines royal visits to the front, as well as the monarchy's role in home front morale and in interwar war commemoration. Her findings suggest that the rise of republicanism in wartime Britain has been overestimated and that war commemoration was central to the monarchy's revered interwar status up to the abdication crisis.
Author | : David Hargreaves |
Publisher | : eBook Partnership |
Total Pages | : 2186 |
Release | : 2021-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1913532666 |
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Fought between 1914 and 1918, World War One - The Great War - was the most titanic and devastating conflict the world had yet seen. Detailing the course of the war week-by-week and the intimate accounts and experiences of soldiers and civilians alike, As We Were offers insight like no other into a war that impacted generations the world over.
Author | : Jane Dismore |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2022-02-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0750999861 |
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Outrageously handsome, witty and clever, Harry Cust was reputed to be one of the great womanisers of the late Victorian era. In 1893, while a Member of Parliament, he caused public scandal by his affair with artist and poet Nina Welby Gregory. When she revealed she was pregnant, horror swept through their circle known as 'the Souls', a cultured, mostly aristocratic group of writers, artists and politicians who also rubbed shoulders with luminaries such as Oscar Wilde and H. G. Wells. For the rest of their lives, Harry and Nina would fight to rebuild their reputations and maintain the marriage they were pressurised to enter. In Tangled Souls, acclaimed biographer Jane Dismore tells the tumultuous story of the romance which threatened to tear apart this distinguished group of friends, revealing pre-war society at its most colourful and most conflicted.
Author | : Alice Cary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1896 |
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Author | : Henry Mills Alden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 880 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.
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Total Pages | : 894 |
Release | : 1868 |
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Author | : Alice Cary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1882 |
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