Bookshelf Tour

hello welcome to lilles vintage world and welcome to my first ever bookshelf tour so i recently hit 6000 subscribers and a huge thank you to everyone that subscribed whether you are a brand new subscriber and one that helped me to get to the 6000 or whether you are an oldie but goldie and been around for a while huge thank you to everyone that i subscribed means the world and i usually each time i hit a thousand subscriber milestone i usually just show you one shelf on my bookcases but when i took to instagram to ask what shelf you'd like to see i think i got one or two of every single shelf and there wasn't like one standout shelf that people wanted to see so i thought i'll just do an overview of the whole bookcase well bookcases so i hope you really enjoyed this video and i will be showing a couple of books on each shelf in greater depth huge thank you again to everyone that subscribed thank you so much and enjoy the bookshop tour right so this is the first bookcase that i'm going to talk about now this is a half bookcase so in here we've got drawers that has my games and stuff in but this bookcase is essentially all about women's rights and predominantly the women's suffrage movement at the top i've got um two tote bags one that's fauna town one up there and then we have two of the little people big dreams books we have an emily pankhurst one right in the middle and then of course famous suffragette and then of course rosa parks on the other side and you might be like rosa parks civil rights activist lil and i was like yes but she also did lots of stuff for women's rights too so that's why she's there and then this space you might be like oh you've got a space there this space is for a simone de bevoir book they have a little people big dreams one of this made about one which i want to get my hands on so at some point i will be getting that the next shelf has some playstation stuff on it which is my other house and then i cover up with this erin pankhurst poster deeds not words and then this side it's historical fiction it was just suffragettes and some suffrage movement but my other historical fiction shelf is full so i've started to use this one my favorite book on here is this one crooked pieces and highly recommend that if you want to book about women's suffrage it's really good the next shelf is predominantly non-fiction on the women's suffrage period i have lots of different books some are just biographies of certain people i have the manifestos as well these are really cool and i want to make some bunting with them and stuff i also have my dvds here on the women's surface movement so i'll have my favorite film which is suffragette then i have the lucy wesley documentary which they won a bafta for which is great and then up the women is a brilliant comedy that they had on the bbc and it's written by jessica haynes and starstruck jessica about the women's suffrage event and yeah wonderful and there's posts that i bought in london for the museum of london when they had an ex excuse and they had a talk on essentially i can't say the word um on women's suffrage so i bought this beautiful poster by the artist alison gardner so that's that shelf and then the bottom shelf is the original shelf this is what the original shelf was but it just grew because i've got too many books so this shelf is again predominantly non-fiction but i do have a graphic novel this is brilliant graphic novel on the windsoft treatment as you get um so a couple of stand out books for me has to be this one this is brilliant it's actually for children but it's fantastic this book rise at women by diane atkinson is like if you're going to get one book on the women's suffrage movement get this one trust me it's brilliant and i have a whole host of different things i also have my little suffragette here my little toffee hammer which is great and then at the end here i have well first of all i have my um pass for the underground because i always lose it so i keep it on the shelf and then i have a few books so i have simone de beauvoir extracts from the second sex just extracts because that book is huge i read it for my undergrad it's big then i have mary wilson craft a vindication of the rights of women as well which is really interesting and yeah that's a shelf and actually this is one of my favorite shows i absolutely love this shelf i think she makes it so yes that's my women's rights however predominantly suffrage based now the next two shells these two as you can see are in this color but um they will eventually be replaced with the white belly book cases that i have for the rest of my bookshelves so i'll start over this side okay firstly up here i have the complete colin dexter box set i also have the song of ice and firebox set harbour histories harbour history's jews and worcester poster back there which is really tall and doesn't fit anywhere agatha christie magazines and then a bit confusing but i have my non-fiction history books starting from the stuarts you'll see the others as we go around i have this mug which i love it's horrible histories the gorgeous georgians which i've shown before so yeah this is my like stuart into georgian books my favorite on the shelf has to be this one this was actually one of my favorite books of the year i think it was 2016 king's mistress queen servant the life of times henrietta by tracy borman a fascinating book everyone should read this book it's amazing she was a mistress but she became a mistress to get away from her husband who was an abusive turd shall we say and it's such a powerful book and you should definitely read it it's brilliant brilliant book i also really like the scandalous lady wwe by hallie ravenhold and she was fascinating as well because of course she had her husband was a bit unusual and she ended up having an affair um but her husband went and sued her lover sort of thing because women were property so yeah interesting yeah love those books but as you can see i have lots of books on the shelf moving on downwards i'm heading into the victorian p period now um my favorites of which these two here i don't know why my favorites end up together but the ladies of the manor how wives and daughters really lived in country house society over a century ago by pamela horn pamela paul has a really good writing style and i have another one by her which i'll show you in a bit but i haven't read that yet um this one was brilliant and i actually have a whole review of this one and then this one i adore as well blue stockings the remarkable story of the first women to fight for an education by jane robinson wonderful book wonderful wonderful book um as i said don't know why they're together it just worked out that way i think i might do um you know my series so you want to be a blah blah blah i might do so you want to be a blue stocking let me know if you'd like to see that then i have a picture of me and kate williams from chatham lich festival hi um yeah i'm a bit sad because i got that printed out but i don't care this is the other book that i have by pamela holm on flappers i should say this isn't all the books that i have non-fiction wise i have a lot more but they're in my loft and these are just the ones that i have out then moving on downwards fine oh benzenes um these are my hardbacks and kind of just generally big books which as you can see just spread everywhere favorites this is really good the king's bed sex power and the court of charles ii which is about his mistresses wonderful this is also really good uh the life of henrietta and the daughter of charles the first by manny clegg brilliant biography love this i also really love this the countess the scandalous life of francis villas counter the jersey by tim clark this is a brilliant brilliant book and this is also i just i'm just going to say this was brilliant because this was this is my favorite non-fiction book of all time i know it's not tudor it's georgian but it's janice hadlow the strangest family the private lies the george third queen shirt and the hannah variant amazing book made me cry but yeah there's so many great books on there then moving on down we have look space as i said these aren't all my non-fiction books i have some in the loft and these are space for it to grow but i'm trying to keep a hold of books because i'm worried that the books in the loft are just going to sit there and i won't get to them again but i'm not great at rereading non-fiction need to do it more often but yeah i have some books here and then these are some books i use for university like i use this for my undergrad and stuff and these are books that i've read recently ish and don't fit on that one then moving down this shelf and this shelf is my history of fashion bookshelves which i'll be doing a whole video on soon i also have some books on coco chanel and my little barbie book selection i only have a few but i'm really interested in the history of barbie so i've got those and as i said i will do a whole video on history of fashion at some point then moving on to this shelf at the top i have these are programs from when i went to see stuff so this is my program from when i went to see the mousetrap at the west end amazing and other books hardback books as well by david susha is amazing and this is the thing um it's a cat but i wear it for a neck pillow when i travel and then we have my harbour history magazines one two three i don't know why i don't have a thingy um and these are some bbc history magazines too that's where they're kept i love rereading these it keeps me changing and challenging myself to different areas of history so i really like that next shelf is my wood house shelf so i have all of the jeez and worcester series all the blending series some standalones and of course some room to grow i have read all of the g's and worcester series a few times some of them some of them only once but do really really like the series blendings i'm working my way through and i've read i've read i've read a damsel in distress at these ones i've got these three to read but i love pg word house moving down i have my patricia wentworth these are the miss silver books love them so these ones are ones that i've read and then these are ones i have left to read so eventually they'll go and i'll have room for some of her standalones there but i absolutely love them they've started to reprint some of them in these really pretty new editions which i think look beautiful and i want to collect more but they are quite expensive but i would like to replace my copy of latter end because it sticks out like a sore thumb i mean i don't think it's bad but it's not the same as the others so i'd like to replace that one with one to match these ones but yeah i do really like them i think the covers are fab i mean look at that isn't it nice um i'm going to do a whole video on where to start favorites of these soon as well so stay tuned then moving on down i have my barbara pim section love bob pim one of my favorite authors favorites of which excellent women highly recommend jane and prudence highly recommend actually just all of them in general highly recommend i have my uh excellent women mug and then i have my dean street press ford middlebury books these two are sticking out because i have to read them but i've read all the rest of them and love them my favorites of which are begin again and company in the evening both by esta orange both five star and then i have my bloomsbury group book series which i think looks so pretty together love them i haven't read many i've harris go to paris and love shade but i can't wait to get to the rest of them awesome books then moving down you'll see a bit more space so i have books about books here a small collection of d stevenson these books again quite expensive so don't buy many of so margery sharp as you can see there was some margery sharp up there in the third middle brow dean street press books but i do love marjory sharpe really really like her and again these books are really expensive so i do have one on the way actually i've got nutmeg tree on the way then these books over here are kind of like vintage books so i have like diary provincial lady and stuff but then i have some actual like proper vintage looking books which some look really really nice like i really like this edition of invitation to the waltz and this is the doll's house by henry eidson which just sits under there the next shelf i kind of gloss over because this is my university stuff so my laptop and different books and stuff um including look at that i've got a tiny stapler there i'm not quite sure why and then this shelf is comic books so um the ones from here onwards they are my fiancees they're his but i have read some of them like i've read the justice league ones both of them one and two um i can't remember if i've read any more oh i've read some rick and morty as well i wasn't the biggest fan but then all the rest are mine um i also have some snot girl up there which i highly recommend which is kind of like a thriller stuff and it's really good it's influencers and it's it's fun um i love wonder woman you can see i've got my wonder woman stuff here really love wonder woman but i also love poison ivy and any like poison ivy that i can get my hands on i do because i think it's great so yeah those are those two shells non-fiction fiction the next shelves are my agatha christie cozy crime shelves all the way down to the bottom as you can see they are the same as the ones that's got the women's rights so um they match now i've got puppies toys and a puppy here he is okay so starting off at the top i have my agatha christie dvds um some of them not all of them um my poirot is currently out because i have been watching then i have a georgia hair book which looks really pretty and agatha christie the little people big dreams this is a christmas dog that turns on and we call rolo and then the first shelf is my facsimile shelf of the aggregate books each time i want to read anna christie i'm buying myself a new standalone a lot of the time now if i can afford to they're quite expensive though um i'd like to collect them all and then i have a is for arsenic back there this is a graphic novel on agatha christie which is fun and then the quotable marple quotable poirot and then my mugs and then these were made by anne trump be on the page since she sent them to me and i love them then shelf down i have my miss marple print i have the miss marvel ready please and then behind that i have mousetrap short stories and then my miss marple with miss marple bag tommy and happens some stand alone some of the others are in the loft but they're a different version some books on agatha christie and then i have audio books and mary westmacott and notebooks and stuff and then i have poirot short stories cds all of the poirot books behind of course poirot himself he's the prize i love these editions they're beautiful and then i have my graphic novels i love these so so much they're brilliant then up here i have my rosemary and thyme books they're really fun they only did three of them they but i love frozen mean time so if you love writing your time check the books out then i have one of the dean street press books and my nancy spain really enjoyed this then i have my georgia hair frost books there's six there's one back there uh then we have some edmund crispin josephine tay gladys mitchell marjorie allingham british library crying classics my favorite of which are the maeve historia hey ones down here i've also got my map and lucha dvds cause i've been watching those two and then at the bottom he's sniffing the camera sniffing i have my dorothy alsayers uh paperbacks and hardback collection you give him mummy loves and then finally this big load of bookcases which you see oh where should we start should we start up here at the top i have my simpson stuff i love the simpsons so i've got a little collection of some stuff here including a bobbing homer which i can't reach and some mugs and stuff and then a couple of paddingtons too next down is my jane austen shelf i have these wonderful pictures that i actually got from birth and they're done by a local artist and i love them you can't really see the books behind although for some reason i've got a simpson book there um but yeah you can't really see the books behind because they're there but i love it all the same then below that i have my persephone shelf and i've got judy smith my favorite persephones patience by john coates and my favorite book ever miss pettigrew listen to a day by william watson i'm sure you know that by now why won't you go back in thank you very much i have my andra circles my cup that i think is really pretty i hope another copy of map and logia because i love that book and yeah wonderful wonderful books also this is a brilliant cephei as well the call by edith arton zangwell who was actually involved in the women's suffrage movement and it's a book about the women's suffrage movement yes below that more classics of course it is because it's my bookshelves um we have the complete nancy mitfords there and then i have next to it my announcement for mug and a couple of bookmarks i love this one tiger came to tea this book's really good business as usual brilliant it's got illustrations in it as well and it's a book about um a woman who works in a bookshop that's great my penguin english library my f scott fitzgerald some molly keen i really like devoted ladies that's really good beloved elizabeth taylor i've read all of those favorites of which are blaming love that one uh mrs palfrey at the claremont which is down there love that one uh what else do i love i can't find it there it is a soul of kindness i really love that one then i have this cup and saucer which is beatrix potter and then below that um behind these i have i made them i had some of the wordsworth editions favorites i really like tent wildfowl hall by ambronte it's a brilliant book i have funny hill by john clelan which i had to read for university and oh my there's drawings too then i have a couple of the really really pretty um canterbury classics the word clara classics which i think are really pretty somewhere between a paper i can hard back aren't they i'll put these back so these are my uh penguin cloth band classics beautiful but impractical i also have tested the derbyvilles but it's not currently here then i have my vintage red spines i've got lots of them favorites of which i really like the end of the affair there i think that's great elizabeth and her german garden is great i've done a full review of that one as well then i have these which are the penguin deluxe editions i have this beautiful copy of the wind in the willows i love the wind in the willows it's my favorite book as a kid but i read it so much the pages fall out so i bought this really pretty edition and various others then i have the penguin black spines i haven't read many of these but my favorite one is gentlemen prefer blondes but gentlemen marry brunettes barneta louise great great book great great book then i have some of the modern classics favorites of which have to be breakfast tiffany's course it does and then a few of the white uh books which the oxford ones favorite of which is wuthering heights i haven't read the other two so hence why that's the favorite they're moving on to foley society i love this bookshelf one of my favorites i love these editions of uh map and lucia books my favorite book series but we've got lots of different beautiful books uh including the dorothy arsea's ones i don't know why they don't match but they don't but hey home moving on i have more lots of great books i have a beautiful foliage society copy of excellent women i love that and um agatha christie of course and then beautiful books here including this amazing copy of this secret garden which has like pulley out bits and stuff um it's me yeah this is really cool looks like a paper dolly yeah it's amazing i have read it but i like to keep it all looking pristine oh and these are really nice the barnes noble ones because on the back they have a quote and this is my favorite quote from the book so yes i have two copies of wuthering heights then above here i have my beatrix potter shelf i have this book kind of shoved in because i keep coming back to it this is a book that i saw when i got engaged and i got engaged on a beatrix potter walk at a national trust and it was amazing so i keep i keep getting out just to look at it so i just pop it there but i do have my own peter my own jemima the complete tales i have books about her yeah love peter spotter the next shelf is just generally classic children's books essentially so windy of the willows secret garden this is my favorite copy and probably my favorite book actual like physical book not favorite story that's miss pettigrew but this was my mom's copy and then she gave it me say thank you then i have my paddington shelf with a couple of actual paddingtons to boat i have my royal duton you'll get that joke if you've watched uh keep my appearances i love paddington then i have harry potter illustrated the ones by jim kay and i've made this look all pretty and obviously i'll keep going with those then i have my original harry potter and i have nabel collection love potion i have a wand here which is my favorite character uh severus snape and then below that i have my graphic novels and comic book type things but not like superhero comics that's the other side so i have this brilliant book here lighter than my shadow which is about eating soda so a bit triggering but as someone who's had an eating disorder i like to read see how far i've come well done me um and there's other great books in there too including this weird one of gatsby when they're sea creatures the next side at the top i have my elizabeth the first shelf she's my historical heroine she gets her own shelf i have this primary source evidence book which is her works like letters and stuff i do really enjoy that i also really love this book by dr david starkey this was my first book that got me into elizabeth i do enjoy books about elizabeth and robert dudley i love lester so that's there these aren't all my books on elizabeth some of them are in the loft but these are the ones i like to have out i have elizabeth bedfails by anna whitelock which you should read more books on elizabeth the alison weir one's really good too then i have my little elizabeth here natural elizabeth i got her from silly castle which is my favorite historic house and silly castle actually elizabeth went to for essentially a three-day bender after she uh defeated the spare charmada then i have this now this for all you young people out there is a vhs tape i don't know if you'll know what a vhs tape was but my late uncle found me this when he worked uh volunteered in a charity shop and he got of me and i watched it again and again and again and the more i learned about her the more i disagreed with the uh the documentary but i just love it and yeah i'll never get rid of it look at the size of it it's a tape i don't even think kids watch dvds anymore do they but yeah that's a vhs tape and then i have the beautiful um penguin monarch series of elizabeth the first this is written by helen caster but look how stunning it is and another book on elizabeth first back there because i have a problem there she is then moving down speaking of problems i have this book okay bookshelf on the six wives of henry viii now i have a mug and these i get asked a lot these are bunny kins okay catherine howard is a bit worse for wear i don't know why but these are bunny kins they don't sell them anymore but you can find them in like antique shops or vintage shops kind of collectibles you can find them online and they're one for each wife i also have henry i don't like henry eighth i think he's a turd on a stick but in bunny rabbit form isn't he cute so yeah i have them all there they are on my six fly shell so i have this i have dave starkey and alison weir books on six wise of henry the eighth i have a lot of different paperbacks again not all the books but some of them the ones that i like to keep out i really like the elizabeth norton ones i think she writes really well and i have the alison weir lady in the tower that's great the fall of emblem by claire woodree is brilliant this is the one you need to read on amberlynn these they're all great i could spend all day but they're all great um young and dumb and fair good one on katherine howard as is where's the other one oh there it is right next to it by josephine wilkinson come on brain these brilliant ones by amy lyson this was like a brilliant one that i read by joanna denney and then i bought myself a copy and yeah i loved it i used to get this out the library all the time it just used to be me again and again getting it but yeah so many brilliant books on there below that i have my historical fiction shelf i have another copy of jane as a bunny hello jane and i have the six wives by alison weir allison ware lee elizabeth duology i don't know or lady elizabeth in the sequel uh this one is really good not so much this one but this one's great and i love this series catherine howard is the best one in my personal opinion so far then i have a bunch of different historical fiction books mostly on the judo period that you can see but hey-ho and some vintage ones here two by us lebloom and then i have this uh postcard of catherine parr which i've seen the actual painting of because it is at cedar castle then moving below the we have my non-fiction history books which kind of sort of in time sort of not a bit of a mess um i'm not great at reading before tudors hence why there's a lot of a shorter amount here and i haven't read many of these but whoops then we go to more middle ages stuff i do really like the alice um amy license book on edward iv elizabeth woodfield that was really really good and also elizabeth woodville lady gray was really good too then i have these are hardback books on the cheetah period favorites of which um lorena blanche which was on mary tudor henriette's sister not daughter although there's a lot of mary's i mean if you get marry queen of scots she had a lot of ladies called mary so just call someone mary you can't go wrong and below that i have oh well i have i'll move these these two uh yoga block and yoga stretch band thingies um but then i have edward and mary both in the penguinic series and then these are like my paperback books on the tutor period again i have quite a few favorites of which oh it's tricky isn't it i really really like this is really good jane blim by julia fox this is really good hermits last love that's really good this is a book that i'm still reading been reading this for about 10 years but it's a book on the dudley's and i really like that so yeah so many great books i should also say you'll see scattered around these 10 points if you can spot all four but this is just a little badge this is a tudor lady i think she's so much fun i'll just sit her whoopsies next to my tudor books if she will stand yes stay and then lastly these ones used to hold dvds now holds books at the top beast then i have giant days my favorite comic book series without shadow doubt it is over it is done finito but i have the whole series i also have the whya book that came with it even though i don't read y a and the quote of all giant days if you like graphic novels british humor silly about university read them wonderful then i have my evelyn war i really really think these are really pretty editions excuse me favorite witch vile bodies love our bodies wonderful historical novel on the period then i have british library room writers series now i will have to have a change around my shelves at some point because some more of these books are coming out in the series and i don't have room favorite of which of them are my husband simon by mollypantydowns loved that one t is so intoxicating by mary essex loved that one merrier six funny enough is a pen name for us she wrote over 500 novels did you know uh other favorite in this shelf has to be father by elizabeth von arnhem wonderful book love elizabeth von arnhem cannot get it back in get back in get back in get back in thank you but i think they look really pretty then below that we have ferrargo i love frago with the spines these are the 40th anniversary ones the weather in the streets particularly was a favorite this book i'd like to try again but because it's in dialect so i'd like to read it in audiobook version which is their eyes are watching guard by zoran elherson i have some rose mccauleys and i have boston short stories and then as you can see some room to grow and then last but not least i have classics that kind of just don't fit anywhere else but i think look quite nice together so i have the tortoise and the hair by elizabeth jenkins i think this book is brilliant uh as do us moons came from wars i also really like that book too and then i haven't read the rest but yeah really looking forward to reading all of these and that my friends is my bookcases i hope you've enjoyed this video please give a thumbs up if you have and check me all things bookish in the comments bye for now

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Published: Mon Mar 01 2021