Social & Cultural History
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London''s Disasters: From Boudicca to the Banking Crisis
John WithingtonCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99From AD 61, when Queen Boudicca outraged at her treatment at the hands of the Romans marched on the city and burned it to the ground, London has ...
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The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home
Natalie LivingstoneCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50'It covers three centuries of high living, high politics and high drama [...] it is so fascinating' MEL SYKES_____________________________A Sunday ...
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The Motherland Calls: Britain''s Black Servicemen and Women 1939-45
Stephen BourneCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50During the Second World War, black volunteers from across the British Empire enthusiastically joined the armed forces and played their part in figh...
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Blood in the Fields: Ten Years Inside California''s Nuestra Familia Gang
Julia ReynoldsCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99The city of Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece, East of Eden, but it is also the hom...
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Histories for the Many: The Victorian Family Magazine and Popular Representations of the Past: The Leisure Hour, 1852-1870
Doris LechnerCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Histories for the Many examines the contribution of illustrated family magazines to Victorian historical culture. How, by whom, for whom and with w...
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A 1980s Childhood: From He-Man to Shell Suits
Michael A JohnsonCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Do you remember trying to solve the Rubiks cube whilst dressed in your He-Man picture pyjamas?Did you try to make cool sound effects with your mout...
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The Medieval Christmas
Sophie JacksonCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Medieval Christmas roaring fires, Yule logs, boars head on a platter and carols. So many of our best-loved traditions have their origins in the me...
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Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary
Gerald HorneCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages....
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Whores of the Devil: Witch-hunts and Witch-trials
Eric DurschmiedCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99What is a witch? A woman (usually), unimaginably old, with streaming grey hair, who rides the air on her broom and devours little children. We can ...
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Transparency, Public Relations and the Mass Media: Combating the Hidden Influences in News Coverage Worldwide
Dean KruckebergCurrent price €64.79Original price €71.99This book is about media transparency and good-faith attempts of honesty by both the sources and the gate-keepers of news and other information tha...
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London''s Big Day: The Coronation 60 Years On
David LongCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99The summer of 2022 saw the celebration of the seventieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth IIs coronation, the first time in British history that a mo...
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The Little Book of Genius
Dr Keith SouterCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99At any party, theres always one person who stands out from the crowd, because he or she talks more intelligently and tells better jokes than everyo...
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Journal Du Voyage de Deux Jeunes Hollandais Paris En 1656-1658
de Villers-PCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Current price €29.25Original price €32.50Save 10% -
Puck Fair: A History
Sean MoraghanCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Puck Fair, Irelands oldest festival, was established by a royal patent in October 1613, granted to the Welsh planter, Jenkyn Conway, of Killorglin....
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1916 and All That: A History of Ireland From Back Then Until Right Now
C.M. BoylanCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.991916 And All That is as an extremely funny and irreverent satirical history of Ireland. The central assumption behind 1916 And All That is that, de...
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Custody, Care and Criminality: Forensic Psychiatry and Law in 19th Century Ireland
Brendan KellyCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50In this fundamentally important work, Professor Brendan Kelly explores the background to Irish psychiatry in the nineteenth and early twentieth cen...
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From Farquhar to Field Day: Three Centuries of Music and Theatre in Derry~Londonderry
Dr Nuala McAlistair HartCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99Derry~Londonderry has a distinctive cultural history which reflects its unique position in the history of Ireland. This ground-breaking book examin...
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The British and Cyprus: An Outpost of Empire to Sovereign Bases, 1878-1974
Mark SimmonsCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99The relationship between Britain and Cyprus over the course of the past 100 years has been a constantly evolving one. Since the First World War, Cy...
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The Little Book of Great Britain
Neil R StoreyCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99This little gem of a book is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about Britain and all the ...
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The Little Book of the 1960s
Dee GordonCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Based on quirky facts and fascinating data, with a discerning eye on the bizarre, the frivolous and the funny, The Little Book of the 1960s is nost...
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Cox''s Fragmenta II: Further Folios From History
Simon MurphyCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99A presumptuous bear imposing on a coachful of ladies, how to behave in the British Museum, the dangers of dallying with a black-eyed girl and the R...
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Bloody British History: Britain
Geoff HolderCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Britain has an incredible history, steeped in all manner of blood, death, disease and horror. From cannibals to concentration camps, Geoff Holder c...
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The Kremlin Conspiracy: 1,000 Years of Russian Expansionism
Douglas BoydCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50What did it mean when Vladimir Putin stepped down from president to prime minister of Russia in 2008 and bounced to the top again in 2013? The Puti...
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Chow Chop Suey: Food and the Chinese American Journey
Anne MendelsonCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Chinese food first became popular in America under the shadow of violence against Chinese aliens, a despised racial minority ineligible for United ...
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