Social & Cultural History
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A 1990s Childhood: From Bum Bags to Tamagotchis
Michael A JohnsonCurrent price €12.63Original price €15.99Do you remember getting up on a Saturday morning to watch Going Live? A time when scrunchies and curtains were the height of cool? Playing Sonic th...
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Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Grand Hotels
Adrian MourbyCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Salvador Dalí once asked room service at Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were brought to his room he pulled out a gu...
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Beatles
Hinkler Pty LtdCurrent price €16.47Original price €18.50The Beatles provided the soundtrack for the `Swinging Sixties, wrote and recorded groundbreaking albums, made films and were adored by fans univers...
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In Bed with the Ancient Egyptians
Charlotte BoothCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99In modern-day media, depictions of ancient Egyptian society are of a highly sexualised, lustful culture, but how accurate are these depictions of a...
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Daddy Issues
Katherine AngelCurrent price €10.79Original price €11.99Contemporary feminism has re-embraced thinking about the big ideas - patriarchy, capitalism, care. But contemporary concern about men tends to rela...
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Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811-12
Peter LinebaughCurrent price €10.79Original price €11.99Current price €10.79Original price €11.99Save 10% -
Dublin: A New Illustrated History
John GibneyCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99Approaching 21st-century Dublin by boat, the topography of the sight before you - the hill of Howth, the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains - is much the...
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The Indian Tribes of the United States: Their History, Antiquities, Customs, Religion, Arts, Language, Traditions, Oral Legends, and Myths.; v.2
Henry Rowe 1793-1864 SchoolcraftCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99Current price €27.89Original price €30.99Save 10% -
The Third Horseman: A Story of Weather, War and the Famine History Forgot
William RosenCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99Current price €20.69Original price €22.99Save 10% -
A Force Like No Other 1: The Real Stories of the Ruc Men and Women Who Policed the Troubles
Colin BreenCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99In 1983, Interpol named Northern Ireland the most dangerous place in the world to be a police officer. In 1968, the RUC was catapulted into the T...
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Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World
Aaron Herald SkabelundCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his ret...
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Textiles and Clothing of Vi?t Nam: A History
Michael C. HowardCurrent price €43.49Original price €49.99Vi?t Nam is home to more than 50 ethnic minorities-such as the Cham and Thai-many of which have distinctive clothing and weaving traditions linked ...
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Occupy!: A Short History of Worker''s Occupations
Dave SherryCurrent price €10.79Original price €11.99Current price €10.79Original price €11.99Save 10% -
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
David R CarterCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Current price €19.79Original price €21.99Save 10% -
The Drama of Celebrity
Sharon MarcusCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do we care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? Do celebrities deserve the ou...
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Better is the Proud Plaid: The Clothing, Weapons, and Accoutrements of the Jacobites in the ''45
Jenn ScottCurrent price €20.83Original price €24.50Current price €20.83Original price €24.50Save 15% -
1970s Childhood
Liza HollinghurstCurrent price €12.59Original price €13.99A 1970s childhood was, for many, a life of happy-go-lucky freedom set against a soundtrack of pop music played on a transistor radio dangling from ...
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Pomp and Poverty: A History of Silk in Ireland
Mairead DunlevyCurrent price €62.09Original price €68.99Lustrous, warm, lightweight, strong, silk has always been a symbol of wealth and status, beginning in prehistoric China. In Pomp and Poverty: A His...
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1947: when now begins
Elisabeth AsbrinkCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99A Metro book of the year Interweaving the social, political, and personal, in 1947 Elisabeth Åsbrink chronicles the year that now began. In 1947,...
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Tosafot Yeshanim Completum on Tractate Yebamoth
Menahem Ha-MeiriCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99Current price €20.69Original price €22.99Save 10% -
The Least of These: The Tragic Story of Dublin''s Foundling Hospital
Mark RoeCurrent price €20.94Original price €26.50Lying at the very edge of the eighteenth-century city, behind high walls and forbidding gates, the Dublin Foundling Hospital was long viewed with h...
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A Dance Called America: The Scottish Highlands, the United States and Canada
James HunterCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, the emigration from Skye has occasioned. The vis...
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Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of Terror in the French Revolution
R. R. PalmerCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove t...
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Powhatan Indian Place Names in Tidewater Virginia
Helen C RountreeCurrent price €18.16Original price €22.99Current price €18.16Original price €22.99Save 21% -
Craeft: How Traditional Crafts Are about More than Just Making
Alexander LanglandsCurrent price €24.51Original price €28.50In a period of meaningless mass manufacturing, our growing appetite for hand-made objects, artisan food, and craft beverages reveals our deep cravi...
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Female Fortune: The Anne Lister Diaries, 183336: Land, Gender and Authority: New Edition
Jill LiddingtonCurrent price €23.06Original price €26.50A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister Sally Wainwright, creator of Gentleman JackFemale Fortune is the book which i...
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A World Beneath the Sands: Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology
Toby WilkinsonCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50'It is a story full of drama, with the Nile, the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings as backdrop. That A World Beneath the Sands is also a subtle ...
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Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece
Theodora Suk Fong JimCurrent price €85.49Original price €94.99From the Archaic to the Roman imperial period, an impressive number of gods and goddesses are attested in the Greek world under the titles of Soter...
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Hidden Cities: Urban Space, Geolocated Apps and Public History in Early Modern Europe
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €120.59Original price €133.99This groundbreaking collection explores the convergence of the spatial and digital turns through a suite of smartphone apps (Hidden Cities) that pr...
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Tide Rips and Back Eddies: Bill Proctor''s Tales of Blackfish Sound
Bill ProctorCurrent price €15.00Original price €18.99Current price €15.00Original price €18.99Save 21% -
Thailand''s Movie Theatres: Relics, Ruins and The Romance of Escape
Philip JablonCurrent price €20.43Original price €27.99In the 1950s and 1960s, movie theatres across Thailand were important architectural statements and centres of social and cultural life. At a time w...
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Black and British: A Forgotten History
David OlusogaCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99''[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.'' Kwas...
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Inspector Minahan Makes a Stand: The Missing Girls of England
Bridget O'DonnellCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen. Unwitting girls were regularly enticed, tricked and sold into prostitution. If not marke...
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Victorian Women, Unwed Mothers and the London Foundling Hospital
Dr Jessica A. Sheetz-NguyenCurrent price €138.59Original price €153.99This title covers sex, gender, charity and class in Victorian Britain. This volume seeks to address the questions of poverty, charity, and public w...
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Some Sunny Day: A Nurse. A Soldier. A Wartime Love Story.
Madge LambertCurrent price €11.61Original price €13.99A moving true story of love on the front lines.It was July 1944 when Madge stepped onto a troopship that was to carry her thousands of miles away f...
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Ilegal: Reflexiones de un inmigrante indocumentado
Jose Angel N.Current price €18.25Original price €21.99Por fin disponible en español, Ilegal es el aclamado libro de memorias de José Ángel N., un inmigrante indocumentado que se construyó una vida nuev...
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1927 and the Rise of Modern America
Charles J. ShindoCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99When Charles Lindbergh landed at LeBourget Airfield on May 21, 1927, his transatlantic flight symbolized the new era-not only in aviation but also ...
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The American South: A Very Short Introduction
Charles Reagan WilsonCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history, and has significance beyond its regional context in the twenty first century. Th...
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Albert Hall: The Heart of Canberra
Lenore ColtheartCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99The fascinating history of a much-loved Canberra landmark.Joan Sutherlands debut, the notorious Petrov Commission, a rumoured ghost and rowdy publi...
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Sydney Cemeteries: A field guide
Lisa MurrayCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99The ultimate handbook to Sydneys cemeteries.Cemeteries are not simply places for the dead they are designed for the living. Visiting cemeteriesto ...
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Violence: A Very Short Introduction
Philip DwyerCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Violence is part and parcel of human history and of human nature. It is one of our most...
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The Angels'' Voice: A Magazine for Young Men in Brixton, London, 1910-1913
Alan ArgentCurrent price €66.59Original price €73.99Edition of young men's magazines from just before the First World War, presenting a vivid and touching picture of life at the time. The Angels' Vo...
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The Antisocial Network
Ben MezrichCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50*Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* ...
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Feminisms: A Global History
Lucy DelapCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism?Feminism is the ongoing story of a ...
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