Early Broadstairs and St Peter's in old photographs

WOOTTON, Barrie

Alan Sutton

<p>A study of Medieval leisure activities. This book looks at how people from all classes of medieval society enjoyed themselves when not about their daily chores.</p>

Pleasures and Pastimes in Later Medieval England

Reeves, Compton

History

The railway comes to Didcot: A history of the town, 1839-1918

Lingham, Brian

The history of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester

Science & Math

Sayce, R. B

Technology

<p>"St. Andrews is one of the best-known small cities in the world, and the reason for its faire rests largely on its claim to be the home of golf. The famous Royal and Ancient Golf Club, founded in 1754, is the world's leading golf club. Yet the town is much more than the shrine of golf; it was once the metropolitan see of Scotland, a centre of pilgrimage, learning and trade, famous throughout western Europe." "Jo Grimond describes in vigorous style the town in which he was born and grew up. He recalls the buildings, traditions and some of the people that formed his world as a child, as he takes the reader on a tour of the town, the streets and the harbour. Each building or view on the 'walk' triggers a memory about a St. Andrews' personality, reminds him of a good golfing story or provokes an acid comment about the architect of a particularly disliked building. The reader, whether he be in an armchair or following the route, receives an educational tour with a difference, one not only packed with historical fact but also one with amusing stories and reflections on the modern world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved</p>

The St. Andrews of Jo Grimond

Grimond, Jo

More Last Days of Steam in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

D. Fereday Glenn

Cheltenham - England 100 Years Ago

SUTTON, Alan

Europe

Hampshire of One Hundred Years Ago (One Hundred Years Ago series)

Stapleton, Barry

Sexual misdemeanours in high places are not new. Today's tabloid headlines of passion and indignation at the behaviour of members of the royal and political establishment are paralleled by events of a century and more ago. The mid-Victorian period was dominated by a double standard which insisted on a rigid public respectability while condoning widespread sexual immorality by men. This hypocrisy led to extensive protests culminating in a series of highly publicized scandals in the 1880s and '90s which marked the triumph of dogmatic puritanical morality. A furious controversy raged during the 1860s and '70s over stealthy moves towards legalizing prostitution. One MP commented on the protest movement, in which early feminists such as Florence Nightingale and Josephine Butler featured prominently, 'We know how to manage any other opposition . . . but this is very awkward for us - this revolt of women. It is quite a new thing.' The general public often reacted violently to the protesters; on one occasion a mob threatened to burn down the hotel where Josephine Butler was staying. Nevertheless, the remainder of the nineteenth century saw the inexorable rise to a position of power and influence of the 'purity lobby', assisted by the major scandals of the period, which saw the downfall of Sir Charles Dilke, Charles Stewart Parnell and, most infamously of all, Oscar Wilde. This is a fascinating analysis of the politics of sexual morality in Victorian Britain, which not only provides a well-researched and radical new view of the period, but also raises many questions about the extent to which the Victorian period can be described as the rise of respectable society.

Scandal: The Sexual Politics of Late Victorian Britain

Fisher, Trevor

Polite Landscapes: Gardens and Society in Eighteenth-century England (Gardens/Environment)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Tom Williamson

Gardening & Landscape Design

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