This dramatic social history follows the struggle for women's rights in England from the Industrial Revolution to the Suffragist victory after WWI. The 100 years from 1819-1919 saw remarkable change for women in England. From the early nineteenth century, when women were not even considered 'persons' under the law, they achieved full legal rights and status. The doors of education and employment were thrown open to them, and by 1919, they won universal...

European female-led writing with a focus on Wales, photography, memoir, writing of place and poetry. On the theme of 'Casual Archaeology', it explores the rich archaeology of threatened estuary landscapes, the layers of time and affiliation in an Iranian exile's relationship to her poet father, and how an Iron Age hill fort inspires ideas about health and immunity. Paul Cabuts traces how the renaissance of the photographer's book in Wales documents...

Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized-and largely mythical-notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of Edward I, often known as Longshanks. The lives of these sisters-Eleanora, Joanna, Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth-ran the gamut of experiences open to royal women...

In this sequel to Babylon's Banskters. The banksters have moved from Mesopotamia via Rome to Venice. There, they have manipulated popes and bullion prices, clipped coins, sacked Constantinople, destroyed rival Florence, waged war, burned "heretics" and suppressed hidden secrets threatening their financial supremacy... until Giordano Bruno and Christopher Columbus, broke the banking cartel's control of information and bullion...

A unique, nostalgic look at the airfields used by the Eighth in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Conceived in war, the airfields experienced their moments of glory and, when the war ended, were left empty and derelict to die. The few which remain virtually intact have only survived because some private or public concern has formed a practical use for them, although not always as airfields. Some of the more remote airfields still dot...

A biography of the British woman who left behind life in a brothel to become a baroness in a French chateau, and perhaps a killer. She was the daughter of an alcoholic Isle of Wight smuggler. Much of her childhood was spent in the island's workhouse. Yet Sophie Dawes threw off the shackles of her downbeat formative years to become one of the most talked-about personalities in post-revolutionary France. It was the ultimate rags to riches story that...

Extrait : "Les causes principales qui ont amené la révolution ont été l'objet de tant de recherches ; elle avait d'ailleurs été si clairement annoncée par tant d'hommes éclairés du dernier siècle, et même si justement pressentie par le monarque indolent, don’t le vœu de chaque jour était d'en retarder la crise générale jusqu'à la fin de son règne, qu'il serait inutile, pour le but que nous nous proposons, de chercher à l'expliquer,...

Ces contes racontent la vie avec ses hauts et ses bas, la vie de gens plutt simples. Avez-vous une idée de ce que peut être une forteresse qui ne soit pas de pierres? Qui, du travail ou de la chance, est le plus utile pour réussir dans la vie et pourquoi? Quelle sorte de secret un tapis, même bleu, peut-il bien cacher? Comment une moitié de poulet a réussi à vaincre tous ceux qui ont voulu l'empêcher d'avancer? C'est en voyageant...

An exploration of the history of the sixty-mile, Scottish Highland canal and its significance to the region's transportation and tourism. Thomas Telford's plan, to connect Loch Ness, Loch Oich, and Loch Lochy with each other and the sea, was a huge undertaking that brought civil engineering to the Highlands on a heroic scale. Deep in the Highlands, far from the canal network of England, engineers forged their way through the Great Glen to construct...

As a versatile and undemanding aircraft, the Jet Provost established itself as the basic trainer for the RAF from the late 1950s until its retirement in September 1993. In Jet Provost Boys, David Watkins explores the history of this magnificent flying machine through the vivid memories of former air crew from the RAF and foreign air forces. Alongside operating as a basic training aircraft, the Jet Provost had relative success within the civilian and...