Julie Summers
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Obres de Julie Summers
The Shackleton Voyages: A Pictorial Anthology of the Polar Explorer and Edwardian Hero (2002) — Picture research and captions — 51 exemplars
Essential Oils for Pets: Simple but amazingly effective natural remedies that will improve the health and well-being of… (2015) 1 exemplars
Essential Oils for Dogs: The Complete Guide to Safe and Simple Ways to Use Essential Oils for a Happier, Relaxed and… (2016) 1 exemplars
Essential Oils for Dogs: 2 Book Bundle - The comprehensive guide to better dog care (Dog care, holistic health care for… (2016) 1 exemplars
Essential Oils for Dogs: The Complete Guide to Safe and Simple Ways to Use Essential Oils for a Happier, Relaxed and… (2016) 1 exemplars
Essential Oils for Dogs: Aromatherapy for Beginners AND 103 Essential Oils Recipes (Julie Summers - Dog care) (2017) 1 exemplars
Remembered: The History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission by Julie Summers (1-May-2007) Hardcover 1 exemplars
Dog Food Cookbook: Comprehensive Guide to Dog Nutrition with Dog Treat and Dog Food Recipes (2017) 1 exemplars
British Vogue: The Biography of an Icon 1 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1960
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Educació
- Bristol University
Munich Business School
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London - Professions
- Head of Exhibitions, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- Relacions
- Irvine, Sandy (great-uncle)
- Organitzacions
- Ashmolean Museum
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 26
- També de
- 2
- Membres
- 628
- Popularitat
- #40,132
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 21
- ISBN
- 60
- Llengües
- 2
I did learn a lot about what country women did towards the war effort, with food production, food preservation, salvage collecting, knitting for the troops, entertainments to raise money for good causes, wild plant gathering for essential medicine production e.g. foxgloves to make digitalis and rosehips for vitamin C production, wool gathering from the hedgerows, Make do and Mend, toy/clothing and other items made for refugees in Europe, supplying all sorts to the Red Cross for POWs, and lots more besides. All with no pay and no transport allowances and everything rationed, the jam makers, for example, not even being able to get back the jam they had made with their own fruit, as it all went into central stores and what you bought and used your coupons for (the coupons didn't pay for anything, they just allowed you to get it if it was available) would be jam someone had made in another village most likely. And this against a background of very basic amenities, with a lot of villages not having mains drains, a lot lacking electricity and some even not having a water supply in the house, as these utilities didn't reach a lot of country areas in the UK until the late 1950s.
However what I missed here was that, although there were extracts from diaries or letters of individual women, they were few in number and I just didn't get the sense of women as individuals, to the extent that when they reappeared in the narrative under another topic - the book is topic based, starting with a history of the WI and then going on to each of the things they helped organise e.g. food production, clothing production etc etc - I couldn't get a sense of who was who. For that reason I have to say this was only an OK 2 star read because it didn't bring the subject alive. And that's a shame because it is a very important subject which hasn't been looked at much in the huge supply of books about civilian life in WWII, which tend to concentrate on what went on in the towns/cities.… (més)