2002

The Warrior Queens, Part Two

Part Two Matilda, Daughter of Peter England’s Domina Lion of the Caucasus Isabella with her Prayers Elizabetha Triumphans Jinga at the Gates Queen versus Mother The Valiant Rani Iron Ladies Unbecoming in a Woman?

The Warrior Queens, Part One

Part One A Singular Exception Antique Glories The Queen of War Iceni: this Powerful Tribe Ruin by a Woman The Red Layer Eighty Thousand Dead O Zenobia!

The Weaker Vessel, Part Two

Afterwards – A Continual Labour Worldly Goods Divorce from Bed and Board Benefiting by Accomplishments Petticoat-Authors Helping in God’s Vineyard The Delight of Business Wanton and Free Actress as Honey-Pot The Modest Midwife Epilogue: How Strong?

The Weaker Vessel, Part One

Author’s Note Chronology of Important Events 1603-1702 Prologue: How Weak? As It Was – This Blessed Knot A Wife Sought for Wealth Affection Is False Crown to her Husband The Pain and the Peril Are You Widows? Poor and Atrabilious Unlearned Virgins Living under Obedience With the War – Stronger Grown Courage above her Sex …

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The Richard Rodgers Reader

Introduction Rodgers & Hart, 1919-1943 The Age of Rodgers and Hart   Ethan Mordden “My Heart Stood Still”   Gerald Mast, Richard Rodgers, Philip Furia, Alec Wilder, Allen Forte From Letters to Dorothy, 1925-37 and A Personal Book   Dorothy Rodgers Chee-Chee, The Castration Musical   Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart Cover Story: “The Boys from Columbia”   Time Magazine …

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Richard Wagners Fahrt ins Glück

Vorwort Anrufung Richard Wagners Lebensreise durch das 19. Jahrhundert in 20 Strophen Ouvertüre Kinderszenen Flegeljahre Der Junggeselle Der Ernst des Lebens Dresden – Feuer und Glück Der Emigrant (1849-1864) Vor der Rettung Gerettet Hauptsache Bayreuth Die letzten Jahre Zugabe

The Nobleman and his Housedog

Maps Tycho Brahe’s Denmark Tycho and Kepler’s Europe Prologue Legacies Aristocrat by Birth, Astronomer by Nature Behaviour Unbecoming a Nobleman Having the Best of Several Universes The Isle of Hven Worlds Apart A Palace Observatory Adelberg, Maulbronn, Uraniborg Contriving Immortality The Undermining of Human Endeavour Years of Discontent Geometry’s Universe Divine Right and Earthly Machination …

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Redcoat

List of Maps Introduction Maps The Age of Brown Bess That Article There Scarlet and Blue To Flanders, Portugal and Spain Red Coat and Brown Bess England, Home and Beauty? All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men Sword and State Line of Battle Brothers of the Blade Scum of the Earth Epaulette Gentry …

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The Commandos at Dieppe: Rehearsal for D-Day

1942 Planning Training Departure Hostile Shores Landing Attach Withdrawal Homecoming Aftermath Appendices No 4 Commando after CAULDRON No 4 Commando order of battle at CAULDRON Regiments and Corps represented in Operation CAULDRON

Peepshow

Cast and Creatives Directors’ Note   Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett Photo of written running order for show Peepshow

Military Lives

Preface   Brian Harrison Military Lives—selections from the DNB: Introduction   Hew Strachan Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander (1891-1969)   David Hunt Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby (1861-1936)   Cyril Falls Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck (1884-1981)   Brian Bond Sir Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon (1963-1947)   Vincent W. Baddeley Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader (1910-1982)   P. B. Lucas Albert Ball (1896-1917)   …

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The Lunar Men

The Principal Lunar Men Map of Lunar Society Places Waxing Prologue: ‘Surprise the world’ First Quarter Earth, Elston and Electricity Toys Scotland The Doctor’s Bag Pots Heading for Soho Ingenious Philosophers Reaching Out Steam Second Quarter They Build Canals Painting the Light Magic and Mechanics Derbyshire Explorata Chemical Reactions Trials of Life Rousseau and Romance …

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