Oxbow Advent Calendar 2022 – Day 22

Post Medieval

Day 22 of our Oxbow Advent brings us a little closer to the present with our Post-Medieval and Modern selection of books!

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Manufactured Bodies

The Impact of Industrialisation on London Health

Gaynor Western, Jelena Bekvalac

An attractively presented overview of the results of research on 2,000 skeletons which reveals the impact of the Industrial Revolution on human health in London and beyond.

9781789253221

Paperback

272 Pages

Lost Lives, New Voices

Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650

Chris Gerrard, Pam Graves, Andrew Millard, Richard Annis, Anwen Caffell

Employs the latest scientific techniques to explore the lives - and deaths - of the Scottish soldiers captured at the Battle of Dunbar, 1650..

9781785708473

Paperback

384 Pages

The Long Shadow of World War II

The Legacy of the War and its Impact on Political and Military Thinking since 1945

Matthias Strohn

Experts analyse the impact of World War II on individual countries and regions, and how its legacy continues to shape political and military thinking.

9781952715020

Hardcover

288 Pages

Seventeenth-century Water Gardens and the Birth of Modern Scientific thought in Oxford

The Case of Hanwell Castle

Stephen Wass

The story of a water garden that became a crucible for the development of scientific thinking in 17th-century Oxford.

9781914427169

Paperback

240 Pages

My Life as a Replica

St John's Cross, Iona

Sally Foster, Sian Jones

An interdisciplinary composite cultural biography of the St John’s Cross on Iona and its copies.

9781911188599

Paperback

224 Pages

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Oxbow Advent Calendar 2022 – Day 22

Post Medieval