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The Normans : power, conquest and culture in 11th-century Europe

Author: Green, Judith A., author.

Year: 2022.

Language: English

Media class: Hardback

Publisher: Yale University Press,

Resource type: Physical

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-336) and index. Specialized. English

ix, 351 p. : ill. (colour), maps, geneal. tables ; 24 cm

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The British census

Author: Smith, Simon, author.

Year: 2021.

Language: English

Media class: Book

Publisher: Shire Publications,

Resource type: Physical

Note: Includes index. The Bible, Domesday and Parishes --Malthus and Rickman: Fathers of the Census -- The Victorian Age -- Suffragettes and the World at War -- Post-World War Censuses -- The Twenty-first Century -- Family History and the Census -- Further Reading -- Places to Visit -- Index. English

64 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

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Traditions of death and burial

Author: Frisby, Helen, author.

Year: 2019.

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Publisher: Shire Publications,

Resource type: Physical

Note: Introduction: The Death of Dying? -- The Pains of Purgatory c.1066-1500 -- Reformation and Resistance, c.1500-1750 -- Dying in the Industrial Age, c.1750-1900 -- The Practical Death, c.1900-2000 -- Death Now and in the Future, c.2000 onwards -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Places to Visit -- Index English

96 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

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1773850202

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The true face of Sir Isaac Brock

Author: St-Denis, Guy, 1960- author.

Year: [2018]

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Content type: Catalogue

Publisher: University of Calgary Press,

Resource type: Physical

Note: Also issued in electronic format. Includes bibliographical references and index. English

xlix, 280 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm

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1783463309

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The Channel Islands in the Great War

Author: Wynn, Stephen, 1958- author.

Year: 2019.

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Publisher: Pen & Sword Military,

Resource type: Physical

Note: Includes index. Introduction -- 1. 1914 : Starting out -- 2. 1915 : The deepening conflict -- 3. 1916 : The realisation -- 4. 1917 : Seeing it through -- 5. 1918 : The final push -- 6. Red Cross nurses from the Channel Islands -- 7. War memorials -- 8. Those who died after the armistice -- Conclusion -- Sources -- Index. English

viii, 184 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

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The history of magic : from alchemy to witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the present

Author: Gosden, Chris, 1955- author.

Year: 2021.

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Content type: Catalogue

Publisher: Penguin Books,

Resource type: Physical

Note: Originally published: UK: Viking, 2020. Includes bibliographical references and index. English

512 pages ; 20 cm

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Sons of the waves : the common seaman in the heroic age of sail, 1740-1840

Author: Taylor, Stephen, 1948- author.

Year: [2020]

Language: English

Media class: Hardback

Content type: Catalogue

Publisher: Yale University Press,

Resource type: Physical

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Specialized. English

xxv, 490 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (black and white) ; 24 cm

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Inspired by Sark : the story of the Sark Art Group : Who? What? When?

Author: Norwich, Jane, author.

Year: 2022.

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Publisher: Matador,

Resource type: Physical

Note: Includes index. Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Map -- Chapter 1: Art on Sark -- Chapter 2: Origins -- Chapter 3: Life on Sark : the early days of the Sark Art Group -- Chapter 4: 1939-1945 -- Chapter 5: After the War -- Chapter 6: Ala's story -- Chapter 7: Conclusion and legacy -- Further reading -- Biographical notes -- Schools -- Timeline -- Index. English La Galerie Sercquaise -- Sark.

xiii, 248 pages : illustrations (some colour), 1 colour map ; 24 cm

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0712354417

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Breaking the news : 500 years of news in Britain

Year: 2022.

Language: English

Media class: Hardback

Publisher: British Library,

Resource type: Physical

Note: Tony Harcup's essay 'Suppressing the news' (p.89-98) discusses GUNS (Guernsey Underground News Service) and GASP (Guernsey Active Secret Press). It is illustrated with an image of the Priaulx Library's GUNS news sheet of 4 August 1943, lent to the British Library for the Breaking the News exhibition. Published to accompany the 2022 British Library exhibition 'Breaking the news' (22 April - 21 August 2022). English

240 pages : illustrations (colour, and black and white) ; 24 cm

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'Adolf Island' : the Nazi occupation of Alderney

Author: Sturdy Colls, Caroline, author.

Year: 2022.

Language: English

Media class: Hardback

Publisher: Manchester University Press,

Resource type: Physical

Note: Introduction -- Part I: Work : 1. The labourers ; 2. Products of forced and slave labour -- Part II: Life : 3. Wire and cement ; 4. Architecture and experience in Sylt concentration camp ; 5. Norderney: into the 'tunnel of death ; 6. A landscape of internment -- Part 4: Death : 7. The deceased ; 8. Marked and clandestine burials ; 9. The missing ; 10. The final phases of occupation ; 11. Legacies -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix -- Index. Specialized. English

xxi, 462 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps, plans, charts ; 25 cm