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Canal People - The Photographs of Robert Longden by Sonia Rolt
Category: No Category | Series: Sutton Ser.
During a few years in the late 1940s and early 1950s Robert Longden took a remarkable set of photographs of the narrow boat community at Hawkesbury Stop - the main meeting point for those who worked the Midlands canals. The images are of a close community and represent its members in a very intimate way ...Show more
Charles Dickens by Catherine Peters
Category: No Category | Series: Sutton Pocket Biographies Ser.
This short biography provides an excellent introduction to Dickens, from his disturbed childhood with a traumatic period working in a blacking factory, his instant success as a young writer and his tumultuous acclaim in both England and America, to the final years as a public performer of his own work. ...Show more
Che Guevara by Andrew Sinclair
Category: No Category | Series: Sutton Pocket Biographies Ser.
'I was born in Argentina. I fought in Cuba, and I began to be a revolutionary in Guatemala.' Che Guevara was the most admired and beloved revolutionary of his time, the first man since Simon Bolivar seriously to plan to unite the countries of Latin America. This concise biography unravels Che's life, fr ...Show more
Christmas on the Home Front, 1939-1945 by Mike Brown; Carol Harris
Category: History | Series: Sutton Ser.
Drawing upon personal recollections, comtemporary Mass Observation reports, newspaper articles and advertisements, personal and archive photographs, Mike Brown and Carol Harris look at each wartime Christmas on the British Home Front, from 1939 to 1945.
Cleopatra by E. E. Rice
Category: No Category | Series: Sutton Pocket Biographies Ser.
Taking as its subject the most famous queen in history, this biography reveals the troubled ties, political upheaval and the charismatic personality of the ruler of Ancient Egypt. Famously romantically involved with two Roman leaders, Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, her story has long passed into a lege ...Show more
Criminal Ancestors - A Guide to Historical Criminal Records in England and Wales by David T. Hawkings
Category: History | Series: Sutton Ser.
When a genealogist discovers a criminal way back in the family tree, he or she needs to know how to trace that person. David Hawkings here offers practical in-depth guidelines for researching these criminal ancestors, many of whom were 'obliged' to steal for mere survival and suffered imprisonment for t ...Show more
David Livingstone by C. S. Nicholls
Category: No Category | Series: Sutton Pocket Biographies Ser.
In 1854 David Livingstone was acclaimed a hero for his discovery of the Victoria Falls. He had been able to map much of central Africa's waterways, but his later journeys appeared to be failures, although they provided the western world with vivid descriptions of the hiterto unknown interior of Africa. ...Show more
Edward IV - A Source Book by Keith Dockray
Category: No Category | Series: Sutton History Paperbacks Ser.
Edward IV (1461-83), so often overshadowed by his younger brother and eventual successor Richard III is a controversial figure in his own right. Was he a lazy and licentious lightweight who much preferred his mistresses to his minsters and had little taste for the arduous day-to-day businsess of governm ...Show more
Elizabethan Progress - The Queen's Journey into East Anglia, 1578 by Zillah M. Dovey
Category: No Category | Series: Sutton Illustrated History Paperbacks Ser.
A complete and detailed account of one of Elizabeth I's progresses - the great state tours around a particular part of the kingdom. The author uses contemporary documents to study a single, but typical, long progress, covering the court servants' preparations, the stops en route and, in parallel, the wo ...Show more
Ellen Terry by Moira Shearer
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Ellen Terry is perhaps the most celebrated English actress of the 19th century, and the best known member of the talented theatrical Terry family, today represented by her great-nephew Sir John Gielgud. On the stage from the age of eight, Ellen was a rebellious young women, passing through much emotiona ...Show more
Emperor Francis Joseph - Life, Death and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire by John Van Der Kiste
Category: History | Series: Sutton Ser.
In 1848, 28-year-old Francis Joseph became King of Hungary and Emperor of Austria. He would reign for almost 68 years, the longest of any modern European monarch. Focusing on the life of Emperor Francis Joseph and his family, this book examines their personal relationships against the turbulent backgrou ...Show more
English Country House Party by Phyllida Barstow
Category: No Category | Series: Sutton Illustrated History Paperbacks Ser.
During the golden age of English country house entertaining, from the death of Prince Albert in 1861 to the outbreak of World War I, invitations passed back and forth among members of the aristocracy, with the great houses of England providing splendid settings for house parties which ranged from long w ...Show more