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Michael Foley
Chosen and ordered by Michael Foley, New and Selected Poems is an exciting and vibrant body of work and a testament to a poet whose voice has never been more…
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Alistair Foley, Kevin G Summers, Michael Bunker
Literary Outlaw is a modern pulp fiction magazine featuring both original fiction as well as classic stories and comics from the public domain.
Song of Silverglade, is a meta-satire about…
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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which London’s East End has changed and developed over the last century.
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Essex has changed and developed over the last century
Full-colour guide to the towers built to defend England’s coastline. Built to defend against Napoleon’s forces, the Martello towers have played a part in both the First and Second World…
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which London’s Docklands have changed and developed over the last century.
An affectionate account of Essex during the conflict of the Second World War.
Essex during times of conflict from the Roman occupation to the twentieth century, illustrated through old and modern pictures.
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which London has changed and developed over the last century.
Secret Brentwood explores the lesser-known history of the Essex town of Brentwood through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.
As a mother and teacher, I try to do what Audrey has done for countless others: lead by example, listen intently, and provide a lamp to light the way for…
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A guided tour of Hornchurch, showing how this famous port has changed over the past century and more.
Explore the secret history of Loughton, a town that grew up in the middle of a forest through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
A guided tour of this historic town of Romford, showing how the areas you know and love have changed over the centuries.
A history of front-line Essex
The truth about how the British treated its prisoners and internees during the First World War
Through the lives of three children who died on 21 November 1920, relive the story of Bloody Sunday, when a gaelic football match in Croke Park was the scene of…
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Farming for the Long Haul is about building a viable small farm economy that can withstand the economic, political, and climatic shock waves that the twenty-first century portends.
This work on the British constitution assesses the properties, dynamics and implications of political exchange. It investigates the methods employed to mobilise and resist the pressure for constitutional change, how…
In this groundbreaking contribution to the history of ideas, Michael Foley demonstrates how ideas derived from Newtonian mechanics have pervaded American political life from Independence to the present day.
Michael Foley’s book deals with the ‘abeyances’ present in both written and unwritten constitutions, arguing that these gaps in the explicitness of a constitution, and the various ways they are…
This is the history of the Sportsmen’s Battalion, Royal Fusiliers 23rd service battalion, which consisted almost entirely of men from the world of sport or entertainment. The battalion was privately…
Rescued Hearts tells the story of Matt Toomey, a grizzled veteran with years of service with the Boston Fire Department, who has grown increasingly bitter and cynical as the decades…
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A guided tour of London’s East End, showing how this famous port has changed over the past century and more.
A book-length poem on the perennial themes of time, mortality, love and meaning, by turns lyrical, aphoristic, erotic and witty but always driving forward with characteristic energy and exuberance.
Front-line Kent
If America has a claim to exceptionalism, American Credo locates it in a little understood ability to engage in deep conflicts over political ideas, while at the same time reducing…
A guided tour of Barking & Dagenham, showing how this famous port has changed over the past century and more.
Bloody Sunday. A gaelic football match in Dublin’s Croke Park became the scene of a massacre of 14 people by the Royal Irish Constabulary, following the IRA assassination of British…
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More than 100 photo illustrations, evoking the early days of aerial development. Images of craft are included alongside those of the men and women who populated the scene.
Explores the terror of the Russian Civil War.
Passengers were locked into carriages and often tried to acquire keys to the doors. Travelling in second and third class was much more dangerous than first class. Punishments inflicted on…
This book is a fascinating account of the important role that the railways played in the defence of the country as well as in their support of the Allied forces…
The First World War was to lead to the first major step in Britain’s railways becoming a unified system.
Foley, Michael
This work looks at draft resistance, the cutting edge of the anti-war movement at the height of the Vietnam conflict. It focuses on Boston as a prominent centre of the…
Traversing the welter and squalor of London, Paris, Madrid, Rome, and New York, celebrating the familiar and mundane - bread, soap, matches, and snails, this collection culminates in a sequence…
Michael A. Foley
Foley argues that fundamental flaws exist in the implementation of the death penalty.
Michael Foley Sr.
I don’t guess too many people have heard of Clifton, Virginia. Least ways that’s how it was when I lived there. Times do change though and what was may longer…
James Michael Foley
Consider a set of k elements. Let the elements be the first k positive integers. Consider the permutation set that corresponds to the first k positive integers - and let…
Michael Foley, Sr.
