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A heart-centred lifestyle guide to following your soul's purpose and living authentically from a practising eclectic witch and life coach.

The forgotten story of how ordinary families managed financially in the Victorian era--and struggled to survive despite increasing national prosperity

This study looks at the relationship between popular recreations and the spaces in which they took place, and in doing so it provides a history of how England enjoyed itself during the long eighteenth century. Recreations of the period included: parish wakes and feasts, civic fairs and celebrations, football, cricket and other athletic sports, bull- and bear-baiting, and the annual celebrations of Shrove Tuesday and Guy Fawkes. Through a detai...

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This remarkable study looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate first-hand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. *Also appeared in February Buyer's Notes*

Nearly a decade of fiercely divisive debate over foxhunting in Britain culminated with passage of the Hunting with Dogs Act of 2004. But the battle over the future of hunting is not yet resolved, and polarizing right-or-wrong debates continue undiminished. This lively book recounts the long and colorful history of hunting in Britain and offers a fresh perspective on today's conflicts. Since William the Conqueror declared wild animals royal pro...

Listen to author Emma Griffin discussing the British Industrial Revolution on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wr9r7 Why was the British industrial revolution such a pivotal event in world history? This succinct introduction explains what the Industrial Revolution was, when exactly it occurred and why it happened in Britain first. Providing a clear and compelling synthesis of the latest research on industriali...