It was a sensation! The World’s first jet airliner flew for the first time barely four years after the end of the Second World War...and it was British. It revolutionised commercial air travel. It was the fastest airliner in the World and it inspired a post-war public with its pioneering jet engines and sleek design. Star-struck celebrities and ......
The Hawker Hurricane was a British single-seat fighter aircraft that played a crucial role in the Royal Air Force during World War II. It was one of the main British fighter aircraft during the early stages of World War II and saw extensive service during the Battle of Britain in 1940, where it played a vital role in the defence against German air ......
Creative non-fiction which demonstrates the importance of the relationship between history and literature, especially for enabling children to appropriately engage with history.
A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past
This gripping memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahls journey to uncover her grandparents role in WWII as she is driven to understand why they became members of Hitlers elite. Out of the unbearable heart of the story--the unclaimed guilt that devours a family through generations--emerges an unflinching will to learn the truth.
The illustrated story of the life of Raymond Dart, the discoveries he made and the research his findings generated. Edward Docker interlaces the biography of Dart with other famous names in palaentology, revealing his dicoveries and reigniting the debates his research sparked.
A Sensory History Manifesto is a brief and timely meditation on the state of the field. It invites historians who are unfamiliar with sensory history to adopt some of its insights and practices, and it urges current practitioners to think in new ways about writing histories of the senses. Starting from the premise that the sensorium is a ......
Hegel's Philosophy of History stands as a fascinating example of this influential German thinker's efforts to capture the multidimensional character of reality within a broad theoretical framework. Hegel draws upon many of his well-known concepts - Mind, Spirit, dialectical method (thesis-negation-synthesis), the relation of the whole to its ......
A Sensory History Manifesto is a brief and timely meditation on the state of the field. It invites historians who are unfamiliar with sensory history to adopt some of its insights and practices, and it urges current practitioners to think in new ways about writing histories of the senses.
