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My fathers' daughter
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Hannah Pool |
In 1974 Hannah Pool was adopted from an orphanage in Eritrea and brought to England by her white adoptive father. She grew up unable to imagine what it must be like to look into the eyes of a blood … |
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Children of Northern Ireland
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Michael Elsohn Ross |
Introduces the history, geography, and culture of Northern Ireland through the daily lives of children who live there. |
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We're British, Innit
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Iain Aitch |
Forget the Government's Citizenship Test – this is the real measure of Britishness.Written in a snappy A-Z format, Iain Aitch explores all things British in a highly amusing and evocative way. Whethe… |
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What the grown-ups were doing
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Michele Hanson |
Michele Hanson grew up an 'oddball tomboy disappointment' in a Jewish family in Ruislip during the 1950s - a Metroland of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials. Yet this shopfront of respect… |
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Elizabethan Society
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Derek Wilson |
The reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) marked a golden age in English history. There was a musical and literary renaissance, most famously and enduringly in the form of the plays of Shakespeare (… |
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The Ministry of Nostalgia
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Owen Hatherley |
"Why should we have to "Keep Calm and Carry On"? In this sharp, witty polemic, award-winning critic Owen Hatherley questions the many ways we have adopted the gospel of luxurious poverty: from ubiqu… |
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Mrs Griffin sends her love
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Miss Read |
Because of our inability to recognise our climatic shortcomings from the outset, arrangements for outdoor jollities get completely out of hand ...to the sometimes rather odd passions of childhood I c… |
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Kick
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Paula Byrne |
"Filled with a wealth of revealing new material and insight, the biography of the vivacious, unconventional--and nearly forgotten--young Kennedy sister who charmed American society and the English ar… |
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Life in the United Kingdom
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Home Office |
Ensure you are fully prepared for your Life in the UK test with the new 2013 3rd edition of the Life in the UK handbook. This eBook is the only official handbook for the new Life in the UK tests take… |
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Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain
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Gabriel Moshenska |
Modern warfare is a unique cultural phenomenon. While many conflicts in
history have produced dramatic shifts in human behaviour, the industrialized
nature of modern war possesses a material and ps… |
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Vile Victorians
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Terry Deary |
Gives foul, funny and fascinating facts about life in Victorian Britain. |
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Home life in the 1930s and 40s
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Faye Gardner |
Joyce Williams explains what life was like growing up on a farm in Wales during the 1930s and 40s. Includes notes for teachers with activities and cross curricular work. Suggested level: junior, prim… |
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Victorian country children
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Sallie Purkis |
Portrays the lives of British children from different backgrounds during the time of Queen Victoria's reign by using colour illustrations, photographs and historical evidence. Includes ideas for acti… |
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My Polish family history
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Victoria Parker |
Traces three generatIons of a family which has come to Britain from Poland. It examines and compares the geography, food, religion and way of life for each generation. Includes some information for y… |
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From ration book to Facebook
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Paul Feeney |
Do you remember washing in a tin bath by the fire, using outside lavatories and not having a television? In this fascinating trip down memory lane, Paul Feeney remembers what it was like to be part o… |
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The kiss
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Hugo Vickers |
Joan Kappey lived with her sister in genteel poverty in Windsor. In 1960, Joan, a spinster, received a kiss from a man many years younger than herself. So began a passion that lasted almost to the en… |
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Journal of a Somerset rector, 1803-1834
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Skinner, John |
xiii, 520 pages ; 20 cm |
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Miss Carter came with is
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Helen Bradley |
31 p. 27 x 30 cm |
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The middle class
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Lawrence James |
For Lawrence James, the middle class is the great powerhouse of British history. The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the … |
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The perfect summer
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Juliet Nicolson |
Before the Great War tore England apart and changed the way people lived forever, there was the glorious summer of 1911, when the country seemed full of promise and blissfully unaware of the coming s… |
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