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Paperback. Condizione: New. Barbara Hulanicki was the creator of the iconic BIBA fashion label which captured the imagination of a generation and gained cult status in 'Swinging London' in the '60s and '70s. Barbara started her career as a fashion illustrator working for magazines and newspapers from Vogue to the Daily Mirror, so who could be better placed to create a fashion workbook? Barbara Hulanicki's Fashion Illustration Workbook is great fun for everybody - from young children and students, to those who remember the period with such affection. Create whatever you want with this innovative book, copy the work of a brilliant artist, design your own hats, make up or hair fashion; colour in the dresses of various models in an array of colourways or create your own BIBA inspired prints.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Twenty-two cleverly rendered black and white line drawings of Wallis's most famous paintings for colouring. A brilliant introduction to the art of Alfred Wallis.

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Paperback. Condizione: New. Price-Smith, Felicity (illustratore). Features ten of London's most prominent galleries andmuseums - The British Museum, Victoria and Albert, National Gallery, Dulwich,Wallace Collection, Tate Britain, Courtauld, Tate Modern, National PortraitGallery, Royal Academy.Showcases paintings, sculptures and objects from theAncient world to the 21st Century, including works by: Michelangelo,Rembrandt, JMW Turner, Pablo Picasso and Barbara Hepworth.

Hardback. Condizione: New. A collection of Rudyard Kipling's articles describing Sikh soldiers' experiences of the First World War. Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Rudyard Kipling's birth.

Paperback. Condizione: New. In 1936, the Duke of York unexpectedly became King George VI, and his ten-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, became heir presumptive. However, she was never heir apparent, because a male sibling would automatically assume her place in the line of succession. So what would have happened upon the late arrival of a baby brother for the grown-up Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret? After King George VI's death in 1952, the United Kingdom's next sovereign would have been a very young boy, and one in need of a regent.James the Third tells that boy's story. How does his reign unfold? He is clever, resourceful and unconventional ? but can he alter the course of history, given the limited role of a constitutional monarch? Does he find true love, or must he accept second best? And, with the births of his heirs, what does the House of Windsor look like now? Set against rapidly changing times, there is a parallel tale of two working class sisters from the East End of London. As fans of the royal family, they are closer to the crown than they could ever imagine.Seamlessly blending the twists and turns of fiction with historical fact, this book is sure to please anyone who enjoys a glimpse of life behind palace walls.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Nigel Molesworth, 'the curse of St. Custard's', was a much-loved post-war fictional schoolboy character who featured in a series of books by Geoffrey Willans and illustrated by Ronald Searle. The books also featured the headmaster Grimes, Nigel's annoying younger brother Molesworth 2, his best friend Peason, the head boy Grabber and the school wet Fotherington-Thomas. Nigel's main characteristic was his cynicism and in Nigel Molesworth's Cynical Tendency he has, through the success of his YouTube channel The Cynical Tendency, started a Cynical Tendency political party and his school friends have all become heads of the main political parties. The play starts with a Prologue for those unfamiliar with the characters, and the action is then set just after a general election in the near future, the result of which was chaotic and all the players could possibly become Prime Minister but only with Nigel's support. Nigel on the other hand.

Hardback. Condizione: New. A collection of Rudyard Kipling's articles describing Sikh soldiers' experiences of the First World War. Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Rudyard Kipling's birth.

Hardback. Condizione: New. Cosway's flamboyant personality, eccentric mysticism, and brilliant marriage to Maria Hadfield during the 1780s brought him celebrity and notoriety. He was the principal recorder of the Prince of Wales' image from 1780 to 1808, as well as having exerted a great influence on his patron's artistic taste and collecting during that period. Perhaps Cosway's greatest achievement, however, was as a connoisseur, virtuoso, and collector - particularly of Old Master painting. He was undoubtedly the most important, influential, and fashionable portrait miniaturist.

Paperback. Condizione: New. In 1936, the Duke of York unexpectedly became King George VI, and his ten-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, became heir presumptive. However, she was never heir apparent, because a male sibling would automatically assume her place in the line of succession. So what would have happened upon the late arrival of a baby brother for the grown-up Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret? After King George VI's death in 1952, the United Kingdom's next sovereign would have been a very young boy, and one in need of a regent.James the Third tells that boy's story. How does his reign unfold? He is clever, resourceful and unconventional ? but can he alter the course of history, given the limited role of a constitutional monarch? Does he find true love, or must he accept second best? And, with the births of his heirs, what does the House of Windsor look like now? Set against rapidly changing times, there is a parallel tale of two working class sisters from the East End of London. As fans of the royal family, they are closer to the crown than they could ever imagine.Seamlessly blending the twists and turns of fiction with historical fact, this book is sure to please anyone who enjoys a glimpse of life behind palace walls.

Hardback. Condizione: New. Early in his career, as he grappled with the idea of becoming an artist, Vincent van Gogh attempted portraiture, possibly with a mission in the religious sense. His models were impoverished miners, weavers and peasants. Later, his great achievement was in still life, landscape painting and further portraits all closely related to the places where he lived.He moved from place to place, from his parents' vicarage to the homes of impoverished peasants, from seaside Ramsgate, and landmarks in London to the heights of Montmartre, from the famous Yellow House in Arles to hospital then a nearby asylum. Finally, he wandered the fields and streets of Auvers, near Paris. Wherever he lived, he drew and painted.As well as the places where he stayed, he painted the homes of others, and monuments that attracted him, such as churches or even suburban factories. These became the subject of an alternative kind of portraiture - one that did not involve people. His developing, emphatic and highly individual style suited the different character of the buildings he so carefully recorded. Each place, about which he also wrote at length, provides us with a solid framework with which to follow and understand him. Van Gogh's life will be revealed not only through the included illustrations of his art, but with much quotation from letters. The book hopes to answer the questions: Why was he there? what and who else were there? How did his vision suit the place - or vice versa?

Hardback. Condizione: New. Nicholas Hilliard's portrait miniatures opens a remarkable window on to the highest levels of English society in the later years of the sixteenth and the early years of the seventeenth centuries. Hilliard's images show us the features of many "celebrities" of his time with a comparative naturalism. He has helped form our ideas for the appearance of among others, Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Drake and James I. "It is impossible to remain immune to the charm and charisma of the works of Nicholas Hilliard", as Karen Hearn illustrates in this book. Karen Hearn gives us an intimate portrait of Nicholas Hilliard, from his life and his work and the techniques he used to produce his exquisite miniatures.

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Paperback. Condizione: New. Nigel Molesworth, 'the curse of St. Custard's', was a much-loved post-war fictional schoolboy character who featured in a series of books by Geoffrey Willans and illustrated by Ronald Searle. The books also featured the headmaster Grimes, Nigel's annoying younger brother Molesworth 2, his best friend Peason, the head boy Grabber and the school wet Fotherington-Thomas. Nigel's main characteristic was his cynicism and in Nigel Molesworth's Cynical Tendency he has, through the success of his YouTube channel The Cynical Tendency, started a Cynical Tendency political party and his school friends have all become heads of the main political parties. The play starts with a Prologue for those unfamiliar with the characters, and the action is then set just after a general election in the near future, the result of which was chaotic and all the players could possibly become Prime Minister but only with Nigel's support. Nigel on the other hand.

Hardback. Condizione: New. Once the steel storm of the industrial war had passed, the idyllic Flanders Fields region in Belgium was left as a desolate moon landscape. The First World War had wiped dozens of villages and cities completely off the map. The fields had been destroyed by grenades, mine craters, scrap, trenches, bunkers, railways and infrastructure of the war machine.But Flanders Fields rose again, like a Phoenix from the ashes. Even before the end of the war, the first people returned to their previous homes. A traditional architecture was supposed to remove all traces from the war and restore the former beauty of the area. With the first fairs and processions from 1919 onwards, the social fabric started to heal. Pilgrims started to comefrom all the corners of the earth to visit the many memorials and cemeteries. By the end of the twenties the reconstruction was largely finished. It is this post-war reconstruction that continues to define the characteristics of the region to this very day.This book has been published to commemorate the centenary of the recovery as guide for iconic sites of reconstruction, thematic exhibitions, public events, and walking and cycle routes that will take you to many striking sites of the reconstruction in the Westhoek. It also contains an historical overview of the revival of a region so heavily scourged by the Great War and newinsights a century on.

Paperback. Condizione: New. From the halls of Parliament to the depths of South-East Asian jungles, junior British MP Richard Reynolds embarks on a perilous journey that could alter the course of history. As the UK teeters on the brink of war, Richard uncovers a sinister conspiracy that threatens global stability. With dark forces at play both abroad and at home, he alone holds the key to preventing catastrophe. Driven by deeply personal stakes, Richard must navigate a treacherous path where failure is not an option.

Hardback. Condizione: New. A glorious essay by Winston Churchill about one of his favourite pastimes, painting.

Hardback. Condizione: New. It's the casualties that dominate our thinking on the First World War - the dead - all those thousands of soldiers who lie buried on the battlefields of the world. Who were they? Where did they come from? What were they fighting for? How did their families cope? Can we ever know? In the case of the British we can get an idea because Britain, alone among the combatant nations, allowed their next-of-kin space for a personal inscription on the War Grave Commission's headstones. And these inscriptions give us a piercing glimpse into the minds of the men and women of the British Empire who mourned their dead; into their pride, love, patriotism, dignity, anger, grief, resignation and despair. It's as if the stones speak - and some of them do: "Remember whatever happens it will have been worth while"; "Mother dear I must go"; "I would not have missed it for anything", "Why?".Epitaphs of the Great War - The Last 100 Days is the third instalment in an edited collection ofheadstone inscriptions from the graves of those killed during the Great War. Limited by theImperial War Graves Commission to sixty-six characters - far more restrictive than Twitter's140-character rule - these inscriptions are masterpieces of compact emotion containing asthey do the distilled essence of thousands of responses to the war. However, their enforcedbrevity means that many inscriptions relied on the reader being able to pick up on thereferences and allusions, or recognise the quotations - and many twenty-first-century readersdo not. In this selection of one hundred inscriptions from the battlefield cemeteries, theauthor, by expanding the context - religious, literary or personal - has been able to give fullvoice to the bereaved. This volume covers those killed in France and Flanders during the period commonly known asthe last 100 days of the war, a period from 8 August to 11 November 1918.

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Paperback. Condizione: New. A romance inspired by real events.Maria, Georgy and Harriet navigate their first throes of passion, scandal, and love in the heady pre-war atmosphere of Brussels in 1815.Little do they know they will soon be waltzing their way to the battle of the century at a small village called Waterloo.As the fight for Europe rages outside the city walls, Maria seeks to find herself - will she also find a husband along the way?

Paperback. Condizione: New. Volume III in our In Arcadia Series is a beautiful bird book - elegant descriptions of our best-loved birds alongside simple, yet stunning woodcuts.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Occasionally panoramic, more often intimate, in Clouds of Love and War author Rachel Billington balances a detailed and highly researched picture of the life of a Second World War Spitfire pilot with the travails and ambitions of a young woman too often on her own. The result is both a gripping story of war and a sensitive story of love, a love that struggles to survive. Eddie and Eva meet on the eve of the Second World War. Eddie only wants to be a flyer, to find escape in the clouds from his own complicated family. However, the Battle of Britain makes a pilot's life a dangerous way to flee reality. Eva has her own passionate longing: to become a painter. When Eva's Jewish mother disappears to Germany, she is left alone with her elderly father. Both Eddie and Eva come of age at a time that teaches them that happiness is always fleeting, but there are things worth living - or dying - for. Through the connecting stories of these young people and their wider families, and against a background of southern county airfields, London, Oxford, Dorset and France, Rachel Billington brings the world of war time England, now eighty years in the past, back to life.

Hardback. Condizione: New. Look Where We're Going is a book of revelation and revolution. Written by someone who has been at the centre of British government and international affairs for half a century, it looks afresh at the ideas, hopes, lessons and largely unintended consequences of successive generations of political leaders; it shows us how to Look Where We're Going. Based on deep personal experience - the author is one of the few left who served in Margaret Thatcher's first Cabinet of just over forty years ago - Howell gives us a new picture of the dramas deep inside government and how yesterday's clashes of ideology and personality have led to today's unanticipated turmoil. Old assumptions are torn apart and accepted versions of what occurred are unravelled.  Howell shows how technology has made much of our conventional political vocabulary obsolete, how we now need quite different types of leadership serving new priorities and how, while we wrestle with the issues just before our eyes, much bigger forces are at work which are re-shaping our lives and our future.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? These questions form the title of an 1897 painting by the French artist Paul Gauguin. He knew he was pushing the limits of human knowledge by asking them. He also knew they are not new questions. Our ancestors began to ask them on the African savannah. The Roman poet Lucretius posed them in his long poem On the Nature of Things, written just before the Christian era. He sought natural explanations for the behaviour of matter, without recourse to gods. But he also knew that the world we see is largely a creation of our mind. Since then, science has answered most of his 'how' questions, almost to the point of offering us a 'Theory of Everything'. But Gauguin's 'why' questions remain largely unanswered. They require a personal response from us, without which, as Lucretius intuited, nothing can be joyous or lovely. In The Stupendous Story of Us, we consider the narrative from all angles: our mastery of the realm of things, our exploration of our inner world, and our connectedness to each other. The pace is frantic because life is short, knowledge is infinite, and the challenges ahead are pressing.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Dark haired, slight, with deep-set haunted eyes, Herschel Grynszpan is an undocumented Jewish alien living in Paris. He receives a postcard from his parents - recently bundled from their Hanover flat, put on a train and dumped, with 12,000 others on the Polish border. Enraged, Herschel buys a gun and kills a minor German official in the German Embassy. The repercussions trigger Kristalnacht, the nationwide pogrom against the Jews in Germany and Austria, a calamity which some have called the opening act of the Holocaust. Intertwined is the parallel life of the German boxer, Max Schmeling, who as a result of his victory over the then 'invincible' Joe Louis in 1936 became the poster boy of the Nazis. He and his movie-star wife, Anny Ondra, were feted by the regime - tea with Hitler, a passage on the airship Hindenburg - until his brutal two-minute beating in the rematch with Louis less than two years later. His story reaches a climax during Kristalnacht, where the champion performs an act of quiet heroism.

Hardback. Condizione: New. It's the casualties that dominate our thinking on the First World War - the dead - all those thousands of soldiers who lie buried on the battlefields of the world. Who were they? Where did they come from? What were they fighting for? How did their families cope? Can we ever know? In the case of the British we can get an idea because Britain, alone among the combatant nations, allowed their next-of-kin space for a personal inscription on the War Grave Commission's headstones. And these inscriptions give us a piercing glimpse into the minds of the men and women of the British Empire who mourned their dead; into their pride, love, patriotism, dignity, anger, grief, resignation and despair. It's as if the stones speak - and some of them do: "Remember whatever happens it will have been worth while"; "Mother dear I must go"; "I would not have missed it for anything", "Why?".Epitaphs of the Great War - The Last 100 Days is the third instalment in an edited collection ofheadstone inscriptions from the graves of those killed during the Great War. Limited by theImperial War Graves Commission to sixty-six characters - far more restrictive than Twitter's140-character rule - these inscriptions are masterpieces of compact emotion containing asthey do the distilled essence of thousands of responses to the war. However, their enforcedbrevity means that many inscriptions relied on the reader being able to pick up on thereferences and allusions, or recognise the quotations - and many twenty-first-century readersdo not. In this selection of one hundred inscriptions from the battlefield cemeteries, theauthor, by expanding the context - religious, literary or personal - has been able to give fullvoice to the bereaved. This volume covers those killed in France and Flanders during the period commonly known asthe last 100 days of the war, a period from 8 August to 11 November 1918.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Occasionally panoramic, more often intimate, in Clouds of Love and War author Rachel Billington balances a detailed and highly researched picture of the life of a Second World War Spitfire pilot with the travails and ambitions of a young woman too often on her own. The result is both a gripping story of war and a sensitive story of love, a love that struggles to survive. Eddie and Eva meet on the eve of the Second World War. Eddie only wants to be a flyer, to find escape in the clouds from his own complicated family. However, the Battle of Britain makes a pilot's life a dangerous way to flee reality. Eva has her own passionate longing: to become a painter. When Eva's Jewish mother disappears to Germany, she is left alone with her elderly father. Both Eddie and Eva come of age at a time that teaches them that happiness is always fleeting, but there are things worth living - or dying - for. Through the connecting stories of these young people and their wider families, and against a background of southern county airfields, London, Oxford, Dorset and France, Rachel Billington brings the world of war time England, now eighty years in the past, back to life.

Hardback. Condizione: New. Look Where We're Going is a book of revelation and revolution. Written by someone who has been at the centre of British government and international affairs for half a century, it looks afresh at the ideas, hopes, lessons and largely unintended consequences of successive generations of political leaders; it shows us how to Look Where We're Going. Based on deep personal experience - the author is one of the few left who served in Margaret Thatcher's first Cabinet of just over forty years ago - Howell gives us a new picture of the dramas deep inside government and how yesterday's clashes of ideology and personality have led to today's unanticipated turmoil. Old assumptions are torn apart and accepted versions of what occurred are unravelled.  Howell shows how technology has made much of our conventional political vocabulary obsolete, how we now need quite different types of leadership serving new priorities and how, while we wrestle with the issues just before our eyes, much bigger forces are at work which are re-shaping our lives and our future.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Sarajevo 1991. To the home of Adam and Finola VidakovicÌ comes their new lodger, the internationally-known concert pianist, Daniel Danuczek, who is to teach at the Conservatory. He captivates both Finola and her daughter, Irena, but returns to London as civil war breaks out, holding Sarajevo in its pitiless grip. Soon after, the VidakovicÌ home will be a ruin and the family dead or missing.Written with compassion and humour, A Place of Springs follows the fortunes and misfortunes of Daniel against a background of music which both expresses and transcends human pain.