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Country House Society: The Private Lives of England's Upper Class After the First World War

This is a great book on a fascinating subject.

By Pamela Horn

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Hardcover:

9781445603186 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, October 19, 2014, cover price $34.95

9780405139796, titled "Le Dymamisme De LA Vallee Du Zeravson" | Ayer Co Pub, March 1, 1981, cover price $31.00 | also contains Le Dymamisme De LA Vallee Du Zeravson | About this edition: This is a great book on a fascinating subject.

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9781445644776 | Amberley Pub Plc, April 30, 2015, cover price $16.00

Flappers: The Real Lives of British Women in the Era of The Great Gatsby

Product Description: For many women the 1920s was a time of change after the pressures â and opportunities â of the First World War. For a number, war casualties meant a life of spinsterhood, which some turned to good account by enjoying their new independence...read more

By Pamela Horn

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9781445614021 | Amberley Pub Plc, November 19, 2014, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: For many women the 1920s was a time of change after the pressures â and opportunities â of the First World War.

Amusing the Victorians: Leisure, Pleasure and Play in Victorian Britain

Product Description: We recognise the Victorians as relentless, nose-to-the-grindstone workers: at one end of the scale there were great scientific discoveries being made, at the other there were child chimney sweeps and the workhouse. But how did the people of the Industrial Revolution amuse themselves in their spare time? What weird and wonderful activities were invented solely for the pursuit of pleasure? The years between 1837 and 1901 saw the greatest upsurge in leisure pursuits hitherto witnessed...read more

By Pamela Horn

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9781445643649 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, November 19, 2014, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: We recognise the Victorians as relentless, nose-to-the-grindstone workers: at one end of the scale there were great scientific discoveries being made, at the other there were child chimney sweeps and the workhouse.

Ladies of the Manor: How Wives & Daughters Really Lived in Country House Society over a Century Ago

By Pamela Horn

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9781445619811 | Amberley Pub Plc, December 19, 2014, cover price $16.00

Life Below Stairs: The Real Lives of Servants, 1939 to the Present

Product Description: We view domestic service today as an undesirable job, owing to the class divide it has come to represent, and this is reflected in the portrayals of mistresses and servants in books and on the screen. But what do we really know about how girls felt when taking up these positions in other peopleâs houses, or how they were treated? Pamela Horn uses firsthand accounts and reminiscences, as well as official records and newspaper reports, to extract the truth about the lives and status of men and women in domestic service from 1939 to the present...read more

By Pamela Horn

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9781445618982 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, June 19, 2014, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: We view domestic service today as an undesirable job, owing to the class divide it has come to represent, and this is reflected in the portrayals of mistresses and servants in books and on the screen.

The Real Life Women of Downton Abbey: How Wives & Daughters Really Lived in Country House Society over a Century Ago

Product Description: â¢ Weaves into the narrative the 'voices' of women living in the British country houseâ¢ Author a renowned expert social historian.â¢ Complemented by numerous contemporary photographs.â¢ 'Pamela Horn has used original sources to investigate the times of these privileged women before society was utterly changed by the First Word War and its aftermath' THE LADY, 'A must...read more

By Pamela Horn

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9781445608327 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, January 19, 2013, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: â¢ Weaves into the narrative the 'voices' of women living in the British country houseâ¢ Author a renowned expert social historian.

Life Below Stairs: The Real Lives of Servants, the Edwardian Era to 1939

Product Description: â¢ Huge interest in ITV's period drama DOWNTON ABBEY which is set in Edwardian Britain, the third series which covers the first years of the 1920s starts in September.â¢ Author a renowned expert social historian.â¢ Complemented by numerous contemporary photographs...read more

By Pamela Horn

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9781445610085 | Reprint edition (Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, January 19, 2013), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: â¢ Huge interest in ITV's period drama DOWNTON ABBEY which is set in Edwardian Britain, the third series which covers the first years of the 1920s starts in September.

Read Aloud Classics: 24 Ten-Minute Selections from the World's Best Loved Children's Books

Product Description: Reformatted and redesigned, Read-Aloud Classics collects the most beloved stories of children's literature.Reading to your child is the best way to instill in him or her a lifelong love of reading. Just ten minutes or less, the stories are the perfect length to read-aloud to children at bedtime and puts children on the road to becomingÂ life-long readers...read more

By Pamela Horn (editor)

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9781579129200 | Hachette Books, September 11, 2012, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Reformatted and redesigned, Read-Aloud Classics collects the most beloved stories of children's literature.

The Real Lark Rise to Candelford: Life in the Victorian Countryside

Product Description: ï§ Description of daily life in rural Britain in a time of rapid changeï§ Complemented by numerous contemporary photographsï§ Weaves into the narrative the âvoicesâ of those living in the Victorian countryside.âThe world was at the beginning of a new era, the era of machinery and scientific discovery...read more

By Pamela Horn

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9781848688148 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, December 30, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: ï§ Description of daily life in rural Britain in a time of rapid changeï§ Complemented by numerous contemporary photographsï§ Weaves into the narrative the âvoicesâ of those living in the Victorian countryside.

Pleasures and Pastimes in Victorian Britain

Product Description: It was a paradox of nineteenth-century Britain that while work was the bedrock upon which the Victorian vision of progress was constructed, the years between 1837 and 1901 also saw the greatest upsurge in leisure pursuits hitherto witnessed...read more

By Pamela Horn

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9781848688131, titled "Pleasures & Pastimes in Victorian Britain" | Amberley Pub Plc, January 30, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: It was a paradox of nineteenth-century Britain that while work was the bedrock upon which the Victorian vision of progress was constructed, the years between 1837 and 1901 also saw the greatest upsurge in leisure pursuits hitherto witnessed.

Victorian and Edwardian Schoolchild

Product Description: âWhat is our purpose in this Bill? Briefly this, to bring elementary education within the reach of every English home, aye, and within the reach of those children who have no homes.â So said W. E. Forster when introducing the Elementary Education Bill in the House of Commons in 1870...read more

By Pamela Horn

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9780862995744 | Sutton Pub Ltd, June 1, 1991, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: 'What is our purpose in this Bill?

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9781848688100, titled "The Victorian and Edwardian Schoolchild" | Amberley Pub Plc, December 19, 2010, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: âWhat is our purpose in this Bill?

Women in the 1920s

Product Description: For many women the 1920s was a time of change after the pressures - and opportunities - of the First World War. For a number, war casualties meant a life of spinsterhood, which some turned to good account by enjoying their new independence...read more

By Pamela Horn

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9781848688117 | Amberley Pub Plc, November 19, 2010, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: For many women the 1920s was a time of change after the pressures - and opportunities - of the First World War.

Life in the Victorian Country House

By Pamela Horn

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9780747807506 | Shire Pubns, September 21, 2010, cover price $19.95

Young Offenders: Juvenile Delinquency 1700-2000

Product Description: In the early twenty first century juvenile crime has become a matter of widespread social and political concern and debate. Young Offenders examines the way in which attitudes â and the law itself â have evolved in dealing with juvenile wrongdoing from the early eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth...read more

By Pamela Horn

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9781848688803 | Amberley Pub Plc, May 19, 2010, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In the early twenty first century juvenile crime has become a matter of widespread social and political concern and debate.

Life Below Stairs: In the 20th Century

Product Description: In 1931, domestic service remained the largest female occupation in Britain. Despite our view of it today as being an undesirable job, it was then seen as the perfect way to equip young women with the skills necessary to become good wives and mothers...read more

By Pamela Horn

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9780750923170 | Sutton Pub Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Servant Lives explores the servant's diminiishing role in England.

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9781848688124, titled "Life Below Stairs in the Twentieth Century" | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, March 19, 2010, cover price $24.96 | About this edition: In 1931, domestic service remained the largest female occupation in Britain.

Life in a Victorian Household

Product Description: What was it like to live in a Victorian Household? What time did the servants have to get up? What was the food like and who cooked it? How did the clothing differ for the different types of servants? How much did the servants get paid? This fascinating book takes you back in time and shows you what it was really like to live in Victorian times, for those both above and below stairs, and what sights and smells would be around you...read more

By Pamela Horn

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9780750946063 | Sutton Pub Ltd, March 16, 2008, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: What was it like to live in a Victorian Household?

Behind the Counter: Fly-fishing Tips, Techniques and Shortcuts

Product Description: In Behind the Counter, Neil Jennings offers tips, tricks, shortcuts and techniques. Whatever one's experience level, there are things in this book that readers will find useful or thought provoking. Jennings started getting serious about fly-fishing in 1973 and has fished that way exclusively ever since...read more

By Neil L. Jennings

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9781894765923, titled "Behind the Counter: Fly Fishing Tips, Techniques and Shortcuts" | Rocky Mountain Books, September 30, 2007, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In Behind the Counter, Neil Jennings offers tips, tricks, shortcuts and techniques.

Life As a Victorian Lady

Product Description: What did Victorian ladies wear? How did they spend their free time? How did they cope with the strict rules of etiquette concerning the opposite sex, calling on other ladies, ordering the staff and structuring their household? Here you can read about their food, their dress, their rules, their passions and their lives...read more

By Pamela Horn

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9780750946070 | Sutton Pub Ltd, February 16, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: What did Victorian ladies wear?

Behind the Counter: Shop Lives from Market Stall to Supermarket

Product Description: As Britain's population grew and the country became more urbanised and industrialised in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, so the number of shops increased. An army of shopkeepers and shopworkers emerged ready to cater for all clientele and to spend long hours behind the counters of small local shops or the lavish department stores, like Selfridges, that opened during the elegant Edwardian era...read more

By Pamela Horn

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9780750939300 | Gardners Books, August 16, 2006, cover price $35.90 | About this edition: As Britain's population grew and the country became urbanised and industrialised in eighteenth and early nineteenth century, so shops, shopkeepers, and shopworkers also increased in number.

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9781848688841 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, January 19, 2015, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: As Britain's population grew and the country became more urbanised and industrialised in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, so the number of shops increased.

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By Pamela Horn (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780760757482 | Barnes & Noble, February 28, 2006, cover price $12.95

The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant

Product Description: Victorian England measured social acceptability in terms of the number of servants employed in a household. It is perhaps unsuprising then that this frequently overlooked body of workers actually formed the largest occupational group in the country at the end of the nineteenth century...read more

By Pamela Horn

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9780862998196 | Subsequent edition (Sutton Pub Ltd, February 1, 1991), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Victorian England measured social acceptability in terms of the number of servants employed in a household.

Paperback:

9780750937177 | Sutton Pub Ltd, May 1, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Victorian England measured social acceptability in terms of the number of servants employed in a household.

9780862992965 | Reprint edition (Sutton Pub Ltd, December 1, 1989), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Victorian England measured social acceptability in terms of the number of servants employed in a household.

Flunkeys And Scullions: Life Below Stairs in Georgian England

Who were the servants who kept the great houses and the middle class homes of Georgian England running? What kinds of work did they do? How were they treated? What did they think of their masters and mistresses upstairs? Pamela Horn has mined the archives of stately homes to investigate.

By Pamela Horn

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9780750929554 | Gardners Books, April 21, 2004, cover price $35.25 | About this edition: Who were the servants who kept the great houses and the middle class homes of Georgian England running?

Shakespeare in Love

Product Description: Tom Stoppard's screenplay of the film "Shakespeare in Love", strongly tipped to win an Oscar in 1999. It is 1593 and Will Shakespeare - rising young light of the Elizabethan stage - struggles with writer's block.

By Pamela Horn and William Shakespeare

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9781579121839 | Black Dog & Leventhal Pub, September 1, 2001, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: Tom Stoppard's screenplay of the film "Shakespeare in Love", strongly tipped to win an Oscar in 1999.

The Complete Servant

Product Description: First published 1825. A fascinating source of social history and a guide to backstairs living in both large and modest houses of the late Georgian era. Advice to employers and their servants from an ex-butler and an ex-housekeeper, dealing not only with the kitchen but also with the house, stables and garden, and with an unusual section on menservants' duties over a period when little is known about them...read more

By Samuel Adams, Sarah Adams, Ann Haly (editor) and Pamela Horn (introduced by)

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9781870962094 | Equinox, January 1, 2000, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: First published 1825.

Pleasures & Pastimes in Victorian England

Product Description: It was a paradox of 19th-century Britain that while work was the bedrock upon which the Victorian vision of progress and improvement was constructed, the years between 1837 and 1901 also saw the greatest upsurge in leisure pursuits hitherto witnessed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Pamela Horn

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9780750916660 | Sutton Pub Ltd, November 1, 1999, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: It was a paradox of 19th-century Britain that while work was the bedrock upon which the Victorian vision of progress and improvement was constructed, the years between 1837 and 1901 also saw the greatest upsurge in leisure pursuits hitherto witnessed.

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