For fans of Century Girls comes a new book by Tessa Dunlop.
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Tessa Dunlop is een historicus wiens werk het verleden belicht door middel van boeiende televisie- en radio-uitzendingen. Haar academische achtergrond in geschiedenis van de Universiteit van Oxford vormt de basis voor haar inzichtelijke verkenningen van historische verhalen. Dunlop biedt een onderscheidende benadering, waardoor complexe historische onderwerpen toegankelijk en boeiend worden voor een breed publiek.
The Century Girls
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- 13 uur lezen
A celebration of the one-hundred years since British women got the vote, told, in their own voices, by six centenarians - The Century Girls.
The Bletchley Girls
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Historian and broadcaster Tessa Dunlop tells the story of the women of Bletchley Park, through exclusive and unprecedented access to the women themselves.
"Drawing on original newspaper archives and the opinions of Elizabeth and Philip's contemporaries still alive today, historian Dr Tessa Dunlop discovers a post-war world on the cusp of major change. Unprecedented polling on Philip's suitability was a harbinger of pressures to come for a couple whose marriage was branded the ultimate global fairytale. Theirs was a partnership like no other. Six years after Elizabeth promised to be an obedient wife Philip got down on bended knee and committed himself as the Queen's 'liege man of life and limb.'"--Publisher's description
To Romania With Love
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To Romania With Love is the moving story of a country in turmoil, and finding love in the most unexpected places.
What monuments to conflict, and the people they commemorate, tell us about our history and ourselves. 'When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.' John Maxwell Edmonds Published for the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War Two, this poignant book examines the inspirations and individuals behind our statue-studded country to rediscover war-torn Britain in 100 monuments. Acclaimed historian Tessa Dunlop travels the length and breadth of the British Isles on a quest to uncover a story of national warring and national mourning, of fighting each other and of fighting together. Lest We Forget casts new light on the map of Britain through hidden treasures and uncomfortable truths, and asks what our war heroes and monuments say about us. Why did Scotland take nearly 600 years to commemorate its most famous freedom fighter? When did Wellington become anti-Establishment? Who are the Glorious Dead? Can the Cenotaph stay above politics? Why does Balmoral Estate's memorial have swastikas on it? Through veteran testimony, newspaper archive and oral history, Tessa Dunlop will bring to life the personalities and the pitfalls, the pride and the pain involved in marking war across Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Wales in a monumental British story.