Zbirka: Socialna in kulturna zgodovina
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Blitz(2011) GARDINER, JULIETFrom the author of ‘Wartime’ comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population – the Blitz.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Images of the Past: The Miners' Strike(2014) METCALF, MARK,HARVEY, MARK,JENKINSON, MARTINIncludes some never previously seen before images to serve as a unique social document on the dispute that changed the face of Britain. The coal miners' strike of 1984/5 was the longest national strike in British historyVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
West End Front(2012) SWEET, MATTHEWMeet the girl from MI5 who had the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan Thomas; the barman who was appointed the keeper of Winston Churchill's private bottle of whisky; the East End Communist who marched with his comrades into the air-raid shelterVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
At Home with the Brontes(2013) DINSDALE, ANNThe story of the world-famous home of the Bronte sisters. Explores the impact of the Brontes' home on their writing and what it was like for their successors living in a literary shrine. New exhibition focusing on the building starts at the Bronte ParsonaVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Freedom and Organization(2009) RUSSELL, BERTRANDWritten in the approachable style that has made Russell’s works so revered, this is a major work of political history in which significant economic and political forces and events that shaped the nineteenth century are examined.Vezava: Mehka32,06 € -
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Black Death(2009) HATCHER, JOHNHow the people of a typical English village lived and died in the worst epidemic in history.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Gentry(2012) NICOLSON, ADAMAdam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families – from the 15th century to the present day. This sparkling work of history reads like a real-life Downton Abbey, as the loves, hatreds and many times of grief of hisVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Coal(2006) FREESE, BARBARATaking us on a rich historical journey that begins on the banks of the river Tyne, Barbara Freese explores the profound role coal has played in human history and continues to play in todays world.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Road to Wigan Pier(2014) ORWELL, GEORGEFeatures observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. This title provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing uVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
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Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum(1996) WALLACE-HADRILL, ANDREWFew sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. This book explores the rich potentialVezava: Mehka66,94 € -
Europe after Rome(2007) SMITH, JULIA M. H. (PROFESSOR IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW)Vezava: Mehka69,36 € -
Honourable Company(1993) KEAY, JOHNDuring 200 years the East India Company grew from an association of Elizabethan tradesmen into a powerful organization. As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an empire. This book looVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Daughters Of Arabia(2004) SASSON, JEANReaders of Princess Sultana's extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia.Vezava: Mehka14,01 €
