The WI Country Woman's Year 1960
$41.99
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
5 September 2017
Summary
A great deal has happened to change the lives of women living in the countryside since 1960 when this book was last published, and it is fascinating to note the changes. But we have also lost or forgotten so many rural skills and pleasures. Following the four seasons, here are dozens of different tasks and hobbies covered in this 1960 WI Country Woman’s Year book: - cider and mead-making - indoor bulb planting - public speaking - making Christmas decorations - Durham quilting - flower arrangi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781910723456 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1910723452 |
| Author: | Shirley Paget |
| Publisher: | Merlin Unwin Books |
| Imprint: | Merlin Unwin Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 5 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 715g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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This beautiful, retro-bound edition seeks to take us, season by season, through a country calendar and reacquaints us modern creatures with the resourcefulness, satisfaction and sense of fun held by a previous age.
* NFU Countryside Magazine *Merlin Unwin Books are to be congratulated on this reprint of The WI Country Woman’s Year 1960. As I followed the four seasons I was fascinated to read of the many rural skills and pleasures. There is so much to capture our interest in this book, written nearly six decades ago, that I find it impossible in a short review to cover all its many items of WI skills. I can only hope that you will be encouraged to read it and discover its charms for yourselves.
* Scottish Women’s Institute Magazine *Based around the four seasons and covers everything from cider-making and hedgerow basketry to public speaking and committee-meeting protocol.
* WI Life *About The Author
Shirley Paget
Dame Shirley Paget to all who knew her, Elizabeth Shirley Vaughan Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey (1924-17) first worked in the Foreign Office. She was a keen member of the WI and later became President of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes 1966-69. She had five children and was invested as CBE, DBE and LVO.At various points in her busy life, Dame Paget was also Chairman of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission, Chairman of the drama and dance advisory committee of the British Council; and a vice-chairman of the Museums and Galleries Commission.
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