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Shrewsbury Duped, Or the Secret Tribunal Exposed
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Pages : 1
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Salopian Shreds and Patches
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Category : Shropshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Category : Shropshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The Social Life of Coffee
Author: Brian Cowan
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.
The Red Cockade
Author: Stanley John Weyman
Publisher: London Longmans, Green 1895.
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Adventures during the French Revolution as related by an aristocrat in sympathy with the people.
Publisher: London Longmans, Green 1895.
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Adventures during the French Revolution as related by an aristocrat in sympathy with the people.
The New Despotism
Author: Gordon Hewart Baron Hewart
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Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Pages : 307
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The Great Post Office Scandal
Author: Nick Wallis
Publisher: Bath Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1838439056
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 511
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The Great Post Office Scandal is the extraordinary story behind the recent ITV drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office. This gripping page-turner recounts how thousands of subpostmasters were accused of theft and false accounting on the back of evidence from Horizon, the flawed computer system designed by Fujitsu, and how a group of them, led by Alan Bates, took their fight to the High Court. Their eventual victory in court vindicated their claims about the defects of the software and exposed the heavy handed attempts by the Post Office to suppress them. The book also chronicles how successive senior managers, business leaders, lawyers, civil servants and Government ministers, at best failed to expose the injustice or, even worse, sought to cover it up, resulting in one of the largest miscarriages of justice in UK history. The author, Nick Wallis, is a journalist and broadcaster who has been reporting on the scandal for over ten years and who acted as script consultant on Mr Bates vs The Post Office, the ITV drama that brought the affair into the national consciousness. As the public inquiry reaches its climax, and senior figures such as Paula Vennells come to be questioned, The Great Post Office Scandal reveals the full scale of what happened and will leave you enraged at how so many of our trusted institutions allowed the saga to go on for nearly a quarter of a century, shattering the lives of thousands of innocent people.
Publisher: Bath Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1838439056
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 511
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The Great Post Office Scandal is the extraordinary story behind the recent ITV drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office. This gripping page-turner recounts how thousands of subpostmasters were accused of theft and false accounting on the back of evidence from Horizon, the flawed computer system designed by Fujitsu, and how a group of them, led by Alan Bates, took their fight to the High Court. Their eventual victory in court vindicated their claims about the defects of the software and exposed the heavy handed attempts by the Post Office to suppress them. The book also chronicles how successive senior managers, business leaders, lawyers, civil servants and Government ministers, at best failed to expose the injustice or, even worse, sought to cover it up, resulting in one of the largest miscarriages of justice in UK history. The author, Nick Wallis, is a journalist and broadcaster who has been reporting on the scandal for over ten years and who acted as script consultant on Mr Bates vs The Post Office, the ITV drama that brought the affair into the national consciousness. As the public inquiry reaches its climax, and senior figures such as Paula Vennells come to be questioned, The Great Post Office Scandal reveals the full scale of what happened and will leave you enraged at how so many of our trusted institutions allowed the saga to go on for nearly a quarter of a century, shattering the lives of thousands of innocent people.
Julia Margaret Cameron's Women
Author: Sylvia Wolf
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300077815
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Profiles the life and work of a nineteenth century pioneer of photography and offers a selection of her portraits of women
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300077815
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Profiles the life and work of a nineteenth century pioneer of photography and offers a selection of her portraits of women
Thoughts on Government: Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies
Author: John Adams
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Memoirs of the Embassy of the Marshal de Bassompierre to the Court of England in 1626
Author: François de Bassompierre
Publisher: London : J. Murray
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Publisher: London : J. Murray
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Critical and Historical Essays ...
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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