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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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Single Mother on the Verge
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Maria Roberts |
Maria is twenty-nine years old. She is a single mother and lives on a council estate in Manchester. She's also a chronic day-dreamer. One day she'd like to marry a beautiful man with a huge income to… |
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Cool Rules
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Dick Pountain,David Robins |
An attempt to pin down the lasting legacy of the 1960s. Although everyone wrote off the "counterculture" as a failed experiment, in fact its values have stealthily taken over western societies and fo… |
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Samuel Pepys
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Stephen Coote |
"Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), perhaps the most famous Englishman of the Restoration and one of the greatest writers of any period, is brought to life in this new biography. Pepys was a man of boundless … |
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Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey
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Carnarvon, Fiona Countess of |
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration for the hit PBS show Downton Abbey, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady … |
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Sisters of Fortune
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Jehanne Wake |
Marianne, Louisa, Emily and Bess Caton were descended from the first settlers in Maryland, and brought up in Baltimore by their grandfather Charles Carroll, one of the Signers of the Declaration of I… |
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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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Kick Kennedy
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Barbara Leaming |
"Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy was the incandescent life-force of the fabled Kennedy family, her father's acknowledged "favorite of all the children" and her brother Jack's "psychological twin." She was th… |
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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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Strange and familiar
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Martin Parr,David Chandler,Alona Pardo |
Twenty-three photographers from countries around the world offer their own perspectives on British society. British photographer Martin Parr has selected works, dating from the 1930s to today, that c… |
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Ayesha's gift
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Martin Sixsmith |
From the author of the bestselling Philomena, made into the award-winning film starring Steve Coogan and Judi Dench, comes the story of a young woman, born in Pakistan, living in Britain, whose life … |
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Bang!
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Graham Stewart |
1980s Britain - big hair, big bombs, big riots. In 'Bang!' Graham Stewart has written the history of this turbulent, vibrant and revolutionary decade. |
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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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Slimy Stuarts
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Terry Deary |
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Slimy Stuarts, including why some slimy Stuarts ate toads, snails and fleas, which king picked his nose and never washed his hands and why people wor… |
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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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Visitors
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Rupert Christiansen |
"London in 1820 was a city of extraordinary creative dynamism and big money. Rupert Christiansen has marshaled the experiences of a set of remarkable foreign visitors to England, chronicling their im… |
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Queen Bees
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Siân Evans |
1 volume : 20 cm |
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British culture and the First World War
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George Robb |
"The First World War has left its imprint on British society and the popular imagination to an extent almost unparalleled in modern history. Its legacy of mass death, mechanized slaughter, propaganda… |
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