Social & Cultural History
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Across the Sound of Sleat: Recollections
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East
Kim GhattasCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50'Blistering' Sunday Times'Indispensable' Observer'Fascinating' The Times'Brilliant' Peter Frankopan'Revelatory' Lindsey HilsumA timely and unpreced...
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William Blake vs the World
John HiggsCurrent price €20.83Original price €24.50Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem ''Jerusalem'', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. Hi...
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Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line
Theresa RunstedtlerCurrent price €23.60Original price €29.50In his day, Jack Johnson - born in Texas, the son of former slaves - was the most famous black man on the planet. As the first African American Wor...
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100 Years In America: A History of a Jewish family a century after Immigration
Mark Weiss ShulkinCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Current price €18.69Original price €21.99Save 15% -
Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State
Jordan T. CampCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50The United States currently has the largest prison population on the planet. Over the last four decades, structural unemployment, concentrated urba...
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Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media
Jacob MchangamaCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today.Hailed as the first freedom, free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a ...
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The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume VII: To Save the Soul of America, January 1961-August 1962
Jr.Current price €64.73Original price €71.92Preserving the legacy of one of the twentieth century''s most influential advocates for peace and justice, The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., i...
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Basingstoke Workhouse: And Poor Law Union
Barbara LargeCurrent price €12.57Original price €16.99This absorbing book explores all aspects of life in that feared institution, the workhouse. From the staff who lived and worked there to the poor s...
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Transactions of the Burgon Society: Volume 14
The Burgon SocietyCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Current price €15.73Original price €18.50Save 15% -
Odhams: Reading Matter for a Society on a Journey
Colin BearneCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Current price €17.99Original price €19.99Save 10% -
Mountain Maidu and Pioneers: A History of Indian Valley, Plumas County, California, 1850 - 1920
Patricia KurtzCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Current price €14.39Original price €15.99Save 10% -
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks
Royal Irish AcademyCurrent price €30.44Original price €34.99100 artworks have been chosen for this beautifully illustrated book to represent each year from 1916-2015. They trace the story of Irelands creativ...
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Queer Wales: The History, Culture and Politics of Queer Life in Wales
University of Wales PressCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99The relationship between nation and queer sexuality has long been a fraught one, for the sustaining myths of the former are often at odds with the ...
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The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s
Denis KozlovCurrent price €34.43Original price €40.50The period from Stalin''s death in 1953 to the end of the 1960s marked a crucial epoch in Soviet history. Though not overtly revolutionary, this er...
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Billy Jack: His Life, His Story, His Way
William H JacksonCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99Current price €17.09Original price €18.99Save 10% -
Creme De La Creme: Girls'' Schools of Edinburgh
Alasdair RobertsCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Current price €15.29Original price €16.99Save 10% -
Scottish Life and Society Volume 1: An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology
John Donald Publishers LtdCurrent price €63.24Original price €74.40The publication of ''''An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology'''' sees the completion of the fourteen-volume Scottish Life and Society series, origi...
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Scottish Life and Society Volume 1: An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology
John Donald Publishers LtdCurrent price €25.49Original price €29.99The publication of ''''An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology'''' sees the completion of the fourteen-volume Scottish Life and Society series, origi...
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Assault on a Culture: The Anishinaabeg of the Great Lakes and the Dynamics of Change
Charles E AdamsCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Current price €16.65Original price €18.50Save 10% -
Gendering Commitment: Re-thinking Social and Ethical Engagement in Modern Italian Culture
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €43.78Original price €51.50Notions of engagement, commitment and impegno continue to provoke debate amongst academics researching contemporary Italian culture, and yet - be i...
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The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 6, 18301914
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The years 18301914 witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of books as great as that in the fifteenth century. Using new technology in pr...
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The Barbizon: The New York Hotel That Set Women Free
Paulina BrenCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50''Captivating ... a brilliant many-layered social history of women''s ambition and a rapidly changing New York'' Observer''Fascinating'' Daily Mail...
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Sex and Sexuality in Georgian Britain
Mike RendellCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Peek beneath the bedsheets of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and se...
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The House on Union Hill: The Story of Truro Union Workhouse
Lin EudenCurrent price €11.83Original price €15.99Current price €11.83Original price €15.99Save 26% -
Hidden Aberdeenshire: The Coast
Dr Fiona Jane BrownCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Following on from Hidden Aberdeenshire: The Coast, this new volume moves inland to tell the stories of the countryside, from the fertile farmland o...
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Queen of Sheba: A Captivating Guide to a Mysterious Queen Mentioned in the Bible and Her Relationship with King Solomon
Captivating HistoryCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Current price €23.39Original price €25.99Save 10% -
The United States of Beer: A Freewheeling History of the All-American Drink
Dane HuckelbridgeCurrent price €18.03Original price €21.99From the author of the definitive history of bourbon (Sacramento Bee) comes the epic true tale of how beer conquered America, from B.C. to Budwei...
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The Fatimid Caliphate: Diversity of Traditions
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99The Fatimids ruled much of the Mediterranean world for over two centuries. From the conquest of Qayrawan in 909 to defeat at the hands of Saladin i...
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Life in a Medieval Castle
Frances GiesCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention...Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City,...
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The NHS at 70: A Living History
Ellen WelchCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50At midnight on 5th July 1948, the National Health Service was born with the founding principal to be free at the point of use and based on clinical...
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A History of the Royal Hospital Chelsea 1682-2017: The Warriors'' Repose
Stephen WynnCurrent price €28.60Original price €32.50A History of the Royal Hospital Chelsea looks at the hospital's beginnings, with its Royal patronage and heritage which dates back to King Charles ...
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Gardens for Gloriana: Wealth, Splendour and Design in Elizabethan Gardens
Jane WhitakerCurrent price €44.36Original price €50.99The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age. Complementing the great houses of the day, they reflected the aspira...
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Georgian Recipes and Remedies: A Country Lady''s Household Handbook
Michael J. RochfordCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Discover the recipes for Mrs Rooke's Very Good Plum Cake and Lady Harbord's Marigold Cheese. Learn how to preserve gooseberries as green as they g...
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Madness, Murder and Mayhem: Criminal Insanity in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Burt JohnCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Following an assassination attempt on George III in 1800, new legislation significantly altered the way the criminally insane were treated by the j...
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Convicts in the Colonies: Transportation Tales from Britain to Australia
Lucy WilliamsCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sen...
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Women''s Suffrage in Wales
LisaCurrent price €15.79Original price €19.99Women's Suffrage In Wales allows its readers to take a glimpse at the lives of the many ordinary Welsh women who contributed in some way to the suf...
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The Gunpowder Plot Deceit
Beardsley Martyn RCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Most people think they know the story of the Gunpowder Plot, and of how a bloody catastrophe was averted at the eleventh hour when Guy Fawkes was c...
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Ladies of Magna Carta: Women of Influence in Thirteenth Century England
Sharon Bennett ConnollyCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Magna Carta clause 39: No man shall be taken, imprisoned, outlawed, banished or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him,...
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The Violent Abuse of Women in 17th and 18th Century Britain
Geoffrey PimmCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Although the worlds of science and philosophy took giant strides away from the medieval view of the world, attitudes to women did not change from t...
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Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II: Downfall of a King''s Favourite
Kathryn WarnerCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II tells the story of the greatest villain of the fourteenth century', his dazzling rise as favourite to the...
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Merseyside at War 1939-45
Mike RoydenCurrent price €15.79Original price €19.99Merseyside played a unique role during the Second World War, which directly led to the area being a major enemy target in an attempt to put the por...
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The Women Who Inspired London Art: The Avico Sisters and Other Models of the Early 20th Century
Lucy M. PetersonCurrent price €26.09Original price €29.99This is the story of women caught up in the tumultuous art scene of the early twentieth century, some famous and others lost to time. By 1910 th...
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Men of Substance: The London Livery Companies'''' Reluctant Part in the Plantation of Ulster
Robert StedallCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Is it realised that Londonderry with its impregnable fortifications was built by the London Livery Companies? Is it known that a second Spanish Arm...
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Pardons and Punishments: Judges'' Reports on Criminals: Part 4: 1800-1805 (HO 47/25-37)
List and Index SocietyCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Current price €29.25Original price €32.50Save 10%