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Telling tales : the impact of Germany on English children's books 1780-1918
Blamires, David

Germany has had a profound influence on English stories for children. The Brothers Grimm, The Swiss Family Robinson and Johanna Spyri’s Heidi quickly became classics but, as David Blamires clearly articulates in this volume, many other works have been fundamental in the development of English children’s stories during the 19th century and beyond. Telling Tales is the first comprehensive stu…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781906924119
Collation
xi,478 p
Series Title
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Call Number
820.99282 RES T
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CONTEMPORARY ARCHAEOLOGY OF LONDONS MEGA EVENTS : from the great exhibition t…
Gardner, Jonathan

A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events explores the traces of London’s most significant modern ‘mega events’. Though only open for a few weeks or months, mega events permanently and disruptively reshape their host cities and societies: they demolish and rebuild whole districts, they draw in materials and participants from around the globe and their organisers self-consciousl…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781787358447
Collation
xiii, 279 p. ill;
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Call Number
942.100909 CON J
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Alexander Williamson : a victorian chemist and the making of modern Japan
Inuzuka, TakaakiLaurie, Haruko

Alexander Williamson was professor of chemistry at UCL (1849–87) and a leading scientist of his time. He taught and cared for visiting Japanese students, thereby assisting them with their goal of modernising Japan. This short, accessible biography explores his contribution to nineteenth-century science as well as his lasting impact on Japanese society. In 1863 five students from the Chōsh…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781787359314
Collation
xiii, 133 p. ill;
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Call Number
540.92 ALE H
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London's urban landscape : another way of telling
Tilley, Christopher Y.

London’s Urban Landscape is the first major study of a global city to adopt a materialist perspective and stress the significance of place and the built environment to the urban landscape. Edited by Christopher Tilley, the volume is inspired by phenomenological thinking and presents fine-grained ethnographies of the practices of everyday life in London. In doing so, it charts a unique perspec…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781787355583
Collation
xxi. ;ill. :458 p.
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Call Number
307.760941. CHR l