Cosmic Mysteries of the Universe

Clark, A.

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Alan Clark’s Diaries are the best account of the last quarter of a century of British politics. 
The first volume was published to enormous acclaim and bestselling success in hardback and paperback (30 weeks overall on the Sunday Times bestseller list). As The Times wrote in a leading article: ‘The best diarists, from Pepys and Boswell, to "Chips" Channon and Harold Nicolson, have been the souls of indiscretion. But none so indiscreet as Mr Clark. … For its Pooterish self-assessment, for Mr Toad’s enthusiasm for new things, for Byron’s caddishness, for its deadly candour, it is one of the great works in the genre.’
‘Into Politics’ begins in 1973 with Clark’s selection as Tory candidate for Nancy Astor’s old seat in Plymouth (rival candidates included future Conservative luminaries, Michael Howard and Norman Fowler) his election to the Commons in the 1974 general election. His years as a backbencher coincide with Edward Heath as PM, his downfall and the arrival of Margaret Thatcher. This volume ends with the inside story of the Falklands War. In his private life Alan and his wife Jane and their two young sons take over Saltwood Castle (previously the home of his father Kenneth (Civilisation) Clark). His enthusiasms for the estate, skiing, fast cars and girls are never far away.
For the hundreds of thousands of readers who were enthralled by the first volume, ‘Into Politics’ will be an event.

Diaries: into politics

Biographies & Memoirs

Trewin, I. (ed)

Leaders & Notable People

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Working life of Women in the Seventeenth Century, originally published in 1919, was the first comprehensive analysis of the daily lives of ordinary women in early modern England. It remains the most wide ranging introduction to the subject. Clark uses a variety of documentary sources to illuminate the experience of women in the past. Gentlewomen left memoirs, letters, and household accounts detailing administration of their family estates; craftsmen's wives and widows figure in the apprenticeship and licensing records of guilds and towns; the wives of yeomen, husbandmen and labourers are glimpsed in court evidence, petitions and the registers of parish poor relief. Alice Clark's evidence dates from the later sixteenth to the early eighteenth century, and her analysis addresses a broad transition, from a medieval subsistence economy to the industrial capitalism of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Clark's conclusions about the effects of industrial capitalism on women's working conditions and contribution to the economy were controversial in her own time and remain so today. Her vivid portrayal of the everyday lives of working women - and all women who worked - in seventeenth-century England remains unsurpassed. This book was first published in 1919.

The Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century (Volume 3)

Business & Money

Economics

Routledge

Anthologie Mitterrand

Literature & Fiction

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

University of Oxford, College Histories: Lincoln

History

World

Wentworth Press

The English Register of Godstowvolume 1 (Early English Text Society Original) (Vol 1)

Essays & Correspondence

D.S.Brewer

English Register Godstow II (Early English Text Society Original Series) (NO.130)

Religion & Spirituality

Early English Text Society

Lincoln (1898)

Historical

Kessinger Publishing

Literary

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

When Bards Sing Out of Tune

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