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Hard back history from dawn of civilization to the present dayin very good condition rrp £30
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Broths to bannocks: cooking in scotland to the present day, paperback by brown, catherine; knowelden, martin (ilt), isbn , isbn-13 , brand new, free p&p in the uk
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Ann lyon presents a vivid overview of fourteen hundred years of english legal history taking us on a rich journey from a feudal society to the fractured union of the present daythis second edition has been revised and updated to bring coverage up to the present day, including parliamentary reform; the scottish referendum on independence and further drives for enhanced devolution; the effect of eu membership on the uk constitution; and the impact of the european convention on human rights and the human rights actpaperback book in excellent condition, clean and with good bindingsee oxfam website for delivery information read morevery topical!(as of )constitutional history of the united kingdom offers an accessible and highly valuable overview for students with little or no prior knowledge of british historyoxfam books & music totnes an appreciation of the development and evolution of the united kingdom constitution is vital in order to understand the existing nature of the constitution, proposals for reform and the many complex challenges it facesdrawing on key constitutional themes, constitutional history of the united kingdom provides insight and context to modern constitutional problems
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Over 3kg job lot of postcards post ww1 to present day various sizes unposted and posted stamped and unstamped any questions email me read more
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1 kg job lot of postcards post ww1 to present day various sizes unposted and posted stamped and unstamped any questions email me read more
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As erica sorts through her late grandmother's belongings, strange fragments of family history and vivid memories break from the surface of the present dayas past and present converge, erica and beth must come to terms with two terrible acts of betrayal and the heartbreaking legacy left behindmemories of their cousin, henry, who disappeared one summer long ago, and of their grandmother, a bitter woman, full of a deep, dark hatredyour favourite authors love katherine webb's sweeping historical dramas:'an enormously talented writer' santa montefiore'webb have a true gift for uncovering the mysteries of the human heart and exploring the truth of love' kate williams'katherine webb's writing is beautiful' elizabeth fremantle'a truly gifted writer of historical fiction' lucinda riley'katherine's writing is rich, vivid and evocative' iona grey see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham two sistersin the depths of a harsh winter, erica and beth calcott return to the house where they spent idyllic summers as childrenone heartbreaking secretand a past that cannot stay buriedas erica sifts through remnants of the past, a secret emerges, reaching all the way back to a beautiful heiress in turn-of-the-century oklahoma
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The italian cinema book is an essential guide to the most important historical, aesthetic and cultural aspects of italian cinema, from to the present dayoxfam bookshop tunbridge wells very good conditionwith contributions from 39 leading international scholars, the book is structured around six chronologically organised sections: the silent era () the birth of the talkies and the fascist era () postwar cinematic culture () the golden age of italian cinema () an age of crisis, transition and consolidation ( to the present) new directions in critical approaches to italian cinema acutely aware of the contemporary 'rethinking' of italian cinema history, peter bondanella has brought together a diverse range of essays which represent the cutting edge of italian film theory and criticismthis provocative collection will provide the film student, scholar or enthusiast with a comprehensive understanding of the major developments in what might be called twentieth-century italy's greatest and most original art formsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreminor shelfwear only: slight bumping to corners
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Oxfam bookshop brighton in jacob bronowski was commisioned by david attenborough, then controller of bbc2, to write and present this 13-part documentary series that examines in great depth and with great erudition the intellectual and technological history of the human race from prehistoric times to the present daysee oxfam website for delivery information read more broadcast in and designed to complement kenneth clarke's earlier bbc documentary series 'civilisation', bronowski concentrates on the growing development of human science and technology, of the ways in which humanity seeks to harness and dominate its environment, and the ways in which scientific and intellectual theory across the ages, from galileo to einstein, have broadened our horizons
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As an ancient war rages in space, a murder is being plotted in elizabeth i (joanna page)'s england and, in the present day, there is danger at london's national gallerythe eleventh doctor (matt smith) and his companion clara oswald (jenna-louise coleman) are joined by two previous incarnations of the doctor (david tennant and john hurt), with rose tyler (billie piper) also making a returnoxfam shop colne road feature-length special of the long-running sci-fi series in celebration of its 50th anniversarymeanwhile, the doctor comes face-to-face with his own terrifying pastsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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As an ancient war rages in space, a murder is being plotted in elizabeth i (joanna page)'s england and, in the present day, there is danger at london's national gallerythe eleventh doctor (matt smith) and his companion clara oswald (jenna-louise coleman) are joined by two previous incarnations of the doctor (david tennant and john hurt), with rose tyler (billie piper) also making a returnoxfam shop syston feature-length special of the long-running sci-fi series in celebration of its 50th anniversarymeanwhile, the doctor comes face-to-face with his own terrifying pastsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The 39-mile long line has had a fascinating and, at times, unusual history, which is documented here from the earliest proposals through to the present dayoxfam books & music fareham the north devon line runs from exeter to barnstaple and is now the only surviving part of the once-extensive railway system which used to serve the regionin excellent, hardly-read conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read more 1st edition hardback book published by oxford publishing company inincluded are details of the motive power used, the freight and passenger services over the years together with a detailed description of the line, its stations and structures
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The book spans the period from the lend-lease act which made american funds available for allied aircraft contracts during world war ii, right through to the present day and america's contribution to relief work throughout the worldthe author lifts the veil on reconnaissance work over the soviet bloc, such as covert operations by u2 aircraft, the so-called black lady of espionagethe book covers the cold war, the korean war and the vietnam war, also publishing a selection of biographies of us airmen still missing in vietnamappendices provide complete lists of us airmen in the battle of britain, medal of honour recipients, us aces in ww2 and korea, plus us losses and victories in the gulf warthe book details the crucial role played by the us strategic air force in wwii - the 8th and 9th air force in britain, the 12th and 15th in the mediterranean, and the 20th in the far eastsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham this is a tribute to american air powerit chronicles the pacific war against the japanese, , including the battle of the phillipine sea, nicknamed the marianas turkey shoot because of the high losses inflictedthere are alos reports on the gulf war including dramatic accounts from airmen flying f15s, f16s, f111s and stelath fighters
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Spanning four generations, the midnight rose by lucinda riley sweeps from the glittering palaces of the great maharajas of india to the majestic stately homes of england, following the extraordinary life of a girl, anahita chavan, from to the present daywhat he and rebecca discover begins to unravel the dark secrets that haunt the astbury dynastyeighty years later, rebecca bradley, a young american film star, has the world at her feetbecoming the princess's official companion, anahita accompanies her friend to england just before the outbreak of the great wara lifelong passionoxfam bookshop cheltenham shortlisted for the epic novel award in the romantic novelists association books awardsshortly after filming begins at the now-crumbling astbury hall, ari malik, anahita's great-grandson, arrives unexpectedly, on a quest for his family's pastbut when her turbulent relationship with her equally famous boyfriend takes an unexpected turn, she's relieved that her latest role, playing a s debutante, will take her away from the glare of publicity to the wilds of dartmoor in englandthere, she meets the young donald astbury - reluctant heir to the magnificent, remote astbury estate - and his scheming mothersee oxfam website for delivery information read morean endless searchin the heyday of the british raj, eleven-year-old anahita, from a noble but impoverished family, forms a lifelong friendship with the headstrong princess indira, the privileged daughter of rich indian royalty
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This film catches up with lorraine in the present day and finds her alienated from her mother's family and in prison undergoing rehabwhen she died at age of 29 in , her daughter lorraine, now 29 herself, was just ten years oldas she is re-introduced to her mother's plays and letters, lorraine begins to understand the personal difficulties her mother went through and reflects on their impact on her own lifeoxfam bookshop swanage clio barnard directs this avant-garde docu-drama chronicling the life and legacy of the late bradford playwright andrea dunbarsee oxfam website for delivery information read moredunbar, who wrote the plays 'the arbor' and 'rita, sue and bob too', was hailed as 'a genius straight from the slums' for her unflinching autobiographical portrayals of her upbringing on the notorious buttershaw estate in bradfordthe film mixes fact with fiction by using actors to lip-synch words actually spoken by members of dunbar's family and residents from the buttershaw estate
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In the present day, emily conway has everything she could wish for: a huge house in west london, two beautiful children and a successful husband, willbut as soon as she meets the painter ralph few, cressie knows her life will never be the same againsteering the car off the road at high speed, their perfect life is abruptly endedbut as emily and will drive to a party, will reveals that he has been betrayed by his business partnerwhen she wakes from her injuries, emily is told of a mysterious legacy: a house in cumbria on the edge of an estate, left to her by a woman she has never metsoon, she is deeply in love with ralph, but there is one problem: ralph is still married to catherinewishing only the best for his daughter, her father decrees that she must have her portrait painted to mark the occasionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morea lifetime of consequencesas cressie is drawn into a strange, triangular relationship, catherine's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic and ralph and cressie escape to cressie's family home in cumbriabut catherine will not give up ralph that easilycressida felbridge is living the high life as a debutante in s london society when she is courted by a friend of her brother's and set to marrycould this house provide the chance to start anew, or does it hold secrets that she must uncover before it can be at peace?the snow angel is a deliciously dark family saga from lulu taylor, the bestselling author of the winter follyoxfam bookshop cheltenham a forbidden passion
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Special attention is paid to visual artists in denmark dealing with "baroque universals" from the s up to the present day see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe recurrent actuality of the baroque is a book about visual artthe text follows a comparative method of study based upon recent research in the fields of art theory and aestheticsoxfam books & music islington there has been an increasing interest over the past 40 years in providing new interpretations of the baroque and the fruit of this interest has been the revelation of intersecting baroque aesthetics in the art and culture of our timethe problems of passage between visual forms and composition of the images are analysed in terms of simulation, rationality, space, the wildness of artistic intentionality and the folding of matter and meaningapart from the hypotheses of walter benjamin and the epistemology of michel foucault, the book introduces and expands the most important theories about the actual baroque as they have been devised and developed by mario perniola, christine buci-glucksmann and gilles deleuzeif the text is discreetly haunted by leibniz, ancient rome and the poetry of baudelaire, its direction of thinking is totally devoted to the understanding of visual art from bernini and velázquez to louise bourgeois, mona hatoum and orlanit deals with the broken continuity in time from the historical baroque to the contemporary one
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He covers two millennia of history, from the countrys first unification to the present day, when the great wall, built and rebuilt over centuries of war, has become a symbol of tranquillitythe many walls are united by two ideas self-protection and unity which go back to the first emperor, who founded the nation in 221 bcyet behind the confusion are great simplicitiesit is too big, too varied, too complex to be captured by a few images or a day-tripit cannot even be seen from earth orbit, let alone the moonmutual hostility inspired centuries of attacks, counter-attacks and wall-building, until the northward spread of china in the 20th century made the wall redundantbut we are wrongoxfam bookshop cheltenham chinas great wall north of beijing is one of the worlds most famous sightseven its name is deceptive it is not an it, a single entity, but many walls (hence the uncertain length), built at different timesin fact, most of it is made of earth, and much of it is not there at allfor years, the wall marked the border between china and nomadic peoples to the north and westmyths surround ithe is the first writer to describe two unknown walls in mongoliasee oxfam website for delivery information read moreestimates of its length vary from to milesmillions every year climb the line of stone snaking over mountainsmany believe that the stone barrier marches across all china, that it has been in existence for over years, and that it is the only man-made structure visible from the moonfor this riveting account, john man travelled the wall from the far western deserts to the pacific, exploring the grandest sections and many wild oneswe all feel we know the wall
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This unique book gives a detailed genealogical account of the authentic line of succession of the royal blood from the sons of jesus and his brother james down to the present daylaurence gardener has been granted privileged access to european sovereign and noble archives, along with special insight into chivalric and church repositoriesoxfam shop evesham did jesus marry and have children? if so, what happened to his family? are there descendants of his still alive today? at last the truth can be told, this extraordinary and controversial book, packed with intrigue, begins where others have endedhe proves for the first time that there is a royal heritage of the messiah in the west, and documents the systematic and continuing suppression of records tracing the descent of the sacred lineage by regimes down the centuriessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit casts penetrating new light on the bible story and onto the enigmatic figures of joseph of arimathea and mary magdalene, and on the real truth behind the arthurian legends and the holy grailthere is also a fascinating history of the knights templars of jerusalem
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All this is discovered in the present day by another painter, amy, who has returned to her old family home as a restorerto pay for his passage, he must paint the captain's portraitin january, , the artist rembrandt, bankrupted in the great tulip crash, accidentally stows away on a boat for hullas she paints a portrait of the man she is becoming involved with, so she uncovers the secrets of the pastsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis fine novel will appeal to fans of girl with a pearl earring and tulip feverbut he has a rival - none other than the mp for hull after the civil war, the poet andrew marvell! and the captain's wife is far from being a passive player in this triangular game of love, deceit and manipulationrembrandt has seduced many a sitter before, and sets about doing so againfor himself, he paints a portrait of the captain's beautiful wifeoxfam bookshop hertford beautifully evocative and suspensful double time-scheme narrative about rembrandt, love and art
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Has historical maps from to the present dayhas geographical information covering states and territories and physical featuresthe times concise atlas of the world -8th edition -completely new atlas -expanded to have 260 pages -mapping and index to over place names -hardback 272pp illustrated 339x247mm -ideal for the office, school, university or home -comprises over 100 pages of collins bartholomew mapping, including political and physical maps of the world, the oceans and the continents -with an index of placesthere are sections of satellite images of the worldhas a hard back cover -original price £
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Including the full text of an original prison cookery manual compiled at parkhurst prison in , it examines the history of prison catering from the middle ages (when prisoners were expected to pay for their own board and lodging whilst inside) through the newgate of the victorian age and on to the present daywith sections on prison life, punishments, the food on board transportation vessels and floating prison hulks, and the work of reformers such as john howard and elizabeth fry, who vastly improved the conditions of those who were put behind bars, this evocative and unique book shows the reader exactly what 'doing porridge' entailedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music durham this copiously illustrated book takes the lid off the real story of prison food
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Oxfam bookshop victoria from ancient times to the present day, the story of england has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion - a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists and highwaymen, bishops and scientistsand we visit the new forest, in , and the mysterious shooting of king william rufusthis first volume begins in bc with the life and death of cheddar man and ends in with wat tyler and the peasants' revoltwe witness the roman victory celebrations of ad 43, where a squadron of elephants were paraded through colchesterwe meet the greek navigator pytheus, whose description of the celts as prettanike (the 'painted people') yielded the latin word britannicinow, in great tales of english history, robert lacey captures one hundred of the most pivotal moments: the stories and extraordinary characters who helped shape a nationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehardback signed first editionfrom ethelred the unready to richard the lionheart, the venerable bede to the black prince, this is, quite simply, history as history should be toldpacked with insight, humour and fascinating detail, robert lacey brings the stories that made england brilliantly to lifesome shelf wear to the jacketin very good condition
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Oxfam shop herne hill both series of the classic s children's programme, starring geoffrey bayldon as the time-travelling anglo-saxon wizard catweazle, who finds himself transported to the present day when one of his magical spells goes wrongepisodes from series two are: 'the magic riddle'; 'duck halt'; 'the heavenly twins'; 'the sign of the crab'; 'the black wheels'; 'the wogle stone'; 'the enchanted king'; 'the familiar spirit'; 'the ghost hunters'; 'the walking trees'; 'the battle of the giants'; 'the magic circle' and 'the thirteenth sign'see oxfam website for delivery information read moreepisodes from series one are: 'the sun in a bottle'; 'castle saburac'; 'the curse of rapkyn'; 'the witching hour'; 'the eye of time'; 'the magic face'; 'the telling bone'; 'the power of adamcos'; 'the demi devil'; 'the house of the sorceror'; 'the flying broomsticks'; 'the wisdom of solomon' and 'the trickery lantern'
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Oxfam shop exmouth both series of the classic s children's programme, starring geoffrey bayldon as the time-travelling anglo-saxon wizard catweazle, who finds himself transported to the present day when one of his magical spells goes wrongsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreepisodes from series one are: 'the sun in a bottle'; 'castle saburac'; 'the curse of rapkyn'; 'the witching hour'; 'the eye of time'; 'the magic face'; 'the telling bone'; 'the power of adamcos'; 'the demi devil'; 'the house of the sorceror'; 'the flying broomsticks'; 'the wisdom of solomon' and 'the trickery lantern'episodes from series two are: 'the magic riddle'; 'duck halt'; 'the heavenly twins'; 'the sign of the crab'; 'the black wheels'; 'the wogle stone'; 'the enchanted king'; 'the familiar spirit'; 'the ghost hunters'; 'the walking trees'; 'the battle of the giants'; 'the magic circle' and 'the thirteenth sign'
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From the earliest pre-history right up to the present day, this stirring account describes the astonishingly varied stages through which the british isles have passed to achieve their current identity see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham jeremy black's vigorous and fascinating study tells the story of a group of islands, their peoples, and their remarkable impact on the rest of the worldproper weight is given to all four, often fractious, components of the british isles - england, ireland, scotland and wales - providing the reader with an admirably balanced and absorbing narrative of an extraordinary shared pastunlike most other texts, 'a history of the british isles' is not just a history of england
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From the earliest times to the present dayisbn ad id: delivery service consumer creditthe penguin illustrated history of britain and irelandconsultant editors barry cunliffe, robert bartlett, john morrill, asa briggs and joanna burkepaperback in good condition
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Very detailed publication of the journey of britain's railways through maps from to the present day, was £30 newexcellent condition
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Set of hutchinson’s story of the british nation magazines ‘the first pictorial & authoritative history of the british peoples, from the earliest times to the present day’ edited by walter hutchinson full set of 52 magazines, printed fortnightly also includes printed summaries of each volume (13 magazines) from the early s good condition read more
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This cultural atlas provides the reader with a broad range of cultural perspectives on the peninsula and the human interactions with it from prehistoric times to the present daysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop aberystwyth the iveragh peninsula, often referred to as the 'ring of kerry', is one of ireland's most dramatic and beautiful landscapes
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The cards give an insight into the early pioneering days of passenger flight right up to the present dayvintage british airways the history of flight playing cards unique & informative pack of playing cards which have been exclusively developed for british airwaysalso an additional card with a description for each card istandard size pack + 2 joker cardsaircraft type, year introduced, passenger capacity, cruising speed in excellent condition - cards have never been used will sell for £8 (includes postage) read more
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