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Twenty-Four Lays from the French Middle Ages
Trans. Glyn S Burgess;Trans. Leslie C Brook
This volume presents prose translations of 24 anonymous lays which complement the twelve well-known lays by Marie de France, the possible creator of the genre. This collection is somewhat wider in scope, with examples of magic and mystery stories, fun and games, and history as well as passion and romance.

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Women's Literary Networks and Romanticism
"A Tribe of Authoresses"
Ed. Andrew O Winckles;Ed. Angela Rehbein

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Federico García Lorca: Selected Suites
Aris and Phillips Hispanic Classics
Trans. Roberta Ann Quance

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The Ince Blundell Collection of Classical Sculpture
Volume 1, The Portraits Part 2, The Male Portraits
Jane Fejfer
Off-mint

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Public Sculpture of Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull
Volume Six
George T Noszlopy

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Public Sculpture of Sussex
Volume Seventeen
Jill Seddon;Peter Seddon;Anthony McIntosh et al

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Public Sculpture of Sheffield and South Yorkshire
Volume Eighteen
Darcy White;Elizabeth Norman

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Liverpool Playhouse
A Theatre and its City
Ed. Ros Merkin
From the opening of Liverpool Playhouse in 1911 under the artistic directorship of Basil Dean, to 2011, this book offers a sense of the rebellion and energy that have characterized this great repertory theatre through the words of the people who have worked there; and in photographs that show the range of performances and the many distinguished actors who began their careers at the Playhouse.

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The Licensed City
Regulating Drink in Liverpool, 1830–1920
David Beckingham
Examining ‘how drunkenness came to be written into the image that the port city presented to the nation’, Beckingham focuses on how Victorian Liverpool’s reputation as one of the most drink-sodden cities in Britain prompted municipal regulation in an attempt to salvage civic pride. Tracing Liverpool’s progress from degradation to temperance, the study offers a more general discussion of the place of drink in British society.

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Land Travel and Communications in Tudor and Stuart England
Achieving a Joined-up Realm
Mark Brayshay
Dealing with the period between 1500 and 1700, this study documents the unprecedented growth in road travel by all sections of society, from paupers to princes; the increasing volume of wheeled vehicles on the highways; and the radical changes in the means of conveying correspondence, both within England and beyond its borders.

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Journeys from the Abyss
The Holocaust and Forced Migration from the 1880s to the Present
Tony Kushner
Focusing on women, children, and ‘illegal’ boat migrants, Tony Kushner examines Jewish refugee movements before, during and after the Holocaust and places them in a longer history of forced migrations, from the 1880s to the present.

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Hull
Culture, History, Place
Ed. David J Starkey;Ed. David Atkinson;Ed. Briony McDonagh et al
Marking Hull’s tenure as UK City of Culture in 2017, this volume of illustrated essays and articles covers topics ranging from prehistoric settlement to the city’s university librarian and poet, Philip Larkin, and contemporary music festivals. Bound in blue, gold-embossed linen. Slip-cased.

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Gifts for the Gods
Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies and the British
Ed. Lidija McKnight;Stephanie Atherton-Woolham
Cats, birds and crocodiles are among the animals mummified in quantity by the ancient Egyptians and deposited as votive offerings. With contributions from 19 experts, this collection of illustrated essays details animals’ role in Egyptian religion and traces both the British fascination with such artefacts and the recent development of innovative techniques for studying them.

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The Della Robbia Pottery
From Renaissance to Regent Street
Ed. Julie Sheldon
The Della Robbia Pottery in Birkenhead was founded in 1894 by Harold Rathbone. A junior member of a wealthy and influential family, Harold was free to pursue an artistic career and his pottery was inspired by his studies of Renaissance art in Italy and the ideals of the Arts and Crafts Movement. In six essays, this slim volume explores the pottery, its inspiration and the distinctive output of ceramics created there before its closure in 1906.

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Gregory of Tours
Glory of the Confessors
Trans. Raymond van Dam
One of the less well-known works by Gregory, Bishop of Tours (575 to 594), this text is a series of anecdotes about ‘confessors’, whose faith was manifest in their exemplary lives, and their miracles. Translated, with introduction and notes for the Translated Texts for Historians series

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Shipping Enterprise and Management, 1830–1939
Harrisons of Liverpool
Francis E Hyde
Focusing on the shipping firm T & J Harrison, managers of the Charente Steam-Ship Company, this study examines the achievements of its decision-makers in the context of enterprise and economic growth in the shipping industry. Bears old cover price and off-mint. May smell musty.

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Slaves to Sweetness
British and Caribbean Literatures of Sugar
Carl Plasa
From the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War in the late 1760s, through the Victorian period to the post-colonial present, this study of literature relating to sugar production and trade examines works by both white and black writers, including expatriate Caribbean authors revisiting the subject since the 1970s.

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Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster
Public Sculpture if Britain Volume Fourteen
Philip Ward-Jackson
The first volume on Westminster covers an area stretching from Marylebone Road, across much of the West End to Buckingham Palace, Whitehall and the Houses of Parliament and down to Victoria and Millbank. It describes the whole range of commemorative monuments, fountains and free standing works of art, but excludes sculptures that are integral to buildings.

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Invisible Men
The Secret Lives of Police Constables in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham, 1900-1939
Joanne Klein

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Coral
Ed. Marion Endt-Jones
Requiring shallow, warm, clean waters to thrive, a coral is a colony of tiny sac-like polyps that over time produces calcified stony reefs of fabulous colour and complexity. This exhibition catalogue, inspired by the collection at the Manchester Museum, presents a series of essays examining various aspects of coral, including its use in jewellery and ornament; its symbolic importance throughout history; its unusual natural history; and the sensitivity of coral reefs to climate change and pollution.

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British Watercolours and Drawings
Lord Leverhulme's Collection in the Lady Lever Art Gallery
Jessica Feather

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The World's Most Difficult Quiz 2
More King William's College General Knowledge Papers
Ed. Pat Cullen
What garden evokes manual pallor? Where does the gold fin not wink? Who or what is pit-pit? Since 1904, pupils of King William's College on the Isle of Man have been sent home for the Christmas holidays with a fiendish quiz. Its popularity led to its publication first in The Times and, from 1951, in the Guardian. This book presents 30 sets of 180 questions dating from the 1920s to 1980s (pre-Google!).

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A Gallery to Play To
The Story of the Mersey Poets
Phil Bowen
An account of the lives and careers of the three authors of the 1967 publication The Mersey Sound, Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten, telling the story of how the post-war society and culture.

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The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War in History and Memory
Tim Grady

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