Economical with Fiction

Economical with Fiction

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Noel Streatfeild’s Grass in Piccadilly Part 2
What have an enigmatic author and an entertaining postwar novel to do with 17th century theories of civility?
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On the Importance of Hats
1930s business girls and Royal solutions to unemployment woes
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The best-loved, the most bloodthirsty, the most battered ...
My library of children's books
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Paint, Permits and a Post-War Housing Crisis: Noel Streatfeild's Forgotten Novel of Making Do in Mayfair
I’ve been listening to PostWar on BBC Radio Four about Britain’s 1945 general election and its aftermath.
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Shop-Girl Delight
Discovering Dorothy Whipple's Unlikely Fairytale
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A Marchioness, a Provincial Lady and Dickens: All Going Pop
The Pawnshop and Fiction
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Some things I’ve liked: Heroes, Sheroes, Greece, Food History and One End Street
A summer reading update
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Economical with Fiction
Economical with Fiction
Exploring fiction of the 1920s and 30s, the crossover of economics and fiction, stories of the Great Depression, women writers from historical novelist E.J. Barnes, author of Mr Keynes' Revolution
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