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In this first biography of a significant female figure in the male-dominated world of British Tudor politics, Hazel Pierce reconsiders the life and martyrdom of Catholic duchess Margaret Pole against the changing social and political landscape of her times. Pole, niece of both Edward IV and Richard III, was the only woman apart from Anne Boleyn to hold a peerage in her own right during the sixteenth century, and this important contribution to ...

Creative Photography and Wales explores the ways in which twentieth century photography fixed an image of Wales, which still resonates today.

A biography of Amy Dillwyn (1845-1935), based largely on her diaries, novelist and extraordinary woman of exceptional spirit and personality born into one of Swansea's most distinguished families, who inherited her father's bankrupt business but learnt to make her way in a man's world.

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Kant is not the philosopher who has his head in the clouds, but the philosopher seeking to bridge the gulf between the ideal and the real in international relations.

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Dafydd ap Gwilym is a prolific medieval Welsh poet. In his work he portrays himself as a not too successful lover, a joker, storyteller and observer of the brevity of human life, while his innovative language, subject-matter and poetic technique gave a new dimension to Welsh poetry.

The core of this history of the South Wales Miners' Federation, "The Fed" is the period from the General Strike in 1926 to the nationalization of the mines in 1947.

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This second volume in the series exploring the visual culture of Wales, explores the imaging of people and the land of Wales from the Tudor period until the 1960s. The development of images and image-making is examined in the broader context of the social, economic and political history of Wales.

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Here, novelist and historian Leigh Straw teases out the full story of how this wayward Reformatory girl from Dubbo made a fortune in eastern Sydney and defied the gender stereotyping of the time to become a leading underworld figure.

Reprint of the Hamish Hamilton edition of 1977 on the powerful radical politician who shook the Liberals in 1886 and the Unionists in 1903. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Based on the medieval Welsh chronicle Brut y Tywysogion, this essay is the first attempt to provide a history in English of the lives and acts of the kings and princes of Wales from Cadwaladr to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native Welsh prince.

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