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The Glitter and the Gold: The American Duchess—In Her Own Words
$29.99 Add to cartA new edition of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan’s memoir–the story of the “real” Lady Grantham of Downton Abbey
Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful, and heir to a vast fortune. She was also in love- Author: Balsan, Consuela Vanderbilt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 1250017181
- Language: English
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How to Be a Tudor: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
$18.99 Read moreOn the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to t
- Author: Goodman, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492535
- Language: English
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Medieval Costume and How to Recreate It
$14.95 Read moreClear-cut and accurate in its guidance, this volume depicts medieval clothes and accessories not as inanimate museum exhibits but as items of vital interest and well worth recreating. Unlike conventio… [more below]
- Series: Dover Fashion and Costumes
- Author: Hartley, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: December 02 2003
- ISBN10: 0486429857
- Language: English
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Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: A Life in Mod – From the Revival to Acid Jazz
$29.99 Read moreThis is the memoir of a teenage mod from the East End of London.
A journey of discovery for a schoolboy dabbling with punk, funk, record shops, discos and clothes, and then… WHAAAM! An unstoppable- Author: Piller, Eddie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 180096059X
- Language: English
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The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars
$50.00 Add to cartThe twenty-first century has seen a surge of interest in English art of the interwar years. High-profile exhibitions have attracted record-breaking visitor numbers and challenged received opinion. In
- Author: Spalding, Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0500518645
- Language: English
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The Time Traveler’s Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789-1830
$29.95 Read moreA vivid and immersive history of Georgian England that gives its reader a firsthand experience of life as it was truly lived during the era of Jane Austen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Duke of Wellin… [more below]
- Author: Mortimer, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1643138812
- Language: English
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Nella Last’s War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49
$15.95 Add to cartIn September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating an
- Author: Last, Nella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 184668000X
- Language: English
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Longbourn
$20.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – “Fans of Austen…will take particular pleasure” (People) in this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice.
While Elizabeth Bennet and h… [more below]- Author: Baker, Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 17 2014
- ISBN10: 0345806972
- Language: English
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The Britannias: An Archipelago’s Tale
$35.00 Add to cartFrom Neolithic Orkney, Viking Shetland, and Druidical Anglesey to the joys and strangeness of modern Thanet, The Britannias explores the farthest reaches of Britain’s island topography, once known by
- Author: Albinia, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0393608557
- Language: English
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The Time Traveler’s Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789-1830
$19.95 Add to cartA vivid and immersive history of Georgian England that gives its reader a firsthand experience of life as it was truly lived during the era of Jane Austen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Duke of Wellin… [more below]
- Author: Mortimer, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 163936384X
- Language: English
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The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe
$28.95 Read more*A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR’S CHOICE*
A revealing and unique portrait of Victorian life as told through the discovery of one woman’s textile scrapbook. In 1838, a young woman was given a diar- Author: Strasdin, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364218
- Language: English
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Middlemarch
$26.00 Add to cartPart of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, ta… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0141196890
- Language: English
