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Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie Images of the Berlin Wall
ISBN: HB: 9781851243228, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2008
96 pp., 12.6x17 cm, 102 colour illus.
Between 1945 and 1961, an estimated 2.5 million people fled East Germany in search of the political and economic freedom offered by West Germany. To thwart this tide of defections, on the morning of 13th August 1961, hundreds of East German troops be...
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£8,99
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Postcards of Political Icons Leaders of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9781851243273, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2008
96 pp., 12.6x17 cm, 94 colour illus.
The twentieth century has seen perhaps more political upheaval and change than any other period. At the turn of the century, Queen Victoria still reigned, the British Empire was at its height and the old world order was firmly in place. One hundred y...
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£8,99
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Original Frankenstein
ISBN: HB: 9781851243969, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2008
448 pp., 12.8x12.6 cm
In the summer of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, wrote the first draft of "Frankenstein" after she and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley took part in a ghost writing competition at Lord Byron's villa by Lake Geneva. Returning to England in the autumn...
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£14,99
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Original Laws of Cricket
ISBN: HB: 9781851243129, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2008
64 pp., 15.5x10 cm
Of all the rules governing sport, the laws of cricket are among the oldest. The first written rules of 1744 survive uniquely on the border of a piece of linen at the MCC Museum of Cricket. They were drawn up by certain "Noblemen and Gentlemen" at a t...
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£5,99
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Postcards from the Russian Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9781851243860, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2008
96 pp., 12.6x17 cm, 88 colour illus.
The Bolshevik revolution of 1917 was one of the most important events of the 20th century. It has been studied from many angles, but never before from the visual perspective of postcards, a surprising number of which were published around the event,...
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Postcards from the Trenches
ISBN: HB: 9781851243914, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2008
112 pp., 12.6x17 cm, 106 colour illus.
The First World War was unique in being fought largely in trenches. Men ate, slept, fought, played, sang, prayed, and died in the trenches. This book brings together a collection of postcards which portray this strange subterranean world in its vario...
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How to be a Good Husband
ISBN: HB: 9781851243761, Bodleian Library Publishing, January 2008
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm
The art of being a good husband is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books.Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings, it contains advice by turns de...
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How to be a Good Wife
ISBN: HB: 9781851243815, Bodleian Library Publishing, January 2008
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm
The art of being a good wife is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books.Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings, it contains advice by turns delig...
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