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Free Download Pocket Rough Guide British Breaks Isle of Wight (Pocket Rough Guides), 2nd Edition by Rough Guides
English | September 26tht, 2023 | ISBN: 1839058609 | 128 pages | True EPUB | 43.71 MB
This expert-curated guide book to Isle of Wight shines a spotlight on a more unusual British break, with a wealth of practical information on what to see and do. Each area or neighbourhood featured in this Isle of Wight travel guide is explored in-depth with detailed coverage of the points of interest, shops, restaurants, cafes and bars on offer. Excursions to surrounding areas give plenty of options for those looking to enjoy a longer stay. This Isle of Wight guide book has been fully updated post-COVID-19.

Free Download Pocket Rough Guide British Breaks Isle of Wight (Pocket Rough Guides), 2nd Edition by Rough Guides
English | September 26tht, 2023 | ISBN: 1839058609 | 128 pages | True EPUB | 43.71 MB
This expert-curated guide book to Isle of Wight shines a spotlight on a more unusual British break, with a wealth of practical information on what to see and do. Each area or neighbourhood featured in this Isle of Wight travel guide is explored in-depth with detailed coverage of the points of interest, shops, restaurants, cafes and bars on offer. Excursions to surrounding areas give plenty of options for those looking to enjoy a longer stay. This Isle of Wight guide book has been fully updated post-COVID-19.

Free Download Pocket Rough Guide British Breaks Isle of Skye & the Western Isles (Pocket Rough Guide British Breaks), 2nd Edition by Rough Guides
English | September 26th, 2023 | ISBN: 1839058617 | 136 pages | True EPUB | 32.45 MB
This expert-curated guide book to the Isle of Skye & the Western Isles shines a spotlight on a more unusual British break, with a wealth of practical information on what to see and do. Each area or neighbourhood featured in this Isle of Skye & the Western Isles travel guide is explored in-depth with detailed coverage of the points of interest, shops, restaurants, cafes and bars on offer. Excursions to surrounding areas give plenty of options for those looking to enjoy a longer stay. This Isle of Skye & the Western Isles guide book has been fully updated post-COVID-19.

Free Download Sophie Vasset, "Murky waters: British spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature "
English | ISBN: 1526159716 | 2022 | 304 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Murky waters challenges the refined image of spa towns in eighteenth-century Britain by unveiling darker and more ambivalent contemporary representations. It reasserts the centrality of health in British spas by looking at disease, the representation of treatment and the social networks of care woven into spa towns. The book explores the great variety of medical and literary discourses on the numerous British spas in the long eighteenth century and offers a rare look at spas beyond Bath. Following the thread of ‘murkiness’, it explores the underwater culture of spas, from the gender fluidity of users to the local and national political dimensions, as well as the financial risks taken by gamblers and investors. It thus brings a fresh look at mineral waters and a pinch of salt to health-related discourses.

Free Download Elliot Vernon, "London presbyterians and the British revolutions, 1638-64 "
English | ISBN: 1526157802 | 2021 | 344 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This is the first book-length exploration of presbyterians and presbyterianism in London during the crisis period of the mid-seventeenth century. It charts the emergence of a movement of clergy and laity that aimed at ‘reforming the Reformation’ by instituting presbyterianism in London’s parishes and ultimately the Church of England. The book analyses the movement’s political narrative and its relationship with its patrons in the parliamentarian aristocracy and gentry. It also considers the political and social institutions of London life and examines the presbyterians’ opponents within the parliamentarian camp. Finally, it focuses on the intellectual influence of presbyterian ideas on the political thought and polity of the Church and the emergence of dissent at the Restoration.

Free Download Michael Brocken, "Gordon Stretton, Black British Transoceanic Jazz Pioneer: A New Jazz Chronicle"
English | ISBN: 1498574467 | 2018 | 352 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This extensively researched text concerning the life and career of Liverpool-born Black jazz musician Gordon Stretton not only contributes to the important debate concerning the transoceanic pathways of jazz during the 20th century, but also suggests to the jazz fan and scholar alike that such pathways, reaching as they also did across the Atlantic from Europe, are actually part of a largely ignored therefore partially-hidden history of 20th century jazz performance, industry and influence. The work also exists to contribute to a more complete picture of the significance of diaspora studies across the spectrum of popular music performance, and to award to those Liverpool musicians who were not contributors to the city’s musical visage post-rock ‘n’ roll, a place in popular music history.

Free Download Fodor’s U.S. & British Virgin Islands (Full-color Travel Guide), 28th Edition by Fodor’s Travel Guides
English | December 5th, 2023 | ISBN: 1640976450 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 71.34 MB
Whether you want to sail in Tortola, snorkel at Trunk Bay Beach, or explore the Baths in Virgin Gorda, the local Fodor’s travel experts in the Virgin Islands are here to help! Fodor’s U.S. & British Virgin Islands guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos.

Free Download Fodor’s U.S. & British Virgin Islands (Full-color Travel Guide), 28th Edition by Fodor’s Travel Guides
English | December 5th, 2023 | ISBN: 1640976450 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 71.34 MB
Whether you want to sail in Tortola, snorkel at Trunk Bay Beach, or explore the Baths in Virgin Gorda, the local Fodor’s travel experts in the Virgin Islands are here to help! Fodor’s U.S. & British Virgin Islands guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos.

Free Download Romain Fathi, "Exiting war: The British Empire and the 1918-20 moment "
English | ISBN: 1526155842 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Exiting war explores a particular 1918-20 ‘moment’ in the British Empire’s history, between the First World War’s armistices of 1918, and the peace treaties of 1919 and 1920. That moment, we argue, was a challenging and transformative time for the Empire. While British authorities successfully answered some of the post-war tests they faced, such as demobilisation, repatriation, and fighting the widespread effects of the Spanish flu, the racial, social, political and economic hallmarks of their imperialism set the scene for a wide range of expressions of loyalties and disloyalties, and anticolonial movements. The book documents and conceptualises this 1918-20 ‘moment’ and its characteristics as a crucial three-year period of transformation for and within the Empire, examining these years for the significant shifts in the imperial relationship that occurred and as laying the foundation for later change in the imperial system.

Free Download Graham Saunders, "Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama: ‘Upstart Crows’"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1137444525 | PDF | pages: 200 | 2.4 mb
This book examines British playwrights’ responses to the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries since 1945, from Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead to Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem. Using the work of Julie Sanders and others working in the fields of Adaptation Studies and intertextual criticism, it argues that this relatively neglected area of drama, widely considered to be adaptation, should instead be considered as appropriation – as work that often mounts challenges to the ideologies and orthodoxies within Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and questions the legitimacy and cultural authority of Shakespeare’s legacy. The book discusses the work of Howard Barker, Peter Barnes, Edward Bond, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Elaine Feinstein and the Women’s Theatre Group, David Greig, Sarah Kane, Dennis Kelly, Bernard Kopps, Charles Marowitz, Julia Pascal and Arnold Wesker.