A Tale of Fashion and Celebrity Styled by Dave Thomas
In 1988 David Thomas was an unemployed plumber with a seemingly impossible dream: to enter the world of fashion. Dave
worked weekends washing dishes in a café and evenings as a lavatory attendant in a West End nightclub, and in every spare
moment he hammered on the doors of fashion editors, until one of them opened a tiny crack. Having seized the ......
In 1986, Susan Campbell made the chance discovery of a hitherto unknown garden diary. She spent the next 35 years researching its background before writing this book. The diary was written between 1838 and 1865 by the father of Charles Darwin, Doctor Robert Darwin and after his death in 1848 it was continued by his sister, Susan. It describes the ......
200 original maxims by the world's leading aphorist
Feeling down in the mouth? Then brighten your day with Peeing is Relieving! It’s packed with pithy one-liners, like: Fame is when
reporters beg to interview your cat and: The British Empire ceased when butlers stopped ironing the morning paper.
As the perfect gift book, Robert Eddison’s off-the-wall treasure house of original aphorisms is peppered ......
Using rare footage from the film archive at IWM, this flip book shows the famous Sherman tank move up to the front, as a tank squadron prepares for action north of Caen in early July 1944.
ISBN-13: 9781912423132
(Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
This book is a personal, humorous and insightful insider’s perspective of what goes on a daily basis inside the United Nations. It is incisive, direct and a pleasure to read. There have been other historical accounts and contemporary assessments of the United
Nations, but none by United Nations staff members at such a high level, with long ......
During the Second World War, the Nazis and their collaborators murdered two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population – six million people. In some parts of Europe this represented the complete annihilation of entire households, families, and communities. Those that survived were forced to live their lives in the shadow of an incalculable loss.
ISBN-13: 9781912423408
(Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
A History of Dangerous Assumptions features over two hundred illuminating and intriguing case-studies of this fascinating
subject, including some of the most disastrous assumptions ever foisted upon the human race.
British Naval Uniform, Masculinity and Contemporary Fashions, 1748-1857
A detailed exploration of naval identity, period
fashion and masculinity.
This fully updated and expanded second edition of
the 2007 publication provides a detailed analysis of
naval uniform and its historical, social and economic
contexts. An extensive catalogue of uniforms from
the collection of the National Maritime Museum
is accompanied by a ......
