Cinema Scope (Spring 2015, No. 62)

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

In line with the infrequent and before missed magazine of a Renaissance-era executioner, the famous historian Joel F. Harrington’s The devoted Executioner takes us deep contained in the alien global and taking into consideration Meister Frantz Schmidt of Nuremberg, who, in the course of forty-five years as a qualified executioner, for my part positioned to dying 394 members and tortured, flogged, or disfigured many enormous quantities extra.

Famous Phonies: Legends, Fakes, and Frauds Who Changed History (The Changed History Series, Book 1)

Fakes, frauds, and phonies. seems like a publication jam-packed with criminals and delinquents, doesn’t it? good, it’s now not. a number of the largest names in heritage are available among those pages—and the sunshine isn’t flattering. (We’re you, George “I must never inform a lie” Washington.

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s

"Superb" NICK COHEN, writer of What's Left?

"Tremendously entertaining" DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Sunday Times

"Like his prior histories of the Seventies and Eighties, A Classless Society is an awfully accomplished paintings. Turner writes brilliantly, making a compelling narrative of the last decade, weaving contrasting parts including a traditional storyteller's aplomb. .. enticing and unique" IRVINE WELSH, day-by-day Telegraph

"Ravenously inquisitive, darkly comical and coolly undeceived. .. Turner is a grasp of the telling detail" CRAIG BROWN, Mail on Sunday

When Margaret Thatcher was once ousted from Downing highway in November 1990 after 11 years of sour social and financial clash, many was hoping that the last decade to return will be extra 'caring'; others was hoping that the extra radical guidelines of her revolution may possibly also be overturned. throughout politics and tradition there has been an obvious craving for whatever the Iron woman had famously pushed aside: society.

The 'New Britain' to emerge will be a contradiction: economically unequal yet culturally classless. when Westminster agonised over sleaze and the ERM, the rustic open air grew to become the playground of the Ladette. It used to be additionally a interval that may see outdated ethical certainties swept apart, and as soon as venerable associations descend into farce - undefined, in relation to the Royal kin, by way of tragedy.

Opening with a struggle within the Gulf and finishing with the assaults of eleven September 2001, A Classless Society is going looking for the last decade whilst glossy Britain got here of age. What it unearths is a state anxiously grappling with new applied sciences, tentatively embracing new life, and, specially, forging a brand new feel of what it capability to be British.

"Deserves to turn into a classic" EDWINA CURRIE

"Rich and encyclopaedic" ROGER LEWIS, day-by-day Mail

"Excellent" D. J. TAYLOR, self sufficient

Arms & Armour. Pictoral Archive from XIX Sources

Over 750 precise, top of the range illustrations from infrequent 19th-century assets: fits of armor, chain mail, swords, helmets, knives, crossbows and different implements, besides scenes of conflict, squaddies, horses, artillery and extra. in particular appropriate for initiatives requiring a medieval or out of date style, those illustrations will fill a myriad of wishes for battle-related image paintings.