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Games, Greek and Pluck

Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education and British Sport, 1850–1914

de Andy Carter, Richard Holt, Matthew Taylor ...

Series Libro 13 - Sport, History and Culture
Public school education in the second half of the nineteenth century was completely dominated by classics and sport. Rejecting the view that these were competing strands resulting in friction between aesthetic scholars and athletic philistines, this book shows how classicism and athleticism were closely entwined. Using primary sources, such as school magazines and memoirs, it considers how ... Leer más

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Public school education in the second half of the nineteenth century was completely dominated by classics and sport. Rejecting the view that these were competing strands resulting in friction between aesthetic scholars and athletic philistines, this book shows how classicism and athleticism were closely entwined. Using primary sources, such as school magazines and memoirs, it considers how
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How to Speak Effectively Anywhere

Improve Your Communication Skills, Talk Smarter, and Captivate Any Audience

de Andy Carter ...

Narrado por Digital Voice Martin G ...

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Do you freeze up when all eyes are on you?Does your mind go blank the moment you need to speak in a meeting?Do you struggle to get your point across without rambling or losing people's attention?Are you tired of being overlooked because you can't communicate your ideas clearly?Do you avoid speaking up because you're terrified of saying the wrong thing ... Leer más

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Do you freeze up when all eyes are on you?Does your mind go blank the moment you need to speak in a meeting?Do you struggle to get your point across without rambling or losing people's attention?Are you tired of being overlooked because you can't communicate your ideas clearly?Do you avoid speaking up because you're terrified of saying the wrong thing
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Ireland

1001 Things You Need to Know

de Richard Killeen ...

In this enthralling celebration of the places and people that make the country unique, Richard Killeen takes the reader on a tour of Ireland that reveals its rich and surprising history, including its heroes and villains, legends and folklore. As well as exploring the nation's rich literary and sporting heritage, Ireland: 1,001 Things You Need to Know also reveals the best of the country for those ... Leer más

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In this enthralling celebration of the places and people that make the country unique, Richard Killeen takes the reader on a tour of Ireland that reveals its rich and surprising history, including its heroes and villains, legends and folklore. As well as exploring the nation's rich literary and sporting heritage, Ireland: 1,001 Things You Need to Know also reveals the best of the country for those
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The Irish Difference

A Tumultuous History of Ireland's Breakup with Britain

de Fergal Tobin ...

A fascinating and entertaining investigation into what makes Ireland so different from its neighbors, by a respected Irish historian. For hundreds of years, the islands and their constituent tribes that make up the British Isles have lived next door to each other in a manner that, over time, suggested some movement towards political union. It was an uneven, stop-start business and it worked better ... Leer más

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A fascinating and entertaining investigation into what makes Ireland so different from its neighbors, by a respected Irish historian. For hundreds of years, the islands and their constituent tribes that make up the British Isles have lived next door to each other in a manner that, over time, suggested some movement towards political union. It was an uneven, stop-start business and it worked better
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Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please?

How the British Invented Sport

de Julian Norridge ...

The acclaimed Sunday Times Sports Book of the YearAmericans may like to think they invented baseball (even if Jane Austen wrote about it decades earlier). And the French might be proud of founding the modern Olympics (when, in fact, a Shropshire doctor beat them to it by forty years).But it was the British that gave sport to the world.From the beginnings of 'the beautiful game' - raucous matches ... Leer más

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The acclaimed Sunday Times Sports Book of the YearAmericans may like to think they invented baseball (even if Jane Austen wrote about it decades earlier). And the French might be proud of founding the modern Olympics (when, in fact, a Shropshire doctor beat them to it by forty years).But it was the British that gave sport to the world.From the beginnings of 'the beautiful game' - raucous matches
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This Sporting Life

Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960

de Robert Colls ...

Why did killing a fox mean liberty? What did parish revels have to do with the Peterloo Massacre? What did animal cruelty have to do with the English constitution? What did the Factory Acts mean for modern football? In This Sporting Life, Robert Colls explains sport as one of England's great civil cultures. The lived experiences of people from all walks of life are reclaimed to tell England's ... Leer más

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Why did killing a fox mean liberty? What did parish revels have to do with the Peterloo Massacre? What did animal cruelty have to do with the English constitution? What did the Factory Acts mean for modern football? In This Sporting Life, Robert Colls explains sport as one of England's great civil cultures. The lived experiences of people from all walks of life are reclaimed to tell England's
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Rebellions

Memoir, Memory and 1798

de Tom Dunne ...

This is a new, extended edition of an unusual book, which generated considerable interest and controversy when it was first published in 2004, and won the Ewart Biggs Memorial Prize the following year. In its original form it had three elements, a memoir giving the author's intellectual and political formation and his family connection to 1798 in Wexford, a critique of the bicentenary of the ... Leer más

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This is a new, extended edition of an unusual book, which generated considerable interest and controversy when it was first published in 2004, and won the Ewart Biggs Memorial Prize the following year. In its original form it had three elements, a memoir giving the author's intellectual and political formation and his family connection to 1798 in Wexford, a critique of the bicentenary of the
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The Worst Medieval Monarchs

de Phil Bradford ...

Stephen. John. Edward II. Richard II. Richard III. These five are widely viewed as the worst of England's medieval kings. Certainly, their reigns were not success stories. Two of these kings lost their thrones, one only avoided doing so by dying, another was killed in battle, and the remaining one had to leave his crown to his opponent. All have been seen as incompetent, their reigns blighted by ... Leer más

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Stephen. John. Edward II. Richard II. Richard III. These five are widely viewed as the worst of England's medieval kings. Certainly, their reigns were not success stories. Two of these kings lost their thrones, one only avoided doing so by dying, another was killed in battle, and the remaining one had to leave his crown to his opponent. All have been seen as incompetent, their reigns blighted by
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History in the House

Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft

de Richard Davenport-Hines ...

A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the YearFive hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey endowed in Oxford a foundation he called Cardinal‘s College. Henry VIII, the monarch who dismissed and ruined him, re-established it as Christ Church later in his reign as an institution rich, spacious and imposing beyond any other. It would ... Leer más

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A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the YearFive hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey endowed in Oxford a foundation he called Cardinal‘s College. Henry VIII, the monarch who dismissed and ruined him, re-established it as Christ Church later in his reign as an institution rich, spacious and imposing beyond any other. It would
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The First Black Footballer

Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory

de Phil Vasili ...

Series series Sport in the Global Society
Arthur Wharton was the world's first black professional footballer, and the first African to play professional cricket in Yorkshire and Lancashire leagues. Those promoting Empire as an expression of white supremacy found him a supreme irritation, and he eventually died in poverty. ... Leer más

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Arthur Wharton was the world's first black professional footballer, and the first African to play professional cricket in Yorkshire and Lancashire leagues. Those promoting Empire as an expression of white supremacy found him a supreme irritation, and he eventually died in poverty.
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Ireland in Brick and Stone

The Island's History in Its Buildings

de Richard Killeen ...

Ireland in Brick and Stone takes 50 buildings and other man-made constructions from different parts of Ireland and uses them to illustrate the history of the island over 1,500 years. All but three of the buildings are still surviving and they offer us a very personal way into history by teasing out the context in which each building was constructed, the uses to which it was put and the people ... Leer más

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Ireland in Brick and Stone takes 50 buildings and other man-made constructions from different parts of Ireland and uses them to illustrate the history of the island over 1,500 years. All but three of the buildings are still surviving and they offer us a very personal way into history by teasing out the context in which each building was constructed, the uses to which it was put and the people
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Smyllie's Ireland

Protestants, Independence, and the Man Who Ran the Irish Times

de Caleb Wood Richardson ...

"A thoughtful, superbly researched and elegantly written study of one the most important pioneering Irish newspaper editors of the past 150 years." — Journal of British StudiesAs Irish republicans sought to rid the country of British rule and influence in the early twentieth century, a clear delineation was made between what was "authentically" Irish and what was considered to be English influence ... Leer más

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"A thoughtful, superbly researched and elegantly written study of one the most important pioneering Irish newspaper editors of the past 150 years." — Journal of British StudiesAs Irish republicans sought to rid the country of British rule and influence in the early twentieth century, a clear delineation was made between what was "authentically" Irish and what was considered to be English influence
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