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David Swift
Scouse Republic

'Liverpool beguiles, Liverpool bewilders. Swift's superb analysis gets to the scarred heart of this troubled, beautiful and spirited city' Paul Du Noyer'[Swift] has a terrific eye for the telling detail .…

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David Crystal
William Tyndale and the English Language

A revelatory examination of William Tyndale's monumental influence on the English language."Dearly beloved," "say the word," "the powers that be," "for ever and ever.&qu…

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Charissa N Terranova,
Organic Modernism

"This open access book studies the transdisciplinary culture of "morphogenic modernism," a strain of creative interaction across fields in twentieth-century Britain that began in the German…

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Nick Louras
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

In 1848, a group of young painters launched a movement that would change British art forever. John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Holman Hunt founded The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood a…

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Richard Godbeer
Empire of Topsy-Turvy

"Without Gilbert and Sullivan, there would be no Sondheim, no Lloyd Webber, no Lin-Manuel Miranda. Their operettas laid the groundwork for the modern musical, blending satire, melody and narrative in…

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Richard Godbeer
Empire of Topsy-Turvy

"Without Gilbert and Sullivan, there would be no Sondheim, no Lloyd Webber, no Lin-Manuel Miranda. Their operettas laid the groundwork for the modern musical, blending satire, melody and narrative in…

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Elizabeth Evans,
The Enchanting Kinora

Marketed as more affordable and safer than film cameras, the Kinora system, launched in 1903, was one of the first amateur filmmaking devices and represents one of the earliest attempts to create a domest…

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Elizabeth Evans,
The Enchanting Kinora

"In The Enchanting Kinora, Elizabeth Evans examines the Kinora in its technological, industrial and socio-cultural context to explore how early attempts to domesticate moving images were configured. …

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Christina J Faraday
The Story of Tudor Art

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A unique, illustrated history of Tudor England told through its art and artefacts.The Tudor dynasty (1485-1603) gave England five monarchs and an age of relentless power plays, sc…

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The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 16

The 500 letters in this sixteenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall document the period from January 1, 1878, to December 31, 1881. They chart a defining stage in the later life and career of a…

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Corinne Soum
From Étienne Decroux to the Theatre de l'Ange Fou

This book affords a rare first-hand insight into the dramaturgy, techniques and aesthetics of the father of modern mime from a pupil/practitioner perspective and thereby offers a better understanding of m…

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Corinne Soum
From Étienne Decroux to the Theatre de l'Ange Fou

This book affords a rare first-hand insight into the dramaturgy, techniques and aesthetics of the father of modern mime from a pupil/practitioner perspective and thereby offers a better understanding of m…

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Alan Connor
188 Words for Rain

Mizzle. Dreich. Raining knives and forks. A real mugga-fisty. A spot of plother...We Brits love talking about the weather. So much so that our islands have hundreds of words and phrases for rain, some sel…

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Margaret Drabble
Margaret Drabble on the Romantics

A highly acclaimed novelist on the way in which the landscape has both influenced and been represented in British Romantic literature.

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Rachel Gotlieb,
Ceramics in the Victorian Era

"This book broadens the discussion of pottery and china in the Victorian era by situating them in the national, imperial, design reform, and domestic debates between 1840 and 1890. Largely ignored in…

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Shakespeare's Afterlife in the Royal Collection

This unique collection of essays and images explores a series of objects in the Royal Collection as a means of assessing the interrelated histories of the British royal family and the Shakespearean afterl…

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Joe Shooman
The Peaky Blinders Quiz Book

Do you know your Tommy from your Arthurs when it comes to the Shelby family? Do you know The Garrison Tavern and the Brummy locations from the show? By order of the Peaky Blinders, it's time to test your …

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Christopher De Hamel
The Book in the Cathedral

The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 is one of the most famous events in European history. It inspired the largest pilgrim site in medieval Europe and many works …

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King Jacob
Further Scottish Place-Name Papers

William J. Watson (1865-1948) was one of the most important figures in the study of Scottish place-names and Gaelic historical linguistics and literature. Best known for Place-names of Ross and Cromarty (…

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James Fox
Craftland

An "impassioned and inspiring account of the extraordinary men and women still doing traditional artisanal work" (The Sunday Times) in the face of massive technological industrialization--by ren…

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