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ISBN: 9780199532070 - Mother Leakey and the Bishop A Ghost Story Mother Leakey and the Bishop A Ghost Story
PETER, MARSHALL

ISBN10: 9780191534331  ISBN13: 9780191534331
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
In this remarkable piece of historical detective work, Peter Marshall sets out to discover the intriguing links between sightings of the ghost of an old woman in the small English coastal town of Minehead in the 1630s and the hanging of a... More

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ISBN: 9780195393132 - Nation of Outsiders How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America Nation of Outsiders How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America
ELIZABET, HALE GRACE

ISBN10: 9780199792382  ISBN13: 9780199792382
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
A broad cultural history of the postwar US, this book traces how middle-class white Americans increasingly embraced figures they understood as outsiders and used them to re-imagine their own cultural position as marginal and alienated. More

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ISBN: 9780141029368 - Ghost Map Ghost Map
Johnson, Steven

ISBN10: 9780141915777  ISBN13: 9780141915777
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
In Ghost Map Steven Johnson tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes anaesthetist Doctor John Snow and affable clergyman Reverend Henry Whitehead who defeated the disease... More

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ISBN: 9780571288342 - Jewish People Jewish People
Goldberg, David J ; Rayner, John D

ISBN10: 9780571288359  ISBN13: 9780571288359
Publisher: Faber and Faber Faber Finds
Format: Electronic Book
This handsomely produced and interestingly illustrated volume is two works in one. The first part offers a survey of Jewish history and literature. The second part presents what the preface describes as 'a thematic analysis of the teachings and... More

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ISBN: 9780752455679 - Amber, Gold and Black Amber, Gold and Black
Cornell, Martyn

ISBN10: 9780752475943  ISBN13: 9780752475943
Publisher: The History Press
Format: Electronic Book
Amber, Gold and Black is the most comprehensive history of British beer in all its variety ever written. Learn all there is to know about the history of the beers Britons have brewed and enjoyed down the centuries: Bitter, Porter, Mild and Stout... More

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ISBN: 9780752458571 - We Will Not Go to War We Will Not Go to War
Goodall, Felicity

ISBN10: 9780752476445  ISBN13: 9780752476445
Publisher: The History Press
Format: Electronic Book
During the First and Second World Wars thousands of men and women followed the promptings of their conscience and refused the call to arms. Reviled, starved and beaten, theirs was a battle of conscience. They came from all classes and backgrounds. More

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ISBN: 9780141028972 - Taste of War Taste of War
Collingham, Lizzie

ISBN10: 9780718193775  ISBN13: 9780718193775
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of the Second World War. In this richly detailed and engaging history, Lizzie Collingham establishes how control of food and its production is crucial to total war. More

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ISBN: 9780141029719 - Bluestockings Bluestockings
Robinson, Jane

ISBN10: 9780141961095  ISBN13: 9780141961095
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a mans. Doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs would wither and die. More

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ISBN: 9780670917785 - Millions Like Us Millions Like Us
Nicholson, Virginia

ISBN10: 9780141969749  ISBN13: 9780141969749
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
In 1942 Cora Johnston is grieving over the death of her young husband, torpedoed in the Atlantic; Aileen Morris is intercepting Luftwaffe communications during the siege of Malta - and Clara Milburn, whose son was captured after Dunkirk... More

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ISBN: 9780415990059 - Women, Education, and Agency, 1600-2000 Women, Education, and Agency, 1600-2000
Spence, Jean; Aiston, Sarah; Meikle, Maureen M

ISBN10: 9780203882610  ISBN13: 9780203882610
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
This collection of essays brings together an international roster of contributors to provide historical insight into women's agency and activism in education throughout from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Topics discussed range... More