219, 223
upper class 28, 71, 137
V-1 flying bombs 197–8
Vanity Fair
123
‘variety’ chain store, inter-war boom in 170–1
Vicious, Sid 227
Victoria and Albert, London 210
Victoria, Queen: Golden Jubilee 68
Vigilance Committee of London 59
Vogue
204, 207, 213
Vote, The
119
Votes for Women
119, 120, 123
W.H. Smith 229
W.H. Watts 144
Waitrose 230
Walkers 150
Wallis 227
war work 143–52, 179–200
see also
First World War; Second World War
War Emergency Committee 149
War Office 144, 156
‘War of the Windows’ 122
Ward, Mary 9
Warhol, Andy 210
Wells, H.G. 17
Wesleyan Methodists 25
West End, London 44, 53, 54, 56, 59, 81, 95–6, 113, 119, 122, 158, 229,
see also
London
West End London Street Scene, A
(poster) 199
Westwood, Vivien 227
Wey, Francis:
Les Anglais Chez Eux
(
The British at Home
) 8
Whiteley, Harriet 18, 20, 21, 63–4
Whiteley, William 16, 17, 18–22, 26–7, 30, 37–8, 63–4, 71, 90–1, 137, 139, 196. 234
Whiteley’s, Bayswater xiii, 18–22, 26–7, 30, 37–8, 41, 63, 66, 67, 71, 72, 75, 85, 108, 137, 139, 157–8, 209, 228
Wholesale Textile 159
Wilkinson, Tudor 80
Williams and Hopkins, Bournemouth 213
Wilson, Harold 218
window-dressing 141–2, 198
Wisbech 4–6, 7, 10, 16, 23, 34
Wise, Audrey 221
Woman Question 11
Women’s Christian Temperance Union, U.S. 87
Women’s Co-operative Guild 106, 107, 108, 115, 116, 118, 120
Women’s Industrial Council 94, 95, 113, 118
Women’s Liberation Movement 222–3
Women’s Own
204
Women’s Press 122
Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) 118, 120, 121, 123
Women’s Voluntary Service 180
Wood-Allen, Dr Mary 87;
What a Young Woman Ought to Know
87
Woodward, Henrietta 3
Woolf, Virginia xi–xii, xv
Woollands, Knightsbridge 212, 213
Woolwich Arsenal, London 151–2
Woolworth, Frank W. 167
Woolworths 166–7, 170, 180, 188, 191, 196, 197
Worcester 55
working mothers 216
Working Women’s Charter 221
Worth, Charles 77–8, 79
Young, Rosie 209
Young, Sarah 209
Zola, Émile xii–xiii;
The Ladies’ Paradise
xii, xiii
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