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Children at Sea charts the lives of 8 different children who grew up at sea - showcasing a range of experiences across the world.

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First book of its kind; detailing mining disasters from the 1900s to the 1980s

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In offering an overview of the market for comic images between 1820 and 1850, this book makes a case for the importance of a largely neglected area of visual culture. Draws on a wide range of commercially produced print genres, including song books, play-texts, comic annuals and magazines as well as single plate and series of caricatures.

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This collection of papers presented at the Second International Conference held by the Uni of Adelaide's Research Centre for the History of Food and Drinks covers topics ranging from philosophical speculation by ancient Greeks and Romans to authors of modern cookbooks, even the consumption of olive oil in Australia.

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An authoritative yet dramatic account of the world's great submarine disasters.

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This engrossing history offers not only the portrait of a firm that was at one time our largest manufacturing business, but a window on the development of the New Zealand economy and the emergence of a manufacturing sector.

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Slavery in Britain did not end with William Wilberforce. They may be largely invisible to us, but living in our midst are thousands of slaves. This book seeks out five escapees and persuades them to tell us their stories.

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Rare memoir of a Soviet soldier's escape from a concentration camp. First-hand record of a daily struggle for survival.

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Revealing the stories of people responsible for some of our best known brands including William Henry Smith (W H Smith); Roy Jacuzzi; Laszlo Biro; Henry J. Heinz and many more

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The stories of the Chinese wives and children who fled the Sino-Japanese War during the invasion and occupation of their South China homeland from 1937 to 1945.

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Fifty Ships that Changed the Course of History is a delight for both lovers of the sea and anyone with a curiosity for what lies on the horizon. Discover the nuances and history behind some of the worlds most iconic ships, including Captain Cooks HMS Endeavour and Greenpeaces once flagship Rainbow Warrior.

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In an age when English-speaking peoples straddled the globe, this insightful book explores attitudes to race, and belonging.

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The story of the Gothic, from early architecture and literature to the modern horror genre, illustrated by the beautiful, the macabre and the strange.

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A series of seventy entries provides an unrivaled account of the international evolution of medical knowledge and practice, now in paperback.

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Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, yet their stories are little known. Guiding Lights includes stories from around the world, as we discover the heroism of female lighthouse keepers, how they came to be hired (especially in the 19th century), and the mysteries and legends that are inextricably part of lighthouse history.

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Hard sell explores advertising in Britain in the 1950s and 60s through extensive new archival research in Britain and America, combining the study of business practices with analysis of television and press advertisements. -- .

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A provocative and compelling illustrated cultural history of the worlds oldest profession that recovers the stories of those who sold sex for a living.

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Students and lecturers in British and colonial medical, social and maritime history. -- .

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Based on first-hand accounts and interviews, In Hitler's Shadow is the definitive follow up to Hitler's Girls, a unique account of the lives of German girls in Hitler's youth. In this second volume, we follow the lives and struggles of 'Hitler's Girls' in the aftermath of the war