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Alice in Wonderland Journal - 'Too Late,' Said the Rabbit by Bodleian Library
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Category: Stationery
Invented to entertain Alice Liddell on boat-trips down the river Thames in Oxford, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has become one of the most famous and influential works of children's literature of all time. It is hard to imagine Alice's Adventures in Wonderland without picturing the illustrations mad ...Show more
German Invasion Plans for the British Isles 1940 by Bodleian Library Staff
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Category: Military History/Biography
I have decided to prepare a landing operation against England, and if necessary to carry it. -- Adolf Hitler, 16 July 1940.Immediately after the fall of France in June 1940, Hitler ordered his generals to organize the invasion of Britain under a plan codenamed Operation Sealion. The objective was to lan ...Show more
How to be a Good Husband by Bodleian Library Staff (Editor)
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Category: Gift Books
Don't think that your wife has placed waste-paper baskets in the rooms as ornaments.Don't forget that very true remark that while face powder may catch a man, baking powder is the stuff to hold him. Marriage can be a series of humorous miscommunications, a power struggle, or a diplomatic nightmare. Me ...Show more
How to be a Good Lover by Bodleian Library Staff (Editor)
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Category: Gift Books
Across the centuries, few experiences in life rival the excitement and emotional intensity of falling in love. Yet from the moment we set eyes on a special someone, the path to their heart seems strewn with devastating pitfalls. What if the object of our affection hates the way we wear our hair, finds o ...Show more
How to be a Good Wife by Bodleian Library Staff (Editor)
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Category: Gift Books
Don't think that your wife has placed waste-paper baskets in the rooms as ornaments.Don't forget that very true remark that while face powder may catch a man, baking powder is the stuff to hold him. Marriage can be a series of humorous miscommunications, a power struggle, or a diplomatic nightmare. Men ...Show more
Instructions for British Servicemen in France 1944 by Bodleian Library Staff (Editor)
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Category: Military History/Biography | Series: Instructions for Servicemen Ser.
In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to expect and how to behave in a newly-liberated France.Containing candid descriptions of this war-ravaged society (widespread malnourishment, rampant tuberculosis) as well as useful phrases and a pronunciation ...Show more
Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany 1944 by Bodleian Library Staff (Editor)
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Category: Military History/Biography | Series: Instructions for Servicemen Ser.
"Don't be too ready to listen to stories told by attractive women. They may be acting under orders." This was only one of the many warnings given to the 30,000 British troops preparing to land in the enemy territory of Nazi Germany nine-and-a-half months after D-Day. The newest addition to the Bodleian ...Show more
Jane Austen: Illustrated Quotations by Bodleian Library Staff
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Category: Gift Books
"Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend."--from a letter to Cassandra, October 27, 1798 "You express so little anxiety about my being murdered under Ash Park Copse by Mrs. Hulbert's servant, that I have a great mind not to tell you wheth ...Show more
Pocket Magna Carta: 1217 Text and Translation by Bodleian Library
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Category: History
'No freeman is to be taken or imprisoned, or dispossessed ...except through the lawful judgment of his peers or through the law of the land.' 'To no one shall we sell, to no one shall we deny or delay right or justice.' Magna Carta (or 'Great Charter' of English Liberties) is one of the most important d ...Show more
Postcards from the Trenches - Images from the First World War by Andrew Roberts (Introduction by); Bodleian Library Staff (Editor)
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Category: Military History/Biography | Series: Postcards From... Ser.
World War I has come down to us in indelible images--those of airplane bombers, bleak-eyed soldiers, stern-faced commanders, and the ruins of countless villages. But soldiers themselves also took photographs on the battlefield, and many of their striking images were transformed into postcards that were ...Show more
The Art of Good Manners by Bodleian Library the
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Category: Gift Books
In taking soup do not gurgle or make throat noises. Speak well of others or not at all is a good rule. 'The Art of Good Manners' covers such topics as table manners, pronunciation, introductions, conversation, courtship and children's behaviour. It guides the reader in appropriate behaviour during each ...Show more
The Original Laws of Cricket by Michael Rundell Staff; Mike Atherton (Foreword by); Bodleian Library Staff; Michael Rundell (Introduction by)
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Category: Sport | Series: Original Rules Ser.
This series of books from the Bodleian Library reproduces the original rules of classic sports, complete with commentary about their historical evolution and adaptation--in attractive, collectible formats. They are informative and often witty companions to the world of sport, bringing the past and prese ...Show more