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WORLD HISTORY PAST AND PRESENT

... the British War Medal; 3-- Victory Medal; 4-- Queen Victorias Jubilee; 5-- King George V's Coronation 6-- King George V's Jubilee 7-- King George Vi s Coronation 8-- Officer of the Legion of Honour; 9 American D.S.M. No. 10 is the Star and Badge of the ...

Published: Saturday 13 November 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1680 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Book Reviews

... 'background history to the Coronation ceremony, its Regalia and Abbey setting is in a revised, extended reprint of Lewis Broad's Queens, Crowns And Coronations (Hutchinson, 12s. 6d.), originally published for George VI 's Coronation and packed with fascinating ...

Published: Sunday 01 February 1953
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1885 | Page: 54 | Tags: Review 

CONCERNING THE CORONATION

... CONCERNING THE CORONATION by Cyril Butcher AT the time of writing, the controversy raging around the televising of the Coronation ceremony has not yet been entirely resolved. But we have reason to hope that all will be well, and that this unfortunate ...

Published: Wednesday 05 November 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1133 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

The Bystander Bookshelf: Ancient and Modern; Telephone Talks: No. 10

... By Alan Thomas ONE of the most imposing contribu tions to the wealth of literature that has been written on and round the Coronation is a sumptuous volume entitled, A Chronicle of Kingship: 1066 to 1937, by R. B. Mowat and T. D. Griffith Davies (Arthur ...

Published: Wednesday 26 May 1937
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1154 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA

... importance as the crowning of King George VI. and Queen Elizabeth brings the news-reel and the documentary short into prominence. Amongst the latter, THE HOUSE OF WINDSOR. prepared for general release concurrent with Coronation celebrations by Pathé Pictures ...

Published: Wednesday 12 May 1937
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1077 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THE WORLD OF BOOKS

... The World of Books Reviewed, by VERNON FANE OF all the direct results of this Coronation summer in publishing, the most agreeable so far has been the Coronation scrap-book, WHEN VICTORIA BEGAN TO REIGN (Faber and Faber. 12s. 6d.). Hiss Margaret Lambert ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2447 | Page: 98 | Tags: Review 

History in Reverse

... called When Victoria Began to Reign (Faber and Faber, 1 2s. 6d.). The author, Miss Margaret Lambert, calls her volume A Coronation Year Scrap-book, meaning that it consists of contemporary cuttings and borrowings. The suggestion does her far less than ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1937
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1495 | Page: 90 | Tags: Review 

BARRIE'S ONLY MEMOIR: THE STORY OF JAMES ANON: Delightful Anecdotes That Let Us Into the Secrets of the Man and ..

... show a boy with waving hair, an un-military, un-Prussian touch, brilliant eyes and a rather girlish chin. Soon after his coronation Ludwig's enthusiasms found a worthy focal point. Richard Wagner, who was at that time, it was 1864, poor, greatly in debt ...

Published: Saturday 11 December 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2365 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

COLLIE KNOX CALLING: A Radio Journalist Tells How He Broke Into Fleet Street

... through commentator broadcasts, perhaps the most dramatic of all being that of the Abdication, and subse- nn^ntlv the Coronation of King George VI. His most satisfactory, though most difficult, assignment was George Bernard Shaw. Get Shaw on anything, he was ...

Published: Saturday 22 October 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2185 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review