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The Mystery of the Coventry Cappers | |||
| History | ||||
| Peter King | ||||
| Continuum 2001 172 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0826454577 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Sale Price £14.99 | |||
| The Company and Fellowship of Cappers and Feltmakers is one of the few remaining merchant or craft gilds which can trace its origins back to the Middle Ages. In this study, Peter King tells the full story of the Cappers, from the gild's origins to the present day, and in exploring how the Cappers fitted into the local community, he illuminates many aspects of social and economic life in the medieval and early modern periods - from the role of women in the local economy to civic rituals such as mystery plays and pageants. | ||||
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Crescent between Cross and Star | |||
| Muslims and the West after 9/11 | History | |||
| Iftikhar H Malik | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2006 374 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0195472861 | ||||
| Published Price £11.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| Against a backdrop of intense Islamophobia and neo-conservatism following the tragic events of 9/11 and 7/7, military invasions of Muslim countries and restrictive legislation on immigration and civil liberties have seriously affected inter-community relationships. This volume explores the historical roots of Western views on Islam, then focuses on recent scholarship and polemics which have spawned anti- Muslim sentiments, and discusses issues such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine, Muslim secularism and the politics of gender. | ||||
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Rail, Steam and Speed | |||
| The 'Rocket' and the Birth of Steam Locomotion | History | |||
| Christopher McGowan | ||||
| Columbia University Press 2004 382 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0231134746 | ||||
| Published Price $36.00 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| One of the most dramatic set-pieces of the Industrial Revolution, the Rainhill locomotive trials took place near Liverpool in October 1829. In front of 10,000 spectators, five hopeful engineers put their new creations on show, including Stephenson with his Rocket, Harworth's Sans Pareil, and Braithwaite and Ericson's Novelty. Christopher McGowan's thrilling account of the steam, noise and excitement of this momentous event is coupled with clear explanations of how these early locomotives actually worked. Also for sale in Postscript as "Rainhill Trials". | ||||
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Pictorial Victorians | |||
| The Inscription of Values in Wood and Image | History | |||
| Julia Thomas | ||||
| Ohio University Press 2004 206 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0821415913 | ||||
| Published Price £43.50 | Sale Price £7.99 | |||
| Focusing on two of the most popular Victorian genres - illustration and narrative painting - both of which blur the line between the visual and the textual, Julia Thomas reassesses mid 19th century values in the light of this interplay. She surveys materials ranging from Punch cartoons about the crinoline to William Holman Hunt's The Awakening Conscience, and demonstrates how the space between text and image is one in which values are both constructed and challenged. | ||||
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Free at Last | |||
| A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom and Civil War | History | |||
| Ira Berlin; Barbara J Fields; (Edited by) | ||||
| New Press 2007 571 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1565841204 | ||||
| Published Price £13.99 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| In 1864 Annie Davis of Baltimore wrote to Abraham Lincoln with an urgent question: 'you will please let me know if we are free. and what i can do. I write to you for advice. please send me word this week.' Her letter is typical of the documents in this fascinating collection of sources illuminating the struggle for emancipation in the words of the participants themselves - black and white, slave and free. Off-mint with felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge. | ||||
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Oxford Goldsmiths Before 1800 | |||
| History | ||||
| Ann Natalie Hansen | ||||
| At the Sign of the Cock 1996 164 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0961349131 | ||||
| Published Price £35.00 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| This is the first study of goldsmiths who were apprenticed and/or worked in the City of Oxford, between the end of the 12th century and 1800. Prior to this study probably fewer than a dozen such craftsmen were known: Hansen presents biographies and details of the careers of almost 30 goldsmiths, from Thomas Gower (fl.1565) - the first about whom there is any firm information - to William Jones, son of the fishmonger to Oxford University, who was enrolled as an apprentice goldsmith in 1763. Off-mint. | ||||
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Home Entertainment | |||
| History | ||||
| Rodney Dale; Rebecca Weaver | ||||
| British Library 1993 64 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0712303014 | ||||
| Published Price £4.95 | Sale Price £1.99 | |||
| How did the scientific and technological advances of the 19th century affect leisure activities in the home? Drawing on sources such as contemporary newspapers and advertisements, this book explores how developments such as domestic electricity changed even simple pastimes and presents an illustrated survey of machines, gadgets and toys ranging from 1870s magic lanterns to a 1933 build-it-yourself 'Tele-Discovisor' and Hornby's first 'Mechanics Made Easy' set. | ||||
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The Atlantic Telegraph | |||
| History | ||||
| WH Russell | ||||
| Nonsuch 2005 128 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1845880749 | ||||
| Published Price £16.00 | Sale Price £7.99 | |||
| After several attempts, on 27 July 1866 the great transatlantic telegraph cable was hauled ashore at Heart's Content, Newfoundland. The 1,686 nautical mile cable that was to revolutionize communications between Europe and America was brought across the Atlantic by Brunel's Great Eastern. The journalist William Howard Russell was on board the Great Eastern during the 1865 attempt to lay the cable, recording how this remarkable feat of engineering was achieved. This edition adds a postscript to Russell's account, outlining the events of the following year. | ||||
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Edge of Empire | |||
| Lives, Culture and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 | History | |||
| Maya Jasanoff | ||||
| Knopf 2005 406 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1400041678 | ||||
| Published Price $27.95 | Sale Price £5.99 | |||
| The Mughal emperor's letters in an archive in the French Alps, the names of Italian adventurers scratched on the walls of Egyptian temples, Tipu's Tiger... In this imaginative study, Maya Jasanoff delves into the stories behind 'scattered testaments' such as these to uncover the lives of the collectors - people who lived in India and Egypt, on the frontiers of the British empire during a pivotal century in its formation. American-cut pages. | ||||
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My Darling Heriott | |||
| Henrietta Luxborough, Poetic Gardener and Irrepressible Exile | History | |||
| Jane Brown | ||||
| HarperCollins 2006 264 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0007235704 | ||||
| Published Price £10.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| The well-known horticultural historian Jane Brown presents the life story of the irrepressible Henrietta St John (1699-1756), later Lady Luxborough, a headstrong woman of letters at the heart of Hogarthian London who numbered Pope, Swift and Johnson among her immediate circle. But banished by her husband to Warwickshire, Henrietta turned her limitless energy and romantic sensibilities to garden and landscape design, and this is the sphere in which her considerable talents are still fondly remembered. | ||||
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Pirates of the British Isles | |||
| Sea Robbers and the War against Piracy | History | |||
| Joel Baer | ||||
| Tempus 2005 256 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0752423045 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| The history of piracy is as old as maritime trade, but if this crime had a 'golden age' it was between 1660 and 1730. Focusing on these years, this book examines the development of semi-legal privateering into no-holds-barred buccaneering, through the lives of six freebooters. From Henry Morgan who became Governor of Jamaica, to Bartholomew Roberts - killed in action against HMS Swallow - it details the exuberant, murderous lives, crimes and fates of Britain's most notorious pirates. | ||||
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A Countryman's Year | |||
| History | ||||
| Alan C Jenkins | ||||
| Selectabook 1980 208 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1844060101 | ||||
| Published Price £12.95 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| Alan Jenkins presents an engrossing 'personal pastiche' of things encountered, seen or heard in the English countryside over the course of a year. From cattle cavorting around the trailer bringing bales of summer-scented hay in January, to birds feasting on a dead sheep in December, Jenkins keeps a naturalist's eye on flora and fauna and describes the farmer's changing work through the seasons and country activities such as hedging, hunting and falconry. Illustrated with archive and modern photographs and paintings by Peter Barrett. | ||||
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Mistresses | |||
| True Stories of Seduction, Power and Ambition | History | |||
| Leigh Eduardo | ||||
| Michael O'Mara 2005 308 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1843171414 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| From the ruthlessly ambitious, deceitful and sexually rapacious Barbara Villiers, whose conquests included Charles II as well as an archbishop, to Marion Davies, the generous and loyal companion of William Randolph Hearst, who was treacherously defamed by Orson Welles in Citizen Kane, the biographies in this book explore the lives of eight very different women whose reputations rest on their sexual adventures. The other ladies are: Madame de Montespan, Emma Hamilton, George Sand, Lola Montez, Eva Braun and La Belle Otero. Off-mint. | ||||
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The Voice of Toil | |||
| Nineteenth-Century British Writings about Work | History | |||
| David J Bradshaw; Suzanne Ozment (Edited by) | ||||
| Ohio University Press 2000 794 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0821412922 | ||||
| Published Price £38.50 | Sale Price £14.99 | |||
| This substantial anthology brings together writings, including poems, stories, essays and a play, that reflect four prominent ways in which the subject of work was addressed in the 19th century: work as mission, as opportunity and as oppression, and the separate spheres of work. The selection draws on a veritable who's who of 19th century social commentators, with over 60 pieces by writers as diverse as William Blake, Elizabeth Gaskell, Friedrich Engels, Tennyson and George Bernard Shaw. With introductions to each author and notes. | ||||
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The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History | |||
| Immigrants, Women and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle | History | |||
| Margaret S Creighton | ||||
| Basic 2005 321 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0465014569 | ||||
| Published Price $26.00 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| In 1863, as Union and Confederate armies marched on southern Pennsylvania, the town of Gettysburg found itself on centre stage: the ensuing three days of fighting became a decisive turning point in the Civil War. Creighton narrates the story of this crucial battle from the viewpoint of three unsung groups: African Americans, women and immigrants. She examines what was at stake for these 'outsiders', the impact that war had on their lives, and why their experiences became peripheral to the conventional history of Gettysburg. | ||||
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