Jill Kennington was among the most successful models of her generation, embodying a fresh, youthful, and dynamic ideal of beauty that came to define the Sixties. Jill's memoir takes the form of an extended interview in which she responds vividly and with disarming frankness to questions from historian Philippe Garner, who initiated and shaped the ......
In the face of an oppressive white society, members of the Societe d'Economie et d'Assistance Mutuelle built a community and held it together through the era of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow terrorism. Economy Hall follows Ludger Boguille through landmark events that shaped New Orleans and the United States.
The book depicts the abandoned and crumbling Prime Minister's mansion in Beirut and the lives connected to it and interwoven into its fabric for over a century. The photographs of the rich and famous at the house in its heyday at its opulent best, contrast with those showing it as it is now. Accompanying essays unravel the intriguing stories ......
A German Boxer, a Jewish Assassin and Hitler's Revenge
Herschel Grynszpan is a Jewish alien living in Paris. He receives a postcard from his parents - recently bundled from their Hanover flat, put on a train and dumped, with 12,000 others on the Polish border. Enraged, Herschel buys a gun and kills a minor German official. The repercussions trigger Kristalnacht, the nationwide pogrom against the Jews.
Both panoramic and intimate, in Clouds of Love and War author Rachel Billington balances a detailed and highly researched picture of the life of a WWII Spitfire pilot with the travails and ambitions of a young woman too often on her own. The result is both a gripping story of war and a sensitive story of love, a love that struggles to survive.
Never before published or exhibited as a group, the images in Cajun Document illuminate the cultural threads woven through south-central Louisiana at a liminal time in its history.
Alan Sillitoe is one of the leading novelists of the twentieth century and an award-winning poet (European Poetry Prize 2008). His books include Saturday Night and Sunday Morning which set a new direction in writing realistically about working-class lives. This selection of his poetry has been chosen by his wife, the acclaimed poet Ruth Fainlight.
The `Armada Portrait' commemorates the most famous conflict of Elizabeth I's reign, and is now on permanent public display in the Queen's House. This pocket guide gives an overview of the context, creation and significance of the Portrait, alongside evaluation of Elizabeth's legacy.
A British doctors experiences and reflections on independent, post-colonial India over 50 years and the nations continuing influence on contemporary British life and culture. It attempts to understand the present by gazing back in time.
