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Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of
children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust How can
we make sense of our lives when we do not know where we come from?
This was a pressing question for the youngest survivors of the
Holocaust, whose prewar memories were vague or nonexistent. In this
beautifully written account, Rebecca Clifford follows the lives of
one hundred Jewish children out of the ruins of conflict through
their adulthood and into old age. Drawing on archives and
interviews, Clifford charts the experiences of these child
survivors and those who cared for them-as well as those who studied
them, such as Anna Freud. Survivors explores the aftermath of the
Holocaust in the long term, and reveals how these children-often
branded "the lucky ones"-had to struggle to be able to call
themselves "survivors" at all. Challenging our assumptions about
trauma, Clifford's powerful and surprising narrative helps us
understand what it was like living after, and living with,
childhoods marked by rupture and loss.
Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the
discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography.
Between November 1922 and spring 1923, a door to the ancient
Egyptian world was opened. The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun
would be the most astonishing archaeological find of the century,
revealing not only the boy pharaoh's preserved remains, but
thousands of finely crafted objects, from the iconic gold mask and
coffins to a dagger made from meteorite, chalices, beautiful
furniture and even 3000-year-old food and wine. The world's
understanding of Ancient Egyptian civilisation was immeasurably
enhanced, and the quantity and richness of the objects in the tomb
is still being studied today. Two men were ultimately responsible
for the discovery: Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter. It was Lord
Carnarvon who held the concession to excavate and whose passion and
ability to finance the project allowed the eventual discovery to
take place. The Earl and the Pharaoh tells the story of the 5th
Earl of Carnarvon. Carnarvon's life, money and sudden death became
front-page news throughout the world following the discovery of the
tomb, fuelling rumours that persist today of 'the curse of the
pharaohs'. His beloved home, Highclere Castle, is today best-known
as the set of Downton Abbey. Drawing on Highclere Castle's
never-before-plumbed archives, bestselling author Fiona, the
Countess of Carnarvon, charts the twists of luck and tragedies that
shaped Carnarvon's life; his restless and enquiring mind that drove
him to travel to escape conventional society life in Edwardian
Britain.
'A brilliant and important book ... Five Stars!' Mark Dolan,
talkRADIO 'An important new book' Daily Express An alternative
history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies ever
told and how they've been used over time. Lincoln did not believe
all men were created equal. The Aztecs were not slaughtered by the
Spanish Conquistadors. And Churchill was not the man that people
love to remember. In this fascinating new book, journalist and
author Otto English takes ten great lies from history and shows how
our present continues to be manipulated by the fabrications of the
past. He looks at how so much of what we take to be historical fact
is, in fact, fiction. From the myths of WW2 to the adventures of
Columbus, and from the self-serving legends of 'great men' to the
origins of curry - fake history is everywhere and used ever more to
impact our modern world. Setting out to redress the balance,
English tears apart the lies propagated by politicians and think
tanks, the grand narratives spun by populists and the media, the
stories on your friend's Facebook feed and the tales you were told
in childhood. And, in doing so, reclaims the truth from those who
have perverted it. Fake History exposes everything you weren't told
in school and why you weren't taught it.
Award-winning writer Richard Williams tells the remarkable story of
the 24 Hours of Le Mans, one of the world's most iconic motorsports
events, which celebrates its centenary in 2023. The event was
created by a group of Frenchmen in 1923 and remains uniquely
compelling to spectators, to the major motor manufacturers who
continue to see it as an opportunity for priceless publicity, as
well as to drivers hoping to add their names to its distinguished
roll of honour. Between the wars, those manufacturers included
Bugatti, Bentley and Alfa Romeo. Subsequently, Ferrari, Jaguar,
Mercedes, Aston Martin, Ford, Porsche, Audi and Toyota have all
been serial winners, guaranteeing the continuation of ferocious
inter-marque rivalry. Over the decades the race acquired a rich
folklore, including stories of leaking petrol tanks being sealed
with chewing gum, one competitor making his last pit-stop for a
fill-up and a glass of champagne, or the woman who drove her MG
through the night wearing a fur coat. Competitors have included
princes, debutantes, drug smugglers and a Nazi spy. Leading
Hollywood film-makers lured to the romance of the race include
Steve McQueen, who conceived and starred in Le Mans in 1971, and
James Mangold, who made Le Mans '66 in 2019. But in 1955 it had
also been the scene of the greatest tragedy ever to befall motor
racing, when 82 people were killed by a competing car, an accident
that for a while threatened the sport's entire future. From the
Bentley Boys of the 1920s, through record-breaking multiple winners
Jacky Ickx and Tom Kristensen to modern stars such as Allan McNish,
24 Hours celebrates the skill, courage and technical brilliance of
the men and women who gave the race its worldwide renown.
Includes articles on architecture, cultural history, the 'Luxury
debate' in the eighteenth century, Rousseau, and the manuscript of
The Life of John Wilkes with commentary and contextualisation.
Every individual book has a history which can help us to understand
what difference it may have made in the world. Within these pages
you will find books damaged by bullets or graffiti, recovered from
fire or water, or even disguised as completely different texts for
protection in dangerous times. Marks of ownership - be it a rich
treasure binding or a humble family inscription - shine a light on
social history and literacy, while student doodles from the
sixteenth century and a variety of pithy annotations give us a
sense of readers through the ages. We increasingly recognise that
the cultural and research value of books lies not just in their
printed contents, but in the many other things they can tell us
about the ways they have been used, read and regarded. Generously
illustrated with examples from the early Middle Ages to the present
day, Speaking Volumes presents a fascinating selection of books in
both public and private collections whose individual histories tell
surprising and illuminating stories, encouraging us to look at and
appreciate books in new and non-traditional ways.
A regional and global approach to world history that highlights
society and culture Long praised by instructors and students for
its accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and
sustained attention to social history, the Eleventh Edition of A
History of World Societies includes even more features and tools to
engage today's students and save instructors time. This edition
includes more help with historical thinking skills, an expanded
primary source program in print and online, and the best and latest
scholarship throughout The book can be purchased with the
breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which combines an e-book
with a wealth of time-saving teaching and learning tools. LaunchPad
comes with LearningCurve, an adaptive and automatically graded
learning tool that ensures students come to class prepared. Volume
1 includes Chapters 1-16
'Coffin roads' along which bodies were carried for burial are a
marked feature of the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and
islands - many are now popular walking and cycling routes. This
book journeys along eight coffin roads to discover and explore the
distinctive traditions, beliefs and practices around dying, death
and mourning in the communities which created and used them. The
result is a fascinating snapshot into place and culture. After more
than a century when death was very much a taboo subject, this book
argues that aspects of the distinctive West Highland and Hebridean
way of death and approach to dying and mourning may have something
helpful and important to offer to us today. Routes covered in this
book are: The Kilmartin Valley - the archetypal coffin road in this
ritual landscape of the dead. The Street of the Dead on Iona -
perhaps the best known coffin road in Scotland. Kilearnadil
Graveyard, Jura - a perfect example of a Hebridean graveyard. The
coffin road through Morvern to Keil Church, Lochaline - among the
best defined and most evocative coffin roads today. The Green Isle,
Loch Shiel, Ardnamurchan - the oldest continuously used burial
place anywhere in Europe. The coffin road on Eigg - with its
distinctive 'piper's cairn' where the coffin of Donald MacQuarrie,
the 'Great Piper of Eigg', was rested. The coffin road from Traigh
Losgaintir to Loch Stocinis on Harris - popular with walkers and
taken as the title for a best-selling thriller by Peter May. The
coffin road on Barra - A detailed study of burial practices on
Barra in the early 1950s provides a fascinating record of Hebridean
attitudes to dying, death and mourning.
In die vierde deel van die reeks Imperiale somer word aan Marabastad, die separatistiese kerke, die opkoms van die Afrikaners in die naoorlogsjare, die emigrasie van blankes na Oos-Afrika ná die oorlog, en die veldtog ten behoewe van die Indiërbevolking onder leiding van Gandhi aandag gegee. Anekdotes en kameebeskrywings kleur die vertelling in.
Dié deel lewer 'n belangrike bydrae tot 'n voorheen minder bekende tydperk in die Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis en sal 'n wye leespubliek en nie net vakkundiges nie boei.
Pete Brown takes us on a well-lubricated pub-crawl through the
story of beer, from the first sacred sip of ancient Egyptian
"bouza" to the last pint of lager on a Friday night. It is a tale
of yeast-obsessed monks and teetotal prime ministers of how pale
ale fuelled an empire and weak bitter won a world war of exploding
breweries, a bear in a yellow nylon jacket and a Canadian bloke who
changed the drinking habits of a nation. It is also the story of
the rise of the pub from humble origins through an epic, 1000-year
struggle to survive misunderstanding, bad government and misguided
commerce.
This is the first full-length biography of Frances Power Cobbe
(1822-1904), Anglo-Irish reformer, feminist, and
anti-vivisectionist Lori Williamson builds on original research,
Cobbe's autobiography, and the work of later historians to analyze
Cobbe's life as well as her ideological outlook.
A workhouse visitor, Cobbe campaigned strenuously against those
in power for rights of women, the poor and of animals. A prominent
critic of the Poor Law, she was also the first person to draw up a
petition to control cruelty to animals. Using Cobbe's thoughts and
activities as a catalyst, Power and Protest explores the issues of
protest, reform, hierarchy, power, and gender, the relationship
between men and women, humans and animals, and includes important
work on pressure-group dynamics.
Given its wide-ranging scope, depiction of nineteenth-century
British society and culture, and its exploration of the symbiotic
relationships between ideology and the dynamics of protest, Power
and Protest will attract students of history, social policy, and
gender. Its emphasis on anti-vivisection activity provides a
powerful basis for understanding power relations and the historical
concept of rights.
Winner of the 2022 James Beard Book Award A Guardian Best History
and Politics Book of 2022 Selected as one of the 25 Best Cookbooks
of 2022 in Delicious Magazine Nominated for the 2022 Spirited
Awards This is the forgotten history of women making, serving and
drinking alcohol. Drink has always been at the centre of social
rituals and cultures worldwide-and women have been at the heart of
its production and consumption. So when did drinking become
gendered? How have patriarchies tried to erase and exclude women
from industries they've always led, and how have women fought back?
And why are things from bars to whiskey considered 'masculine',
when, without women, they might not exist? With whip-smart insight
and boundless curiosity, Girly Drinks unveils distillers, brewers,
drinkers and bartenders with a vital role in the creation and
consumption of alcohol, from Cleopatra, Catherine the Great and the
real Veuve Clicquot to Chinese poets, medieval nuns and Prohibition
bootleggers. Mallory O'Meara's fun and fascinating history
dismantles the long-standing myth that drink is a male tradition.
Now, readers everywhere can discover each woman celebrated in this
book-and proudly have what she's having.
In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity,
irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that
made A Short History of Nearly Everything one of the most lauded
books of the last decade, and delivers one of the most entertaining
and illuminating books ever written about the history of the way we
live. Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote
a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to
considering what history really consists of: centuries of people
quietly going about their daily business - eating, sleeping and
merely endeavouring to get more comfortable. And that most of the
key discoveries for humankind can be found in the very fabric of
the houses in which we live.This inspired him to start a journey
around his own house, an old rectory in Norfolk, wandering from
room to room considering how the ordinary things in life came to
be. Along the way he did a prodigious amount of research on the
history of anything and everything, from architecture to
electricity, from food preservation to epidemics, from the spice
trade to the Eiffel Tower, from crinolines to toilets; and on the
brilliant, creative and often eccentric minds behind them. And he
discovered that, although there may seem to be nothing as
unremarkable as our domestic lives, there is a huge amount of
history, interest and excitement - and even a little danger -
lurking in the corners of every home.
This four-volume set of handbooks offers comprehensive survey of
the history of a region that went from domination by various
Empires before the First World War to membership of the EU in the
late twentieth century. Challenges of Modernity offers a broad
account of the social and economic history of Central and Eastern
Europe in the twentieth century and asks critical questions about
the structure and experience of modernity in different contexts and
periods. Statehood examines the extending lines of development of
nation-state systems in Eastern Europe, in particular considering
why certain tendencies in state development found a different
expression in this region compared to other parts of the continent.
Intellectual Horizons offers a pioneering, transnational and
comparative treatment of key thematic areas in the intellectual and
cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth
century. Violence analyses both the violence exerted on the
societies of Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth
century by belligerent powers and authoritarian and/or totalitarian
regimes and armed conflicts between ethnic, social and national
groups, as well as the interaction between these two phenomena.
Transnational and comparative in approach, key lines of development
are synthesised leading to a complex understanding of the region.
Written by a range of international contributors, many from the
region itself, this is the go-to resource on Central, Eastern, and
Southeastern Europe in the twentieth century.
A look at the early years of the great Lucas Radebe and Mark Fish,
one black and one white footballer. It moves from football played
with rolled-up old socks on the dusty veldt, to the glamour and
passion of the English Premiership and the World Cup.;It traces the
struggle for liberation in the township of Diepklooit and the
backlash of apartheid Pretoria to the establishment of a democratic
state. We follow Mark and Lucas's efforts on behalf of Bafana
Bafana, at times heroic, at times controversial, as they steer
their national side from African soccer baby to football giant in
less than a decade.
A new, updated, revised edition of JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY, the
wider history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City,
covering from pre-history to 2020, from King David to Donald Trump.
The story of Jerusalem is the story of the world. Jerusalem is the
universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three
faiths; it is the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of
today's clash of civilisations. How did this small, remote town
become the Holy City, the 'centre of the world' and now the key to
peace in the Middle East? Drawing on new archives and a lifetime's
study, Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city through the wars,
love affairs and revelations of the kings, empresses, prophets,
poets, saints, conquerors and whores who created, destroyed,
chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. A classic of modern
literature, this is not only the epic story of 3,000 years of
faith, slaughter, fanaticism and co-existence, but also a
freshly-updated history of the entire Middle East, from King David
to the twenty-first century, from the birth of Judaism,
Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict and the
wars of today. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem - the only
city that exists twice - in heaven and on earth.
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