2014

Victor Hugo: Les Misérables – From Page to Stage

Foreword   Sue Roberts Introduction   Tim Fisher Victor Hugo’s life and vision: finding freedom in exile   Anaïs Lellouche A portrait of Paris   Sylvia Sagona Victor Hugo and Les Misérables: the political and social settings   Vincent Gille Les Misérables: a cast of characters   Anna Welch From page to stage: adaptations of Les Misérables   Tim Fisher Les Misérables: …

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Wanderlust

Introduction The Pace of Thoughts Tracing a Headland: An Introduction The Mind at Three Miles an Hour Rising and Falling: The Theorists of Bipedalism The Uphill Road to Grace: Some Pilgrimages Labyrinths and Cadillacs: Walking into the Realm of the Symbolic From the Garden to the Wild The Path Out of the Garden The Legs …

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Ways of Curating

Prologue: The Way Things Go With Alighiero Boetti Mondialité do it Curating, Exhibitions and the Gesamtkunstwerk Courbet, Manet and Whistler Collecting Knowledge Of Libraries and Archives Printed Exhibitions Infinite Conversations Pioneers Night Trains and Other Rituals The Kitchen Robert Walser and Gerhard Richter Mentors Félix Fénéon and the Hotel Carlton Palace Invisible Cities London Calling …

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Germany: Memories of a Nation

Maps Introduction: Monuments and Memories Where is Germany The view from the Gate Divided heaven Lost capitals Floating city Fragments of power Imagining Germany A language for all Germans Snow White v Napoleon One nation under Goethe Hall of heroes One people, many sausages The Persistent Past The battle for Charlemagne Sculpting the spirit The …

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Bannockburn

The Night Before the Morning The Muster The Tor Wood The March Against Time Bloody Sunday Black Monday A Kingdom Won A Battle Lost Appendices Maps Dramatis Personae The Sources The Chronicle of Lanercost, 1272-1346 The Scalachronica: The Reigns of Edward I, Edward II and Edward III as Recorded by Sir Thomas Grey The Bruce: …

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Empire of the Deep

I – Lawless Waters: to 1603 Introduction Part 1: Invasion Island England 793-878 Sea Rovers 878-901 The Key 901-1066 Cross Channel 1066-1221 Part 2: Wine and Wool Merchant Warriors 1221-1335 Keeping the Seas 1336-1399 Defence of the Realm 1399-1509 Part 3: Atlantic Home Waters 1509-1530 Brave New Worlds 1530-1556 English Guns 1556-1568 Revolution 1568-1585 Part …

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Men Explain Things to Me

Men Explain Things to Me The Longest War Worlds Collide in a Luxury Suite: Some Thoughts on the IMF, Global Injustice, and Stranger on a Train In Praise of the the Threat: What Marriage Equality Really Means Grandmother Spider Woolf’s Darkness: Embracing the Inexplicable Pandora’s Box and the Volunteer Police Force