Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon: Music, Literature, Liberalism
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The daughter of one of Britain's longest-serving Prime Ministers, Mary Gladstone was a notable...
Psychedelia and Other Colours
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A Guardian, Mojo and Rough Trade Book of the Year. Fifty years on from the psychedelic summer of...
The Cambridge Companion to the Musical
Paul R. Laird and William A. Everett
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The expanded and updated third edition of this acclaimed Companion provides an accessible, broadly...
Survivor of the Long March: Five Years as a POW, 1940-1945
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Nothing prepares a man for war and Private Charles Waite, of the Queen's Royal Regiment, was...
Tasting the Past: Recipes from the Stone Age to Present
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The many influences of the past on our diet today make the concept of 'British food' very hard to...
The Iron Age Round-house: Later Prehistoric Building in Britain and Beyond
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In contrast to Continental Europe, where the Iron Age is abundantly represented by funerary remains...
The Margaret Thatcher Book of Quotations
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When Margaret Thatcher speaks, the whole world listens. Her political career has spanned five...
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Bible Lands
Caroline Hull, Brian Capper, Andrew Jotischky and Simon Hall
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Taking in such important themes as the powerful early city-states that dominated the plains, the...
The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic
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On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military...
Victorians and Sport
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Many of the sports that have spread across the world, from athletics and boxing to golf and tennis,...
