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From battlefields cathedrals and museums to castles and stately homes from the Lancastrians and Yorkists to the Roundheads Royalists and an abundance of kings called Edward and Henry the history of our island nation unravels its rich tapestry beneath our very feet if only you know where to look Take for instance the Tower of London which housed a royal menagerie featuring lions an African elephant and even a polar bear some three hundred years before it bore witness to Anne Boleyn s final jest with her executioner Or the Liverpool Docks which in the 19th century handled a whopping 9 of global trade Or indeed the atomic weapons base at Orford Ness which was used to secretly test nuclear weapons during the most heated periods of the Cold War You do not have to travel far for English history to spring into rich and vivid life In their Story of England historian Dan Snow and the History Hit team take us on a journey through thousands of years of unceasing drama It s a tale of invaders and immigrants and visitors and what they brought here It s a tale of how our ancestors overcame co operated and shaped this country to their liking affecting our landscape our character our language industries laws religions and settlements with ea

Few cities in the world are as famous as Liverpool the home of the modern world s most celebrated rock group and of a legendary football team The city is equally notorious for its poverty its ethnic and racial divides and above all its decline For Liverpool was once a great port growing rich on slavery on trade with the Americas and the British Empire s outposts in Africa and Asia In the 1980s it was described as obsolete yet the city stubbornly refuses to die This is a brilliant elegantly written history of Liverpool since the Second World War It is a story of vast docklands shrinking and eventually vanishing when corporations discovered they should shift goods in containers and dispense with human workers of industries like car manufacturing mushrooming and disappearing of huge new suburbs being built and neglected It is a moving and horrifying narrative of casual racism Chinese sailors deported en masse in the aftermath of the war systematic discrimination against the city s Black population and of resistance culminating in the Toxteth riots of 1981 The de industrialisation of the city under Margaret Thatcher s government the various attempts to renew and gentrify the devastated waterfront and the bizarre interlude of Militant control of

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A visionary book Philip Pullman Essential and magnificent George Monbiot Deft and wonderfully poetic Grace BlakeleyThe Right have hijacked Englishness Can it be reclaimed Today the only people who dare speak of Englishness are cheerleaders for Brexit exceptionalism and imperial nostalgia But there is another England hiding in plain sight which is dramatically more inclusive and forward looking Here Caroline Lucas delves deep into England s literary history to sketch out alternative stories of who we are ones that we can all embrace to build a greener fairer future Not just an inspiring nuanced and deeply literate book but that rarest of things a necessary one Jonathan Coe author of Bourneville Cleverly deploys Elizabeth Gaskell John Clare and Charles Dickens to demonstrate that a culture can be diverse and coherent innovative and rooted many stories told in one beautiful language Telegraph Reading this warm persuasive book is to be confronted with the idea and reality of a decent saner England One perhaps possible in a fought for future iNews A clarion call to define England and Englishness as our common ground and a grounding for a transformation of politics and society Kate Pickett co author of The Spir

The First World War from a refreshingly unfamiliar angle masterly Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times Compelling The Eastern Front is essential reading Margaret Macmillan Financial Times A masterwork This is the history of the Eastern Front I ve waited all my life to read Simon Sebag Montefiore The definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War from the acclaimed military historian and author of Passchendaele and The Western Front In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy Professor Nick Lloyd tells the story for the first time of what Winston Churchill once called the unknown war the vast conflict in Eastern Europe and the Balkans that brought about the collapse of three empires Much has been written about the fighting in France and Belgium yet the Eastern Front was no less bloody Between 1914 and 1917 huge numbers of people perhaps as many as 16 million soldiers and two million civilians were killed wounded or maimed in enormous battles that sometimes ranged across a front of 100 km in length Through intimate eyewitness reports diary entries and memoirs many of which have never been translated into English before Lloyd reconstructs the full story of a war that began in the Balk

From Jon Sopel bestselling author and presenter of hit podcast The News Agents comes an incisive examination of post Brexit Britain and what it means for our future I like and trust Jon Sopel and you should too JOE LYCETT A thrilling nerve wracking book You couldn t make the last ten years up thanks to Jon Sopel you don t have to PETER FRANKOPAN A hugely entertaining and quite traumatic rollercoaster ARMANDO IANNUCCI Acute and unflinching Sopel deploys his foreign correspondent skills on home shores as well as far ones and brings together the story of a tumultuous few years on both sides of the Atlantic MISHAL HUSAINReturning to the UK in some ways has been disconcerting or maybe discombobulating would be a better word It is after all my home it is where I grew up a country I love and am proud of But either it s changed or I have Maybe both It just feels like a strange land After eight years of political reporting in the US Jon Sopel returned home to the UK to find a very different place than the one he left In his first book since launching the global hit podcast The News Agents Jon explores what has happened to the country he once knew Either Britain has changed dramatically or he has Perhaps it s both As a second Trump administration be

Ma non pezzi di costume. Chi se ne frega del costume? Lascia che se ne occupino quelli che fanno le colonnine sul Mondo (Italo Calvino a Leonardo Sciascia, 25 novembre 1957) Ci sono molti modi per raccontare il Novecento: e il secolo della violenza; il secolo delle masse, delle religioni politiche, degli esperimenti totalitari, del welfare state, della democrazia. Ma esiste anche - cosi visibile da passare quasi inosservato - un Novecento effimero nel quale cio che cambia e la vita privata delle italiane e degli italiani: il loro modo di pensarsi, vestirsi, vivere il corpo e la sessualita, organizzare la propria vita, i propri consumi, le case, i viaggi, le citta. Attraverso il prisma delle cronache di costume, questo libro descrive appunto mutamenti e permanenze quotidiane dagli ultimi anni dell'Ottocento fino alla grande trasformazione degli anni Sessanta del Novecento. La storia pubblica delle nostre storie private.

Dans cet ouvrage monumental, Michel Winock — historien éminent de la République — explore deux siècles et demi de crises politiques françaises, de la Commune à la Ve République. Il analyse la "fièvre

Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) foi um dos maiores historiadores belgas, conhecido por sua abordagem inovadora da história europeia. Este volume reúne seus textos mais influentes, incluindo:- Histoire de l

Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation.In 1797, Russia, Prussia and Austria divided Poland among themselves, rewriting Polish history to show that they had brought much-needed civilisation to a primitive backwater. But the country they wiped off the map had been one of Europes largest and most richly varied, born of diverse cultural traditions and one of the boldest constitutional experiments ever attempted. Its destruction ultimately led to two world wars and the Cold War.

LETTERE INEDITE DI GIOVANNA DAUSTRIA GRANDUCHESSA DI TOSCAN es un libro del autor SPIGA,MASSIMILIANO editado por TIRANT HUMANIDADES. LETTERE INEDITE DI GIOVANNA DAUSTRIA GRANDUCHESSA DI TOSCAN tiene un ci¿digo EAN 9788411834230, de la coleccii¿n PLURAL.

La vida privada de los soldados romanos sigue siendo un tema bastante desatendido en las investigaciones sobre el ejercito romano. Son pocas las fuentes clásicas -esas narraciones en prosa que consideramos "literatura historica" - que hacen referencia a ella, aunque si se encuentran a menudo alusiones a soldados y sus relaciones familiares en otro tipo de documentos. Asi, podemos contemplar en las tumbas de soldados bastantes representaciones del soldado junto a su esposa o hijos, donde a veces no falta la imagen de un liberto o un esclavo. A las relaciones entre estos personajes aluden las propias formulas epigraficas. Tambien en los papiros y en las tabulae caeratae encontramos noticias interesantes sobre la vida privada de los soldados, y nos ayudan comprender parcialmente la "biografia" de estos profesionales de las armas que, como sabemos, no siempre estuvieron autorizados a contraer un matrimonio "legal" con todos los derechos para la esposa o los descendientes.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERBest Books of the Year, GuardianThe poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgeryFrom the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thousands of soldiers sustained facial injuries. Medical advances meant that more survived their wounds than ever before, yet disfigured soldiers did not receive the hero's welcome they deserved.In The Facemaker, award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the astonishing story of the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to restoring the faces - and the identities - of a brutalized generation. Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world's first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction in Sidcup, south-east England. There, Gillies assembled a unique group of doctors, nurses and artists whose task was to recreate what had been torn apart. At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero, but losing a face made him a monster to a society largely intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits.

From medieval to modern exploring instrumental attitudes toward physical gadgets diagrams concepts methods and disciplines Opening up the instrumental condition of the human for critical reflection and renewal Instrumentality illuminates key moments in the intellectual history of the European Middle Ages J Allan Mitchell reveals how in the predigital past we can recognize many of the operative technics analytics and metaphorics that continue to shape human sense and cognition today Exploring the diverse modalities of medieval instruments Mitchell s case studies encompass techniques as seemingly distinct as time keeping mechanisms mathematical diagrams logical syllogisms and the literary devices of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower A cultural and intellectual history Mitchell s work leads readers from three dimensional objects physical mechanisms to two dimensional inscriptions maps and diagrams and onward to overarching disciplinary norms in the early liberal and mechanical arts Prying loose the subtle adaptable and generative concept of technical objects from limiting contemporary frameworks he shows how these instruments are indispensable to the past and the future of the arts and culture at large

A Times Best Art Book of the Year 2024 A riot of a book Country Life s Books of the Year 2024The modern art market was born on a single night On 15 October 1958 Sotheby s of Bond Street staged an event sale of Impressionist paintings from the collection of an American banker Erwin Goldschmidt three Manets two Cezannes one Van Gogh and a Renoir Movie stars and other celebrities attended in black tie and saw the seven lots go for 781 000 at the time the highest price for a single art sale Overnight London became the world centre of the art market and Sotheby s an international auction house The event signalled a shift in power from dealers to auctioneers and pointed the way for Impressionist paintings to dominate the market for the next forty years In this climate Sotheby s and Christie s became a great business duopoly as aggressive dominant and competitive in the field of art sales as Pepsi and Coca Cola were in soft drinks The resulting expansion of the market was accompanied by rocketing prices colourful scandals and legal dramas Over the decades London transformed itself from a place of old master sales to a revitalised centre of contemporary art a process crowned by the opening of Tate Modern in 2000 James Stourton tells the story of th

Os diários de Conta-Corrente constituem um dos documentos mais impressionantes da vida cultural dos anos setenta e oitenta (cobrindo os anos de 1969 a 1992), com especial destaque para os anos da resistencia e os da revoluço. A importancia documental e literaria deve-se quer a qualidade dos textos do autor, quer a natureza das suas confisses, reflexes e revelaçes sendo uma extraordinaria fonte de dados para o conhecimento da vida e historia portuguesas desses anos.Tal como os grandes diarios de autores como Franz Kafka, Lev Tolstoi, Raul Brando, Miguel Torga, Thomas Mann ou Virginia Woolf, Conta-Corrente no e importante apenas do ponto de vista literario. Pela abundancia de pequenas historias sobre o meio literario e politico portugues da epoca, bem como pela acuidade, autenticidade e profundidade das suas opinies, a obra constitui um enorme espolio de testemunhos sobre o seu tempo real. A sua leitura e uma extraordinaria fonte documental para compreender um periodo to importante como decisivo na vida da sociedade portuguesa, alem de nos dar uma imagem intima pessoal, familiar, geracional de um dos maiores autores portugueses do seculo XX.

[…] Politicamente, seria homem-forte no distrito de Braga do Partido Evolucionista, um dos principais partidos políticos da Primeira República. Essa posição permitiu-lhe ser protagonista da luta que

Longlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book Annie ProulxA way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time the eclipse of the rural world by the urban In this new history of peasantry Patrick Joyce tells the story of this lost world and its people In contrast to the usual insulting stereotypes we discover a rich and complex culture traditions songs celebrations and revolts across Europe from the plains of Poland to the farmsteads and villages of Italy and Ireland through the nineteenth century to the present day Into this passionate history written with exquisite care Joyce weaves remarkable individual stories including those of his own Irish family and looks at how peasant life has been remembered and misremembered in contemporary culture This is a people whose voice is vastly underrepresented in human history Yet for Joyce we are all the children of peasants who must respect the experience of our ancestors This is particularly pressing when our knowledge of the land is being lost to climate crisis and the rise of industrial agriculture Enlightening timely and vital thi