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Exits and Entrances is the story of the authors early life in Belfast. It is also a story of travel to distant lands by ocean liners before the age of air travel...
Roses in December is a saga about three mansions and about the families who live in each of them. The story of each house is narrated by Ted Dawson who has just been told that his beautiful wife Eileen, the author of many books and plays, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. His wife's condition and her inability to recognise him has caused him great distress. He recalls memories of the time when they first met and of years of love, friendship, passion, pleasure and companionship she had given him, and also the tragedy and sadness they had endured together.. His memories take him back to his childhood and to the wonderful days he had shared with with his dad at 'Riverdene' until his ...
The extraordinary story of Lady, Britain's oldest breeding osprey - one of the UK's favourite birds.
The early years include principally resolutions, with few reports.
Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America: -- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great Depression that gave rise to the Workers' Alliance of America -- The industrial strikes that resulted in the formation of the CIO -- The Southern Civil Rights Movement -- The movement of welfare recipients led by the National Welfare Rights Organization.
Just over a century ago, Our Island Story entranced a nation's children by telling their history in stories. Short, simply written chapters, packed with living characters and thrilling action - and illustrated with vivid colour pictures - illuminate all the main events from Britain's earliest days to the end of Victoria's reign. And its glorious fusion of myth and legend with sober fact - Canute and King Arthur with Cromwell and the Indian Mutiny - is as seductive now as it ever was. 'I was given H.E. Marshall's Our Island Story at Christmas 1936 and I've still got that copy. It was a direct inspiration for me in my career as a historian' Antonia Fraser 'It is written in a way that really captured my imagination and which nurtured my interest in the history of our great nation' David Cameron 'One of the most influential works of history of the 20th century' Times Educational Supplement