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Fashion in the Time of William Shakespeare by Sarah Downing
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Downing

A German Courtier, c. 1580. As Shakespeare joked in Much Ado about Nothing, he is ‘… a German from the waist downward, all slops …’. He is also wearing his ...
( Category: Fashion Design April 10,2016 )
British Sheep Breeds by Susannah Parkin
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Susannah Parkin

North Ronaldsay is a small breed, indigenous to the Orkneys. The sheep survive on the seashore, living on a diet consisting entirely of seaweed. Native to the Orkneys, this is ...
( Category: Animal Husbandry April 8,2016 )
Garden Cities by Sarah Rutherford
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Rutherford

An idealised interior, designed by Barry Parker for his brother Stanley, in Letchworth Garden City, 102 Wilbury Road. Arts and Crafts and historicist styles were strong themes, as epitomised in ...
( Category: England April 8,2016 )
The Victorians and Edwardians at Play by John Hannavy
epub |eng | 2011-10-28 | Author:John Hannavy

PLEASURE BEACHES There were already a number of well-established funfairs and pleasure beaches in America when the first ride on what would become Britain’s first pleasure beach opened in Blackpool ...
( Category: Great Britain April 8,2016 )
Oxford History of Modern Europe by Blanning T. C. W.;
epub |eng | 2000-04-07 | Author:Blanning, T. C. W.;

The End of the Popular Front Blum’s difficulties over the Spanish war were a reflection of both the contradictions of his coalition and the divisions of French society. The Radicals ...
( Category: Great Britain April 8,2016 )
Code Name Caesar by Preisler Jerome; Sewell Kenneth;
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Preisler, Jerome; Sewell, Kenneth; [Jerome Preisler and Kenneth Sewell]

The cable goes on to detail some of the items of freight, with deletions that its U. S. Navy translator explains were made because they “enumerated only cargo numbers and ...
( Category: World War II April 8,2016 )
The Brother Gardeners by Andrea Wulf
epub |eng | 2008-04-06 | Author:Andrea Wulf [Wulf, Andrea]

Details of the Endeavour's cabin layout after the alterations. Note Banks's cabin next to the Great Cabin. Once the alterations were complete, Cook sailed the Endeavour from Deptford to Plymouth, ...
( Category: Great Britain April 7,2016 )
Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox
epub |eng | 2012-12-29 | Author:Brenda Maddox

Rosalind’s Photograph 51 (shown original size) of the B form of DNA, which told Watson that the molecule was a helix. Events then moved fast. The following day, 31 January, ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American April 3,2016 )
The Duchess of Northumberland's Little Book of Jams, Jellies and Preserves by The Duchess of Northumberland
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-12 | Author:The Duchess of Northumberland

BLANC MANGER FOR ONE THAT IS SICKE Take almondes and beate them verie fine and beate withal rosewater and verie fine suger and straine it thorough a fine clothe. Let ...
( Category: Great Britain April 3,2016 )
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War by Ian Buruma
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-01-19 | Author:Ian Buruma

Left to right: Hilary, John, Win, Susan, Wendy, and Roger One man who understood this perfectly was Bernard’s closest friend, Basil William Sholto Mackenzie, who succeeded his father in 1942 ...
( Category: Great Britain March 21,2016 )
The Lost Tudor Princess by Alison Weir
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Alison Weir

On the 27th, to gratify the Queen, Lennox went through a ceremony of reconciliation with Châtelherault, his old foe, although their enmity would continue to simmer. Randolph reported on November ...
( Category: Great Britain March 19,2016 )
How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life by Ruth Goodman
mobi |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Ruth Goodman

9. The Midday Meal Taken at noon, the midday meal was known as ‘lunch’ or ‘dinner’. The name largely depended upon social background, but it was also dictated by the ...
( Category: Great Britain March 15,2016 )
Royal Pains: A Rogues' Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds by Leslie Carroll
epub |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Leslie Carroll [Carroll, Leslie]

But in order to have a valid cause of action for adultery, the baron had to catch the lovers literally in flagrante. Passionate correspondence alone would not be enough to ...
( Category: Great Britain March 15,2016 )
The Worm Forgives the Plough by John Stewart Collis
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-04 | Author:John Stewart Collis [John Stewart Collis]

BOOK TWO DOWN TO EARTH Reading through this book of mine, and subsequent ones of the same kind, I see that my approach has the merit of being highly unoriginal. ...
( Category: England March 14,2016 )
The Regiment by Michael Asher
epub |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Michael Asher [Asher, Michael]

60. He couldn’t believe that he’d actually survived Bill Fraser’s A Squadron had crossed the Rhine at Wesel with Brian Franks’s Frankforce almost a fortnight earlier. Two days after the ...
( Category: Military Technology March 14,2016 )

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