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  • WHO STOLE THE SECRET TO THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION?
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    WHO STOLE THE SECRET TO THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION?
    GLYNIS COOPER
    English schoolchildren are taught that Sir Richard Arkwright 'invented the water-frame and was the father of the Industrial Revolution and the factory system.' That is simply not true. The water-powered spinning frame and the 'modern factory system' were pioneered in Italy over 300 years before Richard Arkwright was born. This book tells the story of how the Industrial Revoluti...

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  • CAMBRIDGESHIRE AT WAR 1939–45
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    CAMBRIDGESHIRE AT WAR 1939–45
    GLYNIS COOPER
    Few could believe that within twenty years of the war to end all wars being won the world was once again at war. Veterans of the Great War feared going through the same thing again and, even worse, many knew that this time their children would also be involved in the fighting. What had all the sacrifice been about? Cambridgeshire, the city of Cambridge and the University of Cam...

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  • DERBYSHIRE AT WAR 1939–45
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    DERBYSHIRE AT WAR 1939–45
    GLYNIS COOPER
    Few could believe that within twenty years of the war to end all wars being won the world was once again at war. Veterans of the Great War feared going through the same thing again and, even worse, many knew that this time their children would also be involved in the fighting. What had all the sacrifice been about? Derbyshire, its towns and village, were badly hit by the Great ...

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  • STRUGGLE AND SUFFRAGE IN MANCHESTER
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    STRUGGLE AND SUFFRAGE IN MANCHESTER
    GLYNIS COOPER
    ‘Women are not persons.’ That was the ruling of the Court of Appeal when Gwynneth Bebb challenged the Law Society to allow her to take exams and become a solicitor. The case was dismissed because only ‘persons’ (i.e. males) could become members of the Law Society and it proved the depth of misogyny within the Establishment at that time. 'Suffrage and Struggle in Manchester’ cel...

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  • GLOSSOP IN THE GREAT WAR
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    GLOSSOP IN THE GREAT WAR
    GLYNIS COOPER
    A new book on Glossop during World War I focuses on the economic and social conditions, problems and hardships of those left at home in England played out against a background of military action on the Western Front, in Turkey, Egypt and Palestine. It chronicles the difficulties, hardships and restrictions of daily life for civilians; the morale of the town year by year as the ...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN GUERNSEY
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN GUERNSEY
    GLYNIS COOPER
    The twin fascinations of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Guernsey the chill is brought close to home as each chapter investigates the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit and pure malice. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of murder, the full ...

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  • A CENTURY OF FEMALE REVOLUTION
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    A CENTURY OF FEMALE REVOLUTION
    GLYNIS COOPER
    The 100 years from 1819-1919 were the most remarkable in the history of womankind. In 1819 women had no rights, no status, no options, no votes. Females were denied higher and further education. Job opportunities were menial and few. Legally, women were not even considered to be ‘persons.' By 1919 they had achieved full legal rights and status; the doors of education, equality ...

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  • MANCHESTER AT WAR, 1939–45
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    MANCHESTER AT WAR, 1939–45
    GLYNIS COOPER
    A lively history, with photos included, of the English city's experience during World War II.   It had been just over twenty years since "the war to end all wars" was won. And now, the world was once again at war.   Veterans of the Great War feared going through the same horrific experience again and, even worse, many knew that this time their children would also be involved in...

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  • CITY OF MANCHESTER IN THE GREAT WAR
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    CITY OF MANCHESTER IN THE GREAT WAR
    GLYNIS COOPER
    The war touched almost every aspect of life on the Home Front, and those who were left behind suffered terribly. This book meticulously explores the problems, hardships and grief faced by Manchesters people and takes a detailed look the unfortunate areas that were hit the hardest.Throughout Britain, industry declined and wages suffered; prices of food and fuel rose sharply; ess...

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  • BURY ST EDMUNDS IN THE GREAT WAR
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    BURY ST EDMUNDS IN THE GREAT WAR
    GLYNIS COOPER
    The Great War came as a shock to the citizens of Bury St Edmunds, a rural Suffolk town. One day they were celebrating a beautiful, hot August bank holiday at a large well-attended country fte; the next they were plunged into the deadliest war in history. Men from the Suffolk Regiment, who were based in the towns barracks, marched off to war and fought valiantly in Flanders, Fra...

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  • CAMBRIDGE IN THE GREAT WAR
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    CAMBRIDGE IN THE GREAT WAR
    GLYNIS COOPER
    Cambridge is one of the most famous universities in the world and its library is one of only five copyright libraries in the UK. At the start of the twentieth century it was a privileged life for some, but many in Cambridge knew that war was becoming truly inevitable. What the proverbial gown feared communicated itself to the surrounding town. Terrible rumours were rife, that t...

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  • STOCKPORT IN THE GREAT WAR
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    STOCKPORT IN THE GREAT WAR
    GLYNIS COOPER
    Interest in the theft of cucumbers initially took precedence over news that war had been declared, but Stockport rallied quickly. Wakes week was cancelled, the local 6th Battalion of the Cheshires went to the Front and the town transformed half of its schools into much-needed military hospitals. Admirably, the remaining schools coped with double the number of children but educa...

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  • ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE IN THE GREAT WAR
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    ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE IN THE GREAT WAR
    GLYNIS COOPER
    A new book on Ashton-under-Lyne during World War I is being published as part of a series on Towns and Cities in the Great War to commemorate the centenary of the beginning of the War. It focuses on the economic and social conditions, problems and hardships of those left at home in England played out against a background of military action on the Western Front, in Turkey, Egypt...

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  • ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE IN THE GREAT WAR
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    ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE IN THE GREAT WAR
    GLYNIS COOPER
    A new book on Ashton-under-Lyne during World War I is being published as part of a series on Towns and Cities in the Great War to commemorate the centenary of the beginning of the War. It focuses on the economic and social conditions, problems and hardships of those left at home in England played out against a background of military action on the Western Front, in Turkey, Egypt...

    $119.00

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN GUERNSEY
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN GUERNSEY
    GLYNIS COOPER
    The twin fascinations of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Guernsey the chill is brought close to home as each chapter investigates the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit and pure malice. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of murder, the full ...

    $119.00

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN BOLTON
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN BOLTON
    GLYNIS COOPER
    Thirty-two true crime stories from the history of the English town, from the sixteenth century to the early twentiethcentury. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Bolton takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime, meeting villains of all sorts along the way. There is no shortage of harrowing incidents of evil to recount from the town's early industri...

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  • WHO STOLE THE SECRET TO THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION?
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    WHO STOLE THE SECRET TO THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION?
    GLYNIS COOPER
    English schoolchildren are taught that Sir Richard Arkwright 'invented the water-frame and was the father of the Industrial Revolution and the factory system.' That is simply not true. The water-powered spinning frame and the 'modern factory system' were pioneered in Italy over 300 years before Richard Arkwright was born. This book tells the story of how the Industrial Revoluti...

    $255.99

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN JERSEY
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN JERSEY
    GLYNIS COOPER
    In a superb companion volume to her best-selling book Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Guernsey, Glynis Cooper turns her attention to the dark side of the past in Jersey. And there is no shortage of shocking stories to tell—crimes of passion and despair, cases of murder, deceit and pure malice, opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of wickedness that are as dis...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN BOLTON
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN BOLTON
    GLYNIS COOPER
    Thirty-two true crime stories from the history of the English town, from the sixteenth century to the early twentiethcentury. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Bolton takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime, meeting villains of all sorts along the way. There is no shortage of harrowing incidents of evil to recount from the town's early industri...

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