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  • abbreviation Honours

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  • “Class was a delicate matter, a subject for intuition rather than conversation, one of those ‘borderline’ subjects, deeply felt but never discussed,” writes Jessica Mitford in Hons and Rebels (NYRB Classics, 2004), a memoir of growing up in the storied upper-class English family that inspired her sister Nancy’s Love in a Cold Climate, reviewed earlier today.

    2009 June 18 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • The younger children found some warmth and privacy in a heated linen cupboard, later immortalized in Nancy's novels as the 'Hons' cupboard ', while the older children had to share the drawing room or sit in their small bedrooms.

    'The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters' 2007

  • The lovely "Hons" in this episode's pic (exhibiting their won'erful sense of kitchy "Hon-style" on the Avenue June 15th during Honfest, of course) are

    Blogtimore, Hon 2008

  • FionaMaddocks: New Year Hons: Mezzo Felicity Palmer - unrivalled in countless roles worldwide - made a Dame.

    This week's new live music 2011

  • FionaMaddocks: New Year Hons: Mezzo Felicity Palmer - unrivalled in countless roles worldwide - made a Dame.

    Clubs picks of the week 2011

  • Sorry, that's a clear lie: everyone knows he prefers Burger King chicken nuggets.1.01pm: I'm handing back to Thomas Lutz BA Hons now.

    Transfer window deadline day 2012 – as it happened 2012

  • But it was her upper level academic training, first at the Canterbury School of Arts, followed by British Columbia's University of Victoria from which she graduated with an Hons.

    Fiona Dunnett: images of self and death in Oaxaca 2009

  • FionaMaddocks: New Year Hons: Mezzo Felicity Palmer - unrivalled in countless roles worldwide - made a Dame.

    Live music booking now 2011

  • FionaMaddocks: New Year Hons: Mezzo Felicity Palmer - unrivalled in countless roles worldwide - made a Dame.

    Abba set for reunion as Agnetha admits, 'I have a dream' 2011

  • FionaMaddocks: New Year Hons: Mezzo Felicity Palmer - unrivalled in countless roles worldwide - made a Dame.

    This week's new singles 2011

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