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In Subversive Habits, Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full
history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them
as the forgotten prophets of Catholicism and democracy. Drawing on
oral histories and previously sealed Church records, Williams
demonstrates how master narratives of women's religious life and
Catholic commitments to racial and gender justice fundamentally
change when the lives and experiences of African American nuns are
taken seriously. For Black Catholic women and girls, embracing the
celibate religious state constituted a radical act of resistance to
white supremacy and the sexual terrorism built into chattel slavery
and segregation. Williams shows how Black sisters-such as Sister
Mary Antona Ebo, who was the only Black member of the inaugural
delegation of Catholic sisters to travel to Selma, Alabama, and
join the Black voting rights marches of 1965-were pioneering
religious leaders, educators, healthcare professionals,
desegregation foot soldiers, Black Power activists, and womanist
theologians. In the process, Williams calls attention to Catholic
women's religious life as a stronghold of white supremacy and
racial segregation-and thus an important battleground in the long
African American freedom struggle.
In this sequel to 'Star Wars Episode I: A New Hope' (1977), the
Rebel Alliance flees the power of Darth Vader (Dave Prowse) once
again and finds refuge on the frozen planet of Hoth, but their safe
place does not stay safe for long. The all-star cast also includes
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.
The next instalment in the 'Star Wars' franchise. Rebel Luke
Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and his friends continue to battle evil in
the form of the decadent galactic empire, headed by Jedi-gone-bad
Darth Vader (Dave Prowse, with the voice of James Earl Jones), as
the ruthless Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) sets plans in motion to
build a second Death Star with the purpose of destroying the Rebel
Alliance.
Box set containing four films from the popular 'Batman' film
series. 'Batman' (1989) was the first big screen outing for Bob
Kane's caped crusader. The streets of Gotham City are no longer
safe for criminals, who are being picked off by a masked vigilante
in a rubber suit - dubbed 'Batman' by the press. Reporter Alexander
Knox (Robert Wuhl) teams with photographer Vicki Vale (Kim
Basinger) in an attempt to discover Batman's true identity - an
investigation which leads them to the door of mysterious
millioniare Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton). Meanwhile, crime boss
Carl Grissom's (Jack Palance) attempt to rid himself of
untrustworthy henchman Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson) does not go
according to plan, and after emerging physically - and mentally -
disfigured from a vat of chemicals, Napier reinvents himself as the
psychotic Joker. In 'Batman Returns' (1992), Oswald Cobblepot was
abandoned by his parents as a baby. Thirty three years later, bent
on revenge, he returns to Gotham City as the Penguin (Danny
DeVito). First he begins a warped campaign to become Mayor, helped
by millionaire businessman Max Shreck (Christopher Walken); next,
he undertakes a mission to murder every first born son in Gotham -
a plan which will avenge his own beginnings. Meanwhile, he has two
adversaries to contend with: Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer), the
embittered ex-secretary of Max Shreck, and, of course, the old
caped crusader himself (Keaton). In 'Batman Forever' (1995), former
District Attorney Harvey Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) is terrorising
Gotham City, when a new villain appears on the scene - the Riddler
(Jim Carrey). Together they plot to discover Batman's (Val Kilmer)
identity, using a device which can probe the human mind. Meanwhile,
the caped crusader has been joined by Robin (Chris O'Donnell),
whose trapeze-artist family have recently been slain by Two-Face.
'Finally, in 'Batman and Robin' (1997), Batman (George Clooney) and
Robin (O'Donnell) have to stop the vengeful Mr Freeze (Arnold
Schwarzenegger) from taking over Gotham City by using his new ice
weapon. To make matters worse, the venomous Poison Ivy (Uma
Thurman) decides to join forces with Freeze, so making an almost
undefeatable double-whammy of a team. Luckily for the caped
crusader and his rebellious ward, they can team up with a new tough
and courageous new partner - Batgirl (Alicia Silverstone).
It's 1921 and eighteen-year-old Daisy May and her little sister
Mary-Jane, who is six, are orphaned. Times are tough and, to
support her sister, Daisy has to work hard as a dancer in a
nightclub, getting home late and hardly seeing Mary-Jane. One night
a fire starts and Mary-Jane is alone in the house. The night's
events lead to the sisters being split up and Daisy May begins to
fear that she will never see Mary-Jane again...
The first three Star Wars films reworked as creator George Lucas intended. Using state-of-the-art technology, Lucas and his team cleaned up the prints, updated the special effects and added new footage. Originally released before 'Episode I - The Phantom Menace' (1999) the films have been renamed to fit in with Lucas's original vision.
The story follows the adventures of a band of fearless rebels who try to take on the might of the awesome Empire, led by the evil Emperor and Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader (Dave Prowse). Throughout their quest, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) and C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) meet terrifying foes, new allies and bizarre creatures.
In 'Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope' (1977), on discovering a secret hidden inside a droid that his family have bought, young farmhand Luke Skywalker becomes involved in a battle between the forces of light and the evil Empire.
Along the way he meets up with a Jedi Knight (Alec Guinness), a roguish space pilot, a beautiful princess and an evil tyrant.
In 'Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back' (1980), after the destruction of the Death Star, the rebels led by Luke and Leia are on the run from the vengeful Empire. Holed up on an inhospitable ice planet, they are soon discovered and must flee across the galaxy.
Luke decides to visit an old Jedi Knight while Han and Leia become involved in a game of cat and mouse with Vader and a host of bounty hunters led by Boba Fett (Jeremy Bulloch). In 'Star Wars Episode VI - Return of the Jedi' (1983), with Han being held captive by Jabba the Hutt (voice of Larry Ward), his friends Luke, Leia, Lando (Billy Dee Williams), Chewbacca, R2-D2 and C-3PO plan a rescue mission. Then the intrepid group must make another assault on the new, more powerful Death Star and Luke must face his destiny in the shape of Darth Vader and the Emperor.
As a little girl, brought up in an orphanage, Caroline Parker had
always been told that Dept Ford was the place her disgraced mother
had come from. So when years later her husband dies, leaving her
penniless and with three young children to support, Caroline's
first thought is to head for the place she has envisaged as home:
Dept Ford. But to her horror, she finds that Dept Ford is not the
country village she'd imagined, but in the middle of London, a
huge, teeming city the likes of which she's never seen. Luckily a
kindly passer-by takes pity on her weary children and puts them on
the tram to a place where she might find lodgings which, as it
turns out, is in Rotherhithe, not Deptford. And so it is Culver
Road that becomes her true home, where Carrie - as her neighbours
call her - and her family, helped out by the irrepressible Flo and
her soft-hearted docker husband Alf, find themselves battling
through times both good and bad. And it is in Culver Road that
Carrie meets Jim, the enigmatic sailor who is to change her life
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In Subversive Habits, Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full
history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them
as the forgotten prophets of Catholicism and democracy. Drawing on
oral histories and previously sealed Church records, Williams
demonstrates how master narratives of women's religious life and
Catholic commitments to racial and gender justice fundamentally
change when the lives and experiences of African American nuns are
taken seriously. For Black Catholic women and girls, embracing the
celibate religious state constituted a radical act of resistance to
white supremacy and the sexual terrorism built into chattel slavery
and segregation. Williams shows how Black sisters-such as Sister
Mary Antona Ebo, who was the only Black member of the inaugural
delegation of Catholic sisters to travel to Selma, Alabama, and
join the Black voting rights marches of 1965-were pioneering
religious leaders, educators, healthcare professionals,
desegregation foot soldiers, Black Power activists, and womanist
theologians. In the process, Williams calls attention to Catholic
women's religious life as a stronghold of white supremacy and
racial segregation-and thus an important battleground in the long
African American freedom struggle.
Identical twins Lily and Rose Flowers aren't from a rich family,
but they lead a comfortable life in 1920s Rotherhithe with their
mum and dad. The twins are the apple of their parents' eye, and
each other's best friend - they always know what the other is
thinking. Feisty Rose has a more rebellious nature than her sister,
but it's never before interfered with their closeness. However,
Rose's secret dissatisfaction with her humdrum lifestyle reaches a
head when she meets the rich and handsome Rodger. To the shock of
the Flowers family, she elopes with him to Gretna Green. Once Rose
has the money and glamour she's always craved, nothing will
persuade her to contact her family again; not even her father's
death. And then, in the wake of the Wall Street Crash of 1929,
everything changes. With her charmed life in shreds and with no one
left to turn to, Rose is determined to build bridges those she has
hurt the most. But can forgiveness be sought so easily - and can
she ever truly escape her troubled past?
Living in their two-up-two-down in Rotherhithe in 1938, Eileen and
Ronald Wells lead a happy and settled existence with their three
daughters, all of whom have jobs, boyfriends and promising lives
ahead of them. But soon the storm clouds of war engulf Europe and
they suddenly find their idyllic family life thrown into chaos.
Throughout the country young people hasten to join up, and Eileen
watches anxiously as her two older girls do the same, one in the
air force and one in the land army, while the youngest goes into a
factory. With her family scattered and the war getting worse by the
day, Eileen throws herself into the community, always on hand to
help friends and neighbours when tragedy strikes, while savouring
any rare moments of celebration.
Born into terrible poverty, Millie Ash's hopes for a better life
are threatened by a fatal accident in Dee Williams' heartrending
new saga Millie Ash, born into terrible poverty in the backstreets
of the East End, has always wanted to better herself. She gets her
chance when she lands a position as a lady's companion, her charge
the disabled daughter of a well-to-do London family. Millie adores
her work, and even starts to develop feelings for the son of the
house. But years later a tragic accident causes Millie to lose her
job and, along with it, the life she so loved. As she goes from job
to job, working variously as a typist, factory worker and nurse,
will she ever find happiness, and love, again?
A heartrending story of family tragedy, Land Girls and lost love
from bestselling author Dee Williams. When Babs Scott loses her
beloved parents in an air raid, she finds herself homeless and
alone in Rotherhithe. The Land Army offers her an escape and,
despite the backbreaking toil, Babs loves the peaceful green fields
and the fresh, clean air of Sussex. But when her new RAF sweetheart
Pete dies on his return to the skies, Babs is grief-stricken once
more. After the war and back in her home town, a foolish mistake
changes Babs' life for ever. Has she lost her one chance for
happiness?
It's late 1935, and Sue Reed is living with her parents in
Rotherhithe, next door to her best friend Jane. Sue enjoys her day
job, working for wealthy car dealer Fred Hunt, but her main love is
dancing, and in the evenings she and Jane are always to be found at
the local dance hall. When one memorable night the band brings in a
devastatingly handsome new singer, Cy Taylor, Sue can't help
falling for him and he invites her to visit him in his hotel room.
But reality hits hard after the dance when Cy moves on. Just when
she thinks life couldn't be worse, tragedy strikes. Will Sue ever
find the love and happiness she craves?
When Ruby's father returns, shell-shocked, from the front lines of
the Great War, the young girl realises that things will never be
the same again. Forced to leave school and help her mother wash
clothes, Ruby closes the door on her childhood. When she takes a
job at the local laundry, Ruby enjoys the friendship of the other
women there, but there's also bitchiness and jealousy amongst the
workers. At home there's growing tension with the live-in landlord
as Ruby grows into an attractive woman, but not the kind who's
willing to use her charms to win favours. Ruby's heart belongs to
one man only, a local boy she's known all her life, but there are
many battles to be fought before they start a life together...
As World War Two enters its final year, Ruth Bentley feels life has
dealt her more than her fair share of blows. She's lost her home in
a bomb attack, and with her husband in the army, her daughters
evacuated to Wales, and her mother killed and father injured in the
attack, Ruth is left to face the devastation alone. But she finds
comfort in the camaraderie of the Civil Defence office where she
works and in her friendship with Lucy, a clippie on the buses.
Lucy's husband is at sea, and the two women dream of the day when
they'll be reunited with their loved ones. But as victory
approaches, Ruth finds that the legacy of war is more powerful than
even she had imagined...
When her friend and business partner Edwin Brown dies it seems as
if Katherine Carter's own world has ended. Not only has her closest
companion been taken from her, she's also lost the successful
restaurant they built up together, as well as the comfortable home
they shared with her young son. Now all this has been snatched
away, for Edwin has left no will and his lecherous brother Gerald
presumes he's inherited Katherine along with the house. With little
money but full of determination Katherine escapes Gerald's violent
advances and takes lodgings in Rotherhithe, with her cook's sister
Milly. Despite its poverty, Docklands London is full of hope and
friendship and, in helping her new neighbours through their
difficulties, Katherine finally begins to tackle her troubled past.
But even as she rebuilds her life around the pie-and-mash shop
where she works, a terrible shadow is hanging over the country. And
little does anyone know the horrors 1914 will unleash ...
Polly Perkins and her older brother Sid have never really liked
each other and when, in a fit of spite, he flicks a fishbone at her
and accidentally blinds her in one eye, it seems to Polly that he
has blighted her entire future. But life carries on in 1930s
Rotherhithe and Polly, like the other tenants of Penn's Place, is
soon caught up in its daily struggles: battling to keep treasured
possessions from being sold at the pawn shop, to hold her own in
the rows which rage through her warring family, and to find herself
a job. In the latter she succeeds and, having started as a tea girl
at Bloom's Fashions, to her delight is offered a job in the office.
There her friendship with the prosperous Bloom family grows, in
particular with Sarah and her handsome brother David, whose
lifestyle in Putney is so different from her own. Meanwhile in
Rotherhithe Polly finds herself being courted ever more insistently
by Ron, Sid's best friend and, Polly sometimes suspects, his
partner in crime. When in frustration he points out that,
disfigured by her accident, Polly is lucky to get any suitors at
all, she decides, reluctantly, to accept his proposal of marriage.
But, as the country finds itself in the grip of war, it becomes
clear that Sid - and her husband Ron - have jeopardised Polly's
future once more.
Hannah Miller is a young girl who has had to grow up fast. Since
the death of her parents she has taken responsibility for her
sister Alice, determined to provide her with the love and stability
they've both been denied. But when a violent incident with their
bullying guardian finds the girls cold and hungry on the teeming
streets of East London, Hannah realises she is out of her depth.
She has little option but to accept the help of the strange old
woman Maudie whose ramshackle home at the end of Rotherhithe's
bustling Hope Street, Hannah soon realises, is a den of young
thieves. Alice loves their new life, the companionship of the
lively household and the gruff affection of the enigmatice,
warm-hearted Maudie. But despite the fact that she is growing
increasingly fond of Jack, one of the most long-standing of
Maudie's brood, Hannah can never be happy living outside the law.
As she battles for respectability, Hannah begins to see she is
creating an ever-widening rift between herself and those she loves
most dearly - one of whom, as the Great War approaches, might be
taken from her for good ...
It's 1942 and Dorothy Taylor, now eighteen, dreams of distant lands
far from the grey backstreets of Rotherhithe where she has spent
all her life. As the war rages on, excitement comes in the form of
the Americans posted in London. Although Dolly is engaged to Tony,
a boy from her street who has been called up, she can't help but
fall in love with Joe, a dashing American GI who eventually asks
her to marry him. But America is not all she imagined it would be,
and she's shocked by the cool welcome Joe's mother gives her. As
she struggles to make friends and understand the man she's married,
Dorothy begins to realise that she made a terrible mistake when she
walked away from Tony, and wonders if he even remembers the
innocent young girl who broke his heart. Only when she returns to
Rotherhithe can she find out if there is still a chance of
happiness for the two of them.
Pam King can't understand why her gran, Ivy, has forbidden her to
see Robbie Bennetti. Robbie's a lovely lad, much less dangerous
than Lu Cappa, who's always giving her the eye when he's out in his
ice-cream van. Pam has to ask her best friend Jill to cover for her
while she's out with Robbie. When Ivy finds out Pam's been lying,
she makes sure the relationship with Robbie is over for good. Then
Jill falls in love, and it's loneliness that makes Pam accept a
date with Lu Cappa. Before she knows it, they're married. Even
then, Pam knows Lu's still jealous of Robbie. And she can't help
wondering what Lu's up to when he's out with his shifty brother.
When Robbie comes back into their lives, it could be the last
straw. One thing's for sure: until everyone starts to tell the
truth, there will be as many sorrows as smiles in Pam's marriage
...
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