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  • A Woman Living in the Shadow of the Second World War

    Helena Hall's Journal from the Home Front

    by Helena Hall ...
    "These previously unpublished diaries of an English woman surviving the war at home provide a fascinating insight into society and life" ( Firetrench).Helena Hall's daily diary of the war years, from 1940 to 1945, is one of the most vivid, detailed and evocative personal records of the Second World War as it was experienced by people living in an English village. In her journal she describes her ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Austerity Across Europe

    Lived Experiences of Economic Crises

    Edited by Sarah Marie Hall, Helena Pimlott-Wilson, John Horton ...
    Drawing together multidisciplinary research exploring everyday life in Europe during times of economic crisis, this book explores the ways in which austerity policies are lived and experienced - often alongside other significant social, political and personal change. With attention to the inequalities produced by these processes and the measures used by individuals, families and communities to ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Growing Up and Getting By

    International Perspectives on Childhood and Youth in Hard Times

    Edited by John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson, Sarah Marie Hall ...
    Bringing together new, multidisciplinary research, this book explores how children and young people across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas experience and cope with situations of poverty and precarity.It looks at the impact of neoliberalism, austerity and global economic crisis, evidencing the multiple harms and inequalities caused. It also examines the different ways that children, young ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • Community-Led Research

    Walking New Pathways Together

    by Amanda Howard, Margot Rawsthorne, Samantha McMahon, Anthony McKnight, Emma Webster, Yvonne Hill, Allan Hall, Cecil See, Helena Robinson, Imelda Miller, Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes, Catherine Burgess, Elizabeth McDermott, Julie Welsh ...
    The concept of Community-Led Research has taken off in recent years in a variety of fields, from archaeology and anthropology to social work and everything in between. Drawing on case studies from Australia and the Pacific, this book considers what it means to participate in Community-Led Research, for both communities and researchers. How can researchers and communities work together well, and ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

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    This WWII memoir recounts a woman's experience translating top-secret German communications for British intelligence.Like many British women on the homefront of World War II, Jenny Nater discovered an unexpected way to put her talents to use. She served as a bilingual wireless operator in the top-secret Special Duties service at Dover, intercepting traffic from German surface craft in the English ... Read more

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  • Lady Under Fire on the Western Front

    The Great War Letters of Lady Dorothie Feilding MM

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  • A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England

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    Captain Edward J. Smith, Bruce Ismay, Thomas Andrews and the Sinking of Titanic

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    How Perpetrators of the Holocaust Cheated Justice and Truth

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  • The Woodville Women

    100 Years of Plantagenet and Tudor History

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