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Before the NHS, getting sick in Britain was never just a medical problem. It was a financial risk, a moral judgement, and often a matter of luck. For much of British history, medical care was fragmented, unequal, and uncertain. Doctors were expensive. Hospitals were limited. Treatment depended on class, location, and the ability to pay. For millions, illness meant lost wages, debt, or the workhouse, and for many, no care at all. In the absence of universal healthcare, people turned to whatever help they could find. Home remedies were passed down through families. Herbal cures and folk ...

Victorian Britain lived in close and constant contact with death. Disease, accident, and high infant mortality meant that dying was a familiar part of everyday life. Death did not take place behind hospital doors, but in bedrooms and parlours, witnessed by families and neighbours. Grief was not hidden. It was regulated, ritualised, and woven into daily behaviour. This book explores how Victorians understood and dealt with death. It examines the customs surrounding dying at home, the preparation and viewing of the body, and the elaborate mourning practices that governed dress, behaviour, and...

When Britain sent its children away during the Second World War, it believed it was acting to save them. More than a million boys and girls were evacuated from cities judged vulnerable to bombing, labelled, placed on trains, and billeted with strangers in the countryside. For many, this was presented as a temporary measure, a short disruption before a safe return home. For thousands of children, that return never truly came. Britain’s Wartime Evacuees examines evacuation not as a nostalgic wartime episode, but as a profound social intervention whose consequences reached far beyond 1945. ...

A podcast by a horror lover for horror lovers. Sidney, otherwise known as horror_chronicles from TikTok, discusses all things horror. Discord: https://discord.gg/N34mBgr3mj MERCH: https://horror-chronicles.printify.me/products TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@horror_chronicles Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/horror_chronicles/ Buy me a movie ticket! https://ko-fi.com/horrorchronicles Other links: https://linktr.ee/horror_chronicles

What happened after the world stopped watching? On the night of 14 April 1912, the Titanic sank into the North Atlantic. The story is familiar, But what followed is not. Life After Titanic is a Hidden Histories Special Edition that turns away from the moment of disaster and follows the lives left behind, survivors, crew, and families whose futures were permanently reshaped by the most famous shipwreck in history. This book traces what happened after the lifeboats were lowered. Survivors who returned home changed, silent, or stigmatised. Crew members questioned, blamed, or quietly dismissed....

In 1948, Britain invited its empire to rebuild the “mother country.” Thousands answered the call. They arrived legally, proudly, and full of hope, men and women from the Caribbean who came to work, to serve, and to belong. They filled shortages in transport, hospitals, factories, and public services. They paid taxes, raised families, and helped shape post-war Britain. Yet decades later, many were told they did not belong. This book traces the hidden history of the Windrush generation, from arrival and settlement to exclusion, surveillance, and betrayal. It explores how welcome turned ...

For centuries in Britain, love itself could be illegal. Men were arrested not for harming others, but for who they loved, or were suspected of loving. Careers were destroyed by rumours. Families were torn apart by shame. Prison, hard labour, and medical “treatment” awaited those caught by laws that were deliberately vague and relentlessly enforced. This is the hidden history of how homosexuality became a crime in Britain and what that crime truly meant. From the Tudor-era death penalty to Victorian moral panic, from police entrapment in parks and public toilets to courtroom humiliation ...

They are motivators, key strategists, tough bosses, and choreographers. They can be branded as heroes, ousted as scapegoats, quietly valued as friends, and everything in between. It's all in the job description for an NHL head coach. In Behind the Bench, Craig Custance sits down for film sessions and candid conversations with some of the game's most notable modern luminaries - names like Mike Babcock, Joel Quenneville, Dan Bylsma, Ken Hitchcock, and Claude Julien - all of whom share their singular views on topics ranging from leadership secrets to on-ice game plans.  

Sidney Poitier was one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He overcame enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model for many Americans because of his convictions, bravery, and grace. Poitier reflects on his amazing life in Life Beyond Measure, offering...

Powell and Silverglate shine a light on the defects of the federal criminal-justice system: overzealous prosecutors, perjury traps, negligent judges, perverse limits on self-defense, vague and overabundant criminal statutes, insufficient requirements for criminal intent, and no accountability for prosecutors. Most important, they provide a much-needed blueprint for reforming the Department of Justice and the criminal-justice system, including actions an average citizen can take to help restore justice. 

The Sands of Time is the tale of four nuns who are abruptly forced to flee the secure environment of their Spanish convent and face a hostile world they long ago abandoned. Suddenly these four women find themselves pawns in a violent struggle between the outlawed Basque underground movement, led by the charismatic Jaime Miro, and the Spanish army, under the command of the vengeful Colonel Ramon Acoca, who is bent on destroying all of them

The survivors of The Other Side of Midnight come back for one last round of play in this compelling sequel set in post-war Europe. Catherine Douglas, victim of amnesia, is taken in by the world's richest man, Greek shipping tycoon Constantin Demiris. Haunted by faint memories of the past, Catherine must remember the truth before Demiris, the man who killed her husband, sets his murderous sights on her.

Petunia Moraleng, voormalige stasiebevelvoerder op Parys, is haar rang kwyt en oorgeplaas Mooibaai toe. Vroeg in Desember word die oorskot van twee jong vroue ontdek en oornag bevind sy haarself as die hoofondersoeker in ’n raaiselagtige moordsaak.

Why do you tend to put off the very thing that feeds your success...? The answer is that effective prospecting requires a special frame of mind. Sid Walker takes you there. Using Sid's leading-edge approach, you can quickly break through your own reluctance, excuses, and fears to prospecting consistently and effectively on command! Learn skills that will break through your barriers: Get back on track quickly when your prospecting efforts are stalled. Recognize the state of mind that makes prospecting easy, and learn to shift into it at will. Discover six proven exercises that get you warmed...

What This Book Is: Learning to get to the feeling level in a sales interview. It Has to Feel Right: If you are not asking your prospective clients questions that are creating clarity and commitment on a feeling level, they are not going to be able to make a decision when the time comes. They will want to “think about it.” Wouldn’t you rather have a decision one way or another? What you will learn: - How to get to the feeling level and close more sales. - What questions will get you to the feeling level the quickest. - How to get more comfortable asking the feeling questions. - How to ...

In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Sidney...

In All the Powers of Earth, Lincoln's incredible ascent to power in a world of chaos is newly revealed through the great biographer's extraordinary research and literary style. After a period of depression that he would ever find his way to greatness, Lincoln takes on the most powerful demagogue in the country, Stephen Douglas, in the debates for a Senate seat. He sidelines the front-runner William Seward, a former governor and senator for New York, to cinch the new Republican Party's nomination.

In Paris, in Washington, and in Greece, an innocent American becomes a pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal. Catherine Douglas is a woman caught in a web of four lives intertwined by passion as her handsome husband pursues an incredibly beautiful film star, while Constantin Demeris, a legendary Greek tycoon, tightens the strands that control them all. This number-one New York Times best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon features tortured romantic entanglements, reverses of fortune, thrilling suspense, and ultimate justice.

Kate Blackwell is the symbol of success—a beautiful woman who parlayed her inheritance into an international conglomerate. Winner of a unique position among the wealthy and world-renowned, she is also a survivor as indomitable as her father, who returned from the edge of death to wrench a fortune in diamonds from the hard South African soil. As she celebrates her ninetieth birthday, Kate surveys the family she has manipulated, dominated, and loved over the decades and asks herself: Is she the master of the game?

"Bursting with laughs and so much love, Sidney Karger's debut novel delivers a truly refreshing spin on the romantic comedy…A big-hearted, feel-good summer escape."—Anderson Cooper, #1 New York Times bestselling author and journalist When two best men in a wedding party fall for each other...