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Closet Queens
Author | : Michael Bloch |
Publsiher | : Little, Brown Book Group |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2015-05-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781405517010 |
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Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in Edwardian times to Michael Portillo and Peter Mandelson in our own era. As all homosexual activity was illegal until 1967, and exposure meant ruin and disgrace, such men were obliged either to repress their sexual feelings or else lead double lives, indulging their tastes secretly while respectably married with children. The need to cover up their sexuality, while causing problems and disappointments, often sharpened their skills as politicians - they were masters of secrecy and subterfuge, and knew how to take calculated risks. An entertaining and insightful account of some extraordinary personalities, Closet Queens opens doors into a hidden world.
The Queens English
Author | : Chloe O. Davis |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2024-04-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781665926867 |
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This young readers adaptation of The Queens’ English is a nonfiction illustrated reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community’s contributions to the English language. This playful, richly illustrated visual dictionary is the perfect book for anyone who has ever wondered about the origin of phrases like “boi,” “drag,” or “demisexual,” the history of the word “queer,” and the wonderfully diverse, wide-ranging histories that have contributed to LGBTQIA+ culture and vocabulary. Drawing from traditions as divergent as the ancient poet Sappho to the underground ball scene of the 1980s, from the Stonewall Riots to RuPaul’s Drag Race, this glossary is a colorful compendium—and a celebration of every king, queen, butch, femme, trans, folx, and enby who has shaped the history, identity, and limitless imagination of queerness.
Lives of the Queens of England
Author | : Agnes Strickland |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Queens |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044094404324 |
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Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest
Author | : Agnes Strickland |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Queens |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433075909451 |
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Seventeenth Century English Recipe Books Cooking Physic and Chirurgery in the Works of Elizabeth Talbot Grey and Aletheia Talbot Howard
Author | : Elizabeth Spiller |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 752 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781351901017 |
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Recipe books are a key part of food history; they register the ideals and practices of domestic work, physical health and sustenance and they are at the heart of material culture as it was experienced by early modern Englishwomen. In a world in which daily sustenance and physical health were primarily women's responsibilities, women were central to these texts that record what was both a traditional art and new science. The texts reprinted in these two volumes allow readers to reconstruct the history of recipes, both medical and culinary, from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century, and situate that history within the larger scientific and intellectual practices of the period.
Six Wives
Author | : David Starkey |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 884 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780061842160 |
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“Extraordinary. . . . It is a tribute to Starkey’s narrative drive, his puckish wit, and sharp discrimination that it doesn’t seem a page too long. . . . With each queen, Starkey offers a vivid character study but also has fresh discoveries that subtly alter the picture he started out with.” — Sunday Times (London) The dramatic, legendary story of Henry VIII, his six wives, and the England they ruled—told by one of the world’s preeminent historians of the Tudor era. Perhaps no one in history had a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. His marriages were tumultuous and complicated, and made instant legends of six very different women. Henry took his first bride, Catherine of Aragon, when he was 17. Their 24-year marriage was a relatively stable prelude to what followed. Anne Boleyn, a pretty, French-educated Protestant who was the mother of Elizabeth I, was eventually beheaded. Jane Seymour served as a demure contrast to the vampish Boleyn, and gave birth to Henry’s longed-for son (Edward VI). After a brief marriage to the plain Anne of Cleves, Henry married a flirtatious teenager, Catherine Howard, who would be the second of his brides to lose her head along with the king’s favor. Finally, there was Catherine Parr, a shrewd Protestant bluestocking. In this brilliant new work, one of the world’s most respected historians weaves startling new facts and fresh interpretations into a spellbinding account of the emotional drama and political intrigue that attended Henry’s six marriages. With a keen eye for both the personal and the global stage, David Starkey masterfully recaptures the Tudor era—and the wives of Henry VIII—as only he can.
Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest By Agnes Strickland A New Edition Carefully Revised and Augmented In Six Volumes
Author | : Agnes STRICKLAND |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0024401231 |
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Lives of the queens of England from the Norman conquest By A and E Strickland
Author | : Agnes Strickland |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:600018146 |
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