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The wonderful and and sometimes weird jewellery of Queen Victoria
Princess Victoria was just 18 years old when she was told that she had become the Queen. She took the news calmly and wrote in her diary that night “Very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.” In her first meeting with…
World War II: the changing lives of women from housewives to workers and the impact of austerity in jewellery
How World War II sparked the change in women’s roles Before the war women were mainly housewives, worked in shops or undertook clerical duties, but as more men went to war, women were needed to support the war effort including keeping the factories and farms going. Women rolled up their sleeves and eagerly answered the…
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