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An uneasy inheritance
£10.99An uneasy inheritance
While for generations Polly Toynbee’s ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice, they could never claim to be working class, settling instead for the prosperous life of academia or journalism enjoyed by their own forebears. So where does that leave their ideals of class equality? Through a colourful, entertaining examination of her own family – which in addition to her writer father Philip and her historian grandfather Arnold contains everyone from the Glenconners to Jessica Mitford to Bertrand Russell, and features ancestral home Castle Howard as a backdrop – Toynbee explores the myth of mobility, the guilt of privilege, and asks for a truly honest conversation about class in Britain.
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Dragged up proppa
£10.99Dragged up proppa
Pip Fallow left school illiterate, prepared only for a life down the mines. This is his story of working class life in northern England, and the country that would leave people like him behind. Dragged Up Proppa marks the arrival of a major literary working class voice that needs to be listened to.
SKU: 9781529051155 Category: Biography Tags: Memoirs, Politics & government, Social classes, Social mobility£10.99 -
Eighteen
£22.00Eighteen
A scintilating new history of Britain told through eighteen figures of British history – and what they achieved at eighteen years-old. From Alice Loxton, bestselling author and social media sensation.
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Literature for the people
£25.00Literature for the people
A fascinating, evocative history of Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, two poor but idealistic young men who created a Victorian publishing empire.
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Rural
£10.99Rural
‘Eye-opening and persuasive’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Brilliant ? I loved it’ KIT DE WAAL
‘Thoughtful, moving, honest’ CAL FLYN
SKU: 9780008526313 Category: History Tags: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, Memoirs, Rural communities, Social & cultural history, Social classes£10.99 -
The bookbinder of Jericho
£8.99The bookbinder of Jericho
When the men of Oxford University Press leave for the Western Front, Peggy, her twin sister Maude and their friends in the bookbindery must shoulder the burden at home. As Peggy moves between her narrowboat full of memories and the demands of the Press, her dreams of studying feel ever more remote. She must know her place, fold her pages and never stop to savour the precious words in front of her. From volunteer nurses to refugees fleeing the horrors of occupation, the war brings women together from all walks of life, and with them some difficult choices for Peggy. New friends and lovers offer new opportunities, but they also make new demands – and Peggy must write her own story.
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The power and the glory
£25.00The power and the glory
In the decades before the First World War, the owners of the nation’s stately homes revelled in a golden age of glory and glamour. Nothing lay beyond their reach in a world where privilege and hedonism went hand-in-hand with duty and honour. This was a time when the ancestral seats of ancient nobility stood side-by-side with the fabulous palaces of Jewish bankers and Indian princes, when dukes and duchesses mixed with aristocratic society hostesses who had learned to dance in the chorus line and self-made millionaires who had been raised in the slums of Manchester and Birmingham. ‘The Power and the Glory’ explores the country house during this golden age, when Britain ruled over a quarter of the world’s population, when its stately homes were at their most opulent and when, for the privileged few, life in the country house was the best life of all.
SKU: 9781787334168 Category: History Tags: "Architecture: palaces, stately homes & mansions", European history, Rural communities, Social & cultural history, Social classes, The countryside, country life: general interest£25.00 -
They were counted
£12.99They were counted
Part one of a trilogy, ‘They Were Counted’ paints a portrait of the vanished world of pre-1914 Hungary, as seen through the eyes of two young aristocratic Transylvanian cousins.
SKU: 9781529434668 Category: Fiction A-z Tags: Historical fiction, Material culture, Modern & contemporary fiction, Political corruption, Politics & government, Social & ethical issues, Social classes£12.99 -
They were found wanting
£12.99They were found wanting
Liberal hero Balint is at odds with the politics of his time. He describes the idyllic pre-industrial world of Hungarian Transylvania, later to fall into the hands of the Nazis then the Communists, his love for Adrienne, and a Proustian society bent on its own destruction.
SKU: 9781529434675 Category: Fiction A-z Tags: Material culture, Modern & contemporary fiction, Political corruption, Politics & government, Social & ethical issues, Social classes£12.99