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William Wilberforce(2007) BELMONTE, KEVINHere is the true story of how British statesman and reformer William Wilberforce overcame great obstacles to help end the slave trade in England two centuries ago. The movie Amazing Grace brings this story to life, and this book is the inspiring, definitiVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750–1820(2010) HAMILTON, DOUGLASThis is the first book-length study wholly devoted to assessing the array of ties between Scotland and the Caribbean that bound the Atlantic World together in the later eighteenth century. -- .Vezava: Mehka35,63 € -
Fair World(2024) GREENHALGH, PAULThe great World's Fairs and Expositions staged around the world since the mid-nineteenth century were among the largest and most dramatic cultural events ever staged. Fair World tells the story of these extraordinary exhibitions from the Victorian periodVezava: Trda56,87 € -
After Such Knowledge(2005) HOFFMAN, EVAAs she guides us through the poignant juncture at which living memory must be relinquished, she asks what insights can be carried from the past, and urges the need to transform potent family stories into a fully-informed understanding of a forbidding histVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Bankside(2013) BRANDON, DAVID,BROOKE, ALANThe story of historic district on the south bank of the Thames and beyond - the original playground of Londoners, complete with inns, bear pits, brothels and theatres.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Witch Craze(2006) ROPER, LYNDALIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, thousands of women confessed to being witches and were put to death. This book presents an account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches, particularly in Germany, as well as a deeper expVezava: Mehka41,82 € -
Grinling Gibbons and the English Woodcarving Tradition(1998) OUGHTON, FREDERICKVezava: Mehka42,06 € -
1950s Scrapbook(2020) OPIE, ROBERTIllustrates an extraordinary period of British history covering everything from rationing to rock and roll.Vezava: Trda23,09 € -
1970s Scrapbook(2020) OPIE, ROBERTFull of pop, punk and personalities, The 1970s Scrapbook sways through this energetic era on platform shoes to the beat of glamrock and disco mania.Vezava: Trda23,09 € -
Six Records of a Life Adrift(2011) SHEN FUA memoir of a life in the Qing dynasty. It reveals a sensitive and artistic man, who failed at the civil service examinations that were the gateway to official employment and had to settle for becoming an itinerant private secretary, dabbling unsuccessfulVezava: Mehka26,60 € -
And God Created Cricket(2010) HUGHES, SIMONCricket defines Englishness like no other national pastime. This title presents the story of the mad characters who inhabit the game, the extraordinary lengths people go to watch and play it, and the tale of a national obsession.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Keeping Christmas Well(2011) D'ECCA, ARTEMESIA"...a very attractive seasonable title..." --Books Ireland. A lavishly illustrated book with everything you need to know about Christmas: over 700 illustrations--25 in colour--from the first century to the twenty-first century.Vezava: Trda26,62 € -
Pain and Retribution(2014) WILSON, DAVIDPain and Retribution is the first single volume book to explore the fascinating history of British prisons, through their successes and failures, from the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day.Vezava: Trda42,06 € -
Slave(2007) NAZER, MENDE,LEWIS, DAMIENThe extraordinary story of a young Sudanese girl who was kidnapped and sold into slavery and how she finally escaped to freedom.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Salt(2003) KURLANSKY, MARKWars have been fought over salt and, while salt taxes secured empires across Europe and Asia, they have also inspired revolution - Gandhi's salt march in 1930 began the overthrow of British rule in India.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
