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  • Association and Enlightenment

    Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830

    by David Allan, Bob Harris, Jacqueline Jenkinson, Ralph McLean, James J. Caudle, Rhona Brown, Corey Andrews, Martyn Powell, Rosalind Carr ...
    Series series Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
    Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social force, committed to improvement and national regeneration as well as to sociability. The essays in this volume examine the complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. Contributors ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • A Woman of No Importance (with audio)

    Enhanced Edition with Full Cast Audio Performance

    by Oscar Wilde, Jane Carr, Rosalind Ayres, Peter Dennis, Judy Geeson, Paul Gutrecht, Martin Jarvis, Cherie Lunghi, Robert Machray, Miriam Margolyes, Samantha Mathis, Jim Norton ...
    Enhanced ebook edition of A Woman of No Importance featuring a full cast audio performance of the play.Devilishly attractive Lord Illingworth is notorious for his skill as a seducer. But he is still invited to all the "best" houses while his female conquests must hide their shame in seclusion. In this devastating comedy, Wilde uses his celebrated wit to expose English society's narrow view of ... Read more

    $5.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Man of the Moment

    by Alan Ayckbourn ...
    Narrated by Rosalind Ayres, Jane Carr, Ian Oglivy, Kenneth Danziger, Martin Jarvis, Yeardley Smith ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 54 min

    The price of accidental fame is hashed out in this comedy about a famous bank robber and the clerk who foiled his biggest heist. Ayckbourn’s 1988 play anticipates the popularity - and absurdity - of reality TV.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Rosalind Ayres as Jill RillingtonJane Carr as Trudy ParksKenneth Danziger as Douglas BeecheyMartin Jarvis as Vic ParksIan Oglivy as ... Read more

    $9.55 CAD

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  • Liberty's Dawn

    A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

    by Emma Griffin ...
    "Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Acts of Union and Disunion

    by Linda Colley ...
    The United Kingdom; Great Britain; the British Isles; the Home Nations: such a wealth of different names implies uncertainty and contention - and an ability to invent and adjust. In a year that sees a Scottish referendum on independence, Linda Colley analyses some of the forces that have unified Britain in the past.She examines the mythology of Britishness, and how far - and why - it has faded. ... Read more

    $11.79 CAD

  • Enlightenment

    Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

    by Roy Porter ...
    For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Customs in Common

    Studies in Traditional Popular Culture

    by E. P. Thompson ...
    The "meticulously researched, elegantly argued and deeply humane" sequel to the landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class ( The New York Times Book Review).This remarkable study investigates the gradual disappearance of a range of cultural customs against the backdrop of the great upheavals of the eighteenth century. As villagers were subjected to a legal system ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adam Smith

    An Enlightened Life

    by Nicholas Phillipson ...
    Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - that of the 'Invisible Hand' of the market and that 'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest' - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Georgians

    The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain

    by Penelope J. Corfield ...
    A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes todayThe Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world’s first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life, and Britain’s role in ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Famine Irish

    Emigration and the Great Hunger

    Edited by Ciaran Reilly ...
    From a range of leading academics and historians, this collection of essays examines Irish emigration during the Great Famine of the 1840s. From the mechanics of how this was arranged to the fate of the men, women and children who landed on the shores of the nations of the world, this work provides a remarkable insight into one of the most traumatic and transformative periods of Ireland's history. ... Read more

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  • An Everyday Life of the English Working Class

    Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century

    by Carolyn Steedman ...
    This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his way of seeing and writing the world around him, and on the activities of magistrate Sir Gervase Clifton, administering justice from his country house Clifton Hall. Using Woolley's voluminous diaries and ... Read more

    $55.19 CAD

  • Crime in Early Modern England 1550-1750

    by James A Sharpe ...
    Series series Themes In British Social History
    Still the only general survey of the topic available, this widely-used exploration of the incidence, causes and control of crime in Early Modern England throws a vivid light on the times. It uses court archives to capture vividly the everyday lives of people who would otherwise have left little mark on the historical record. This new edition - fully updated throughout - incorporates new thinking ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD