Social & Cultural History
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Solemn Duty in the Old Guard: From Arlington National Cemetery to the Pentagon on 9/11 in America''s Oldest Regiment
Mark Joseph MongilutzCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50This candid memoir recounts the author's nearly four years in the 3rd United States Infantry Regiment--a.k.a. The Old Guard or Escort to the Pre...
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Matthew Arnold and English Education: The Poet''s Pioneering Advocacy in Middle Class Instruction
Brendan A. RappleCurrent price €53.09Original price €58.99Poet and critic Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was a prominent educator. One of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Elementary Schools for 35 years, he trav...
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Egyptomania Goes to the Movies: From Archaeology to Popular Craze to Hollywood Fantasy
Matthew ConiamCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Egyptomania, the West's obsession with the strange and magnificent world of Ancient Egypt, has for centuries been reflected in architecture, lit...
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The Weatherwomen: Militant Feminists of the Weather Underground
Mona RochaCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Assertive, tough, and idealistic, the Weatherwomenmembers of the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) from the late 1960swere determined to stamp...
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Hollow Places: An Unusual History of Land and Legend
Christopher HadleyCurrent price €20.83Original price €24.50''Impossible to summarise and delightfully absorbing, Hadley''s book is comfortably the most unexpected history book of the year'' Su...
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The Steamboat Era: A History of Fulton''s Folly on American Rivers, 1807-1860
J. E. GesslerCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50The steamboat evokes images of leisurely travel, genteel gambling, and lively commerce, but behind the romanticized view is an engineering marve...
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The Story of Colour: An Exploration of the Hidden Messages of the Spectrum
Gavin EvansCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Why is green the colour of envy? Why is black evil? Why is white pure? Why do we feel blue or see red? Why do colours have different meanings for d...
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The Fun of the Fifties: Ads, Fads and Fashion
Robert OpieCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50A nostalgic celebration of the fabulous fifties.The 1950s was a heady mix of American excitement cowboys, rock'n'roll, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe and ...
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1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year
Nick RennisonCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.991922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 1...
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Cities That Shaped the Ancient World
Thames & Hudson LtdCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Great cities marked the earliest development of civilization. From the worlds first true cities, in Mesopotamia, to the spectacular urban centres o...
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When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies
Andy BeckettCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99'A necessity if we want to understand now as well as then.' Hanif KureishiThe seventies are frequently misunderstood, oversimplified and misreprese...
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The Peoples Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records
Stuart MaconieCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to. Covering the last seven ...
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Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece
Robin WaterfieldCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one...
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Glossy: The inside story of Vogue
Nina-Sophia MirallesCurrent price €18.62Original price €24.50''Dame Anna Wintour might be one of the best-known and most successful journalists on the planet. But it wasn''t always like that. When she started...
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Home on the Range: Space, Identity and Belonging in the American West
Nina VollenbrokerCurrent price €70.16Original price €85.56From dime novels to Wild West movies, from cowboy heroes to tribal villains, from masculine mystique to female virtue: the nineteenth-century Ameri...
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Culture and Society in Ireland Since 1750: Essays in Honour of Gearoid O Tuathaigh
The Lilliput Press LtdCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Culture and Society in Ireland since 1750: Essays in honour of Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh collects specially commissioned texts and essays to commemorate ...
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London''s Lea Valley - a Century of Growing: The History of the Lea Valley Growers'' Association from 1911 to 2011
Jim LewisCurrent price €28.93Original price €32.50Current price €28.93Original price €32.50Save 11% -
Football
GMC PublicationsCurrent price €9.48Original price €12.99This is a mini version of the fascinating 100 Years of Football , with photographs hand-picked from the Press Association''s archives. It is an es...
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Golf
GMC PublicationsCurrent price €9.48Original price €12.99This is a new, shrunk-down version of the compelling 100 Years of Golf . It is an essential addition to the bookshelves of fans of golf. It includ...
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Songs of Innocence: The Story of British Childhood
Fran AbramsCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50As recently as one hundred years ago British children existed in ways now unthinkable; boys as young as eight worked gruelling hours in unlit facto...
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Working Lives: Work in Britain Since 1945
Arthur McIvorCurrent price €94.86Original price €111.60A balanced and richly informed survey that investigates how, why and to what degree working lives have been transformed over the last 60 years. McI...
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London Burning: Portraits from a Creative City
Andrea BelloliCurrent price €61.19Original price €71.99A new creative sizzle is in the air, establishing the backdrop for a major revival across all of London's creative sectors. Having invented the Swi...
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At Home (Illustrated Edition): A short history of private life
Bill BrysonCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99What does history really consist of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to g...
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Beastly London: A History of Animals in the City
Hannah VeltenCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Horse-drawn cabs rattling through the streets, terrified cattle being herded along congested thoroughfares to Smithfield market, pigs squealing and...
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