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Sheridan: The Track of a Comet
1st Edition
By Madeleine Bingham
July 31, 2025
First published in 1972, Sheridan is primarily a rounded, colourful portrait of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, his triumphs and failures, his ferocious duels and sudden romances, and his rise to oratorical fame in the arena of politics. But it is also something more: a wide canvas – sometimes ...
South Wales Miners: Glowyr de Cymru: A History of the South Wales Miners' Federation (1914-1926)
1st Edition
By Robert Page Arnot
July 31, 2025
First published in 1975, South Wales Miners starts with the War of Empires, when nearly 50,000 Welsh miners, almost one-fifth of the total manpower of their coalfield, responded to the call and voluntarily enlisted in the British armed forces. The author uncovers how the coalowners in the meantime ...
The British Constitution
1st Edition
By H.R.G. Greaves
July 31, 2025
First published in 1938, The British Constitution discusses the basic features of the British Constitution. The author argues that the Constitution is more than a body of institutions working in accordance with principles laid down in law or expressed in conventions. It is society in its political ...
The Challenge of Labour: Shaping British Society, 1850–1930
1st Edition
By Keith Burgess
July 31, 2025
The Challenge of Labour (1980) explains the changing forms of labour’s relationship with British society during the period of 1850 to 1930 – as the economic and social relations of Britain, the pioneer of modern industrial development, were undergoing a profound transformation due to increasing ...
The Crown, the Sages and Supreme Morality
1st Edition
By Robert E. Ball
July 31, 2025
First published in 1983, in The Crown, the Sages and Supreme Morality the first account of the universal science of Supreme Morality, or Moralogy, to be published in the West, Robert Ball shows how it is based on the moral teaching of Christ, Buddha, Confucius and Socrates, and is influenced by ...
The Family Life of Old People: An Inquiry in East London
1st Edition
By Peter Townsend
July 31, 2025
First published in 1957, The Family Life of Old People opens with the question: Are old people isolated from their families? Thereafter, the author describes the results of intensive interviews with people of pensionable age in Bethnal Green in East London. Part one shows that most people are ...
The Freedom of Necessity
1st Edition
By John Desmond Bernal
July 31, 2025
First published in 1949, The Freedom of Necessity explores various aspects of the transformation of human society in the mid-20th century. It deals with themes like man and the world; relevance of science; science and the humanities; science and the arts; organised research for peace; science in ...
The Lotus and the Spinning Wheel
1st Edition
By Marie Beuzeville Byles
July 31, 2025
First published in 1963, The Lotus and the Spinning Wheel tells the story of India’s two great sons, the Buddha and the Mahatma. Both were the teachers their age and country needed, and this book goes beyond the merits of their teaching. The reader is invited to come with the author firstly through...
The Miners: Years of Struggle: A History of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain from 1910 Onwards
1st Edition
By Robert Page Arnot
July 31, 2025
First published in 1953, The Miners: Years of Struggle is the official history of the British miners, which draws on original sources, moving into the stormy period when the economic bargaining of the million colliery employees with the mine owners became the concern of Parliament and people. The ...
The Payment of Wages: A Study in Payment by Results Under the Wage System
1st Edition
By G. D. H. Cole
July 31, 2025
First published in 1928, The Payment of Wages came out amid the controversies over workshop conditions caused by the Great War. It has held its place as the standard work describing the various systems of wage payments and their effects. Mr. Cole raises challengingly the question of the need for a ...
The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe
1st Edition
By William A. Rossi
July 31, 2025
First published in 1977, The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe examines the realities of foot and shoe eroticism practised by almost all of us, whether consciously or unconsciously. Provocative often witty and always original, the book takes us on a walking tour through history: from Chinese ...
The Textual Tradition of Chaucer's Troilus
1st Edition
By Robert Kilburn Root
July 31, 2025
First published in 1916, The Textual Tradition of Chaucer’s Troilus compares the best unprinted manuscripts of Chaucer’s Troilus with the printed texts. The purpose of the volume is to evaluate eighteen manuscripts, to determine so far as may be their relation to one another and to Chaucer’s ...