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The classic pocket guide to the language of London. This wonderful little guide to cockney rhyming slang contains over 1,700 old and new rhymes translated from Cockney to English and English to Cockney, including:Custard and jelly - tellyHot cross bun - nunLemon tart -...
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Ebury Digital
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2019-03-07
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Arguing about Empire analyses the most divisive arguments about empire between Europe's two leading colonial powers from the age of high imperialism to the post-war era of decolonization. Focusing on the domestic contexts underlying imperial rhetoric,Arguing about...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-02-21
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Three years after Britain voted to leave the European Union, the political debate over Brexit seems as intense and as complicated as ever. Who and what can we trust? And how on earth do we make sense of it all?Ivan Rogers, the UK's former ambassador to the EU, is...
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Short Books
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2019-02-19
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Eighteenth-century London was teeming with humanity, and poverty was never far from politeness. Legend has it that, on his daily commute through this thronging metropolis, Captain Thomas Coram witnessed one of the city's most shocking sights-the widespread abandonment...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-01-31
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Original tales by remarkable writersHometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2018-06-28
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Hometown Tales
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Original tales by remarkable writersHometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2018-06-28
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Hometown Tales
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Original tales by remarkable writersHometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2018-06-28
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Hometown Tales
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Original tales by remarkable writersHometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2018-06-28
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Hometown Tales
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Original tales by remarkable writersHometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2018-06-28
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Hometown Tales
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Original tales by remarkable writers Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful,...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2018-06-28
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Hometown Tales
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Original tales by remarkable writersHometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2018-06-28
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Hometown Tales
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Original tales by remarkable writersHometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2018-06-28
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Hometown Tales
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Loved and hated in equal measure, London was for centuries the world's greatest city. Its streets, teeming with history, have always worn a variety of influences, reflecting the diverse crowds who have walked them. Its citizens have witnessed everything from...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2018-05-24
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A Traveller's Companion
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'What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.' - W.H. DaviesWalking around London is one of life's great pleasures. There is a huge amount that you can only see on foot – but sometimes it is hard to know where to look. Luckily, Christopher...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2018-03-01
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Which major UK retailer has the same name as Odysseus's dog in Greek mythology?In the original version of the Band Aid hit 'Do They Know It's Christmas?', who sang the opening line?Which is the only US state whose name can be typed on a single row of a QWERTY...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2017-10-05
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A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today.'A bravura piece of writing - Bill Bryson on acid' Tom HollandWinding its way from the White Cliffs of Dover to the Druid groves of...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2017-07-13
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Arguing about Empire analyses the most divisive arguments about empire between Europe's two leading colonial powers from the age of high imperialism to the post-war era of decolonization. Focusing on the domestic contexts underlying imperial rhetoric,Arguing about...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-09
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INNOVATIVE. ICONIC. BRITISH. This fascinating, full-colour, photographic compendium invites you to discover Britain in a new way: through the objects that are part of the fabric of contemporary life in the UK, showcasing a wealth of classic British design, as well as...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2016-05-12
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Did you know that..From Stonebridge Park on the Bakerloo Line you can walk to the largest Hindu temple in Europe?From Ealing Broadway on the Central Line you can walk to the oldest film studios in the world?From Stratford on the Central Line you can walk to, and abseil...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2016-04-07
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Features 120 bite-size ideas for things to do and places to visit in London in under an hour. Organised around the range of activities London has to offer, with chapters to help you find original and diverting suggestions for things to do, as well as a few places to...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2016-03-17
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