"Our fingers were never idle" : women and domestic craft in the Geelong region, 1900-1960

This thesis is an exploration of women's domestic crafts in the Geelong region, between 1900 and I960, Through analysing oral testimony and the women's handicraft artefacts, the nature of the domestic production of handicrafts and the meanings the makers have constructed around their creations and their lives is illuminated. The thesis is organised around the themes of work, space, the construction of femininity, memory, time and meaning. The thesis argues that until recently, the discipline of history has privileged the experiences of men over those of women. It challenges the trivialising of women’s handicrafts. It also argues that within the restrictive social structures around them and within the confined nature of their situations, the women of my study asserted themselves to transform their environments and to improve their situations through labour in the home. In ‘making do’, recycling materials and creating functional and decorative needlework items for their homes and families, the women were often finding solutions to pressing practical and economic problems. Doing handicrafts was rarely just a passive way of filling in time. Rather, making and creating was for these women a multi-layered activity that similtaneously fulfilled a complex range of needs for themselves and their families. A multiplicity of deeply personal, aesthetic, familial, social, practical and economic needs were met in the making of domestic craft artefacts, whose symbolism reflected the values and meanings of the women's cultures, homes and families.

The Victoria history of the county of Surrey.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Victoria history of Shropshire;

Mode of access: Internet.

The Victoria history of the county of Somerset /

"Text of the Somerset Domesday": v. 1, p. 434-526.

The Victoria history of the county of Cornwall /

Part 8 subtitle: Romano-British remains by F. Haverfield.

Momma's arc 1930-1945

The memoirs were written in New York in 1999. Description of the childhood of Rosemarie Schink, the author's mother, in the rural area of Meuszelwitz, Thuringia, where her grandfather, Franz Harnish, was the station manager. Rosemarie Schink eloped to Amsterdam with the Dutch Jew Judah Easel in 1931. The marriage fall apart soon thereafter, and Rosemarie was taken under the wings of her father-in-law Joseph Easel. The couple stayed officially married until their divorce in 1940, and Rosemarie worked in the pension of her in-laws. She had a long affair with the German Jew Guy Weinberg from Hamburg, a married man who was living in Amsterdam and became the father of her daughter Julia. Description of the Weinberg family history. In 1941 Rosemarie Schink married the Austrian Jewish lawyer Herbert Mauthner, the eldest of three sons of Robert Mauthner, director of the Bodenbacher-Dux Railroad and Melanie Leitner, daughter of a wealthy family from Veszprem, Hungary. Mauthner family history and nobility of the Leitner family, who were admitted to the court of the Austrian Kaiser Franz Joseph.

[Childhood memories of Berlin, Rhineland, Holland] 1933-1945

Childhood memories of Berlin, Rhineland, Holland; emigration to United States in 1936; impressions of New York; life in Paso Robles, California; memories of his mother; reflections on life of mother.

A century of change, 1900-2000. 'Un siglo de cambio, 1900-2000'.

Forma parte de una serie que explica a los niños la vida cotidiana de la gente, los lugares y acontecimientos de las islas británicas, desde los primeros pobladores hasta la actualidad y, que, también analiza los grandes momentos de cambios sociales, descubrimientos e invenciones. Este libro comienza con el inicio del siglo XX y la muerte de la reina Victoria, en 1901 y termina al empezar el nuevo siglo y el nuevo milenio. En este siglo se han producido grandes avances tecnológicos, la revolución en las comunicaciones y el movimiento por la igualdad de la mujer en la sociedad.

Caldecott, Kipling, Rossetti: textos infantis vitorianos

Through brief comments on famous texts of Randolph Caldecott, Rudyard Kipling and Christina Rossetti, we intend to show to the reader aspects of children’s literature written in the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), in which authors inherited the Romantic idea that child and childhood are pure, close to nature in a way that the adult man is not. Moralizing texts, they taught children how to be an adult.