Writing Local History, Paperback - John Beckett

This book describes the development of local history in England from its origins in the Middle Ages to its practise in the early twenty-first centu...

This invaluable book, now completely updated, provides practical advice about the process of research and writing history. It gives essential guida...

A magisterial survey of the ways in which postwar Irish writers have witnessed the frustration of the promise of Irish independence.

A study of how the invention of paper allowed for the transmission of ideas that caused civilization to initially take shape 4000 years ago.

Reducere. This book is a sequel to Williamstown and Williams College: Explorations in Local History (2018). It is a collection of microstudies, or microhisto...

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Reducere. A collector's catalog of advertising, bottles, medicine glasses, photographs, and local history of druggists in Sonoma County, CA. Features both hi...

Publisher: Telos Publishing LtdAuthor(s): John BeckettIllustration(s): Black and white photographsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 23C...

The complete history of the public house, from eighteenth-century coaching inns to twenty-first century wine barsIllustrations: Illustrations, blac...

One of a series concerning the major plays of leading 20th-century playwrights. This guide introduces, explores and analyzes in detail the principa...

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Reducere. History compels us to fasten on abiding issues and rescues us from the temporary and transient. Volume II brings together Acton's distinguished wri...

De ce imi place ziua de luni - John D. Beckett

A dynamic, relevant and exciting history of the 1970s. Includes vivid interviews with many of the leading participants, from Ted Heath to Jack Jone...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. "A book that I highly recommend. A well-written book with lots of important information." -John B. Wells, Coast to Coast AMThis book presents frigh...

Publisher: Beckett Karlson LtdAuthor(s): John WrightIllustration(s): Ill.d.Number of pages: 256Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 12Cove...

Gathers together original documents about the key Allied tanks in the Battle of Normandy during WWII. Includes manuals for crew, training instructi...

A popular history for those who've wondered what life was like for the ordinary housewife in the Middle Ages and how much power a medieval lady rea...

Covers eight generations of Boleyn women, exploring how the family rose from obscurity at the end of the 14th century to put a Boleyn woman, Elizab...

Contributor(s): Author: Dominick LaCapraTrauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing Hi...

The fascinating story of the exceptional woman who wrested power from Edward II and changed the course of English history. Corrects many myths surr...

This is a book for anyone wanting to explore local history in England. It summarises, in an accessible and authoritative way, current knowledge and...

Publisher: Braughing Local History SocietyAuthor(s): Peter BoylanIllustration(s): 20 black & white photographsNumber of pages: 90Collection: Braugh...

Hilary's trans-Antarctic expedition of 1953 to 1958 revealed as a landmark event in postwar history in this comprehensive account.

Now in paperback, this charts the rise and fall of the Tudor family at the heart of the court of Henry VIII, including Jane and her brothers Edward...

Looks at the life of Henry VIII's Tudor Court through the eyes of Spanish Ambassador Eustace Chapuys, whose reports have been instrumental in shapi...

It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. The Collected P...

Gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. This book includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed t...

Vividly recreates London in the Tudor period, and how the streets and areas developed distinct characteristics. Follows the success of Shakespeare'...

'Pattern is as crucial to Beckett's eye as to his ear', writes Gontarski, 'and that patterning dominates his theatrical notes: motion is repeated t...

Insurgencies are at the center of most of the conflicts that confront the modern world, and they have been since the Second World War. Leading armi...

Bob Bungey's was an extraordinary and distinguished RAF career in World War Two. He joined survived both the Battle of France and the Battle of Bri...

William Shakespeare's London was a bustling teeming metropolis - growing so rapidly that the government took repeated, and ineffectual, steps to cu...

Reducere. From mountain streams in the west to rolling prairies in the east, Montana's habitats and natural resources offer an abundance of culinary possibil...

It is hard to imagine a more male-dominated field in the nineteenth century than sea navigation. This was the high-point of the British Empire and ...

An ancient Scots law says that the head of any dead whale found on the Scottish coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail ...