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The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed
ISBN: 9780007131891 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women.
The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women.
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When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible
ISBN: 9780007431007 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an account of the making of the King James Bible. Far more than Shakespeare, this Bible helped to create and shape the language. It is the origin of many of our most familiar phrases, and the foundations of the English-speaking world.
This is an account of the making of the King James Bible. Far more than Shakespeare, this Bible helped to create and shape the language. It is the ori...
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The Sweethearts : Tales of Love, Laughter and Hardship from the Yorkshire Rowntree's Girls
ISBN: 9780007508495 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire
Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire
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77,03 |
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Shapely Ankle Preferr'd : A History of the Lonely Hearts Advertisement
ISBN: 9780099513346 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every week thousands of people advertise for love either in newspapers, magazines or online. But if you think this is a modern phenomenon, think again - the ads have been running for over three hundred years. This title presents a history of sex, marriage and society over three centuries.
Every week thousands of people advertise for love either in newspapers, magazines or online. But if you think this is a modern phenomenon, think again...
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Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England
ISBN: 9780099541868 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 12 separate stories of contested lunacy cases, ranging from the 1820s to the 1890s, reveal the various types of persons who came under threat of incarceration, the support that their plight aroused in the public mind and the newspapers, and doctors' shifting arguments about what constituted insanity.
12 separate stories of contested lunacy cases, ranging from the 1820s to the 1890s, reveal the various types of persons who came under threat of incar...
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75,44 |
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An Island in Time: The Biography of a Village
ISBN: 9780099546863 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fascinating account from a highly acclaimed writerof the life and charming inhabitants of a typical countryside village, and how it must adapt and change in order to survive in the modern worldThe countryside is in crisis. The shops are closing down in the villages, there is no school for miles around and, when they grow up, the few remaining children will escape to a less arduous life in the city. The village as we have known it for centuries must adapt to survive, but what will be lost in the process? In this book Geert Mak returns to the smallNetherlands village of his childhood, Jorwerd...
A fascinating account from a highly acclaimed writerof the life and charming inhabitants of a typical countryside village, and how it must adapt and c...
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87,59 |
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Cheek by Jowl : A History of Neighbours
ISBN: 9780099546948 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this fascinating social history, Emily Cockayne traces the story of the British neighbour through nine centuries - spanning medieval, Tudor and Victorian periods, two World Wars and up to today's modern, virtual world.
In this fascinating social history, Emily Cockayne traces the story of the British neighbour through nine centuries - spanning medieval, Tudor and Vic...
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82,44 |
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Three Houses, Many Lives
ISBN: 9780099547037 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of place in the hands of a master in the evocation of time and social change. In this text, the houses - a Cotswold vicarage, a one-time girls' boarding school in Surrey and a Jacobean house now buried in inner London - represent the changing face of England during 4 centuries through the many people who have lived in them.
The history of place in the hands of a master in the evocation of time and social change. In this text, the houses - a Cotswold vicarage, a one-time g...
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87,59 |
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Brief Lives
ISBN: 9780099550259 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the course of a long career as a journalist, Paul Johnson has known popes, presidents and prime ministers. Harking back to the 17th-century book by John Aubrey on the celebrities of his time, 'Brief Lives' details Paul's experiences of the people who have contributed to our political, spiritual and cultural life.
In the course of a long career as a journalist, Paul Johnson has known popes, presidents and prime ministers. Harking back to the 17th-century book by...
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The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton
ISBN: 9780099556480 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton' is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for the rights of women everywhere.
'The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton' is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for the rights of women everywhere.
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London: A Social History
ISBN: 9780140105933 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book... Porter's facts are always at the service of the narrative, which has a finely maintained momentum, balancing statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, Spark, ... a timely and brilliant book.' CLAIRE TOMALIN, EVENING STANDARD 'A vivid celebration of the city, but also an elegy for its decline, bubbling with statistics and anecdote, from Boadicea to...
'Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book... Porter's facts are...
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The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800
ISBN: 9780140137217 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the period 1500-1800, there were massive changes in world social and cultural systems, and the family unit as we recognize it today came into being. The emphasis on the individual, the right to personal freedoms and the desire for privacy developed during this period and were symptomatic of world wide shifts in attitude that also affected religion and politics.
During the period 1500-1800, there were massive changes in world social and cultural systems, and the family unit as we recognize it today came into b...
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Our Street : East End Life in the Second World War
ISBN: 9780141000466 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A companion volume to O'Neill's previous work, 'My East End', this book focuses exclusively on the oral testimony of East Londoners as they tell their own funny, sad, hopeful and sometimes shocking stories of what it was like to live in our street.
A companion volume to O'Neill's previous work, 'My East End', this book focuses exclusively on the oral testimony of East Londoners as they tell their...
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A House Unlocked
ISBN: 9780141001647 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Penelope Lively has turned her considerable literary talent to non-fiction with A House Unlocked, a meandering collection of memories inspired by Golsoncott, the Somerset country home occupied by her family for the greater part of the last century. By walking around the rooms of the house (in her mind) and looking at fondly remembered objects and furniture, she recalls the events, customs and people that together paint a slowly shifting picture of English country life in the 20th century. It is at once personal and social - a diary of the house and its occupants, and a memoir of the...
Penelope Lively has turned her considerable literary talent to non-fiction with A House Unlocked, a meandering collection of memories inspired by Gols...
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The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food
ISBN: 9780141028972 / Angielski / Miękka / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shows how food - and its lack - was central to the war's causes and continuation. This title explores how starvation was often a deliberate governmental policy, and reveals how the necessity of feeding whole countries leads to Pearl Harbour, Germany's invasion of Russia, and the Holocaust itself.
Shows how food - and its lack - was central to the war's causes and continuation. This title explores how starvation was often a deliberate government...
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The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.
ISBN: 9780141029368 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes - anesthetist Doctor John Snow and affable clergyman Reverend Henry Whitehead - who defeated the disease through a combination of local knowledge, scientific research and map-making.
Tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes - anesthetist Doctor John Snow and affabl...
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Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education
ISBN: 9780141029719 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robinson presents the eye-opening and inspiring story of the first young women who overcame all the odds to get their education and attend university. Using the words of the women themselves, 'Bluestockings' charts the fight for and expansion of higher education for women from 1869 through to the 1930s.
Robinson presents the eye-opening and inspiring story of the first young women who overcame all the odds to get their education and attend university....
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103,06 |
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State of Emergency: Britain, 1970-1974
ISBN: 9780141032153 / Angielski / Miękka / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this history, Dominic Sandbrook recreates the gaudy atmosphere of the early 1970s: the world of Enoch Powell & Tony Benn, David Bowie & Brian Clough, Germaine Greer & Mary Whitehouse. An age when the unions were on the march & the socialist revolution seemed at hand.
In this history, Dominic Sandbrook recreates the gaudy atmosphere of the early 1970s: the world of Enoch Powell & Tony Benn, David Bowie & Brian Cloug...
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The Secret Rooms: A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death
ISBN: 9780141035673 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Plotting Duchess, a Mysterious Death and a Castle Full of Intrigue in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying on a makeshift bed in a dank cramped suite of rooms in the servants' quarters of his own home, Belvoir Castle, in Leicestershire. For weeks, as his health deteriorated, his family, his servants - even the King's doctor - pleaded with him to come out, but he refused. After his death, his son and heir, Charles, the 10th Duke of Rutland, ordered that the rooms...
A Plotting Duchess, a Mysterious Death and a Castle Full of Intrigue in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duk...
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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
ISBN: 9780141049083 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A heady and original exploration of how the implements we use in the kitchen shape the way we cook.
A heady and original exploration of how the implements we use in the kitchen shape the way we cook.
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