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A Tudor Christmas by Alison Weir; Siobhan Clarke
35.00 NZD
Category: History
Christmas in Tudor times was a period of feasting, revelry and merrymaking 'to drive the cold winter away?. A carnival atmosphere presided at court, with a twelve-day-long festival of entertainments, pageants, theatre productions and 'disguisings?, when even the king and queen dressed up in costume to f ...Show more
Born to a Changing World: Childbirth in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand by Alison Clarke
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Emerging from diaries, letters and memoirs, the voices of this remarkable book tell a new story of life arriving amidst a turbulent world. Before the Plunket Society, before antibiotics, before ‘safe’ Caesarean sections and registered midwives, nineteenth century birthing practice in New Zealand was ty ...Show more
Holiday Seasons: New Year, Easter and Christmas in 19th Century New Zealand by Alison Clarke
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: Studies in Social & Cultural History | Reading Level: Very Good
In this entertaining and lively book Alison Clarke shows how colonial settlers from the northern hemisphere adapted the age-old festivals of Christmas, New Year and Easter to a new world of upside-down seasons, unfamiliar vegetation and cultural diversity. They decorated their homes with pohutukawa at C ...Show more
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