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  • Odd men out

    Male homosexuality in Britain from Wolfenden to Gay Liberation: Revised and updated edition

    par John-Pierre Joyce ...
    From government ministers and spies to activists, drag queens and celebrities, Odd men out charts the tumultuous history of gay men in 1950s and 60s Britain. It takes us from the earliest tentative steps towards decriminalisation to the liberation movement of the early 1970s. Along the way, it catalogues shocking repression, including laws against homosexual activity and the use of brutal medical ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

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  • An English Affair

    Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

    par Richard Davenport-Hines ...
    WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014.Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution.Britain in 1963 – Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of a Conservative government, dedicated to tradition, hierarchy and, above all, old-fashioned ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Sex Lives of Australians

    A History

    par Frank Bongiorno ...
    Cross-dressing convicts, effeminate bushrangers and women-shortage woes – here is the first ever history of sex in Australia, from Botany Bay to the present-day.In this fascinating social history, Frank Bongiorno uses striking examples to chart the changing sex lives of Australians. Tracing the story up to the present, Bongiorno shows how the quest for respectability always has another side to it ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Burning Of Bridget Cleary

    A True Story

    par Angela Bourke ...
    In 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. At first, some said that the fairies had taken her into their stronghold in a nearby hill, from where she would emerge, riding a white horse. But then her badly burned body was found in a shallow grave. Her husband, father, aunt and four cousins were arrested and charged, while newspapers in nearby Clonmel, ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • White Heat

    A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties

    par Dominic Sandbrook ...
    'An active pleasure to read' Mail on SundayHarold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed to have taken on a dramatic new momentum.The memories ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Family Secrets

    The Things We Tried to Hide

    par Deborah Cohen ...
    A Sunday Telegraph and Times Higher Education 'Book of the Week', Deborah Cohen's Family Secrets is a gripping book about what families - Victorian and modern - try to hide, and why.In an Edinburgh town house, a genteel maiden lady frets with her brother over their niece's downy upper lip. Would the darkening shadow betray the girl's Eurasian heritage? On a Liverpool railway platform, a ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • What's in a Surname?

    A Journey from Abercrombie to Zwicker

    par David McKie ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSurnames are much more than convenient identity tags; they are windows into our families’ pasts. Some suggest ancestral trades (Butcher, Smith, Roper) or physical appearance (Long, Brown, Thynne). Some provide clues to where we come from (McDonald, Evans, Patel). And some – Rymer, Brocklebank, Stolbof – offer a hint of something just a little more exotic or esoteric.All ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Girl Trouble

    Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women

    par Professor Carol Dyhouse ...
    'A brilliant cultural history.'Irish ExaminerGirls behave badly. If they're not obscenity-shouting, pint-swigging ladettes, they're narcissistic, living dolls floating around in a cloud of self-obsession, far too busy twerking to care. And this is news.In this witty and wonderful book, Carol Dyhouse shows that where there's a social scandal or a wave of moral outrage, you can bet a girl is to ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Orphans of The Empire

    The Shocking Story of Child Migration to Australia

    par Alan Gill ...
    This is a book about the white stolen children - a lost tribe - who were sent to Australia with dreams of a better life, but who, in reality, often suffered great cruelty and abuse.'This book draws back the curtain on a part of Australian and British history that has been crying out for recognition. All Australians shoud read it' Sir Ronald Wilson'This story is remarkable. Even more remarkable is ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Britain's Most Notorious Prisoners

    Victorian to Present-Day Cases

    par Stephen Wade ...
    From Oscar Wilde to the Kray brothers—a unique history of the lives and crimes of the United Kingdom's most famous, and infamous, inmates.Their names can chill the blood of true-crime aficionados: Peter Sutcliffe, aka The Yorkshire Ripper; child-torturer Ian Brady; cannibal Dennis Nilsen; serial killer Beverley Allitt. Some are tinged in glamour: beautiful nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis, hanged for ... En savoir plus

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  • Jack The Ripper and the East End

    Introduction by Peter Ackroyd

    par Various ...
    In 1888, Whitechapel - at the heart of the inner East End - was the most (in)famous place in the country, widely imagined as a site of the blackest and deepest horror. Its streets and alleys were seen as violent and dangerous, overflowing with poverty and depravity. This book aims to uncover the reality of East End life. Sections look at slum housing, immigration, attitudes to women, poverty, ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Ban This Filth!

    Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive

    par Ben Thompson ...
    In 1964, Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the 'propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt' being poured into homes through the nation's radio and television sets. Whitehouse, senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school, became the unlikely figurehead of a mass movement for censorship: the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, now Mediawatch-uk.For almost forty ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD