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Oxford Freemasons A Social History of Apollo University Lodge
ISBN: HB: 9781851244676, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2019
240 pp., 27.8x22.6 cm, 74 colour illus.
Over the past 200 years, many thousands of undergraduates have been initiated into membership of Apollo – the Masonic Lodge of the University of Oxford. These have included such diverse figures as Oscar Wilde, Osbert Lancaster, Samuel Reynolds Hole,...
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£35,00
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Georgia A Cultural History Through the Wardrop Collection
ISBN: HB: 9781851244959, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2018
160 pp., 25x21 cm, 75 illus.
When Marjory Wardrop joined her diplomat brother, Oliver, in Georgia in 1894, they found themselves witnessing the birth pangs of a modern nation. Recognising the significance of these transformative years, they actively participated in the work of I...
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£40,00
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Evelyn Waugh's Oxford
ISBN: HB: 9781851244874, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2018
192 pp., 21x16.1 cm, 65 illus.
Oxford held a special place in Evelyn Waugh's imagination. So formative were his Oxford years that the city never left him, appearing again and again in his novels in various forms. This book explores in rich visual detail the abiding importance of O...
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We Are Not Amused Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of "Punch"
ISBN: HB: 9781851244782, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2017
96 pp., 21x16.1 cm, 54 black&white illus.
Pronunciation governs our regional and social identity more powerfully than any other aspect of spoken language. No wonder, then, that it has attracted most attention from satirists. In this intriguing book, David Crystal shows how our feelings about...
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£12,99
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Bodleian Library Treasures
ISBN: PB: 9781851244089, ISBN: HB: 9781851244775, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2017
240 pp., 27x27 cm, 180 colour illus.
Since its foundation in 1602, the Bodleian Library has acquired manuscripts, printed books, maps, music and ephemera in all languages, from all ages and from all corners of the globe. From this huge collection David Vaisey, former Bodley's Librarian...
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£19,99
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£35,00
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Revolution! Sayings of Vladimir Lenin
ISBN: PB: 9781851244706, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2017
112 pp., 19x17 cm, 50 colour illus.
"Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement". Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and founder of the USSR, was profoundly aware of the power of words. As a zealous orator and prolific writer, he used...
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£9,99
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Petrograd, 1917 Witnesses to the Russian Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9781851244607, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2017
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.
"It's damned hard lines asking for bread and only getting a bullet!" The dramatic and chaotic events surrounding the Russian Revolution have been studied and written about extensively for the last hundred years, by historians and journalists alike....
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£25,00
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Pocket Magna Carta 1217 Text and Translation
ISBN: HB: 9781851244522, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2016
64 pp., 15.5x10 cm,
"No freeman is to be taken or imprisoned, or dispossessed... except through the lawful judgment of his peers or through the law of the land". "To no one shall we sell, to no one shall we deny or delay right or justice" "Magna Carta" (or "Great Char...
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Magna Carta Origins and Legacy
ISBN: PB: 9781851243631, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2015
160 pp., 25x21 cm, 40 colour illus.
Magna Carta is arguably the most famous document in world history. 2015 marks its 800th anniversary. Yet, until relatively recently, it was unknown how many versions of the document survive, the means by which they were distributed, or the relationsh...
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£25,00
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From Downing Street to the Trenches First-Hand Accounts from the Great War, 1914-1916
ISBN: HB: 9781851243938, Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2014
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus., 16 colour plates
Why did Asquith take Britain to war in 1914? What did educated young men believe their role should be? What was it like to fly over the Somme battlefield? How could a trench on the front line be "the safest place"? These compelling eye-witness accoun...
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£10,00
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