Reading's Bayeux TapestryEmbroidered in 1885 1886, Reading's version of the famous Bayeux Tapestry is a faithful, full length replica of the original except in a few beguiling details. True to the principles of the Arts and Crafts movement, its Victorian makers in the Leek Embroidery Society, matched their materials, colours and techniques to those of the eleventh century nuns thought to have created the original. The result is an extraordinarily vibrant reproduction,

sailor and navigator

Dolores Stewart

Dreaming of service to the great Gaius Julius Caesar

Nepal and Africa

Private Syntheses and Multiple Identities

Buntin writes with scrupulous attention to the agency of love in a wounded and venomous world

000 people living in one square kilometre

Robert Minhinnick

He has a doctorate and was Reader in English at the University of Gloucestershire

are full of colourful characters

Her Caribbean has a dynamic that draws from its dialectic of oppression and resistance

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