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  • BRITAIN'S INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN 100 OBJECTS
    JOHN BROOM
    The period of Britain's Industrial Revolution was perhaps the most transformative era in the nation's history. Between about 1750 and 1914, life and work, home and school, church and community changed irreversibly for Britain's rapidly expanding population. Lives were transformed, some for the better, but many endured abysmal domestic and workplace conditions. Eventually improv...

    $251.00

  • CRICKET IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    JOHN BROOM
    As Europe descended into war over the summer of 1914, cricket in England continued as it had for the preceding few decades. Counties continued with their championship programme, clubs in the North and Midlands maintained their league and cup rivalries whilst less competitive clubs elsewhere enjoyed friendly matches. However, voices were soon raised in criticism of this 'busines...

    $383.69

  • TRADITIONAL, COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE AND CANCER CARE
    PHILIP TOVEY / JOHN CHATWIN / ALEX BROOM
    Drawing on comparative fieldwork in the UK, Pakistan and Australia, this book provides the first systematic assessment of pathways and access to CAM and how it is used in health practice and by individuals with cancer. Giving fresh and invaluable insights into how differing health and societal structures influence the use complementary and alternative medicine, the book explore...

    $1,100.00

  • CRICKET IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    JOHN BROOM
    As Europe descended into war over the summer of 1914, cricket in England continued as it had for the preceding few decades. Counties continued with their championship programme, clubs in the North and Midlands maintained their league and cup rivalries whilst less competitive clubs elsewhere enjoyed friendly matches. However, voices were soon raised in criticism of this 'busines...

    $383.69

  • CRICKET IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    JOHN BROOM
    As the civilised world fought for its very survival, Sir Home Gordon, writing in The Cricketer in September 1939, stated that 'England has now started the grim Test Match with Germany', the objective of which was to 'win the Ashes of civilisation'. Despite the interruption of first-class and Test cricket in England, the game continued to be played and watched by hundreds of tho...

    $329.00

  • REPORTED MISSING IN THE GREAT WAR
    JOHN BROOM
    "A snapshot of the misery and pain that [were] suffered by those who not only lost loved ones in the Great War, but were denied a graveside to mourn at." —Paul Nixon, Army Ancestry Research Of the one million British and Empire military personnel who were killed in action—died of wounds, disease, or injury; or were missing presumed dead during the First World War—over half a mi...

    $229.00

  • FAITHFUL IN ADVERSITY
    JOHN BROOM
    An account of the World War II heroics of the corps that "revolutionized medical care for British troops . . . Most Highly Recommended" (Firetrench).   On 28 September 1945, Field Marshal Montgomery expressed his "admiration and high regard to a corps whose contribution to victory has been beyond all calculation."   The Royal Army Medical Corps was active during all engagements...

    $149.00

  • A HISTORY OF CIGARETTE AND TRADE CARDS
    JOHN BROOM
    How trading cards captured the popular culture—from war to sports, science to celebrities—with tips on how to start and develop your own collection.   The collection of picture cards has fascinated generations of children and adults since the late nineteenth century. Between 1900 and 1940, cartophily, as the hobby became known, became widespread as hundreds of millions of attra...

    $229.00

  • FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT: VOICES OF FAITH FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    JOHN BROOM
    The Second World War challenged many of the concepts that had provided stability and unity in the world. As totalitarian regimes in Europe and Asia attempted to impose their world view on their neighbours, a struggle for what Winston Churchill described as `Christian civilisation took place on many fronts. On the home front, on land, on sea and in the air, as well as in the hor...

    $279.00

  • FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT: VOICES OF FAITH FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    JOHN BROOM
    "The inspiring stories of a number of very different characters who used their Christian faith to cope with their experiences of the First World War." —Jacqueline Wadsworth, author of Letters from the Trenches   While a toxic mixture of nationalism and militarism tore Europe and the wider world apart from 1914 to 1919, there was one factor that united millions of people across ...

    $229.00

  • CRICKET IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    JOHN BROOM
    As the civilised world fought for its very survival, Sir Home Gordon, writing in The Cricketer in September 1939, stated that ‘England has now started the grim Test Match with Germany’, the objective of which was to ‘win the Ashes of civilisation’. Despite the interruption of first-class and Test cricket in England, the game continued to be played and watched by hundreds of tho...

    $329.00