Books with Histories
David Pearson
Books with Histories
David Pearson
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Describes the Rio de la Plata in South America, which had the highest literacy rates in Latin America and describes how the region's print and literary culture, including newspapers, political advertisements and schoolbooks influenced the population's everyday lives
Marianne Elliott tells the story of a group of 'fixers': working-class women in 1950s Belfast who found ways of regulating their lives through the blizzard of petty officialdom. It focuses on the life of Annie Copeland, who became the go-to figure for housing advice in the city and was later the subject of a much-publicized corruption trial.
In this book, Gavin Francis writes about the resonance for him as medic in reading the work of early modern polymath Sir Thomas Browne.
