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Aerofilms - A history of Britain from above (Hardcover, New): James Crawford, Katy Whitaker, Allan Williams Aerofilms - A history of Britain from above (Hardcover, New)
James Crawford, Katy Whitaker, Allan Williams 1
R1,568 R1,411 Discovery Miles 14 110 Save R157 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Aerofilms Ltd was born on 9 May 1919. An unprecedented business venture, it hoped to marry the still fledgling technology of powered flight to the discipline of photography. Its founders were Claude Grahame-White, an internationally-famous English aviation pioneer, and Francis Lewis Wills, a trained architect who had flown as an observer for the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War. Together they embarked on a distinctively British tale of derring-do. From developing photographic glass plates in a hotel bathroom at the London Flying Club in Hendon, to producing many thousands of aerial images every year, they took a tool which had first been used for military intelligence, and repackaged it for the mass market. As a result, Aerofilms lived through and recorded one of the most tumultuous periods in British history. After surviving the worldwide economic crash of the Great Depression in the 1930s, and serving their country at the request of Winston Churchill during the Second World War, they were still on hand to help shape the Britain of the future, capturing the major reconstruction projects of the 1940s and 50s. Aerofilms: A History of Britain From Above draws on thousands of images, including many that are rare or previously unseen, to present a vivid picture of the nation in the first half of the twentieth century. Following the company's enigmatic founders, daredevil pilots, skilled photographers and innovative advertisers, it explores how they manufactured and sold a potent sense of place and identity to the British people. The story of Aerofilms - the men and women behind the company and the photographs that they produced - is a story of innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, war, marketing and the making of 'Brand Britain'.

From Quarries to Rock-cut Sites - Echoes of Stone Crafting: Anaïs Lamesa, Katy Whitaker, Gabriele Gattiglia, Claudia Sciuto,... From Quarries to Rock-cut Sites - Echoes of Stone Crafting
Anaïs Lamesa, Katy Whitaker, Gabriele Gattiglia, Claudia Sciuto, Marie-Elise Porqueddu
R3,326 Discovery Miles 33 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Carved in Stone - The archaeology of rock-cut sites and stone quarries (Paperback): Claudia Sciuto, Anais Lamesa, Katy... Carved in Stone - The archaeology of rock-cut sites and stone quarries (Paperback)
Claudia Sciuto, Anais Lamesa, Katy Whitaker, Ali Yamac
R2,001 Discovery Miles 20 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Royal Passion - The Turbulent Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France (Hardcover): Katie Whitaker Royal Passion - The Turbulent Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France (Hardcover)
Katie Whitaker
R1,284 R1,137 Discovery Miles 11 370 Save R147 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It was, from the start, a dangerous experiment. Charles I of England was a Protestant, the fifteen-year-old French princess a Catholic. The marriage was arranged for political purposes, and it seemed a mismatch of personalities. But against the odds, the reserved king and his naively vivacious bride fell passionately in love, and for ten years England enjoyed an era of peace and prosperity. When Charles became involved in war with Puritan Scotland, popular hatred of Henrietta's Catholicism roused Parliament to fury. As the opposition party embraced new values of liberty and republicanism--the blueprint for the American War of Independence and the French Revolution--Charles's fears for his wife's safety drove him into a civil war that would cost him his crown and his head. Rejecting centuries of hostile historical tradition, prize-winning biographer Katie Whitaker uses a host of original sources--including many unpublished manuscripts and letters--to create an intimate portrait of a remarkable marriage.

Mad Madge (Paperback, New edition): Katie Whitaker Mad Madge (Paperback, New edition)
Katie Whitaker
R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Margaret Cavendish's life as a writer and noblewoman unfolded against the backdrop of the English Civil War and Restoration. Pursuing the only career open to women of her class, she became a lady-in-waiting to the Queen Henrietta Maria. Exiled to Paris with the Queen, she met and married William Cavendish, Marquis of Newcastle. In exile, Margaret did something unthinkable for a seventeenth-century Englishwoman: she lived proudly as a writer. Eventually she published twenty-three volumes, starting with "Poems and Fancies," the first book of English poetry published by a woman under her own name. But later generations too easily accepted the disparaging opinions of her shocked critics, and labeled her "Mad Madge of Newcastle.""Mad Madge" is both a lively biography of a fascinating woman and a window on a tumultuous cultural time.

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