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![Front cover of Journeyman – the art of Steve Dilworth by Georgina Coburn]()
Pre-order now – available from November 2023
The first comprehensive investigation of the life and work of this important groundbreaking artist
![Front cover of Journeyman – the art of Steve Dilworth by Georgina Coburn]()
Pre-order now – available from November 2023
The first comprehensive investigation of the life and work of this important groundbreaking artist
![Front cover of the book The Other Emmeline The Story of Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence]()
This book traces the trajectory of Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence’s life as she navigates the struggle for women’s votes, for peace and for women’s rights in the turbulent years before, during and after the First World War
![The Making of a Tradition: East Lancasire clog dancing by Pat Tracey]()
Available 12 August – Pre-order now
The Making of a Tradition: East Lancashire Clog Dancing explores the history of clog dancing by one of its most accomplished performers, Pat Tracey.
![The East End my Birthright]()
A memoir of Albert Turpin’s remarkable life illustrated by Turpin’s paintings and drawings as well as cuttings, posters and photographs.
![Mrs Sherwood Biography Book Cover]()
A biography of the 19th Century children’s writer Mrs M. M. Sherwood (1775–1851) with excerpts from Captain Sherwood’s diaries
![Displaced by War Book Cover]()
During the First World War, June 1915 to December 1919, Gertrude Powicke spent time with the Society of Friends for their relief efforts in France, then Poland, working among the civilian victims of war. She recorded events, people and experiences and her reactions to them, for her family’s benefit, but also as an act of analysis and self-examination.
![Richard G. Jenkin – A Great Son of Cornwall]()
From the 1950s through to the 1990s, Richard Jenkin was at the very centre of Cornish cultural and political life and an important figure in the revival of Cornish consciousness. This book features examples of Jenkin’s writings, both poetry and prose, and reminiscences and tributes from personal friends and colleagues as well as original essays about various aspects of his work for Cornwall and the wider Celtic world.
![Campaigning for the Vote Book Cover]()
Out of stockCampaigning for the Vote tells, in her own words, the efforts of a working suffragist to convert the men and women of England to the cause of women’s suffrage.
![Yes Papa! Mrs Chapone and The Bluestocking Circle]()
With a preface by Dr Elizabeth Eger of King’ College, London.
Barbara Eaton’s fascinating study is the first full length biography to set Chapone among her contemporaries.
![Henry Richard – Apostle of Peace Book Cover]()
Henry Richard was the secretary of the Peace Society from 1848 to 1886, an unconditional pacifist when the British Empire was at the height of its aggressive powers.
![Setting Cornwall on its Feet 842px]()
This collection of essays celebrates the life and work of Robert Morton Nance (Mordon), artist, folklorist, writer, maritime historian, founder of the Old Cornwall Societies and Grand Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd.
![Marcel Martinet poet of the Revolution]()
Marcel Martinet was involved in avant-garde literary circles in France in the early part of the twentieth century and was later closely associated with the campaign against the first world war.
![the King of karelia Book Cover]()
This book on the history of Karelia is in two parts. Nick Baron’s engaging study of Philip Woods’ life and times is followed by Woods’ own entertaining and historically important memoir of Britain’s ill-fated intervention in Karelia during the Russian civil war, published here for the first time.
![Enterprising Women Book Cover]()
The story of a group of women around the Garrett family, who in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth changed the position of women in Britain forever.
![Cornubia's Son Book COver]()
Mark Guy Pearse (1842–1930) was a Cornish Methodist preacher, lecturer and author who, during the last quarter of the 19th century and the first of the 20th, was a household name throughout Britain and beyond.
