http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/charleston-1-1 daily 0.75 2016-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467104226481-TO1HMZGR59P6SKEU9WIO/VB+and+VB213.jpeg Charleston 1 - Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Virginia at Charleston, 1960. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467104226481-TO1HMZGR59P6SKEU9WIO/VB+and+VB213.jpeg Charleston 1 - Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Virginia at Charleston, 1960. http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/millions-like-us-1 daily 0.75 2016-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1462955857715-TGM6BGDYLV2B1K7F80LS/1940s+3.jpeg Millions Like Us - 1941: conscription for women was introduced https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1462955857715-TGM6BGDYLV2B1K7F80LS/1940s+3.jpeg Millions Like Us - 1941: conscription for women was introduced http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/among-the-bohemians-gallery-2 daily 0.75 2016-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467202970577-K1SFWZRJD1DSZ2EY9VWI/am_1.jpg Among The Bohemians Gallery 2 - Illustration to the 1879 edition of <i>Scènes de la Vie de Bohème</i> by the grandfather of Bohemia, Henri Murger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467202970577-K1SFWZRJD1DSZ2EY9VWI/am_1.jpg Among The Bohemians Gallery 2 - Illustration to the 1879 edition of <i>Scènes de la Vie de Bohème</i> by the grandfather of Bohemia, Henri Murger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464967148861-FPGT72JLSUXB4TBZIUMZ/am_1.jpg Among The Bohemians Gallery 2 - Illustration to the 1879 edition of <i>Scènes de la Vie de Bohème</i> by the grandfather of Bohemia, Henri Murger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467194523260-G5UZ5UEZNSES3JIFNN5Q/am_1.jpg Among The Bohemians Gallery 2 - Illustration to the 1879 edition of <i>Scènes de la Vie de Bohème</i> by the grandfather of Bohemia, Henri Murger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467194539617-V5QVXFM8ACPD163P2B40/am_1.jpg Among The Bohemians Gallery 2 - Illustration to the 1879 edition of <i>Scènes de la Vie de Bohème</i> by the grandfather of Bohemia, Henri Murger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467194559285-68Q79Q5NN85L40RB4T8G/am_1.jpg Among The Bohemians Gallery 2 - Illustration to the 1879 edition of <i>Scènes de la Vie de Bohème</i> by the grandfather of Bohemia, Henri Murger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467282871308-B7BOS44FOF7H3RFNOWJU/am_9.jpg Among The Bohemians Gallery 2 - ‘The Slade Cropheads’ – Carrington, Barbara Bagenal and Brett, c. 1911. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464967225384-NAHHBQIYLJSDEX3H8XH0/am_3.jpg Among The Bohemians Gallery 2 - Mixing poetry and domesticity: Robert Graves in his kitchen at Galmpton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467282893042-46WZ27CNPB0FNVGQO7J9/am_10.jpg Among The Bohemians Gallery 2 - Ethel Mannin in 1930. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467203860416-1J095TMAM7KGIY46TYX5/am_11.jpg Among The Bohemians Gallery 2 - Betty May – this photograph appeared in her memoir, Tiger Woman – My Story, 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467203012882-PV4F7F7TSPPAP1BMCT5B/am_12.jpg Among The Bohemians Gallery 2 - Dylan and Caitlin Thomas in their natural habitat, around 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464967469814-ARD37UVO4YOTCBGP93IO/am_8.jpg Among The Bohemians Gallery 2 - By the Avon, 1930. Left to right: Poppet John, Jean - a friend, Nicolette Macnamara, Vivien John, Caitlin Macnamara. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467203828763-CHMUDJF9OBDDJFXFQYS8/Trousers.jpeg Among The Bohemians Gallery 2 - Carrington pictures herself and Dorothy Brett, newly liberated in workmen’s breeches. http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/singled-out-1 daily 0.75 2016-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467103257446-Q5AJIFUPDZ876BMAYL31/women-graduates.jpeg Singled Out - Women graduates, 1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467103257446-Q5AJIFUPDZ876BMAYL31/women-graduates.jpeg Singled Out - Women graduates, 1920s. http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/perfect-wives-in-ideal-homes-1 daily 0.75 2016-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467202625926-BS95EHZ7YU613BWS0LUJ/doorsteps.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes 2 - Donkey-stoning: a daily spectacle in working-class neighbourhoods in the 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467202625926-BS95EHZ7YU613BWS0LUJ/doorsteps.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes 2 - Donkey-stoning: a daily spectacle in working-class neighbourhoods in the 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463473871586-U7FNIRAPH2A2XXZILYON/doorsteps.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes 2 - Donkey-stoning: a daily spectacle in working-class neighbourhoods in the 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463473932917-KBV196CY7349EJYBLRZT/ruth-ellis.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes 2 - Glamorous and lighthearted: Ruth Ellis and David Blakely at the Little Club in 1953. His murder by her in 1955 was the crime passionnel of the decade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463473945900-BVX9VEF48AFFHBZM208C/neighbours-chatting.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes 2 - Working-class mothers taking a break from their chores, 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463473921308-ZUTCFWUBXGP1Z2NUZ5GF/mrs-dartford.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes 2 - The 1951 election campaign. Margaret Roberts tries to persuade a Dartford chimney sweep to vote for her. She lost, but from 1958 her political rise was unstoppable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463473914877-C9O1L24W2PSL6A7Q1TF5/how-to-get-your-man.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes 2 - Despite the challenging image on its cover, this pamphlet stressed female submission and guile: 'Fan the flames of his ardour gently, but always leave him a little unsatisfied… ' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463473951860-CTVUTSOVB8CONSUX40D6/mum-washing-machine.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes 2 - ‘I still can’t believe it’s true – a washing machine in MY kitchen!’ The family is enraptured, and the neighbour peers enviously from behind Mum’s kitchen curtains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463473940724-Q0GY28Y9CKW3LMF9UKM7/peace-caravan.JPG Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes 2 - Dora Russell in 1958, setting off in her battered charabanc on the Women’s Caravan of Peace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467202689052-3POJ5MJVA02UFZ1YYMOC/lorna-rainbow.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes 2 - The last Palace presentation was held in 1958; four debutantes smilingly offer themselves up as upper-class wife material. http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/new-gallery daily 0.75 2016-06-29 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/t/5773c01029687f611a949961/1465217637737/ Charleston Gallery 2 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/57556e6837013b2de52d585d/575572651d07c01e48309137/1465217637737/ Charleston Gallery 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467203594330-Y06RLIYGCRZRB5BND9ZC/Memoir+Club+larger.jpg Charleston Gallery 2 - The Memoir Club, Vanessa Bell, 1942 – a group portrait of the Bloomsbury Group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465217646469-PEVFOD0C1WLM1F3B03AU/charleston-lg.jpg Charleston Gallery 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467283290487-W9NAKGMO5YBMZZL2QBNK/QB+%26+JB+pond.jpeg Charleston Gallery 2 - Julian and Quentin Bell on the Charleston pond, 1925 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465217647133-DAKJ84RGQ6UGQ315ELM2/house.jpg Charleston Gallery 2 - Charleston, the north front of the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465217647417-HXRZDG2TXV10ELYC0E71/house2.jpg Charleston Gallery 2 - The nineteenth-century Italian gilt mirror in the hall reflects a view of Clive Bell's study through the open door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465217647587-GW5VU87AJL6D00HPEOSS/house3.jpg Charleston Gallery 2 - Vanessa Bell's bedroom, with the bath in the corner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467203070371-KICADOJIOELK0R1CIC3L/house4.jpg Charleston Gallery 2 - Duncan Grant's bedroom, with an east view over the pond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465217648050-H2V3D5YUVKUN19WCO0WV/house5.jpg Charleston Gallery 2 - The Garden. The statue is a cast of a Giovanni da Bologna. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465217648357-Q05HLFG7FHBZH64LVKFR/house6.jpg Charleston Gallery 2 - The Garden. The semi-circular pool and its spouting head were both made by Quentin Bell. http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/charleston-1 daily 0.75 2016-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467104153547-6RAI91P4W62GFE1KUWQE/VB+and+VB213.jpeg Charleston - Virginia at Charleston with her grandmother and Duncan Grant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467104153547-6RAI91P4W62GFE1KUWQE/VB+and+VB213.jpeg Charleston - Virginia at Charleston with her grandmother and Duncan Grant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465216669727-X7UDXOPJVF0DEC9L0QXB/house.jpg Charleston - Charleston, the north front of the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465216737460-BO3JO2FI0XHDK3DBHO8E/Charleston+drawing+room.jpeg Charleston http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/perfect-wives-for-ideal-homes daily 0.75 2016-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1462954134397-I1KQLRKLES5MDRD42K11/doorsteps.jpeg Perfect Wives for Ideal Homes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1462954134397-I1KQLRKLES5MDRD42K11/doorsteps.jpeg Perfect Wives for Ideal Homes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467102317724-689TV04MSAFTADT5G43U/1950s+white+goods+1.jpeg Perfect Wives for Ideal Homes - Consumer joy, 1955 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467102359495-JKFD0KGJEKOARHW3IEV3/Ken+Russell+Teddy+Girls+1.jpeg Perfect Wives for Ideal Homes - Teddy girls, London, 1953 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1462954278034-89MMCG6C8V1FAD62ASQB/Aldermaston+march.jpeg Perfect Wives for Ideal Homes - Aldermaston march, 1958 http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/singled-out-gallery-2 daily 0.75 2016-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464964233225-SP5ZRVGJU1Q44LB1ZLU5/single_9.jpg Singled Out Gallery 2 - 1914-18: the pitiless destruction of a generation of young men. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464964233225-SP5ZRVGJU1Q44LB1ZLU5/single_9.jpg Singled Out Gallery 2 - 1914-18: the pitiless destruction of a generation of young men. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464964278432-5LROAOKMKVF16COOPGX2/single_10.jpg Singled Out Gallery 2 - Sisters Elsie and Doris Waters never married, but made a successful showbiz career together as ‘Gert and Daisy’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464964330842-R5K09HOBQGMTGX9KAYDO/single_11.jpg Singled Out Gallery 2 - Universal Aunts – all-round nannies, tour guides and fixers – were the lifestyle consultants of the 1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467282222886-VVC56KKKNM8E3P17NH37/single_4.jpg Singled Out Gallery 2 - Preacher Maude Royden at the height of her fame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467203989937-8RXFNGWPQZSORTHTIGID/single_12.jpg Singled Out Gallery 2 - Rowena Cade, founder of the Minack Theatre, Cornwall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464964509456-X9AG1WO971CM1MKGH055/single_6.jpg Singled Out Gallery 2 - Picnics and prayer meetings: members of the Christian Alliance of Women and Girls on holiday in Scarborough, 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467203961439-SMOZPXZUX6C8NUYUWDUG/Singled+out+2.jpeg Singled Out Gallery 2 - For nannies between the wars, a rich social life often compensated for childlessness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467202914997-DICA0UDLUEH9KW68BKJS/single_8.jpg Singled Out Gallery 2 - In 1921 ninety per cent of women working in the retail sector were single; even at the luxury end, they often worked twelve-hour days in atrocious conditions. http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/millions-like-us-gallery-2 daily 0.75 2016-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467202781305-EPHTRQXK667CY811PCI2/Bombed-interiors.jpg Millions Like Us Gallery 2 - Cross-section of a life: the bombs exposed and revealed women's interior-based existence as never before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467202781305-EPHTRQXK667CY811PCI2/Bombed-interiors.jpg Millions Like Us Gallery 2 - Cross-section of a life: the bombs exposed and revealed women's interior-based existence as never before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464962519732-AYP65YUTZTZUK6F9IIN0/Bombed-interiors.jpg Millions Like Us Gallery 2 - Cross-section of a life: the bombs exposed and revealed women's interior-based existence as never before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464962544587-HKLFS5TJFBBGX6D2N3XF/Gasmask.jpg Millions Like Us Gallery 2 - How to look stylish in a gas-mask. The advertisers of this necessity promoted it alarmingly: 'The ravages of gas can be frightful, especially to women..'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467204077080-4NGQCEI51XBUJVTYA0LQ/Humorous-postcard-3.jpg Millions Like Us Gallery 2 - 'Don't look now, old girl, but your undercarriage is coming down.' Elasticated underwear often gave way due to the rubber shortage. Her suave date has grown accustomed to RAF vocabulary… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467202836029-JQNJTR8ZS87PKOBELXFL/Jam-bottling-etc.jpg Millions Like Us Gallery 2 - Women's Institute members bottling jams and jellies. The making of preserves exemplified the frugal ethos of the older generation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467202859073-ERIQ0C45QXHNT591Z6O2/Jitterbug.jpg Millions Like Us Gallery 2 - Night clubs and dance halls were humming throughout the war. Here, a black US serviceman in civvies teaches his partner to jitterbug. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464962711226-40DWZWTQFV4JGF14ECZO/Butlins.jpg Millions Like Us Gallery 2 - Happy holidays in the long, hot, post-war summer of 1947. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464962688647-D9ORCWJQZS12QPLJ9QVE/NHS-1.jpg Millions Like Us Gallery 2 - The harvest of peace, July 1948: the inauguration of the National Health Service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464962688624-4HO2YWHOIACUAJ60DBXB/New-Look-Punch.jpg Millions Like Us Gallery 2 - Feeling like top dog in Dior's New Look: depicted in Punch magazine, 1948. http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/work daily 1.0 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/fc3a0ca5-529e-497d-8fa3-008322bfa489/D13425+001.jpeg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467103792478-SXVJ1V90OA0DG2IIN0MK/image-asset.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463393087069-KPNDYD7SI3Z5U36L2ZHK/image-asset.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463392562613-2UU9C1JQ3A2W431N59J6/image-asset.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467193114089-QZ4TVGFAOS8BGR4SS1V4/image-asset.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1462895879046-NVXJ4AF1K5J34TO6PR9D/image-asset.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1462895863724-N3UW8Z12YLJAEHIIVMC6/image-asset.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463153614712-8AKHHNW7Y41YMWG8YQ08/image-asset.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1462893167313-MT6VEQM3WRMF3W8OWZVO/image-asset.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/f191d09f-d6e9-4c36-8e1d-1652ccb5bd4f/Scan.jpeg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467283078519-6H0PUJZPGSUGUJQZL6KH/image-asset.jpeg Home Vanessa Bell painting of Charleston Pond, 1919 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1548146913097-SSKRXOC90B74IK0V8SA5/proxy.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546874741363-DR7PU5Q13OKGI55SLFE0/image1.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/c02c4f26-51d6-40f8-b592-5e29c113198c/AllTheRage_FINAL+copy.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/fa4d4e46-dcf0-4071-b3b6-101a8ebea659/RF+4.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465311565628-SYFUSVD40WMI17WKSNVA/VN+Wallpaper+Perfect+Wives.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467103133321-SPZ5K3OLASENXXPQBBWA/VN+Wallpaper+Singled+Out.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467281746079-EJLV74UT2LMV4CHIPM7H/VN+Wallpaper+Millions+Like+Us.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467282644653-XQD1A5JKWNJ2GOABTSKI/VN+Wallpaper+Bohemians+2.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467282964670-URPCMR5W73UJCPU8KQKR/VN+Wallpaper+Charleston.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1547029966409-WDA3TYNTZ2M0V9XOKI7E/VN.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1698075890678-U5FDEMUUXNMK1H8TFVIH/all_the_rage.png Home http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/among-the-boheminas-1 daily 0.75 2016-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464967552967-8RJ7A64HC0YBOT5D68FU/Cafe+Royal.jpg Among the Boheminas - ‘An Unfinished Masterpiece’, Philip Burne-Jones c. 1900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464967552967-8RJ7A64HC0YBOT5D68FU/Cafe+Royal.jpg Among the Boheminas - ‘An Unfinished Masterpiece’, Philip Burne-Jones c. 1900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464967571741-0K62OKIKXGMH8WEHAOEH/Bohos+1.jpeg Among the Boheminas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464967573928-UMLS5MKL354UQ9PN87KT/Picasso.jpg Among the Boheminas http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/amond-the-bohemians daily 0.75 2016-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465476319072-H9QR2VP3RYU656UJF9BV/Cafe+Royal.jpg Amond The Bohemians 1 - An Unfinished Masterpiece’, Philip Burne-Jones c. 1900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465476319072-H9QR2VP3RYU656UJF9BV/Cafe+Royal.jpg Amond The Bohemians 1 - An Unfinished Masterpiece’, Philip Burne-Jones c. 1900 http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/how-was-it-for-you-3 daily 0.75 2019-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546878354844-GRK7TOIKRC1KK9M1EZJS/image10.jpeg How Was it for You? - Biker girls were in a minority in the rocker fraternity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546878354844-GRK7TOIKRC1KK9M1EZJS/image10.jpeg How Was it for You? - Biker girls were in a minority in the rocker fraternity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546878354807-FQM0LHVWAL9V969FLOD3/image11.jpeg How Was it for You? - In 1966 Britain had a massive housing crisis, with three million people living in slums. Families were frequently pulled apart, and women were on the front line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546878357627-GMYQM2TI096T7DE3TEP0/image12.jpeg How Was it for You? - Sexist, slapstick and silly, the Carry On… films were the longest-running British comedy franchise, with 31 interchangeably inane variants on the formula between 1958-92. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546878357242-L8C51WA7FZ9H7RX087KE/image13.jpeg How Was it for You? - Theatrical publicity stunts accompanied the opening of new boutiques. For the launch of Lady Jane’s Birdcage in 1966, the owners put a bikini-clad model in a cage and hoisted it above the street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546878357962-B8V6MVOI0PNC43WP6427/image14.jpeg How Was it for You? - A good angle? David Hemmings observes the girl-on-girl action in Antonioni’s self-conscious movie ‘happening’, Blow-Up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546878358431-3F6UOLFB58U9O6KU9B33/image15.jpeg How Was it for You? - Was the hugely successful musical Hair a sell-out? ‘The real hippies were repelled by its banalities,’ wrote one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546878359113-5I90V3BXBJQTPNEFRF61/image16.jpeg How Was it for You? - Atlantic City, 1968 – angry women dumping ‘the degrading Mindless-Boob-Girlie-Symbol’. This was the electrifying moment when American feminists sparked a new movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546878359458-7NZRM3YOU4D6J3UI17LS/image17.jpeg How Was it for You? - Susannah York, Beryl Reid and Coral Browne starred in The Killing of Sister George (1969). Members of the Gateways Club played themselves. http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/how-was-it-for-you-2 daily 0.75 2019-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1547117169571-TNZ7WWCADSBJROW780E0/image4.jpeg How Was it for You? - Scandal, 1963 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1547117169571-TNZ7WWCADSBJROW780E0/image4.jpeg How Was it for You? - Scandal, 1963 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546875572210-OV0VDTYF2TQGKL61O34L/image4.jpeg How Was it for You? - Scandal, 1963 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546875572124-YTXQN8EW4N8DU9KXGXWO/image5.jpeg How Was it for You? - Nova, 1965 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546875576959-5C3DE8EIE0Q619R7LHLA/image6.jpeg How Was it for You? - Beatlemania, 1963 http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/charleston daily 0.75 2024-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467196019408-11GCWOQDIYL3WM6CPXAM/image-asset.jpeg Charleston - A Bloomsbury House and Garden Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Virginia at Charleston, 1960 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467203594330-Y06RLIYGCRZRB5BND9ZC/Memoir+Club+larger.jpg Charleston - A Bloomsbury House and Garden - The Memoir Club, Vanessa Bell, 1942 – a group portrait of the Bloomsbury Group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467283290487-W9NAKGMO5YBMZZL2QBNK/QB+%26+JB+pond.jpeg Charleston - A Bloomsbury House and Garden - Julian and Quentin Bell on the Charleston pond, 1925 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465217647133-DAKJ84RGQ6UGQ315ELM2/house.jpg Charleston - A Bloomsbury House and Garden - Charleston, the north front of the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465217647417-HXRZDG2TXV10ELYC0E71/house2.jpg Charleston - A Bloomsbury House and Garden - The nineteenth-century Italian gilt mirror in the hall reflects a view of Clive Bell's study through the open door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465217647587-GW5VU87AJL6D00HPEOSS/house3.jpg Charleston - A Bloomsbury House and Garden - Vanessa Bell's bedroom, with the bath in the corner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467203070371-KICADOJIOELK0R1CIC3L/house4.jpg Charleston - A Bloomsbury House and Garden - Duncan Grant's bedroom, with an east view over the pond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465217648050-H2V3D5YUVKUN19WCO0WV/house5.jpg Charleston - A Bloomsbury House and Garden - The Garden. The statue is a cast of a Giovanni da Bologna. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465217648357-Q05HLFG7FHBZH64LVKFR/house6.jpg Charleston - A Bloomsbury House and Garden - The Garden. The semi-circular pool and its spouting head were both made by Quentin Bell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/76da8dcc-042f-4763-a51d-e0e5bedee1c3/Scan.jpeg Charleston - A Bloomsbury House and Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465217086288-OWZIBMWEM6KIJ4FSAZUP/image-asset.jpeg Charleston - A Bloomsbury House and Garden The dining room, Charleston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465217163642-GYKLKY2FULN3LH9QNPXQ/image-asset.jpeg Charleston - A Bloomsbury House and Garden In the walled garden. The statue is a cast of a Giovanni di Bologna http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/biography daily 0.75 2024-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1562058390982-UZWK7F58P54CQCQNJ38B/half+the+size.jpg Biography June 2019: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Virginia signs the RSL Roll Book using George Eliot’s pen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467102148438-WLYN7O6ESO2DHXT8N67G/image-asset.jpeg Biography Virginia in her study https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467102102979-A0QBRRAGYKQILKP1QI9V/image-asset.jpeg Biography Virginia reading, Duncan Grant, 1961 http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/singled-out daily 0.75 2019-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467103335251-F4ZDUKRKNCE3J32TO7U1/image-asset.jpeg Singled Out Tending graves at Abbeville, France, 1918 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464966596703-8YJUEB2BV0UEGCUHOKGD/image-asset.jpeg Singled Out Campaigning for spinsters: on the right, Florence White https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464964233225-SP5ZRVGJU1Q44LB1ZLU5/single_9.jpg Singled Out - 1914-18: the pitiless destruction of a generation of young men. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464964278432-5LROAOKMKVF16COOPGX2/single_10.jpg Singled Out - Sisters Elsie and Doris Waters never married, but made a successful showbiz career together as ‘Gert and Daisy’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464964330842-R5K09HOBQGMTGX9KAYDO/single_11.jpg Singled Out - Universal Aunts – all-round nannies, tour guides and fixers – were the lifestyle consultants of the 1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467282222886-VVC56KKKNM8E3P17NH37/single_4.jpg Singled Out - Preacher Maude Royden at the height of her fame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467203989937-8RXFNGWPQZSORTHTIGID/single_12.jpg Singled Out - Rowena Cade, founder of the Minack Theatre, Cornwall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464964509456-X9AG1WO971CM1MKGH055/single_6.jpg Singled Out - Picnics and prayer meetings: members of the Christian Alliance of Women and Girls on holiday in Scarborough, 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467203961439-SMOZPXZUX6C8NUYUWDUG/Singled+out+2.jpeg Singled Out - For nannies between the wars, a rich social life often compensated for childlessness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467202914997-DICA0UDLUEH9KW68BKJS/single_8.jpg Singled Out - In 1921 ninety per cent of women working in the retail sector were single; even at the luxury end, they often worked twelve-hour days in atrocious conditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463413119606-4NGXGZLQCVI3KJ21K5AO/image-asset.png Singled Out https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467817340629-EWC1JP3VYOZNLLOF6MGS/image-asset.jpeg Singled Out Women graduates, 1920s. http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/contacts daily 0.75 2024-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465311219833-4WBVMPTTLRDFKNW55KC9/image-asset.jpeg Contact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465310534354-XCDCFTF2BQMYU5GQB5C5/VN+Wallpaper+Default+Copy.png Contact http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/millions-like-us daily 0.75 2019-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467189776266-0UOAD27W3ABY68D1UM2U/image-asset.jpeg Millions Like Us The war is over. A WAAF returns home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463411849244-MARPOWGK2UOZK8CE9E9I/image-asset.jpeg Millions Like Us D-Day casualties, 1944 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1462956524043-7DJJVJJWYB2XUNX7MFVI/image-asset.jpeg Millions Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467281999113-FQEHLNQ3VO08MRI40RG7/image-asset.jpeg Millions Like Us 1941: conscription for women was introduced https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1462955715006-41PM7II8VJNL57QM0M9P/image-asset.jpeg Millions Like Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467202781305-EPHTRQXK667CY811PCI2/Bombed-interiors.jpg Millions Like Us - Cross-section of a life: the bombs exposed and revealed women's interior-based existence as never before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464962544587-HKLFS5TJFBBGX6D2N3XF/Gasmask.jpg Millions Like Us - How to look stylish in a gas-mask. The advertisers of this necessity promoted it alarmingly: 'The ravages of gas can be frightful, especially to women..'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467204077080-4NGQCEI51XBUJVTYA0LQ/Humorous-postcard-3.jpg Millions Like Us - 'Don't look now, old girl, but your undercarriage is coming down.' Elasticated underwear often gave way due to the rubber shortage. Her suave date has grown accustomed to RAF vocabulary… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467202836029-JQNJTR8ZS87PKOBELXFL/Jam-bottling-etc.jpg Millions Like Us - Women's Institute members bottling jams and jellies. The making of preserves exemplified the frugal ethos of the older generation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467202859073-ERIQ0C45QXHNT591Z6O2/Jitterbug.jpg Millions Like Us - Night clubs and dance halls were humming throughout the war. Here, a black US serviceman in civvies teaches his partner to jitterbug. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464962711226-40DWZWTQFV4JGF14ECZO/Butlins.jpg Millions Like Us - Happy holidays in the long, hot, post-war summer of 1947. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464962688647-D9ORCWJQZS12QPLJ9QVE/NHS-1.jpg Millions Like Us - The harvest of peace, July 1948: the inauguration of the National Health Service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464962688624-4HO2YWHOIACUAJ60DBXB/New-Look-Punch.jpg Millions Like Us - Feeling like top dog in Dior's New Look: depicted in Punch magazine, 1948. http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/perfect-wives-ideal-homes daily 0.75 2019-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1471014606444-EQGN9EEOK7SRPG4CLAHA/image-asset.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes The perfect wife in her perfect kitchen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1462954843652-P0QEU8QOOZUZBOSJ9JQ1/image-asset.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes Leila Williams wins Miss Great Britain 1957 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467202625926-BS95EHZ7YU613BWS0LUJ/doorsteps.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes - Donkey-stoning: a daily spectacle in working-class neighbourhoods in the 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463473932917-KBV196CY7349EJYBLRZT/ruth-ellis.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes - Glamorous and lighthearted: Ruth Ellis and David Blakely at the Little Club in 1953. His murder by her in 1955 was the crime passionnel of the decade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463473945900-BVX9VEF48AFFHBZM208C/neighbours-chatting.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes - Working-class mothers taking a break from their chores, 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463473921308-ZUTCFWUBXGP1Z2NUZ5GF/mrs-dartford.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes - The 1951 election campaign. Margaret Roberts tries to persuade a Dartford chimney sweep to vote for her. She lost, but from 1958 her political rise was unstoppable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463473914877-C9O1L24W2PSL6A7Q1TF5/how-to-get-your-man.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes - Despite the challenging image on its cover, this pamphlet stressed female submission and guile: 'Fan the flames of his ardour gently, but always leave him a little unsatisfied… ' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463473951860-CTVUTSOVB8CONSUX40D6/mum-washing-machine.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes - ‘I still can’t believe it’s true – a washing machine in MY kitchen!’ The family is enraptured, and the neighbour peers enviously from behind Mum’s kitchen curtains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463473940724-Q0GY28Y9CKW3LMF9UKM7/peace-caravan.JPG Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes - Dora Russell in 1958, setting off in her battered charabanc on the Women’s Caravan of Peace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467202689052-3POJ5MJVA02UFZ1YYMOC/lorna-rainbow.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes - The last Palace presentation was held in 1958; four debutantes smilingly offer themselves up as upper-class wife material. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1462954048878-4RJWHIUDMFESJNK9AWMT/image-asset.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1462955244153-5EG33XJBETURS2KIWS4B/image-asset.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes Home-made beachwear, 1956 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467102317724-689TV04MSAFTADT5G43U/1950s+white+goods+1.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes - Consumer joy, 1955 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467102359495-JKFD0KGJEKOARHW3IEV3/Ken+Russell+Teddy+Girls+1.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes - Teddy girls, London, 1953 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1462954278034-89MMCG6C8V1FAD62ASQB/Aldermaston+march.jpeg Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes - Aldermaston march, 1958 http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/charleston-house daily 0.75 2024-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463411256609-82FGPOZ2SLB3ROMM7JQO/image-asset.jpeg Charleston Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Virginia at Charleston, 1960 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1463411052064-5XI78TECPAI9NM13KJL7/image-asset.jpeg Charleston Charleston, by Vanessa Bell, c. 1950 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467104383327-I89KED1L6U9PUNS67N93/image-asset.jpeg Charleston Virginia on the platform at the Charleston Festival, 2015 http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/among-bohemians daily 0.75 2019-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464968283093-KVDSUVURNSLF5Z6JSB4D/image-asset.jpeg Among the Bohemians Dorelia by the Gate, Augustus John, 1910 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464968426074-71GT186U0HSI6S1P0IWD/image-asset.jpeg Among the Bohemians Kitchen Still Life, Duncan Grant, c. 1960 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467194056566-O8X3LRUQBY0UZ34QZOWC/image-asset.jpeg Among the Bohemians ‘An Unfinished Masterpiece’, Philip Burne-Jones c. 1900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1465219355693-RZ1KTHGHAJIQ3812R2LG/image-asset.jpeg Among the Bohemians https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464968035784-K22ISDQ6792JSOCYBPQI/image-asset.jpeg Among the Bohemians The Dreadnought Hoax, 1910. Virginia Woolf (Stephen) is far left https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467202970577-K1SFWZRJD1DSZ2EY9VWI/am_1.jpg Among the Bohemians - Illustration to the 1879 edition of <i>Scènes de la Vie de Bohème</i> by the grandfather of Bohemia, Henri Murger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467282871308-B7BOS44FOF7H3RFNOWJU/am_9.jpg Among the Bohemians - ‘The Slade Cropheads’ – Carrington, Barbara Bagenal and Brett, c. 1911. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464967225384-NAHHBQIYLJSDEX3H8XH0/am_3.jpg Among the Bohemians - Mixing poetry and domesticity: Robert Graves in his kitchen at Galmpton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467282893042-46WZ27CNPB0FNVGQO7J9/am_10.jpg Among the Bohemians - Ethel Mannin in 1930. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467203860416-1J095TMAM7KGIY46TYX5/am_11.jpg Among the Bohemians - Betty May – this photograph appeared in her memoir, Tiger Woman – My Story, 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467203012882-PV4F7F7TSPPAP1BMCT5B/am_12.jpg Among the Bohemians - Dylan and Caitlin Thomas in their natural habitat, around 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1464967469814-ARD37UVO4YOTCBGP93IO/am_8.jpg Among the Bohemians - By the Avon, 1930. Left to right: Poppet John, Jean - a friend, Nicolette Macnamara, Vivien John, Caitlin Macnamara. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1467203828763-CHMUDJF9OBDDJFXFQYS8/Trousers.jpeg Among the Bohemians - Carrington pictures herself and Dorothy Brett, newly liberated in workmen’s breeches. http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/how-was-it-for-you-1 daily 0.75 2024-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546877026146-G4SJTCCGF86YA79WYUZ2/image8.jpeg How Was it for You? Bunny girls, 1967 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1547117169571-TNZ7WWCADSBJROW780E0/image4.jpeg How Was it for You? - Scandal, 1963 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546875572124-YTXQN8EW4N8DU9KXGXWO/image5.jpeg How Was it for You? - Nova, 1965 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546875576959-5C3DE8EIE0Q619R7LHLA/image6.jpeg How Was it for You? - Beatlemania, 1963 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546879131247-79JIC9CJVWJUV1JMPCVV/image9.jpeg How Was it for You? Marsha Hunt at the Isle of Wight Festival, 1969 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546876865582-J6TVIF857EET939LI3JA/image7.jpeg How Was it for You? Jean Shrimpton at the Melbourne Races, 1965 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546878354844-GRK7TOIKRC1KK9M1EZJS/image10.jpeg How Was it for You? - Biker girls were in a minority in the rocker fraternity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546878354807-FQM0LHVWAL9V969FLOD3/image11.jpeg How Was it for You? - In 1966 Britain had a massive housing crisis, with three million people living in slums. Families were frequently pulled apart, and women were on the front line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546878357627-GMYQM2TI096T7DE3TEP0/image12.jpeg How Was it for You? - Sexist, slapstick and silly, the Carry On… films were the longest-running British comedy franchise, with 31 interchangeably inane variants on the formula between 1958-92. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546878357242-L8C51WA7FZ9H7RX087KE/image13.jpeg How Was it for You? - Theatrical publicity stunts accompanied the opening of new boutiques. For the launch of Lady Jane’s Birdcage in 1966, the owners put a bikini-clad model in a cage and hoisted it above the street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546878357962-B8V6MVOI0PNC43WP6427/image14.jpeg How Was it for You? - A good angle? David Hemmings observes the girl-on-girl action in Antonioni’s self-conscious movie ‘happening’, Blow-Up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546878358431-3F6UOLFB58U9O6KU9B33/image15.jpeg How Was it for You? - Was the hugely successful musical Hair a sell-out? ‘The real hippies were repelled by its banalities,’ wrote one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546878359113-5I90V3BXBJQTPNEFRF61/image16.jpeg How Was it for You? - Atlantic City, 1968 – angry women dumping ‘the degrading Mindless-Boob-Girlie-Symbol’. This was the electrifying moment when American feminists sparked a new movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1546878359458-7NZRM3YOU4D6J3UI17LS/image17.jpeg How Was it for You? - Susannah York, Beryl Reid and Coral Browne starred in The Killing of Sister George (1969). Members of the Gateways Club played themselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1548147453264-M5ZR6TL5XKKLXNXA5D6T/proxy.jpeg How Was it for You? http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/all-the-rage-1 daily 0.75 2024-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1712918555156-1YQSI56J8S9V0O8T8J26/Freda+Dudley+Ward.jpg All The Rage - Make it stand out Freda Dudley Ward, 1920s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/e7759c07-33cd-43d8-8b8c-900b6dc52ad1/Spohia+Loren.jpg All The Rage Sophia Loren: Images of perfection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/230f06e3-81ff-4209-bb6f-b0e9960802b1/my+Ladys+Dressing+Room.jpg All The Rage Cover of My Lady’s Dressing Room, by Baronne Staffe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/a304c7ad-f586-4ceb-9f7c-179e5e9c3e1b/Detective+Book+Magazine2.jpg All The Rage - Make it stand out The cover of Detective Book Magazine, 1950s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/f2b73deb-aa4a-4c76-a922-8d7fbcc2e2b3/All+the+Rage+Cover.jpg All The Rage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/db135b2e-07bf-428c-bd60-3e26fc88c25d/Josephine+Baker.jpg All The Rage Josephine Baker in La Revue Nègre at the Folies Bergère wearing her infamous ‘banana skirt’, 1926 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1712918525274-0FS8GJULGE24H36F4MPH/Princes+Alexandra.jpg All The Rage - Make it stand out Princess Alexandra, 1860 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1712921193468-HCKJ44KZFGYBMCHRM4TX/Miss+Hannah+from+Savannah.jpg All The Rage - ‘My name’s Miss Hannah from Savannah…’ - Aida Overton Walker posing in her best-loved role https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1712921269908-Q5MRPKOWVWBPT5NHFV56/Madam+CJ+Walker+Hair+Grower.jpg All The Rage - Madam C.J.Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1712921306439-RRG9NPZ96PE0W3XZGPOK/Miss+Annia+Oxley.jpg All The Rage - Miss Annie Oxley from Sheffield, finalist in the contest for ‘the most beautifully proportioned woman on earth’, 1902 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1712921351445-7AZO0J6YC4G1BAPFIIAX/Puunella+Stack.jpg All The Rage - Prunella Stack, director of the Women’s League of Health and Beauty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1712921381180-MGMTBNKA8CJ16O0Z6Y7U/Frau+Gertrud.jpg All The Rage - Frau Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, the “Führerin”, visits Britain, 1939 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1712921410283-RGQKGWXZMQ8M3PF3SGES/Miss+World+1951.jpg All The Rage - Finalists, Miss World 1951 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1712921440107-1KZXSLHWXHTK21YGQKQ8/Turkobath.jpg All The Rage - The ‘Turkobath’, 1956 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5731f33c1d07c0bec3e0bd8c/1712921470242-CHQJD88PDCNPYTYZVV23/Movieland+Magazine.jpg All The Rage - Illustration to a feature in a 1950s issue of Movieland magazine