“…Rich with a detailed account of household practices in the period, Staging Domesticity reads plays on the London stage in the light of the first printed cookbooks in England. Working from original historical sources on wetnursing, laundering, sewing, medical care, and butchery, Wall shows that domesticity was represented as deeply familiar but also enticingly alien. …”
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“…Yet, in the past 40 years, the common law of England and Wales has been subject to European influences as a result of the introduction of the European Communities Act 1972 and, more recently, the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998 in October 2000. …”

“…Though Deutscher (1907-1967) and Berlin (1909-1997) had much in common - each arrived in England in flight from totalitarian violence, quickly mastered English, and found entry into the Anglo-American intellectual world of the 1950s - Berlin became one of the presiding voices of Anglo-American liberalism, while Deutscher remained faithful to his Leninist heritage, resolutely defending Soviet conduct despite his rejection of Stalin's tyranny. …”

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“…From Blackboard Jungle to This is England, and from Jailhouse Rock to Skins, it covers a range of classics, as well as some intriguing obscurities. …”

“…Empirically, the genuine use of comparative arguments by national highest courts in five European jurisdictions is examined: England and Wales, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. …”

“…By providing a commentary on the principal post-Brexit changes in England, this book faces towards the future of private international law in English courts. …”

“…He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet he is a weak and ineffective king - wastful in his spending habits, unwise in his choice of counsellors, and detached from his country and its people. …”
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“…Medievalists and Renaissance specialists contribute to this compelling volume examining how and why the classics of Greek and Latin culture were taught in various Western European curricula (including in England, Scotland, France, Germany, and Italy) from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. …”

“…Disillusioned, James soon retreated to England--for good. But James would eventually be changed forever by his memories of Paris…”
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