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None past the post
The latest book in the long-running Britain at the Polls series provides an indispensable account of the remarkable 2017 British general election. Leading experts explain why Theresa May and the Conservatives lost their majority, and analyse how the other political parties and voters responded to...
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The aesthetic exception
The aesthetic exception critically re-evaluates the relation between art and politics by challenging longstanding assumptions surrounding political ‘effect’ in art and the problem of art’s autonomous status. Drawing on examples from visual art and theatre, it offers a new approach based on a conj...
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Democracy and dissent in the irish free state
Analysis of the conflict between multiparty democratic norms and sweeping monolithic nationalist movements in the aftermath of the Irish revolution.
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Galatea
A brand new Revels Student Edition of John Lyly's most popular and enchanting play
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Derek walcott
This book provides a unique account of Walcott's development as a writer in addition to being the fullest study of his poetry and plays to date.Discusses all his major works and includes information on his out-of-print and unpublished plays along with .
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Ghost-haunted land
This wide-ranging study addresses developments in video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and more, offering detailed analyses of key works by artists based in Ireland and beyond — including 2014 Turner Prize winner Duncan Campbell and internationally acclaimed filmmaker and photogra...
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European social democracy during the global economic crisis
Assesses how social democratic parties have responded, at the national as well as at the European Union level, to the 2008 financial crash
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Between two stools
An engaging and lively tour through the scatological, the flatulent and the cloacal in English literature over four centuries. Will appeal to cultural historians, and English literature scholars and students.|A serious investigation into how the scatological impulse has been represented in litera...
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New slaveries in contemporary british literature and visual arts
A study of the literature and visual arts concerned with the many and diverse forms of slaveries produced by globalisation in Britain since the early 1990s.
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Pre–school childcare in england, 1939–2010
Investigates how competing ideas about child development influenced the provision, practice and experience of childcare for the under fives since 1939.
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Making peace with the past?
A study of memory and trauma in the conflict in Northern Ireland, and of how personal and collective remembrance has influenced the narratives of reconciliation
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Revolutionary lives of the red and black atlantic since 1917
This volume explores the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was catalysed or profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of 1917, including C.L.R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter Rodne...
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United nations peace operations and international relations theory
This volume is the first comprehensive overview of how International Relations theories - liberal, rational choice, feminist, and sociological institutionalism, realism, constructivism, practice theories, critical security studies, and complexity theory - can help us understand UN peace operations.
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Trade winds
This book recounts Christiaan De Beukelaer's personal odyssey aboard a sail cargo vessel and offers a compelling insight into the developments the shipping industry is undertaking to cut its carbon emissions
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Marcel carné
This volume in the French Film Directors series has been long-awaited by students and academics of French and European cinema in particular and by Film Studies students in general.
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Catholic literature and secularisation in france and england, 1880–1914
This book comparitively explores the French and English Catholic literary revivals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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The red and the black
This edited collection explores the inspiration of the Russian Revolution of 1917 for black radicals across the African diaspora. The volume challenges European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left and enables new insights on the relations between Communism and var...
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Spilling the beans
Spilling the Beans shows how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century anxieties about women’s consumption and production are manifest in novelists’ and novels’ accounts of what heroines, readers and writers do with food.
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Global solidarities against water grabbing
Globally, people are organizing against water privatization and to reclaim the public sphere. These struggles demonstrate how people are linking their disparate fights to win against private profit-driven interests; water is at the heart of this book, but the book is as much about collective stru...
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Princely power in the dutch republic
Princely Power in the Dutch Republic offers a vivid analysis of the role of patronage in the Dutch Golden Age. It is based on the highly illuminating private diaries of William Frederick of Nassau (1613-1664).
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Catholicism and children's literature in france
The first book-length history of the classic French children’s author, the comtesse de Ségur (1799-1874). Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, in France Ségur is a national icon and a cultural phenomenon. This study of her life and works will interest scholars of children’s literature...
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The british people and the league of nations
A rich and original study of the culture of association, showing the ‘Big Society’ in action in interwar Britain. First full-length study of a major British pressure-group, the League of Nations Union, since 1981, making extensive use of local archives. Essential reading for anyone interested in ...
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Film stars
A collection of essays on the concept of film stardom, and the shifting definition of a 'star'. The collection ranges across contemporary stars such as Sandra Bullock, Jackie Chan and Jim Carrey, those from Hollywood's past like Clara Bow and Charlton Heston, and those from other arenas, such as ...
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Beyond nationalism
This book discusses the meaning of the common good in a European Union thorned by nationalism and presents concrete policies to improve its achievement. It analyses the normative relevance of EU values as a shared moral standpoint between the member states and discusses institutional reforms that...
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Jews on trial
This book explores the Papal Inquisition in Modena and the status of Jews in an early modern Italian duchy. Its purpose is to deepen existing insights into the role of the former and thus lead to a better understanding of how the tribunal assumed jurisdiction over a practicing Jewish community in...
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Chaplains in early modern england
A pioneering collaboration between leading early modern historians and literary scholars. Chapters by Kenneth Fincham, David Crankshaw and Mary Morrissey analyse the legal structures governing the appointment and remit of chaplains and map their roles and functions within early modern England.
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The malcontent
Accessible edition of the play considered to be Marston's masterpiece. This is one of the most original and complex plays of the Elizabethan theatre - complex in genre, structure and language. Uses the same authoritative text as the standard Revels edition with glosses to help the student underst...
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The west must wait
Examines the disconnect between local expectations of what independence would deliver and what was actually achieved by the incumbent Cumann na nGaedheal government
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A global history of early modern violence
This is the first broad study of large-scale violence and the methods of its restraint in the early modern world. Its case studies range from the early 1500s to the 1830s, taking in African slave raiders, Dutch merchants, Burmese bandits, Kurdish highwaymen, Mughal warriors, Spanish colonial sold...
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Creative research communication
This book provides a theoretically grounded introduction to new and emerging approaches to public engagement and research communication.
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The cinema of pedro almodóvar
A comprehensive, historically informed study of the art and politics of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, showing how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and film genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir.
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Global white nationalism
This book offers the first transnational history of white nationalism in Britain, the US and the formerly British colonies of Rhodesia, South Africa and Australia from the post-World War II period to the present.
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Intimacy and injury
Intimacy and injury offers an original perspective on the #MeToo movement from South Africa and India. It overturns the dominance of western debates on #MeToo by foregrounding diverse southern feminist takes on the possibilities and limits of this movement in the global south.
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Idols of the odeons
This book provides an extensive overview of the British actors who achieved their greatest stardom during the 1950s. This was a transitional period for the British cinema, when the major studios faced growing competition from television and Hollywood increasingly dominated the UK film industry.
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Douglas coupland
This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Coupland’s career, from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) to JPod (2006), a period in which he published ten novels and four significant volumes of non-fiction
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Local government and democracy in britain
This book examines the crisis in UK local government, looking at how the system has changed throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and asking what lies ahead.
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Irish catholic identities
Explores the historical developments that shaped Irish identity and linked it so closely to Catholicism
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The germans in their century
Why did Bismarck's new German State Degenerate into Hitler's Third Reich? What happened to Europes leading industrial nation - cultural heirs to Kant, Goethe, Durer and Bach? How did East and West Germany diverge after 1945?In this unique and controversial study the author - Prussian aristocrat, ...
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Joan of arc
A collection of documents on the historical figure Joan of Arc, some of which published in modern English for the first time, and contextualised by an extended intorduction and and useful contextualising passages
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Irish cinema in the twenty-first century
This book provides an accessible, comprehensive discussion of how a small national cinema can remain relevant in the wider environment of globalisation. It includes chapters on the creative documentary, animation and the horror film, as well as Irish history on screen and the depiction of the cou...
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Now that's what i call a history of the 1980s
Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s is a political and cultural History of Britain in the long 1980s in ten objects or moments. Neither a top down history, nor nostalgic celebration, it reframes the decade around local, national, and global politics of gender, race, age and sexuality.
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Negotiated governance and public policy in ireland
Details the enormous changes that have taken place in Irish state-civil society relations in the past ten years of unprecendented economic growth
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Granada television
Unique, readable first hand accounts of one of the most significant periods in British television history. Introductory essay from leading academic Julia Hallam (University of Liverpool), sets the creation of Granada in the context of British broadcasting history and of television as it is today....
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Mothers and meaning on the early modern english stage
Examines the political rhetoric of Mary I, Elizabeth and James, reported gallows confessions of mother convicts and the increasingly popular Puritan conduct books
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Comic empires
Comic empires is an innovative collection of new scholarly research, exploring the relationship between imperialism and cartoons, caricature, and comic art.
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What went wrong with britain?
This book provides an audit of fourteen years of Conservative government in Britain, from 2010 to 2024. It examines the rise of populism, the politics of Brexit, the UK’s response to the pandemic and the steady erosion of public trust.
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Beginning modernism
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Visualising far-right environments
This book examines the far right’s visual politics of nature, offering original case studies from around the world.
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British politics today: essentials
Short, yet comprehensive. Completely up to date. Great value for money textbook by two established scholars .
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Empire and enterprise
The Adventurers for Irish land transformed England’s trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, laying the foundations of the British Empire and modern fiscal state. This is the first book to recognise the key role of the Adventurers and the centrality of Ireland to the Wars of...
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The ethics of war
Drawing on examples from the history of warfare from the Crusades to the present day, The ethics of war explores the limits and possibilities of the moral regulation of war. While resisting the commonly held view that ‘war is hell’, A. J. Coates focuses on the tensions which exist between war and...
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The united nations and peacekeeping, 1988–95
Make a genuine contribution to our understanding of international politics in the UN which includes the General Assembly committees, the Security Council and the UN Secretariat
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Reasserting america in the 1970s
Reasserting America in the 1970s brings together two areas of burgeoning scholarly interest. On the one hand, scholars are investigating the many ways in which the 1970s constituted a profound era of transition in the international order. The American defeat in Vietnam, the breakdown of the Brett...
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People and piety
This compelling collection examines the ‘lived devotion’ of men and women in England’s Long Reformation. Through cutting-edge research, fourteen chapters explore how English piety was at once segregational and social, fixed in principle yet fluid in practice, and where authors worked out their fa...
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The arc and the machine
The Arc and the machine is an important and timely book. It insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture, and forces a re-appraisal of how information technology, read as a material cultural form, is understood in relation to the questions of innovation and transformation.
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Reclaiming migration
Reclaiming migration assesses the EU’s migration policies based on a counter-archive of migratory testimonies, co-produced with people on the move across the Mediterranean during 2015 and 2016. It highlights the flawed assumptions on which policies are based and documents the precarities produced...
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A.s. byatt
This stimulating and comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt’s work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt’s fictions up to and including The Children’s Book (2009). The authors also consider her role as a critic, cultural commentator and public intellectual.
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Lorca's romancero gitano
A poem-by-poem guide to Romancero gitano, Federico García Lorca's poetic masterpiece, containing comprehensive commentaries, introduction to relevant background material and select critical bibliographies for each poem. To be used alongside Ramsden's critical edition of Romancero gitano.
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Back to the futurists
This collection of essays aims to reassess the activities and legacy of the Italian Futurist movement from an international and interdisciplinary perspective.
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Musical festival floats of japan
Based on more than thirty years’ fieldwork, this book aims to increase the understanding of music played on elaborate wooden floats which form vital components in Japanese festivals with a religious dimension. The focus is on float-festivals in Aichi prefecture in central Japan, butinternational ...
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Poverty, philanthropy and the state
This book charts the growth of the university settlement movement, a fundamental influence in the shaping of the welfare state, from 1918 to Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979. It looks at the complex relationships between charities, the welfare state and individuals and the ways in which chang...
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New woman strategies
Recent years have seen a rennaissance of scholarly interest in the fin-de-siecle fiction of the New Woman. New Woman Strategies offers a new approach to the subject by focusing on the discursive strategies and revisionist aesthetics of the genre in the writings of three of its key exponents: Sar...
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Art after empire
Explores the relationship between art and visual culture in Europe and the ‘wider world’ from the early twentieth century to the contemporary era of globalisation.
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Crimes against humanity
This is an accessible and informative guide to the evolution of the concept of crimes against humanity- a hugely influential concept which has had a marked impact on modern international politics, law and ethics.
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Architects of the resurrection
Seeking the creation of a one-party totalitarian state, Ailtirí na hAiséirghe was Ireland's leading fascist movement during the Second World War. Architects of the Resurrection reconstructs the hidden history of this pro-Axis organisation, and its ambitious plans to make Ireland the leading light...
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The british working class in postwar film
An incidental pleasure of watching a film is what it tells us about the society in which it is made. Using a sociological model this title looks at how working-class people were portrayed in British feature films in the decade after the Second World War.
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‘insubordinate irish‘
This book traces a number of common themes relating to the representation of Irish Travellers in Irish popular tradition and how these themes have impacted on Ireland’s collective imagination.
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Pandemic culture
Based on the findings of a 15-month study led by the Centre for Cultural Value, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the impacts of Covid-19 on the UK’s cultural sector. Based on a mixed-methods analysis, it highlights implications for the sector’s future direction and for research in the...
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Tis pity she's a whore
A scholarly, modern-spelling critical edition of John Ford’s 1633 play, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore.
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Eu foreign and security policy in bosnia
This book represents the first ever comprehensive study of the EU’s foreign and security policy in Bosnia. It also sheds new light on the role that intergovernmental, bureaucratic and local political contestation have played in the formulation and implementation of a European foreign and security...
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My voice: suzanne harris
Suzanne's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Suzanne Harris lived in Paris in the war until her family fled to Argenty. She moved to England after the war and settled in Manchester.
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Towards a just europe
This book analyses the problem of distributive justice in the European Union. The author examines the nature of the distributive duties linked to EU membership and puts forward a set of policy proposals to advance a just Europe.
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The society for irish church missions to the roman catholics, 1849–1950
An exploration of the establishment, operations and impact of a large-scale Protestant mission in Ireland from its foundation during the famine into the early decades of the Irish Free State.
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English nationalism, brexit and the anglosphere
This book analyses the elite project behind Brexit, and considers its framework within the political traditions of English nationalism. Far from being ‘Little Englanders’, Brexiteers sought to lessen the rupture of leaving the European Union by suggesting a return to alliances with true friends a...
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Living with lodgers
For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone else’s home was commonplace. Drawing on hundreds of coroners’ inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses England’s domestic dwelling lodgings, providing an intimate portrayal of the lives of the inhabitants.
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Medicine, patients and the law
This fully revised and update edition provides an incisive survey of the legal situation in areas as diverse as fertility treatment, patient consent, assisted dying, malpractice and medical privacy.
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Crowds and popular politics in early modern england
This collection of essays offers a radical re-evaluation of the nature of crowds and popular protest in the early modern period
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Female performance practice on the fin-de-siècle popular stages of london and paris
This book focuses on seven celebrity performers working between the mid 1880s and 1910. Maud Allan, Jane Avril, Loïe Fuller, Sylvia Grey, Yvette Guilbert, Letty Lind and Cissie Loftus achieved international fame, whilst simultaneously creating new and innovative performances on the popular stage.
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Affective intimacies
This cutting-edge edited collection provides a novel terrain for rethinking intimacies through the lens of affect theories.
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George fox and early quaker culture
Close readings of Fox’s Journal are put in dialogue with the voices of other early Friends and their critics to examine the fundamental erosion of the division between the human and the divine in early Quaker culture, and its consequences for understanding the history of the spiritual subject.
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La parisienne in cinema
The first book-length work on the Parisienne, this study combines scholarship in the fields of art history, literature and fashion to enrich our understanding of this intriguing cinematic figure, simultaneously offering new perspectives on film.
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The 'perpetual fair'
This study places official discourse regarding urban amusement into the context of broader cultural understandings
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The great labour unrest
This book analyses the battle for ideological and actual control of the Durham Miners’ Association between Liberals, socialists and syndicalists in the tumultuous period prior to the First World War.
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Looking north
Investigating areas as diverse as travel literature, fiction, dialect, the stage, radio, and television, feature film, music and sport, this fascinating book assesses the attitudes and portrayal of the North of England within the national culture and how this has impacted upon attitudes to the re...
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The peeps
A book of photographs, interviews and commentary, recording the origins, recent past and current regeneration of the Ancoats area of Manchester
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