Nanny Knows Best
Katherine Holden • £18.99
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Not quite part of the family and more than just an employee; idealised and demonised, the nanny has always had a difficult role in family life.
Any discussion of nannies arouses strong emotions in those who have employed them and reveals a sometimes shocking range of experiences both for the nannies and for the children they looked after. A nanny to the one of the principal landowning families in Dorset nearly starved their treasured heir to death, while a Suffolk nanny found parting from one of her charges so traumatic that she had a mental breakdown. This book weaves personal stories viewed through the eyes of nannies, mothers and children into a fascinating cultural history of the iconic British nanny.
Katherine Holden goes beyond the myths to discover where our tradition of employing nannies comes from and to explore the ways in which it has and has not changed over the past century. From the Norland Nannies method and the magical Mary Poppins, to today’s child-tamer Supernanny , our culture has alternately welcomed and rejected this approach to childcare. The tales told in this history reach to the heart of the nanny dilemma that parents still struggle with today.
Wartime Housewife
Biff Raven-Hill • £9.99
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The Wartime Housewife will bring old-fashioned values and skills to our modern world! In this book, she shares recipes and tips on budgeting, repairing things, mending and scavenging; ideas for the school holidays, outings, gardening, DIY, sewing and craft; and anything else that might prove useful in your daily life. The Wartime Housewife knows only too well what it is like to manage on a tight budget and, by following her way, you too can learn to make the very best of what you have, as well as seeing the value in what is around you and making the most of it. Written with sharp wit and illustrated with vintage photo - graphs, Wartime Housewife is the perfect guide to navigating gracefully the rigours of modern life.
The Little Book of the 1950s
Stuart Hylton • £9.99
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A fast-paced and entertaining account of life in Britain during an extraordinary decade, as we moved from post-war austerity to the swinging sixties. There are dramas, tragedies, scandals and characters galore, all packaged in an easily readable ‘dip-in’ format. We can see how major national and international events impacted on the population at home, the progress made by technology and the fads and fancies of fashion and novelty.