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The wood engravers' self-portrait

The Dalziel Archive and Victorian illustration

By: Bethan Stevens

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The wood engravers' self-portrait

The Dalziel Archive and Victorian illustration

By: Bethan Stevens

The wood engravers’ self-portrait tells the story of the image-making firm Dalziel Brothers, investigating and interpreting a unique archive from the British Museum. The study takes a creative-critical approach to illustration, alongside detailed investigation of print techniques and history. Five siblings ran the wood engraving firm Dalziel Brothers: George, Edward, Margaret, John and Thomas Dalziel. Prospering through five decades of work, Dalziel became the major capitalist image makers of Victorian Britain. This book, based on AHRC-funded research, outlines the achievements of these remarkable siblings and uncovers the histories of some of the 36 unknown artisan employees that worked alongside them. Dalziel Brothers made works of global importance: illustrations to Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, novels by Charles Dickens, and landmark Pre-Raphaelite prints, as well as other, brilliant works that are published here for the first time since their initial creation.

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Manchester University Press

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1526156652

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9781526156655

The Grumpy Fairies

By: Bethan Stevens

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The Grumpy Fairies

By: Bethan Stevens

The Grumpy Fairies is a funny picture book that teaches the value of getting out of a bad mood—delightfully illustrated and beautifully presented with a gold foil–accented cover. Deep in the darkest forests, under rustling leaves, live the fairies. You probably think that fairies are good, kind, and sweet. Well, a lot of them are. These helpful fairies take care of the forest and they're happy to do it. But I'm sorry to tell you that some of the fairies, particularly the littlest ones, are GRUMPY. I mean super grumpy. I mean foot-stompy, frowny, bottom-lip-sticking-outy kind of grumpy. I mean "it’s just one of those days" grumpy. But these grumpy fairies better watch out. There's a goblin about, and grumpy fairies happen to be a his favorite food… This wonderful, funny book will bring a smile to the smallest (and grumpiest) of children.

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Frances Lincoln Children's Books

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0711249415

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9780711249417

The Not-So-Wicked Witch

By: Bethan Stevens

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The Not-So-Wicked Witch

By: Bethan Stevens

On the sleepiest of nights, when the air is still and the moon is full, the conditions are just right… for WITCHES TO TAKE FLIGHT! And among all these terribly wicked, cackling witches, is one… who is actually, surprisingly quite nice! This little witch doesn’t enjoy being wicked like the others. Not one little bit. She doesn’t like creating mischief, she doesn’t like making a mess and she definitely doesn’t like any naughtiness! The other witches decide that the littlest witch needs rescuing from all this icky, gooey goodness! It’s time for some lessons in wickedness, and the best way to do that is by making a completely terrible and utterly awful potion…! Will our little witch leave her kind and gentle ways behind her and join in the wickedness? Or will she persuade her fellow witches that actually, being wicked isn’t all it’s cracked up to be? This playful take on spooky witches from the award-winning Bethan Stevens takes readers to a magical world of wickedness and kindness. This is the wonderfully funny follow-up to the prize-winning Grumpy Fairies and the fairytale twist A Damsel Not in Distress.

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Frances Lincoln Children's Books

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0711276021

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9780711276024

A Damsel Not in Distress!

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A Damsel Not in Distress!

By: Bethan Stevens

This clever and funny inversion on a classic fairytale from award-winning author Bethan Stevens tells the laugh-out-loud story of a damsel who does not need saving! Once upon a time, hidden deep in a valley in a magical land far away, there was a very tall tower. And trapped at the very top of that very tall tower there was a damsel . . . In distress! The only problem is, the damsel is not in distress. She keeps telling the narrator that she's perfectly fine. The "terrifying beasts" in the moat are a family of ducklings. The "prickly brambles" are her rose garden. And the "wicked old witch" is actually her grandma! But the narrator just won't listen. When a scary, fire-breathing dragon comes to visit, it's up to the damsel to take charge of her story and save the day for everyone. Characterful illustrations transport readers to the magical world of the damsel's kingdom, and easy to read text is perfect for young readers. This funny follow-up to the prize-winning Grumpy Fairies is perfect for any young damsel--or prince charming--who wants to be the hero of their own story.

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Frances Lincoln Limited

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071127519X

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9780711275195

Nightingale

By: Bethan Roberts

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Nightingale

By: Bethan Roberts

A melodious paean to the natural history and symbolic meaning of the most prized, poetized, and mythologized of songbirds. The nightingale has a unique place in cultural history: the most prized of songbirds, it has inspired more poems than any other creature, and it is also the most mythologized of birds. Nightingale juxtaposes the bird of poetry, music, myth, and lore with the living bird of wood and scrubland, unpicking the entangled relationship between them. Covering a huge range of poets, musicians, artists, nature writers, and natural historians—from Aristotle, Keats, and Vera Lynn to Bob Dylan—Nightingale charts our fascination through history with this nondescript yet melodious little brown bird. It also documents the nightingale’s disappearance from British breeding grounds and the implications this has for nightingale conservation.

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206

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Reaktion Books

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1789144752

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9781789144758

A Damsel Not in Distress!

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Frances Lincoln Limited

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Mother Island

By: Bethan Roberts

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Mother Island

By: Bethan Roberts

This is the story of two women, Nula and Maggie, joined by old family history and love for the same little boy. Nula, struggling with her new baby and feeling alone in her marriage, employs her cousin Maggie as a nanny when she returns to work. But it's not long before Nula finds herself theatened by Maggie's close bond with her son, Samuel. Nula's outwardly perfect house crackles with unspoken jealousies and rivalry until Maggie's intense love for Samuel tips into obsession and she decides her only option is to abduct the child. As Maggie makes her desperate bid for safety, the women's shared past of trauma and loss comes to the fore once more. WINNER OF THE JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE 2015.

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322

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Random House

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1448190886

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9781448190881

Between Wales and England

Anglophone Welsh Writing of the Eighteenth Century

By: Bethan Jenkins

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Between Wales and England

Anglophone Welsh Writing of the Eighteenth Century

By: Bethan Jenkins

Between Wales and England is an exploration of eighteenth-century anglophone Welsh writing by authors for whom English-language literature was mostly a secondary concern. In its process, the work interrogates these authors’ views on the newly-emerging sense of ‘Britishness’, finding them in many cases to be more nuanced and less resistant than has generally been considered. It looks primarily at the English-language works of Lewis Morris, Evan Evans, and Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) in the context of both their Welsh- and English-language influences and time spent travelling between the two countries, considering how these authors responded to and reimagined the new national identity through their poetry and prose.

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279

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University of Wales Press

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1786830329

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9781786830326

Police Culture in a Changing World

By: Bethan Loftus

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Police Culture in a Changing World

By: Bethan Loftus

This fascinating new title offers an ethnographical investigation of contemporary police culture based on extensive field work across a range of ranks and units in the UK's police force. By drawing on over 600 hours of direct observation of operational policing in urban and rural areas and interviews with over 60 officers, the author assesses what impact three decades of social, economic and political change have had on police culture. She offers new understandings of the policing of ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and the ways in which reform initiatives are accommodated and resisted within the police. The author also explores the attempts of one force to effect cultural change both to improve the working conditions of staff and to deliver a more effective and equitable service to all groups in society. Beginning with a review of the literature on police culture from 30 years ago, the author goes on to outline the new social, economic and political field of contemporary British policing. Taking this as a starting point, the remaining chapters present the main findings of the empirical research in what is a a truly comprehensive analysis of present day policing culture.

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258

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OUP Oxford

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0191629723

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9780191629723

The Grumpy Fairies

By: Bethan Stevens

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The Not-So-Wicked Witch

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0711276005

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Pathology

By: Bethan Goodman Jones

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Pathology

By: Bethan Goodman Jones

This series covers all organ systems and common disorders. This book should serve as a link between the pre-clinical and clinical titles in the series. The fundamental concepts of pathology are outlined, followed by systematic pathology and self-assessment.

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0723431426

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9780723431428

The wood engravers' self-portrait

The Dalziel Archive and Victorian illustration

By: Bethan Stevens

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The Dalziel Archive and Victorian illustration

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The wood engravers' self-portrait

The wood engravers' self-portrait

The Grumpy Fairies

The Grumpy Fairies

The Not-So-Wicked Witch

The Not-So-Wicked Witch

A Damsel Not in Distress!

A Damsel Not in Distress!

Nightingale

Nightingale

A Damsel Not in Distress!

A Damsel Not in Distress!

Mother Island

Mother Island

Between Wales and England

Between Wales and England

Police Culture in a Changing World

Police Culture in a Changing World

The Grumpy Fairies

The Grumpy Fairies

The Not-So-Wicked Witch

The Not-So-Wicked Witch

Pathology

Pathology

The wood engravers' self-portrait

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