British History | History
Aug.28.2012
Julian Bell explores the life of a younger member, and sole poet, of the Bloomsbury Group, the most important community of British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century, which includes Virginia Woolf (Julian's aunt), E. M. Forster, the economist John Maynard Keynes, and the art...
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Jun.15.2012
It’s 1079 AD and fourteen-year-old Ulf, son of a dung shoveler, lives in a hut in the shadow of the walls of Litchfield Castle. Their hut is but one of hundreds clustered at the foot of Lichfield Castle’s towering granite walls. But Ulf is cursed with a natural intelligence and a burning desire to...
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Aug.25.2011
In 1888 in New York City, the search for a killer of prostitutes comes to an end with the capture of Doctor Jack Lewiston, a respected surgeon and madman. But before he can go to trial, Jack escapes from custody and flees the country to London, England.
Brought out of retirement to track him...
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Jul.28.2010
The Compendium of Common Knowledge (1558-1603) opens a door into ordinary lives--both common and noble--in the England of Queen Elizabeth I and Shakespeare. In this little book you'll find notes on Elizabethan food, occupations, games, and pastimes, also religion, manners, attitudes, and education...
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May.26.2010
Tracing the history of gambling from the earliest known archaeological evidence of dice playing among Neolithic peoples to the first systematic mathematical studies of games of chance during the Renaissance, from government-administered lotteries to the glittering seductions of grand casinos, and...
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Sep.07.2008
A narrative exploration of one of the most violent labor showdowns in American history, in which more than 75 people were killed over seven months. The book touches on such legendary figures as John D. Rockefeller (Jr. and Sr.) and Mother Jones as it explores the guerrilla war the erupted amid the...
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Aug.22.2008
In the glittering world of Regency London, where gossip is exchanged– and reputations ruined–with the tilt of a fan, Mélanie Fraser is the perfect wife. Devoted to her husband, Charles, the grandson of a duke, she is acknowledged as society’s most charming hostess.
But just as the elegant façade of...
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Jul.03.2008
This is the story of one community's struggle to bring New Jerusalem out of the clouds during a quarter of a millennium of radical change. The spiritual dynamism inspired by John Wesley in these parishes was multiplied throughout the British Isles and steadily contributed to the welfare and...
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Mar.25.2008
From Booklist
Littlejohn informs his reader in no uncertain terms that the "statelies" of England are an endangered species--referring to the large country mansions that are home to the country's landed gentry. In an informative account not as esoteric as the subject might sound, the...
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