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The Pulse Glass: And the beat of other hearts
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The Pulse Glass: And the beat of other hearts

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A personal and global history in objects, Gillian Tindall traces the memories and meanings that accrue to the artefacts of human lives through time.

*As read on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week*

‘A genius for a certain kind of social history that, in shining a light on one small place, illuminates a huge amount’ Sunday Telegraph

A toy train. A stack of letters. A tiny pulse glass, inherited from her great-great-grandfather, which was used to time a patient’s heartbeat before pocket watches… Gillian Tindall, one of our most admired domestic history writers, examines seemingly humble objects to trace the personal and global memories stored within them, and re-animate the ghostly heartbeats of lost lives.

‘Elegiac… Tindall reflects on a lifetime’s interest in historical recovery’ The Telegraph

‘Tindall is a fine historian and writes with a wryness of everyday human foibles’ The Times

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Date
5 November 2020
Pages
288
ISBN
9781529111088

A personal and global history in objects, Gillian Tindall traces the memories and meanings that accrue to the artefacts of human lives through time.

*As read on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week*

‘A genius for a certain kind of social history that, in shining a light on one small place, illuminates a huge amount’ Sunday Telegraph

A toy train. A stack of letters. A tiny pulse glass, inherited from her great-great-grandfather, which was used to time a patient’s heartbeat before pocket watches… Gillian Tindall, one of our most admired domestic history writers, examines seemingly humble objects to trace the personal and global memories stored within them, and re-animate the ghostly heartbeats of lost lives.

‘Elegiac… Tindall reflects on a lifetime’s interest in historical recovery’ The Telegraph

‘Tindall is a fine historian and writes with a wryness of everyday human foibles’ The Times

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Date
5 November 2020
Pages
288
ISBN
9781529111088