Raymond Billings 
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In central Brussels stands a statue of a young woman. Built in 1923, it is the first monument to a working-class woman in European history. Her name was Gabrielle Petit. History has forgotten Petit, …

Margaret Lashmar tells the true story of her mother leaving home with the lodger in the 1950”s, when she was aged just five, her life without her, and then the reunion, fifty years later.A heart-war …

“There is no way but gentlenesse to redeeme a Hawke” Edmund Bert, 1619 Born and raised in the South Yorkshire mining village of Hoyland Common, Richard Hines remembers sliding down heaps of coal dust …

First published in 1993, this book presents a biography of a central figure in the development of both the labour movement and British politics in the first half of the twentieth century. This highly …

”Emer O”Sullivan has made an indispensable contribution to Wildean literature … Compelling, informative and fascinating” – Stephen Fry The Fall of the House of Wilde identifies Oscar Wilde as a me …

The authors of this new collection argue that the many features of the now-infamous Duke University men’s lacrosse controversy are best understood in the context of the three major socio-legal instit …

A rare feminist perspective on a people and a culture in one of the most tumultuous regions in the world, Nadia, Captive of Hope is the autobiography of Fay Afaf Kanafani, an Arab Muslim woman born i …

As Indians got their first taste of satellite television during the first Gulf War, Raghav Bahl saw his future in the signals flickering across the small screen. Armed with burning ambition, keen bus …

Robert Rosenstone was among the first ”postmodern” historians, and remains one of the most renowned. In this honest, revealing and often funny memoir, he shows us how he got there and why. Adventur …