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  • How to be a Victorian

    by Ruth Goodman ...
    TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMANWe know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner - like you or me?How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves?Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish?Catch the omnibus to work and do the laundry in your corset?How to be a Victorian is a radical new approach to hi... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • How to be a Tudor

    A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life

    by Ruth Goodman ...
    TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMANWe know all about the dramas that played out in the Tudor court - most notably those of Henry VIII - but what was life really like for a commoner like you or me?To answer this question, the renowned "method historian" Ruth Goodman has slept, washed and cooked as the Tudors did - so you don't have to!She is your expert guide to this fascinating era, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Wartime Farm

    During World War Two Britain had to look to the land to provide the produce it had previously shipped in from abroad, meaning huge changes on both the agricultural and domestic scenes. Accompanying an 8-part BBC series and written by the three presenters who spend a year living on a reconstructed farm from the era, Wartime Farm sets these changes within a historical context and looks at the day-to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    How to be a Victorian

    by Ruth Goodman ...
    Narrated by Patience Tomlinson ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 1 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman, read by Patience Tomlinson.How to be a Victorian - a time traveller's guide to Victorian Britain by the BBC's Ruth GoodmanWe know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and ... Read more

    $22.14 CAD

  • Full Steam Ahead

    How the Railways Made Britain

    The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life – from trade and transportation to health and recreation.Full Steam Ahead reveals how the world we live in today is entirely shaped by the rail network, charting the glorious evolution of rail transportation and how it left its mark on every aspect of life, landscape and culture. Peter ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    How to Be a Tudor

    A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

    by Ruth Goodman ...
    Narrated by Heather Wilds ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 22 min

    From an historian who advised on the BBC's Wolf Hall, an erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England. ... Read more

    Was $42.99 CAD Now $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England

    A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts

    by Ruth Goodman ...
    Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 57 min

    Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows in her madcap chronicle, Elizabethan England was particularly rank with troublemakers, from snooty needlers who took aim with a cutting "thee," to lowbrow drunkards with revolting table manners. Goodman draws on advice manuals, court ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tudor Monastery Farm

    Life in rural England 500 years ago

    Ruth Goodman and Peter Ginn have become familiar faces on BBC2 after their hugely popular and immersive time-travelling experiments, Victorian, Edwardian and Wartime Farm. But for their fourth series, and our accompanying book, they have joined forces with Tom Pinfold to take on their biggest challenge yet: going back to Tudor England to endure the harsh realities of working for an Abbey Farm ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Full Steam Ahead

    How the Railways Made Britain

    Narrated by Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 50 min

    The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life – from trade and transportation to health and recreation.Full Steam Ahead reveals how the world we live in today is entirely shaped by the rail network, charting the glorious evolution of rail transportation and how it left its mark on every aspect of life, landscape and culture. Peter ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Nursing and Collaborative Practice

    A guide to interprofessional learning and working

    Series series Transforming Nursing Practice Series
    As modern healthcare evolves, it is essential for nurses to understand and work with a diverse range of people to provide quality care. But it is often difficult to grasp the many roles of those in healthcare services. This book provides a clear, practical and up-to-date guide to the various people that nurses work with, including the essential role of service users themselves, and how to work ... Read more

    $82.39 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Parade’s End & The Good Soldier

    Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations

    Unabridged

    4 hours 30 min

    Major BBC adaptations of Ford Madox Ford’s two most famous works, with stellar casts including Tom Goodman-Hill, Ruth Gemmell, Kyle Soller and Mark BonnarA forgotten great of British fiction, Ford Madox Ford wrote over 80 books, founded two trailblazing literary journals and was a friend and collaborator to some of the 20th century’s most significant authors, among them Joseph Conrad, DH Lawrence, ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

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    The Age of Caesar

    Five Roman Lives

    by Plutarch ...
    Narrated by Michael Page ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 44 min

    Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names still resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives pose a question that haunts us still: how to safeguard a republic from the flaws of its leaders.This edition of Plutarch delivers a fresh translation of notable clarity, explanatory notes, and ample historical context. ... Read more

    Was $42.99 CAD Now $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus