The Beginnings of the Cinema in England,1894-1901: 1894-1896: Volume 1
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Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes...
Seppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide
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This book charts the history of ritual samurai suicide from ancient times until the 20th century...
The Elizabethan Garden at Kenilworth Castle
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The garden created by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, at Kenilworth Castle in the early 1570s was...
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture
Martin Gayford, Tom Barringer, Edith Devaney and Margaret Drabble
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David Hockney (b. 1937) has always been closely associated with Pop Art and California, where he has...
A Woman in Berlin
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Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life...
Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned Queen
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In 1562, Elizabeth I, the last of Henry VIII's children, lay dying of smallpox, and the curse of the...
The Rural War: Captain Swing and the Politics of Protest
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Beginning in Kent in the summer of 1830 before spreading throughout the country, the Swing Riots...
Early Language Learning: Complexity and Mixed Methods
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This is the first collection of research studies to explore the potential for mixed methods to shed...
Coleridge and Kantian Ideas in England, 1796-1817: Coleridge's Responses to German Philosophy
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Author of Biographia Literaria (1817) and The Friend (1809-10, 1812 and 1818), Samuel Taylor...
Plain Words
Rebecca Gowers and Ernest Gowers
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'Be short, be simple, be human.' When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended...