Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture
Explores the proliferation of spiritualist séances in mid-nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, and the connection to the contemporary evolution of the media entertainment industry.
Mary Parish wasn’t your ordinary seventeenth-century woman. She was a “cunning woman,” who spent her time in the realm of magic, interacting with fairies, hunting for buried treasures, and communicating with the spirit world, along with her partner, the young aristocrat Goodwin Wharton. Drawing largely from Goodwin’s ......
The Seven British Flight Schools in the United States during World War II
By early 1941, Great Britain stood alone against the aerial might of Nazi Germany and was in need of pilots. The Lend-Lease Act allowed for the training of British pilots in the United States and the formation of British Flying Training Schools. These unique schools were owned by American operators, staffed with American civilian instructors, ......
Orientalism, the Cannibal Club and Victorian Ideas of Sex, Race and Gender
A research monograph on the mid-Victorian rise of Sir Richard Burton, Orientalism and the phenomenon of the Cannibal Club is overdue as, although it has been dealt with superficially many times, there has never been a book length treatment which focuses clearly on the whole arc of its historical development and its relevance to the undercutting of ......
IWM has managed a Film Archive since it was first established in 1917, and the Archive now covers all aspects of conflicts in which British, Commonwealth or former Empire countries have been involved since the start of the twentieth century. The constantly growing collection extends to over 23,000 hours of moving images, representing a wide and ......
ISBN-13: 9781904897675
(Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
Rural Ireland and Traveling Shows and Showpeople, 1922-1972
A visual history of the travelling circuses and shows that travelled the roads of Ireland between the 1920s and the arrival of television in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Professor OhAodha estimates there were more than 140 of these shows including circus shows, magic shows, revues, "fit-ups" travelling theatres who travelled Ireland during the ......
Jasper, Earl of Pembroke, Duke of Bedford, brother and uncle of kings, was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses, and the Lancastrian claimant during the reign of Edward IV. The second son of Owen Tudor and the widowed queen Katherine of Valois, he was the half-brother of Henry VI, who gave him a prominent role at court. As one of Englands ......
This is the incredible story of the darkest days of World War II when Winston Churchill and his generals—Montgomery, Alexander, Wavell, and Brooke—were facing catastrophe on every front. They suffered defeat at Dunkirk and survived the Battle of Britain. With enormous amounts of courage and skill they fought off the Luftwaffe and managed to hold ......
Luftwaffe Aerial Reconnaissance Photographs of England, Scotland and Wal
Luftwaffe aerial reconnaissance photographed all of Great Britain. In June 1945 a British intelligence unit stumbled upon 16 tonnes of pictures, dumped in a barn in the Bavarian forest. The original Luftwaffe archive was destroyed at the end of the war, and this discovery was an incomplete German Intelligence copy. This book reproduces 220 images.
