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Travels in Lancashire

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Various,William Roscoe


A collection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry on travels in Lancashire, England, with occasional sorties into adjacent counties. - Summary…

Criminal Manchester: Experiences of a Special Correspondent

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William James Mcglothlin


Follow the Manchester Evening News 'special correspondent' and his guide - recently back from a 'seven stretch' - as they take you on a tour…

The Blue Review, Number 3

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Various


The Blue Review was a short lived monthly journal published in London between May and July 1913. The successor to Rhythm, The Blue Review wa…

Ancient Songs and Ballads of Lancashire

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John Harland


Traditional songs and ballads from Lancashire in the north-west of England from the opening section of John Harland's collection, Ballads an…

Cycling in the Alps

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C. L. Freeston


A guide to cycling in the European Alps in the days before surfaced roads and automobile tourism. As the author explains, the spectacular vi…

Manchester Poetry

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James Wheeler


Manchester's first published anthology of locally-written poetry was compiled by editor James Wheeler to show that Manchester, 'the most mec…

Things Seen in Venice

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Lonsdale Ragg and Laura Marie Ragg


Venice, once among the most powerful states of the Western world, now a much-visited but still romantic city of canals, architecture and art…

Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London

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John Gay


John Gay's Trivia is a satirical guide to walking the streets of London, written in mock heroic style. Learn how to avoid pickpockets, wig t…

The Story of the Glittering Plain

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William Morris


In this early example of the modern high fantasy genre, Hallblithe, a warrior of the House of Raven, sets out in pursuit of the pirates who …

The Cycle Industry, its origin, history and latest developments

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Walter Ferdinando Grew


From the velocipede to the motor cycle in twenty chapters. A short history of the British bicycle industry from its origins in a Coventry se…

John Bull's Vineyard: Australian Sketches

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Hubert de Castella and Hubert De Castella


An account of the origins of the wine industry in Victoria, Australia. Born in Neuchatel, Switzerland, Hubert de Castella was one of a numbe…

The Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District

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Nikolai Leskov


In Mzinsk, a remote Russian town, adultery is Katerina's relief from boredom. Before long she has developed a passion for he lover, Sergei, …

The Astral Plane: Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena

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C. W. Leadbeater


As skeptics dismissed other-worldly phenomena as the stuff of legend, trickery or delusion, nineteenth-century 'occult science' set out to e…

That Lass o' Lowrie's

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Frances Hodgson Burnett


Frances Hodgson Burnett was born and grew up in Manchester, England, and emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 16. Fo…

Hard Times (version 3), Locked Out and On Strike

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Charles Dickens


Hard Times was Dickens's shortest novel and the only one to be set in the industrial north of England. A fast moving story with a typical ca…

The Experienced English Housekeeper

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Elizabeth Raffald


'Cut a large old hare in small pieces, and put it in a mug with three blades of mace, a little salt, two large onions, one red herring, six …

Thorstein of the Mere: A Saga of the Northmen in Lakeland

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William Gershom Collingwood


A fine adventure set in 10th-century England at a time when everyday life in north was made hazardous by wars and shifting alliances among S…

Karl Marx: An Essay

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Harold J. Laski


Born in Manchester in 1893, Harold Laski was a leading figure in the left-wing of British socialism in the first half of the 20th century. A…

Who Did It?

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Nat Gould


Following the dissolution of the New South Wales government, Henry Bryce is ready to take on the Labour Party for the seat of Balmain East. …

Short Stories (Household Words 1850-53)

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Elizabeth Gaskell was a regular contributor to Charles Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, from 1850 through to 1853 In addition to …

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