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Sinha, Manisha.

Summary: "Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 SIN

Collins, Manda

Summary: "Miss Poppy Delamare has been living a lie. To escape an odious betrothal, she hid as the quiet and unassuming Flora Deaver, secretary to London's most infamous female crime reporter. When her beloved younger sister is accused of murder, however, Poppy returns home to keep her sibling from the hangman's noose. But a collision with the most unexpected--and unwelcome--of travel companions...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023

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Darnell, John Coleman

Summary: "Two celebrated Egyptologists bring to vivid life the intriguing and controversial reign of King Tut's parents Akhenaten has been the subject of radically different, even contradictory, biographies. The king has achieved fame as the world's first individual and the first monotheist, but others have seen him as an incestuous tyrant who nearly ruined the kingdom he ruled. The gold funerary mask...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DAR

Summary: The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VIC

Summary: Episodes of the comedy serial about the terminally treacherous Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh (aka the Blackadder). This disc contains the second series, set during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BLA

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