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Nancy Mitford, the Glossary

Nancy Freeman-Mitford (28 November 1904 – 30 June 1973) was an English novelist, biographer, and journalist.^[1]

145 relations: A Year in Provence, A. J. P. Taylor, Adolf Hitler, Air Raid Precautions, Alan S. C. Ross, Allies of World War II, André Roussin, Angus Ogilvy, Antonia Fraser, Asthall Manor, Émilie du Châtelet, Baron Stanley of Alderley, Batsford Arboretum, Bertram Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, Bilbao, Bip Pares, Black Mischief, Bright young things, British Union of Fascists, Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, Buckingham Palace, Buckinghamshire, Charles de Gaulle, Christmas Pudding (novel), Christopher Sykes (writer), Clementine Churchill, Coffee table book, Comedy of manners, Conservative Party (UK), Curzon Street, Cyril Connolly, David Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, David Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie, Debutante, Defence Regulation 18B, Diana Mosley, Don't Tell Alfred, Duff Cooper, Earl of Rosslyn, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Encounter (magazine), English country house, Esmond Romilly, Evelyn Waugh, Francis Holland School, Francisco Franco, Franco-Prussian War, Frederick the Great, Free France, French Liberation Army, ... Expand index (95 more) »
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A Year in Provence

A Year in Provence is a 1989 best-selling memoir by Peter Mayle about his first year in Provence, and the local events and customs.

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A. J. P. Taylor

Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy.

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.

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Air Raid Precautions

Air Raid Precautions (ARP) refers to a number of organisations and guidelines in the United Kingdom dedicated to the protection of civilians from the danger of air raids.

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Alan S. C. Ross

Alan Strode Campbell Ross (1 February 1907 – 23 September 1980) was a British academic specialising in linguistics.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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André Roussin

André Roussin, (22 January 1911 – 3 November 1987), was a French playwright.

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Angus Ogilvy

Sir Angus James Bruce Ogilvy (14 September 1928 – 26 December 2004) was a British businessman.

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Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, (Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. Nancy Mitford and Antonia Fraser are 20th-century English biographers, 20th-century English women writers, British women biographers and English women novelists.

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Asthall Manor

Asthall Manor is a gabled Jacobean Cotswold manor house in Asthall, Oxfordshire. Nancy Mitford and Asthall Manor are Mitford family.

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Émilie du Châtelet

Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (17 December 1706 – 10 September 1749) was a French natural philosopher and mathematician from the early 1730s until her death due to complications during childbirth in 1749.

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Baron Stanley of Alderley

Baron Stanley of Alderley, in the County of Chester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Batsford Arboretum

Batsford Arboretum is a arboretum and botanical garden near Batsford in Gloucestershire, England, about 1½ miles north-west of Moreton-in-Marsh, at.

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Bertram Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale

Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, (24 February 183717 August 1916), was a British diplomat, collector and writer, whose most notable work is Tales of Old Japan (1871). Nancy Mitford and Bertram Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale are Mitford family.

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Bilbao

Bilbao is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the province of Biscay and in the Basque Country as a whole.

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Bip Pares

Ethel "Bip" Pares (27 February 1904 – January 1977) was an Art Deco illustrator, who designed at least 600 book covers, created iconic posters for London Transport and wrote and illustrated an account of her honeymoon in the Himalayas.

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Black Mischief

Black Mischief was Evelyn Waugh's third novel, published in 1932.

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Bright young things

The Bright Young Things, or Bright Young People, was a term given by the tabloid press to a group of Bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in 1920s London.

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British Union of Fascists

The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a British fascist political party formed in 1932 by Oswald Mosley.

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Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne

Bryan Walter Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, (27 October 1905 – 6 July 1992) was a British peer, poet, novelist and socialite.

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Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace is a royal residence in London, and the administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French military officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France.

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Christmas Pudding (novel)

Christmas Pudding is a novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1932.

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Christopher Sykes (writer)

Christopher Hugh Sykes (17 November 1907 – 8 December 1986) was an English writer. Nancy Mitford and Christopher Sykes (writer) are English biographers.

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Clementine Churchill

Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, (1 April 1885 – 12 December 1977) was the wife of Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and a life peer in her own right.

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Coffee table book

A coffee table book, also known as a cocktail table book, is an oversized, usually hard-covered book whose purpose is for display on a table intended for use in an area in which one entertains guests and from which it can serve to inspire conversation or pass the time.

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Comedy of manners

In English literature, the term comedy of manners (also anti-sentimental comedy) describes a genre of realistic, satirical comedy of the Restoration period (1660–1710) that questions and comments upon the manners and social conventions of a greatly sophisticated, artificial society.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.

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Curzon Street

Curzon Street is located within the Mayfair district of London.

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Cyril Connolly

Cyril Vernon Connolly CBE (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer.

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David Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale

David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, (13 March 1878 – 17 March 1958) was a British peer, soldier, and landowner. Nancy Mitford and David Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale are Mitford family.

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David Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie

David Graham Drummond Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie, (4 May 1826 – 25 September 1881), styled Lord Ogilvy from birth until 1849, was a Scottish nobleman, soldier and rancher in Colorado.

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Debutante

A debutante, also spelled débutante (from débutante), or deb is a young woman of aristocratic or upper-class family background who has reached maturity and is presented to society at a formal "debut" (début) or possibly debutante ball.

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Defence Regulation 18B

Defence Regulation 18B, often referred to as simply 18B, was one of the Defence Regulations used by the British Government during and before the Second World War.

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Diana Mosley

Diana, Lady Mosley (née Mitford; 17 June 191011 August 2003), known as Diana Guinness between 1929 and 1936, was a British aristocrat, fascist, writer and editor. Nancy Mitford and Diana Mosley are 20th-century English women writers, Daughters of barons, English biographers, English socialites and Mitford family.

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Don't Tell Alfred

Don't Tell Alfred is a novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1960 by Hamish Hamilton.

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Duff Cooper

Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, (22 February 1890 – 1 January 1954), known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician and diplomat who was also a military and political historian.

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Earl of Rosslyn

Earl of Rosslyn is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Empress Elisabeth of Austria

Elisabeth (born Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie in Bavaria; 24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898), nicknamed Sisi or Sissi, was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph I on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898.

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Encounter (magazine)

Encounter was a literary magazine founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and journalist Irving Kristol.

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English country house

An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside.

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Esmond Romilly

Esmond Marcus David Romilly (10 June 1918 – 30 November 1941) was a British socialist, anti-fascist, and journalist, who was in turn a schoolboy rebel, a veteran with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and, following the outbreak of the Second World War, an observer with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

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Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St. Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh are 20th-century English biographers.

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Francis Holland School

Francis Holland School is the name of two separate private day schools for girls in central London, England, governed by the Francis Holland (Church of England) Schools Trust.

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Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo.

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Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Frederick the Great

Frederick II (Friedrich II.; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786.

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Free France

Free France (France libre) was a political entity claiming to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of the Third Republic during World War II.

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French Liberation Army

The French Liberation Army (Armée française de la Libération or AFL) was the reunified French Army that arose from the merging of the Armée d'Afrique with the prior Free French Forces (label or FFL) during World War II.

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Gaston Palewski

Gaston Palewski (20 March 1901 – 3 September 1984), a French politician, was a close associate of Charles de Gaulle during and after World War II.

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George V

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

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Georges Pompidou

Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (5 July 19112 April 1974) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1969 to his death in 1974.

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Girl Guides

Girl Guides (known as Girl Scouts in the United States and some other countries) is a worldwide movement, originally and largely still designed for girls and women only.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (abbreviated Glos.) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Governess

A governess is a woman employed as a private tutor, who teaches and trains a child or children in their home.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Hamish Hamilton

Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton (Hamish is the vocative form of the Gaelic Seumas, James the English form – which was also his given name, and Jamie the diminutive form).

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Harold Acton

Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton (5 July 1904 – 27 February 1994) was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things.

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Henry Hozier

Colonel Sir Henry Montague Hozier, (20 March 1838 – 28 February 1907) was a British Army officer who became secretary of Lloyd's of London.

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High society

High society, sometimes simply Society, is the behavior and lifestyle of people with the highest levels of wealth and social status.

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High Wycombe

High Wycombe, often referred to as Wycombe, is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Hodgkin lymphoma

Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is a type of lymphoma in which cancer originates from a specific type of white blood cell called lymphocytes, where multinucleated Reed–Sternberg cells (RS cells) are present in the patient's lymph nodes.

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Hysterectomy

Hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus and cervix.

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Interwar period

In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period (or interbellum) lasted from 11November 1918 to 1September 1939 (20years, 9months, 21days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II (WWII).

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Jacobean architecture

The Jacobean style is the second phase of Renaissance architecture in England, following the Elizabethan style.

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James Alexander Wedderburn St. Clair-Erskine

James Alexander Wedderburn "Hamish" St.

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James Lees-Milne

(George) James Henry Lees-Milne (6 August 1908 – 28 December 1997) was an English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust from 1936 to 1973. Nancy Mitford and James Lees-Milne are English biographers.

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Jessica Mitford

Jessica Lucy "Decca" Treuhaft (née Freeman-Mitford, later Romilly; 11 September 1917 – 23 July 1996) was an English author, one of the six aristocratic Mitford sisters noted for their sharply conflicting politics. Nancy Mitford and Jessica Mitford are 20th-century English women writers, Daughters of barons, English socialites and Mitford family.

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John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman, (28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster.

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John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale

John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, PC, KC, FRS (18 August 1748 – 16 January 1830), known as Sir John Mitford between 1793 and 1802, was an English lawyer and politician. Nancy Mitford and John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale are Mitford family.

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Kensington

Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, around west of Central London.

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Lady Diana Cooper

Diana Cooper, Viscountess Norwich (née Lady Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners; 29 August 1892 – 16 June 1986) was an English silent film actress and aristocrat who was a well-known social figure in London and Paris. Nancy Mitford and Lady Diana Cooper are 20th-century English women writers and English socialites.

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Legion of Honour

The National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre royal de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil, and currently comprises five classes.

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Lord Chancellor of Ireland

The Lord High Chancellor of Ireland (commonly known as Lord Chancellor of Ireland) was the highest judicial office in Ireland until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922.

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Louis XIV

LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Love in a Cold Climate

Love in a Cold Climate is a novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1949.

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Madame de Pompadour

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (29 December 1721 – 15 April 1764), commonly known as Madame de Pompadour, was a member of the French court.

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Mark Ogilvie-Grant

Charles Randolph Mark Ogilvie-Grant (15 March 1905 – 13 February 1969) was a British diplomat and a botanist and one of the earliest members of the Bright Young Things.

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Max Mosley

Max Rufus Mosley (13 April 1940 – 23 May 2021) was a British businessman, lawyer and racing driver. Nancy Mitford and Max Mosley are Mitford family.

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Meningitis

Meningitis is acute or chronic inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, collectively called the meninges.

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MI5

MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), officially the Security Service, is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and Defence Intelligence (DI).

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Mitford Castle

Mitford Castle is an English castle dating from the end of the 11th century and located at Mitford, Northumberland.

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Mitford family

The Mitford family is an aristocratic English family whose principal line had its seats at Mitford, Northumberland. Nancy Mitford and Mitford family are English socialites.

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Munich

Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.

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New Party (UK)

The New Party was a political party briefly active in the United Kingdom in the early 1930s.

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Noblesse Oblige (book)

Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry Into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy (1956) is a book illustrated by Osbert Lancaster, caricaturist of English manners, and published by Hamish Hamilton.

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Norman Conquest

The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, French, Flemish, and Breton troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.

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Northumberland

Northumberland is a ceremonial county in North East England, bordering Scotland.

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Nuffield Health

Nuffield Health is the United Kingdom's largest healthcare charity.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Oswald Mosley

Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980), was a British aristocrat and politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism.

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Paddington

Paddington is an area in the City of Westminster, in central London, England.

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Pamela Mitford

Pamela Freeman-Mitford (25 November 1907 – 12 April 1994) was one of the Mitford sisters. Nancy Mitford and Pamela Mitford are Daughters of barons, English socialites and Mitford family.

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Patrick Trevor-Roper

Patrick Dacre Trevor-Roper (7 June 1916 – 22 April 2004) was a British eye surgeon, author and pioneer gay rights activist, who played a leading role in the campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in the UK.

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Peter Fleming (writer)

Robert Peter Fleming (31 May 1907 – 18 August 1971) was a British adventurer, journalist, soldier and travel writer.

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Peter Rodd

Hon.

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Philip Hensher

Philip Michael Hensher FRSL (born 20 February 1965) is an English novelist, critic and journalist.

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Phoney War

The Phoney War (Drôle de guerre; Sitzkrieg) was an eight-month period at the start of World War II during which there was only one limited military land operation on the Western Front, when French troops invaded Germany's Saar district.

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Pilot officer

Pilot officer (Plt Off or P/O) is a junior officer rank used by some air forces, with origins from the Royal Air Force.

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Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy

Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel; born 25 December 1936), is a member of the British royal family.

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Rachel Cooke

Rachel Cooke (born 1969) is a British journalist and writer.

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Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell

James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell, (9 November 1858 – 26 July 1941), known as Sir Rennell Rodd before 1933, was a British diplomat, poet and politician.

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Republican faction (Spanish Civil War)

The Republican faction (Bando republicano), also known as the Loyalist faction (Bando leal) or the Government faction (Bando gubernamental), was the side in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939 that supported the government of the Second Spanish Republic against the Nationalist faction of the military rebellion.

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Rive Gauche

The Rive Gauche (Left Bank) is the southern bank of the river Seine in Paris.

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Robert Byron

Robert Byron (26 February 1905 – 24 February 1941) was an English travel writer, best known for his travelogue The Road to Oxiana.

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Royal Canadian Air Force

The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF; Aviation royale canadienne, ARC) is the air and space force of Canada. Its role is to "provide the Canadian Forces with relevant, responsive and effective airpower". The RCAF is one of three environmental commands within the unified Canadian Armed Forces.

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Rue Monsieur-le-Prince

Rue Monsieur-le-Prince is a street of Paris, located in the 6th arrondissement.

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Second Boer War

The Second Boer War (Tweede Vryheidsoorlog,, 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa.

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Second Disraeli ministry

Benjamin Disraeli was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a second time by Queen Victoria after William Ewart Gladstone's government was defeated in the 1874 general election.

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Selina Hastings (writer)

Lady Selina Shirley Hastings (born 5 March 1945) is a British journalist, author and biographer. Nancy Mitford and Selina Hastings (writer) are English biographers.

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Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and supports a gradualist, reformist and democratic approach towards achieving socialism.

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Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists.

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Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)

The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, the lower house and primary chamber of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.

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Strand-on-the-Green

Strand-on-the-Green is one of Chiswick's four medieval villages, and a "particularly picturesque" riverside area in West London.

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Swastika, Ontario

Swastika is a small community founded around a mine site in Northern Ontario, Canada in 1908.

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Swinbrook

Swinbrook is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Swinbrook and Widford, in the West Oxfordshire district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England.

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The Blessing (novel)

The Blessing is a comic satirical novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1951.

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The Blitz

The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Honourable

The Honourable (Commonwealth English) or The Honorable (American English; see spelling differences) (abbreviation: Hon., Hon'ble, or variations) is an honorific style that is used as a prefix before the names or titles of certain people, usually with official governmental or diplomatic positions.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Lady (magazine)

The Lady is one of Britain's longest-running women's magazines.

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The Pursuit of Love

The Pursuit of Love is a novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1945.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category.

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The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.

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Thomas Gibson Bowles

Thomas Gibson Bowles (15 January 1841 – 12 January 1922) was a British politician and publisher.

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Tom Mitford

Major Thomas David Freeman-Mitford (2 January 1909 – 30 March 1945) was the only son of the 2nd Baron Redesdale and brother of the Mitford Sisters. Nancy Mitford and Tom Mitford are Mitford family.

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U and non-U English

U and non-U English usage, where "U" stands for upper class and "non-U" represents the aspiring middle classes, was part of the terminology of popular discourse of social dialects (sociolects) in Britain in the 1950s.

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Unity Mitford

Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford (8 August 1914 – 28 May 1948) was a British socialite and member of the Mitford family known for her relationship with Adolf Hitler. Nancy Mitford and Unity Mitford are Daughters of barons and Mitford family.

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University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a public research university in Birmingham, England.

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Vanity Fair (British magazine)

Vanity Fair was a British weekly magazine that was published from 1868 to 1914.

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Versailles, Yvelines

Versailles is a commune in the department of the Yvelines, Île-de-France, renowned worldwide for the Château de Versailles and the gardens of Versailles, designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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Victoria Road, Kensington

Victoria Road is a street in Kensington, London, that in 2015 was considered the most expensive street in the United Kingdom.

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (also), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian.

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Voltaire in Love

Voltaire in Love is a popular history of the sixteen-year relationship between Voltaire and the Émilie, the Marquise du Châtelet.

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Wellington College, Berkshire

Wellington College is a private school (English fee-charging boarding and day school) in the village of Crowthorne, Berkshire, England.

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Welsh Guards

The Welsh Guards (WG; Gwarchodlu Cymreig), part of the Guards Division, is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army.

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West End theatre

West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.

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Wigs on the Green

Wigs on the Green is a 1935 satirical novel by Nancy Mitford.

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William Mitford

William Mitford (10 February 1744 – 10 February 1827) was an English historian, landowner, and politician. Nancy Mitford and William Mitford are Mitford family.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and 1951 to 1955. Nancy Mitford and Winston Churchill are 20th-century English biographers and English biographers.

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Zoë Heller

Zoë Kate Hinde Heller (born 7 July 1965) is an English journalist and novelist long resident in New York City. Nancy Mitford and Zoë Heller are English women non-fiction writers and English women novelists.

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10th Royal Hussars

The 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army raised in 1715.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Mitford

Also known as Nancy Freeman-Mitford, Nancy Freeman-Mitford CBE, Nancy Freeman-Mitford, CBE, Nancy Mitford CBE, Nancy Mitford, CBE, Nancy Rodd.

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20th-century English biographers

British emigrants to France

Mitford family