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  • Interpreting at the First Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial

    How is a Witness Heard?

    by Dr Peter Davies ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
    This book explores the work of interpreters and translators at the First Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial of 22 former SS Auschwitz personnel in the mid-1960s, when the voices of dozens of witnesses, speaking 10 different languages, had a profound impact on public understanding of the Holocaust in Germany and beyond.The book asks vital questions about how victims of genocide can make their voices heard ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • An Archaeology of Institutional Confinement

    The Hyde Park Barracks, 1848-1886

    by Dr Peter Davies, Dr Penny Crook, Tim Murray ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in Australasian Historical Archaeology
    The archaeological assemblage from the Hyde Park Barracks is one of the largest, most comprehensive and best preserved collections of artefacts from any 19th-century institution in the world. Concealed for up to 160 years in the cavities between floorboards and ceilings, the assemblage is a unique archaeological record of institutional confinement, especially of women.The underfloor assemblage ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Adelphi Players

    The Theatre of Persons

    by Dr Cecil Davies ...
    Cecil Davies' The Adelphi Players: The Theatre of Persons represents a uniquely interesting contribution to our understanding of touring British theatre in the mid-twentieth-century, post-war period. This book will interest everyone - whether student, academic or general reader - who wants to know more about issues concerning the recent history of British theatre. In their values and aims, the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Translating Holocaust Lives

    Edited by Dr Jean Boase-Beier, Dr Peter Davies, Dr Andrea Hammel, Dr Marion Winters ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
    For readers in the English-speaking world, almost all Holocaust writing is translated writing. Translation is indispensable for our understanding of the Holocaust because there is a need to tell others what happened in a way that makes events and experiences accessible – if not, perhaps, comprehensible – to other communities.Yet what this means is only beginning to be explored by Translation ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    The French Revolution

    by Dr Peter Davies ...
    Narrated by Martin Blum ...
    Series series Bolinda Beginner Guides

    Unabridged

    5 hours 20 min

    Blending narrative with analysis, Peter Davies explores a time of obscene opulence, mass starvation, and ground-breaking ideals; where the streets of Paris ran red with blood, and the numbers requiring execution precipitated the invention of the guillotine. Davies brings the subject up to date by considering the legacy of the revolution and how it continues to resonate in today’s France. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • The Victorians

    by Jeremy Paxman ...
    Jeremy Paxman's unique portrait of the Victorian age takes readers on an exciting journey through the birth of modern Britain. Using the paintings of the era as a starting point, he tells us stories of urban life, family, faith, industry and empire that helped define the Victorian spirit and imagination.To Paxman, these paintings were the television of their day, and his exploration of Victorian ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • Bachelors of a different sort

    Queer aesthetics, material culture and the modern interior in Britain

    by John Potvin ...
    Series series Studies in Design and Material Culture
    The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957. The seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor (queerness, idolatry, askesis, decadence, the decorative, glamour ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Lives of Houses

    Edited by Kate Kennedy, Hermione Lee ...
    Notable writers—including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow—celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the pastWhat can a house tell us about the person who lives there? Do we shape the buildings we live in, or are we formed by the places we call home? And why are we especially ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Talking Theatre

    Interviews with Theatre People

    by Richard Eyre ...
    A superlative account of how theatre is made, in the words of the very people who make it.In Talking Theatre, Richard Eyre uses his unrivalled access to leading theatre people to allow us to eavesdrop on the stories behind many of the most important productions and performances in the theatre of recent times:John Gielgud • Peter Brook • Margaret 'Percy' Harris • Peter Hall • Ian McKellen • Judi ... Read more

    $30.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bohemian London

    From Pre-Raphaelites to Punk

    by Nick Rennison ...
    London has always been home to outsiders. To people who won't, or can't, abide by the conventions of respectable society. For close to two centuries these misfit individualists have had a name. They have been called Bohemians. This book is an entertaining, anecdotal history of Bohemian London. A guide to its more colourful inhabitants: Rossetti and Swinburne, defying the morality of high Victorian ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

    Edited by Francis O'Gorman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde

    Edited by Peter Raby ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde offers an essential introduction to one of the theatre's most important and enigmatic writers. Although a general overview, the volume also offers some of the latest thinking on the dramatist and his impact on the twentieth century. Part One places Wilde's work within the cultural and historical context of his time and includes an opening essay by Wilde's ... Read more

    $28.69 USD