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Sugar Girls(2012) BARRETT, DUNCAN,CALVI, NUALATales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Muslim Spain and Portugal(1996) KENNEDY, HUGH (SOAS, UK)The first history in English of the political history of Muslim Spain and Portugal, based on vividly translated Arab sources, this volume provides comprehensive coverage of events across the whole of the region from 711 to the fall of Granada in 1492.Vezava: Mehka87,49 € -
Child of the Jago(2012) MORRISON, ARTHURIn the slum streets of the Jago, Dicky Perrott lives a life of petty crime and violence. With Father Sturt's arrival, he sees how his horizons might alter. Dicky's story highlights the terrible conditions of the Victorian underworld and the social policyVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Victorian House(2004) FLANDERS, JUDITHThe bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
On Monsters(2011) ASMA, STEPHEN T. (PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR, PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR, COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO)"A comprehensive modern-day bestiary."--The New YorkerVezava: Mehka33,63 € -
Smoke In The Lanes(2011) REEVE, DOMINICSmoke in the Lanes is the fascinating firsthand account of a bygone age of the Romani traveller way of life in 1950s England.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Great British Bobby(2010) EMSLEY, CLIVEIn The Great British Bobby, Clive Emsley traces the development of Britain's forces of law and order from the earliest watchmen and constables of the pre-modern period to the police service of today.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Hellfire Clubs(2010) LORD, EVELYNThe Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. This book explores the social and economic context in which the clubs emerged and flourished; their various phases, which first involved violence as an assertion of masculinity, then reliVezava: Mehka28,26 € -
Love And War In The Pyrenees(2009) BAILEY, ROSEMARYA vivid blend of history and travel and a sweeping story of collaboration and resistance, fear and heroism, pacifism and sacrifice all set against the backdrop of the Pyrenees. 'A beguiling mix of travel, memoir, history and good old-fashioned storytellVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Vindolanda(2009) BIRLEY, ROBINA fascinating insight into everyday life on Hadrian's Wall. The translations of the Vindolanda Scrolls ('send fresh socks' etc) are also a treat!Vezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Beach Huts and Bathing Machines(2009) FERRY, KATHRYNBehind the enduring popularity of beach huts lies a story of classic British eccentricity. This work offers a view of the classic British seaside holiday through the history of beach huts and bathing machines, revealing how the changing fashions in societVezava: Mehka13,89 € -
Dancing into Battle(2007) FOULKES, NICHOLASThe social backdrop, vividly described, to one of the greatest battles in European history, Waterloo 1815.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Unfree French(2007) VINEN, RICHARDIn the summer of 1940, the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks all that changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled their homVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Return To Akenfield(2007) TAYLOR, CRAIG'Gentle, subtle, absorbing ... the most complex and supple account of that much-discussed idea, "modern rural life", that I have ever read' Robert Macfarlane, author of Mountains of the Mind and The Wild PlacesVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Somewhere To Lay My Head(2007) DOUGLAS, ROBERTThe next chapter in Robert Douglas's remarkable life story picks up from the bestselling NIGHT SONG OF THE LAST TRAM but can be read on its ownVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Black Britain(2007) GILROY, PAULPeople of African and Caribbean descent have inhabited Great Britain for centuries. Professor Paul Gilroy has assembled a living visual history of their social life in the modern British Isles. Published in association with Getty Images,this volume faeturVezava: Mehka30,88 € -
Celtic Baby Names Book(2007)Divided by sex with Gaelic spellings and name variations, as well as the origins and meanings of names, The Celtic Baby Names Book is a fun, comprehensive guide to Celtic names.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Origins of the Final Solution(2005) BROWNING, CHRISTOPHEROffers an analysis of the descent of the Nazi persecution of the Jews into mass murder. Arguing that genocide was not a preconceived plan, this book explains how the decision to murder the Jews en masse emerged in stages and by a process of elimination thVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Women in England 1760-1914(2005) STEINBACH, PROFESSOR SUSIEA rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World WarVezava: Mehka18,21 €
