Social & Cultural History
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''I Didn''t Get Where I Am Today'': How the Rich and Famous Achieved Their Success
Charlie CrokerCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Did you know that Beethoven made every cup of coffee with exactly 60 beans?Or that Shirley Temple always had precisely 56 curls in her hair?Or that...
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Tasting the Past: Recipes from the Middle Ages to the Civil War
Jacqui WoodCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50The many influences of the past on our diet make the concept of British food very hard to define. The Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans ea...
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Princesses on the Wards: Royal Women in Nursing Through Wars and Revolutions
Coryne HallCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Queens and princesses have always shown care and compassion, but many went much further. They were not afraid to roll up their sleeves, work in war...
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A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions
Susan Denham WadeCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50'A remarkable achievement' - Stephen FryIn 2015 #thedress captured the worlds imagination. Was the dress in the picture white and gold or blue and ...
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Other Women: The History of the Mistress
Fiona McDonaldCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Other Women is the vivid account of those women who belonged to a separate part of society: in some ways invisible and socially unacceptable, but a...
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The Pretty Nostalgic Yearbook 2016
Nicole BurnettCurrent price €20.94Original price €26.50This is the perfect read for anyone who yearns for times gone by and respects the past enough to see that not all modern things are good for us. Pr...
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Raising Laughter: How the Sitcom Kept Britain Smiling in the 70s
Robert SellersCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50The 1970s were the era of the three-day week, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the winter of discontent, trade union Bolshevism and wildcat strike...
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Universal Basic Income: Pennies from Heaven
Dr Paul O'BrienCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99This book is about a radical idea: the idea that each of us deserves enough money on which to live - and that it should be paid independently of ou...
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Wigston in the First World War
Derek SeatonCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Wigston, in the heart of tranquil Leicestershire, was transformed from a peaceful existence in August 1914 as war clouds swept across the skies of ...
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The Lives of Tudor Women
Elizabeth NortonCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was a time whe...
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Who Do the English Think They Are?: From the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit
Derek J. TaylorCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99The English are often confused about who they are. They say British when they mean English, and English when they should say British. But when Engl...
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Voices from the Shoreline: The Ancient and Ingenious Traditions of Coastal Fishing
Mike SmylieCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50For generations, coastal fishermen, working at the very fringe between land and sea, have fished salmon and herring using methods passed down from ...
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Women of the Home Front: Serving the Nation in Photographs
MirrorpixCurrent price €14.43Original price €18.50Celebrate the women who helped win the Second World War. With so many of the nations men fighting in Europe or further afield, the Auxiliary Territ...
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Ireland''s Arctic Siege: The Big Freeze of 1947
Kevin C. KearnsCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99On 19 January 1947 Ireland was invaded by a freakish anticyclonic weather phenomenon that lasted for two months. The arctic siege brought freezing ...
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A 1950s Mother: Bringing up Baby in the 1950s
Sheila HardyCurrent price €12.63Original price €15.99Embarking on motherhood was a very different affair in the 1950s to what it is today. From how to dress baby (matinee coats and bonnets) to how to ...
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Tangled Souls: Love and Scandal Among the Victorian Aristocracy
Jane DismoreCurrent price €22.05Original price €24.50Outrageously handsome, witty and clever, Harry Cust was reputed to be one of the great womanisers of the late Victorian era. In 1893, while a Membe...
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Great War Fashion: Tales from the History Wardrobe
Lucy AdlingtonCurrent price €24.59Original price €29.99Imagine stepping into someone else''s shoes. Walking back in time a century ago, which shoes would they be? A pair of silk sensations costing thous...
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United We Will Swim: 100 Years of Govanhill Baths
Luath Press LtdCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99We heard it was shutting on the first day that it got occupied when we saw all the police and the commotion. We used to come down and support the p...
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Caribbean Folk Tales: Stories from the Islands and from the Windrush Generation
Wendy ShearerCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Professional Storyteller Wendy Shearer has gathered together stories from many Caribbean islands and countries, drawing on oral history and written...
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Nannau - A Rich Tapestry of Welsh History
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Buddhist Folk Tales
Kevin WalkerCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Buddhist Folk Tales is a wonderful collection of ancient and modern stories from the Buddhist tradition. From short, snappy tales to longer narrati...
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The Making of Women Artists in Victorian England: The Education and Careers of Six Professionals
Jo DevereuxCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50When women were admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in 1860, female art students gained a foothold in the most conservative art institution in...
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The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 16501800
Robert S. DuPlessisCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behaviour, helped create n...
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Cows and Catastrophes: The Flights and Fancies of a Cornish Dairy Farmer
Brindley HoskenCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Cows and Catastrophes includes tales of author Brindley Hosken's 40 years of farming on the beautiful Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, where he has li...
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