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• First published in Great Britain under the title First lady: the life and wars of Clementine Churchill by Aurum Press–title page verso.
• A portrait of Winston Churchill’s extraordinary wife and her lesser-known role in World War II discusses her relationship with political mentor Eleanor Roosevelt, her role in safeguarding Churchill’s health throughout key historical events and her controversial family priorities.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-419) and index.
• The level of events — More than meets the eye — The pain and the pride — I believe in your star — Married love — Loss unimaginable — A country basket — Temptation and redemption — A world of accident and storm — Operation seduction USA — From FDR to Stalin — A private line — Epilogue.

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• Churchill, Clementine, 1885-1977.
• Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 — Marriage.
• Prime ministers spouses — Great Britain — Biography.;Prime ministers — Great Britain — Biography.;Churchill, Clementine, 1885-1977. fast (OCoLC)fst01774951;Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965. fast (OCoLC)fst01716876;Marriage. fast (OCoLC)fst01010443;Prime ministers. fast (OCoLC)fst01076416;Prime ministers spouses. fast (OCoLC)fst01076435
• Great Britain. fast (OCoLC)fst01204623
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• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D’Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise of Europe. Over the next four years, they lived both the low life and high life of Regency London, from being down and out after their abandonment by D’Arcy to charming their way into society and landing on the gossip pages. The Love of Strangers tells the story of their search for love and learning in Jane Austen’s England. Drawing on the Persian diary of the student Mirza Salih and the letters of his companions, Nile Green vividly describes how these adaptable Muslim migrants learned to enjoy the opera and take the waters at Bath. But there was more than frivolity to their student years in London. Burdened with acquiring the technology to defend Iran against Russia, they talked their way into the observatories, hospitals, and steam-powered factories that placed England at the forefront of the scientific revolution. All the while, Salih dreamed of becoming the first Muslim to study at Oxford. The Love of Strangers chronicles the frustration and fellowship of six young men abroad to open a unique window onto the transformative encounter between an Evangelical England and an Islamic Iran at the dawn of the modern age. This is that rarest of books about the Middle East and the West: a story of friendships — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introducing Mr. D’Arcy’s Persians — Knowledge — In search of a teacher — The Madrasas of Oxford — Faith — Among the dissenters — Evangelical engagements — Friendship — Diplomatic friendships — The love of strangers — Afterlives — A note on sources and method.

Subjects:

• Iranians — Travel — England — History — 19th century.
• Muslims — Travel — England — History — 19th century.
• Students, Foreign — England — History — 19th century.
• Mohammed Saulih, Mirza — Diaries.
• London (England) — Social life and customs — 19th century.
• Friendship — England — History — 19th century.
• England — Ethnic relations — History — 19th century.
• England — Relations — Iran.
• Iran — Relations — England.
• East and West.

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• In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D’Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise of Europe. Over the next four years, they lived both the low life and high life of Regency London, from being down and out after their abandonment by D’Arcy to charming their way into society and landing on the gossip pages. The Love of Strangers tells the story of their search for love and learning in Jane Austen’s England. Drawing on the Persian diary of the student Mirza Salih and the letters of his companions, Nile Green vividly describes how these adaptable Muslim migrants learned to enjoy the opera and take the waters at Bath. But there was more than frivolity to their student years in London. Burdened with acquiring the technology to defend Iran against Russia, they talked their way into the observatories, hospitals, and steam-powered factories that placed England at the forefront of the scientific revolution. All the while, Salih dreamed of becoming the first Muslim to study at Oxford. The Love of Strangers chronicles the frustration and fellowship of six young men abroad to open a unique window onto the transformative encounter between an Evangelical England and an Islamic Iran at the dawn of the modern age. This is that rarest of books about the Middle East and the West: a story of friendships — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introducing Mr. D’Arcy’s Persians — Knowledge — In search of a teacher — The Madrasas of Oxford — Faith — Among the dissenters — Evangelical engagements — Friendship — Diplomatic friendships — The love of strangers — Afterlives — A note on sources and method.

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• Iranians — Travel — England — History — 19th century.
• Muslims — Travel — England — History — 19th century.
• Students, Foreign — England — History — 19th century.
• Mohammed Saulih, Mirza — Diaries.
• London (England) — Social life and customs — 19th century.
• Friendship — England — History — 19th century.
• England — Ethnic relations — History — 19th century.
• England — Relations — Iran.
• Iran — Relations — England.
• East and West.

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Part of the series The California world history library 22;California world history library 22.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-393) and index.
• Introduction : the imperial and Atlantic horizons of black London — Afro-metropolis : black political and cultural associations in interwar London — Black internationalism and empire in the 1930s — Black feminist internationalists — Sounds of black London — Black masculinity and interracial sex at the heart of the empire — Black intellectuals and the development of colonial studies in Britain — Pan-Africa in London, empire films, and the imperial imagination.

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• Blacks — England — London — Social conditions — 20th century.
• Postcolonialism — England — London — History — 20th century.
• Decolonization — Great Britain — History — 20th century.
• England — London. fast (OCoLC)fst01204271
• Great Britain. fast (OCoLC)fst01204623
• London. (DE-588)4074335-4 gnd
• 1900 – 1999 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction — I: The making of Domesday book — The English context: the ‘Book of Winchester’ and the Domus Dei — The architects of the inquiry: The Bishops of the Royal clerks — Who wrote Domesday? Resources and expertise in the Localities — Who wrote Domesday? The returns and the book — The mastermind — II: The purposes of the inquiry and the book — Coinage, the treasury, and the ‘Exchequer’ — The valor: The Definition and import and values in Domesday — Domesday and taxation — ‘The Checking’: the inquest of Sheriffs and other royal office-holders — III: Domesday and the day of judgement — The book of the day of judgement.
• Domesday: book of judgement provides a unique study of the extraordinary eleventh-century survey, the Domesday Book. Sally Harvey depicts the Domesday Book as the written evidence of a potentially insecure conquest successfully transforming itself, by a combination of administrative insight and military might, into a permanent establishment. William I used the Domesday Inquiry to contain the new establishment and consolidate their landholding revolution within a strict fiscal and tenurial framework, with checks and balances to prevent the king’s followers from taking more powers and assets than they had been allocated. In this way, the survey served as a conciliatory gesture between the conquerors and the conquered, as William I came to realise that, faced with the threat to his rule from the Danes, he needed England’s native populations more than they needed him. Yes, the overlying theme of the Domesday Book is Judgment: every class of society had reason to regard the Survey’s methodical and often pitiless proceedings as both a literal and a metaphorical day of account. In this volume, Sally Harvey considers the Anglo-Saxon background and the architects of the survey: the bishops, royal clerks, sheriffs, jurors, and landholders who contributed to Domesday’s content and scope. She also discusses at length the core information in the Survey: coinage, revenues from landholding, fiscal concessions, and taxation, as well as some central tenurial issues. She draws the conclusion that the record, whilst consolidating William’s position as king of the English, also laid the foundations for the twelfth-century treasury and exchequer. The volume newly argues that the Domesday survey also became an inquest into individual sheriffs and officials, thereby laying a foundation for reinterpreting the size of towns in England. — Provided by publisher.

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• Domesday book.
• Great Britain — History — Norman period, 1066-1154 — Sources.
• Public records — Great Britain — History.
• Domesday book. fast (OCoLC)fst01356278
• Great Britain. fast (OCoLC)fst01204623
• Domesday book. (DE-588)4150402-1 gnd
• 1066 – 1154 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628
• Sources. fast (OCoLC)fst01423900

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Part of the series The Oxford history of the British Empire companion series;Oxford history of the British Empire companion series.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Britain as a global power in the twentieth century / Philip Murphy — From the empire of Christ to the Third World : religion and the experience of empire in the twentieth century / Jeffrey Cox — Empire comes home : commonwealth migration to Britain / Wendy Webster — Empire and British politics / Richard Whiting — Empire/commonwealth in British economic thinking and policy / Jim Tomlinson — Social life and cultural representation : empire in the public imagination / Andrew Thompson with Meaghan Kowalsky — Empire, nation, and national identities / Krishan Kumar — Afterword : the imprint of the empire / Andrew Thompson.

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• Great Britain — Colonies — History — 20th century.
• Great Britain — Colonies — Public opinion — History — 20th century.
• Great Britain — Colonies — Public opinion — History — 21st century.
• Imperialism — Public opinion — History — 20th century.
• Postcolonialism — Great Britain — History — 20th century.
• Postcolonialism — Great Britain — History — 21st century.
• Imperialism in popular culture — Great Britain — History — 20th century.
• Imperialism in popular culture — Great Britain — History — 21st century.

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Part of the series Cambridge Companions to Culture;Cambridge companions to culture.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-317) and index.
• Introduction: medieval English culture and its companions / Andrew Galloway — Part One. Theaters of Culture: Political, Legal, Material: 1. From court to nation / Scott Waugh 2. dtThe legal revolution and the discourse of dispute in the twelfth century / Paul Hyams 3. Archaeology and post-Conquest England / David Hinton — Part Two. Cultural Ideals and Cultural Conflicts: 4. Social ideals and social disruption / Richard Kaeuper 5. ‘Celtic’ visions of England / David Dumville 6. The idea of sanctity and the uncanonized life of Margery Kempe / Rebecca Krug — Part Three. Literacies, Languages, and Literatures: 7. Visual texts in post-Conquest England / Laura Kendrick 8. Literacy, schooling, universities / Ralph Hanna 9. Anglo-Latin literature in the later Middle Ages / David Carlson 10. The vernaculars of medieval England, 1170-1350 / Elaine Treharne 11. English literary voices, 1350-1500 / David Lawton — Part Four. Legacies and Re-creations: 12. Literary reformations of the Middle Ages / Helen Cooper 13. Re-creating the Middle Ages / Clare Simmons.
• The cultural life of England over the long period from the Norman Conquest to the Reformation was rich and varied, in ways that scholars are only now beginning to understand in detail. This Companion introduces a wide range of materials that constitute the culture, or cultures, of medieval England, across fields including political and legal history, archaeology, social history, art history, religion and the history of education. Above all it looks at the literature of medieval England in Latin, French and English, plus post-medieval perspectives on the ‘Middle Ages’. In a linked series of essays experts in these areas show the complex relationships between them, building up a broad account of rich patterns of life and literature in this period. The essays are supplemented by a chronology and guide to further reading, helping students build on the unique access this volume provides to what can seem a very foreign culture — ǂc Provided by publisher.

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• Great Britain — History — Medieval period, 1066-1485.
• England — Intellectual life — 1066-1485.
• English literature — Middle English, 1100-1500 — History and criticism.
• England — Civilization — 1066-1485.

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• First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, a division of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd, London –T.p. verso.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Uncertain inheritors — New kings — 1496 and 1497 / War on the Border — The common condition — The treaty of perpetual peace — A new monarchy — Renaissance monarchy / Power — Renaissance monarchy / Display — Henry VIII / The Protected Prince — Henry VIII / A Liberated King — James IV and the ‘realisation’ of Scottish history — Their renaissance majesties — Seapower — King or vassal — 1513 / Breakdown — 1513 / Katherine, Regent and Governess of England — 1513 / War — Invasion — Preparing the ground — Flodden / 9 September 1513.
• Flodden 1513: the biggest and bloodiest Anglo-Scottish battle. Its causes spanned many centuries its consequences were as extraordinary as the battle itself.

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• Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513.
• Great Britain — History — Henry VIII, 1509-1547.
• Scotland — History — James IV, 1488-1513.
• James IV Scotland, King, 1473-1513. gnd
• 1488 – 1547 fast
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-388) and index.
• Ashley Jackson describes the contours and contradictions of Churchill’s remarkable life and career as a solider, politician, historian, journalist, painter, amateur farmer and homemaker. From thrusting subaltern to high-flying politician, Cabinet outcast to elder statesman, this is the eternally fascinating story of Winston Churchill’s appointment with destiny. –Amazon.com.
• Landscape for a lifetime: Winston, Woodstock and Oxfordshire — Cadet to frontier soldier: warrior and writer — Pundit and politician: a rising star — High office: war on land and sea — Home and colonial: new nations, strikes, and gold — Man of Kent: a frenzied unemployment — War machine: the management of global conflict — A higher vision: post-war government and a changing world — Symbol of the nation.

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• Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.
• Statesmen — Great Britain — Biography.
• Prime ministers — Great Britain — Biography.
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• First published in Great Britain as ‘The hollow crown’ by Faber & Faber Limited –Title page verso.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-377) and index.
• Beginnings (1420-1437). King of all the world We were in perfect health Born to be king Oweyn Tidr — What is a king? (1437-1455). My Lord of Suffolk’s good lordship A dear marriage Away, traitors, away! Then bring in the duke of York Smitten with a frenzy — The hollow crown (1455-1471). Princess most excellent Suddenly fell down the crown Havoc The noble and the lowly Diverse times Final destruction — The rise of the Tudors (1471-1525). To execute wrath The only imp now left Judge me, o Lord War or life Envy never dies Blanche Rose.
• The best-selling author of The Plantagenets traces the 15th-century civil wars that irrevocably shaped the British crown, particularly evaluating the roles of strong women including Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville and Margaret Beaufort in shifting power between two ruling families. Includes six maps and four genealogies.

Subjects:

• Great Britain — History — Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485.
• Great Britain — History — Lancaster and York, 1399-1485.
• Tudor, House of.
• Plantagenet, House of.
• Plantagenet, House of. fast (OCoLC)fst00218202
• Tudor, House of. fast (OCoLC)fst00213879
• Wars of the Roses (Great Britain : 1455-1485) fast (OCoLC)fst01355312
• Great Britain. fast (OCoLC)fst01204623
• 1399 – 1485 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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