Author : David Dabydeen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : History
ISBN :
A unique A-Z guide to the history of black people in the British Isles from classical times to the present day. With entries for landmark figures (e.g. Mary Seacole, Crimean nurse), key events (the Brixton Riots), concepts (Emancipation), and historical accounts. Wide-ranging coverage from medicine and warfare to art, music, sport, and education.
Author : Catherine Horwood
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 2007
Category : House plants
ISBN : 9780711228009
There are plenty of books on how to look after houseplants but no one has shown us how, when and why these plants came to be found in our homes. In this fascinating book we learn how potted plants are as subject to fashion as pieces of furniture. For the Victorians it was the aspidistra in the front parlor; for us it is the orchid in the designer loft. We find that Wedgwood created a market for special bulb pots and that some of Conran's early designs were for houseplant containers. Then there is the story of mignonette - a modest plant but once prized in every home for its intoxicating scent. Now that scent is lost to us for ever. Catherine Horwood's novel combination of social history, plant history and the history of interior design is intriguing. Her illustrations come from a variety of unusual sources since potted plants may be found in many unexpected corners.
Author : Richard Cox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 113528749X
Volume two of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
Author : David Meara
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2024-07-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1398116815
An accessible history of Oxford from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day highlighting the city’s significant events and people.
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Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :
Author : Theodore William Goossen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192803727
Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the short story genre in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Taisho era, to the new breed of writers produced under the constraints of literary censorship, and the current writings reflecting the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the entire development of the Japanese short story.
Author : David Sunderland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1351112538
This collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.
Author : Jack Simmons
Publisher :
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :
This is the first encyclopedia to chart the progress of Britain's railway development. It begins with primitive 17th-century wagonways, fully considers the eras of horse, steam, diesel, and electric traction, and then charts the change from private to public ownership. Finally, it describes in detail the privatizations of the late 1990s. Over six hundred entries by eighty-eight expert contributors provide a comprehensive and unique reference to all aspects of railways.
Author : Paul Fouracre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 16,99 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521362917
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Author : Piers Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1317181441
Excavations of medical school and workhouse cemeteries undertaken in Britain in the last decade have unearthed fascinating new evidence for the way that bodies were dissected or autopsied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book brings together the latest discoveries by these biological anthropologists, alongside experts in the early history of pathology museums in British medical schools and the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and medical historians studying the social context of dissection and autopsy in the Georgian and Victorian periods. Together they reveal a previously unknown view of the practice of anatomical dissection and the role of museums in this period, in parallel with the attitudes of the general population to the study of human anatomy in the Enlightenment.
