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Roman Bath - A New History and Archaeology of Aquae Sulis (Paperback): Peter Davenport Roman Bath - A New History and Archaeology of Aquae Sulis (Paperback)
Peter Davenport
R594 R531 Discovery Miles 5 310 Save R63 (11%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

For almost three hundred years, excavations have been carried out in Roman Bath. At first these were rare and sporadic and archaeological finds were made by chance. Even fewer were reported. But from the 1860s, deliberate investigations were made and increasingly professional methods employed. The Roman Baths were laid open to view, but little was published. From the 1950s, interest accelerated, professionals and amateurs collaborated, and there was never a decade in which some new discovery was not made. The first popular but authoritative presentation of this work was made in 1971 and updated several times. However, from the 1990s to the present there has been some sort of archaeological investigation almost every year. This has thrown much new and unexpected light on the town of Aquae Sulis and its citizens. In this book, Peter Davenport, having been involved in most of the archaeological work in Bath since 1980, attempts to tell the story of Roman Bath: the latest interim report on the 'Three Hundred Year Dig'.

Yorkshire's Strangest Tales - Extraordinary but True Stories (Paperback): Leonora Rustamova Yorkshire's Strangest Tales - Extraordinary but True Stories (Paperback)
Leonora Rustamova 1
R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A quirky collection of true stories from the stranger side of God's Own Country, including vampires, tigers and aliens. Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Yorkshire, or as it is sometimes beautifully referred to, God's Own County. Though this isn't the usual side of the county the tourists, travellers and residents see. This is the real Yorkshire, the strange and twisted nooks and crannies of the county's bizarre history - past, present and future. Following on from the bestselling Portico Strangest titles now comes a book devoted to one of England's most beautiful valley regions. Located in the upper body of Britain's old man, Yorkshire is a county with more strangeness than you can shake a Dale walking stick at. Home of Robin Hood (he was born in Barnsdale), Guy Fawkes, Dick Turpin and Dracula (Bram Stoker wrote part of the vampire tale in a Whitby hotel!) and, some say, the birthplace of modern civilization even began in Leeds! But you'll have to read the book to find out why. Yorkshire's Strangest Tales is a treasure trove of the hilarious, the odd and the baffling - an alternative travel guide to some of the county's best-kept secrets. Read on, if you dare! You have been warned.

Another Little Book of Yorkshire (Paperback): Adrian Braddy Another Little Book of Yorkshire (Paperback)
Adrian Braddy
R87 R82 Discovery Miles 820 Save R5 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Western Isles Folk Tales (Paperback): Ian Stephen Western Isles Folk Tales (Paperback)
Ian Stephen
R376 R340 Discovery Miles 3 400 Save R36 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Western Isles Folk Tales is a representative collection of stories from the geographical span of the long chain of islands known as the Outer Hebrides. Some are well-known tales and others have been sought out by the author, but all are retold in the natural voice of a local man. You will find premonitions, accounts of uncanny events and mythical beings, such as the blue men of the stream who test mariners venturing into the tidal currents around the Shiant Islands. Also included are tales from islands now uninhabited, like the archipelago of St Kilda, in contrast to the witty yarns from bustling harbours. The author was the inaugural winner of the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship (1995) and his Acts of Trust collaboration with visual artist Christine Morrison won the multi-arts category in the first British Awards for Storytelling Excellence (2012). Both author and illustrator live in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.

Zen and the Art of Local History (Paperback): Carol Kammen, Bob Beatty Zen and the Art of Local History (Paperback)
Carol Kammen, Bob Beatty
R1,456 Discovery Miles 14 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Zen and the Art of Local History is an engaging, interactive conversation that conveys the exciting nature of local history. Divided into six major themes the book covers the scope and breadth of local history: * Being a Local Historian * Topics and Sources * Staying Relevant * Getting it Right * Writing History * History Organizations Each chapter features one of Carol Kammen's memorable editorials from History News. Her editorial is a "call." Each is followed by a response from one of more than five dozen prominent players in state and local history. These Respondents include local and public historians, archivists, volunteers, and history professionals across the kaleidoscopic spectrum of local history. Among this group are Katherine Kane, Robert "Bob" Richmond, Charlie Bryan, and Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko. The result is a series of dialogues on important topics in the field of local history. This interactivity of these conversations makes Zen and the Art of Local History a unique offering in the public history field.

Zen and the Art of Local History (Hardcover): Carol Kammen, Bob Beatty Zen and the Art of Local History (Hardcover)
Carol Kammen, Bob Beatty
R2,628 Discovery Miles 26 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Zen and the Art of Local History is an engaging, interactive conversation that conveys the exciting nature of local history. Divided into six major themes the book covers the scope and breadth of local history: * Being a Local Historian * Topics and Sources * Staying Relevant * Getting it Right * Writing History * History Organizations Each chapter features one of Carol Kammen's memorable editorials from History News. Her editorial is a "call." Each is followed by a response from one of more than five dozen prominent players in state and local history. These Respondents include local and public historians, archivists, volunteers, and history professionals across the kaleidoscopic spectrum of local history. Among this group are Katherine Kane, Robert "Bob" Richmond, Charlie Bryan, and Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko. The result is a series of dialogues on important topics in the field of local history. This interactivity of these conversations makes Zen and the Art of Local History a unique offering in the public history field.

Voices from History: East London Suffragettes (Paperback): Sarah Jackson, Rosemary Taylor Voices from History: East London Suffragettes (Paperback)
Sarah Jackson, Rosemary Taylor
R293 R266 Discovery Miles 2 660 Save R27 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In 1914, the East London Federation of Suffragettes, led by Sylvia Pankhurst, split from the WSPU. Sylvia's mother and sister, Emmeline and Christabel, had encouraged her to give up her work with the poor women of East London - but Sylvia refused. Besides campaigning for women to have an equal right to vote from their headquarters in Bow, the ELFS worked on a range of equality issues which mattered to local women: they built a toy factory, providing work and a living wage for local women; they opened a subsidized canteen where women and children could get cheap, nutritious food; and they launched a nursery school, a creche, and a mother-and-baby clinic. The work of the Federation (and 'our Sylvia', as she was fondly known by locals) deserves to be remembered, and this book, filled with astonishing first-hand accounts, aims to bring this amazing story to life.

The Thousand Year Old Garden - Inside the Secret Garden at Lambeth Palace (Paperback, Paperback): Nick Stewart Smith The Thousand Year Old Garden - Inside the Secret Garden at Lambeth Palace (Paperback, Paperback)
Nick Stewart Smith
R488 R441 Discovery Miles 4 410 Save R47 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Explore the magical green world of Lambeth Palace Garden, a hidden jewel of London for more than 1,000 years. In this book, Head Gardener Nick Stewart Smith takes the reader on a series of rambles through the changing seasons, introducing some extraordinary trees and plants along the way. Revealing some of the untold stories of the ten-acre secret garden, this is a unique insight into a special place. Nick explains how nature is at the heart of everything here, the gardening approach allowing the green world inside the high stone walls to be a haven for many kinds of wildlife, all flourishing right in the midst of one of the world's busiest cities.

A Haverin' History of Scotland (Paperback): Norman Ferguson A Haverin' History of Scotland (Paperback)
Norman Ferguson
R293 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Save R25 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Television, penicillin, the telephone, A Haverin' History of Scotland. All of these have been created by a Scotsperson, although not all will appear on a tea towel listing great Scottish inventions.* Scotland is as old as any other country - maybe even more so, judging by the state of the pavements. This means that it has a lot of a history. A lot! Some of those whose epic deeds have echoed down the centuries include William 'Braveheart' Wallace, King Robert 'the Bruce' the Bruce and Queen Mary 'Queen of Scots' Queen of Scots. Among many others, they all feature in this concise and relatively cheap history of the country people all over the world call Scotland. Because that is its name. Whether you know your Scottish history, or you think the Lewis Chessmen were a 1960s beat combo, A Haverin' History of Scotland is the unreliable history book for you. *Does anyone still watch television?

The Grand Teton Reader (Paperback): Robert W. Righter The Grand Teton Reader (Paperback)
Robert W. Righter
R513 R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Grand Teton National Park draws more than three million visitors annually in search of wildlife, outdoor adventure, solitude, and inspiration. This collection of writings showcases the park's natural and human histories through stories of drama and beauty, tragedy and triumph. Editor Robert Righter has selected thirty-five contributors whose work takes readers from the Tetons' geological origins to the time of Euro-American encroachment and the park's politically tumultuous creation. Selections range from Laine Thom's Shoshone legend of the Snake River and Owen Wister's essay 'Great God! I've Just Killed a Bear,' to Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson's humorous yet fearful account of crossing the Snake River, and William Owen's first attempt to climb the Grand Teton. Conservationists, naturalists, and environmentalists are also represented: Terry Tempest Williams chronicles her multiyear encounter with her 'Range of Memory,' and Olaus and Mardy Murie recount the difficulties of 'park-making' in an often-hostile human environment. Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the park's wild beauty and controversial past will want to read these stories by people who lived it.

Slaves in the Family (Paperback, Revised ed.): Edward Ball Slaves in the Family (Paperback, Revised ed.)
Edward Ball
R645 R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fifteen years after its hardcover debut, the FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, with a new preface by the author
The Ball family hails from South Carolina--Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them. In "Slaves in the Family, "Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family's slaves. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part personal story of investigation and catharsis, "Slaves in the Family" is, in the words of Pat Conroy, "a work of breathtaking generosity and courage, a magnificent study of the complexity and strangeness and beauty of the word 'family.'"

Once in a Great City - A Detroit Story (Paperback): David Maraniss Once in a Great City - A Detroit Story (Paperback)
David Maraniss
R521 R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Colours of Suffolk (Hardcover): Mark Staples Colours of Suffolk (Hardcover)
Mark Staples
R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Whitland & Cardigan Railway (Paperback): M.R.C. Price The Whitland & Cardigan Railway (Paperback)
M.R.C. Price
R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Marikana - A People's History (Paperback): Julian Brown Marikana - A People's History (Paperback)
Julian Brown
R280 R259 Discovery Miles 2 590 Save R21 (7%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

On 16 August 2012, the South African police shot dead thirty-four men and injured hundreds more, bringing to an end a week-long strike at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana. None of the murdered people posed a threat to any police officer. Existing studies of this nation-shaping and internationally significant event have often overlooked the experiences and perspectives of the striking miners themselves. Now, for the first time, the men’s lives – and deaths – are put at the centre of the story.

Placing the strike in the context of South Africa’s long history of racial and economic exclusion, explaining how the miners came to be in Marikana, how their lives were ordinarily lived and the substance of their complaints, Julian Brown shows how the strike developed from an initial gathering into a mass movement of more than 3,000 workers. Drawing on interviews with strikers and their families, he tells the stories of those who embarked on the strike, those who were killed, and the attempts of the families of the deceased to identify and bury their dead.

Brown also provides a comprehensive review of the subsequent Commission of Inquiry and points to the politics of solidarity with the Marikana miners that have emerged since.

Rebel Imaginaries - Labor, Culture, and Politics in Depression-Era California (Hardcover): Elizabeth E. Sine Rebel Imaginaries - Labor, Culture, and Politics in Depression-Era California (Hardcover)
Elizabeth E. Sine
R2,382 Discovery Miles 23 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

During the Great Depression, California became a wellspring for some of the era's most inventive and imaginative political movements. In response to the global catastrophe, the multiracial laboring populations who formed the basis of California's economy gave rise to an oppositional culture that challenged the modes of racialism, nationalism, and rationalism that had guided modernization during preceding decades. In Rebel Imaginaries Elizabeth E. Sine tells the story of that oppositional culture's emergence, revealing how aggrieved Californians asserted political visions that embraced difference, fostered a sense of shared vulnerability, and underscored the interconnectedness and interdependence of global struggles for human dignity. From the Imperial Valley's agricultural fields to Hollywood, seemingly disparate communities of African American, Native American, Mexican, Filipinx, Asian, and White working-class people were linked by their myriad struggles against Depression-era capitalism and patterns of inequality and marginalization. In tracing the diverse coalition of those involved in labor strikes, citizenship and immigration reform, and articulating and imagining freedom through artistic practice, Sine demonstrates that the era's social movements were far more heterogeneous, multivalent, and contested than previously understood.

Rebel Imaginaries - Labor, Culture, and Politics in Depression-Era California (Paperback): Elizabeth E. Sine Rebel Imaginaries - Labor, Culture, and Politics in Depression-Era California (Paperback)
Elizabeth E. Sine
R722 R673 Discovery Miles 6 730 Save R49 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

During the Great Depression, California became a wellspring for some of the era's most inventive and imaginative political movements. In response to the global catastrophe, the multiracial laboring populations who formed the basis of California's economy gave rise to an oppositional culture that challenged the modes of racialism, nationalism, and rationalism that had guided modernization during preceding decades. In Rebel Imaginaries Elizabeth E. Sine tells the story of that oppositional culture's emergence, revealing how aggrieved Californians asserted political visions that embraced difference, fostered a sense of shared vulnerability, and underscored the interconnectedness and interdependence of global struggles for human dignity. From the Imperial Valley's agricultural fields to Hollywood, seemingly disparate communities of African American, Native American, Mexican, Filipinx, Asian, and White working-class people were linked by their myriad struggles against Depression-era capitalism and patterns of inequality and marginalization. In tracing the diverse coalition of those involved in labor strikes, citizenship and immigration reform, and articulating and imagining freedom through artistic practice, Sine demonstrates that the era's social movements were far more heterogeneous, multivalent, and contested than previously understood.

Red Road To Freedom - A History of the South African Communist Party 1921-2021 (Paperback): Tom Lodge Red Road To Freedom - A History of the South African Communist Party 1921-2021 (Paperback)
Tom Lodge
R380 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R29 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

This book is the product of many years’ research by Lodge, whose Black Politics in South Africa since 1945 (1983) established him as a leading commentator on South African politics, past and present.

2021 will mark the centenary of the foundation of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and today’s South African Communist Party (SACP, founded in 1953 after the proscription of the CPSA) will be extremely fortunate to have the milestone marked by a scholarly work of this calibre. Since 1994, many memoirs have been written by communists, and private archives have been donated to university and other collections. Significant official archives have been opened to scrutiny, particularly those of South Africa and the former Soviet Union. It is as if a notoriously secretive body has suddenly become confiding and confessional! While every chapter draws upon original material of this sort, such evidence is supported, amplified, illuminated and challenged by the scholarship of others: the breadth of secondary sources used by the author reflects what may well be an unrivalled familiarity with the scholarly literature on political organisations and resistance in twentieth century South Africa.

Lodge provides a richly detailed history of the Party’s vicissitudes and victories; individuals – their ideas, attitudes and activities – are sensitively located within their context; the text provides a fascinating sociology of the South African left over time. Lodge is adept at making explicit what the key questions and issues are for different periods; and he answers these with analyses and conclusions that are judicious, clearly stated, and meticulously argued.

Without doubt, this book will become a central text for students of communism in South Africa, of the Party’s links with Russia and the socialist bloc, and of the Communist Party’s changing relations with African nationalism – before, during and after three decades of exile.

The Heart of Central New York - Stories of Historic Homer, NY (Paperback): Martin A. Sweeney The Heart of Central New York - Stories of Historic Homer, NY (Paperback)
Martin A. Sweeney
R899 Discovery Miles 8 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In The Heart of Central New York: Stories of Historic Homer, NY Martin A. Sweeney makes the past come alive through this collection of articles from his column in The Homer News. Through his writing, Sweeney offers readers a glimpse of the excitement he brought to his classrooms by bringing to life the people, events, manners, and mores of the past in a community that is the heart of Central New York State. This compilation represents Sweeney's successful efforts as a public historian in using the press as a tool for generating interest in his community's unique historical identity.With annotations and a touch of humor, this book illustrates for current and emerging public historians how to successfully engage a community in acknowledging their history matters-that the fibers of "microhistory" contribute to the rich tapestry that is county, regional, state, and national history.

SOUTHAMPTON'S OLD KINGSLAND AND ST MARY STREET (Paperback): Dave Marden SOUTHAMPTON'S OLD KINGSLAND AND ST MARY STREET (Paperback)
Dave Marden
R506 Discovery Miles 5 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A 1950s Southampton Childhood (Paperback): Penny Legg, James Marsh A 1950s Southampton Childhood (Paperback)
Penny Legg, James Marsh
R321 R291 Discovery Miles 2 910 Save R30 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The 1950s was a time of regeneration and change for Southampton. For children growing up during this decade, life was changing fast. They still made their own toys and earned their own pocket money, but, on new television sets, Andy Pandy (1950) and Bill and Ben (1952) delighted them. With rationing discontinued, confectionary was on the menu again and, for children, Southampton life in the 1950s was sweet. If you saw a Laurel and Hardy performance at The Gaumont Theatre, or made dens out of bombed-out buildings, then you'll thoroughly enjoy this charming and nostalgic account of the era.

Lighthouses of the Georgia Coast (Hardcover): William Rawlings Lighthouses of the Georgia Coast (Hardcover)
William Rawlings
R745 R667 Discovery Miles 6 670 Save R78 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Once an essential part of nautical navigation and commerce, the world's lighthouses have become historical relics of days past, their primary function now replaced by modern technology. Yet these magnificent structures continue to fascinate us, not only for their intrinsic beauty, but also as monuments to our shared history, and as symbols of hope and salvation to those cast adrift on the stormy seas of life. From the mid-eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries, the waterways of coastal Georgia from the St. Marys River in the south to the Savannah River in the north were an integral part of the state's economy, vital to the trade in cotton, rice, timber, naval stores, and other products shipped to ports in America and around the world. Georgia's barrier islands are today the site of five existing lighthouses, each with its own unique style, history, and role in events over the past decades and centuries. In addition, focusing on these beacons, Lighthouses of the Georgia Coast reviews the basics of lighthouse design and construction, the role, lore and legacy of lighthouse keepers, the significance of lighthouses as strategic structures during the turbulent days of the Civil War, and more. Richly illustrated with both contemporary and historical photos, the reader or visitor will gain a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of Georgia's lighthouses and of similar structures on coasts and waterways around the world.

Follies (Paperback): Jonathan Holt Follies (Paperback)
Jonathan Holt
R204 Discovery Miles 2 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Voices from Death Row, Second Edition (Paperback): Bruce Jackson, Diane Christian Voices from Death Row, Second Edition (Paperback)
Bruce Jackson, Diane Christian
R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Short History of Lyme Regis (Paperback, New edition): John Fowles A Short History of Lyme Regis (Paperback, New edition)
John Fowles
R193 Discovery Miles 1 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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