Quaker Women: Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780-1930: 1 (Women's & Gender History) (Women's and Gender History)
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A couple of years ago I began to notice some peculiar yet familiar physical symptoms, like the smell of cigarettes making me feel more nauseated than usual. For a few weeks, I brushed these aside. Then I began to suspect something.
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In olden times, politicians used to stand on milk crates or kiss babies in their quest for the floating voter. Now, however, if they want Worcester woman to mark that box with an X they have to be far braver and venture onto the parenting website Mumsnet: the online equivalent of a gang of scary women waiting, talons bared, outside the school gate.
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Somewhere on the south coast of England an 11-year-old boy is packing his bags this morning, preparing to move to his father’s house in the West Country. One can only imagine the tearful scenes as he and his mother fold his clothes and sort through his school books.
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Daphne Guinness, the fashion muse, couture collector and extreme-shoe addict, used to buy her signature 6in heels in sex shops before discovering him. Christina Aguilera owns more than 300 pairs and displays them on floor-to-ceiling shelves in her Los Angeles home. Over at his Motcomb Street store, one client buys doubles of each design — one pair to wear and one simply to look at.
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Okay, you’re not going to get the smell of roasted chestnuts wafting down the pavement, or come across the Salvation Army hollering out Hark the Herald in haberdashery. And there can be no pit stops in Claridge’s for a refuelling martini. However, the advantages of doing all your Christmas shopping from your armchair (or desk during your lunch break), feet up, cup of tea to hand, have persuaded...
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Bra, £105, and knickers, £45, by Stella; net-a-porter.com
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She set out to be a role model to young black women. An athlete overcoming a difficult past and aiming for the Olympics; a modern beauty queen heading for Miss World. Rachel Christie was crowned the first black Miss England in July. Her runner-up, Katrina Hodge, was a soldier who had served in Iraq. It looked as though the beauty pageant was finally coming into the 21st century, reflecting the diversity...
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Hasnat Khan, 51, whom Diana called ‘Mr Wonderful’, has become secretly engaged to Alexandra Panagoulas. Friends say that Dr Khan and his new love, who is 21 years his junior, live together in London.
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Last week, in an unscheduled move, the One Show presenters Christine Bleakley and Adrian Chiles were both absent. It is being said at the BBC that executives were concerned that their relationship had cooled.
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Few stories of soldiers lost in Afghanistan can match that of the love that fallen Military Cross recipient Mike Lockett gave to cancer victim Belinda English.
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Smothered in peanut butter and covered in rats? Humiliated in front of Johnny Depp? Holly Willoughby is now one of TV's top presenters - but it's not been an easy ride...
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Brian Thomas throttled his wife in his sleep and their daughters said they would support him ‘100 per cent’ after a court ruled he was not responsible for the tragedy.
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Kate Moss has been criticised this week for telling an interviewer that one of her mottoes is 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'. The Guardian reports today that the motto is popular on pro-anorexia websites. While I agree that...
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The surprising answer explodes one of the greatest myths about how we cope with life's pressures.
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Speaking for the first time, Baby RB's father reveals why he abandoned fight to keep his son alive and how he said his goodbyes.
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