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An exceptionally strong skills training programme which covers language skills, phonics, and civic education skills. This six-level course offers a fast-paced syllabus and a wide range of optional resources to support a high number of teaching hours per week. The series starts with an optional pre- school course, First Friends , before children move on to Family and Friends. Key features One third of each unit is dedicated to skills training. The step- by-step approach focuses on writing and early literacy skills to build children's confidence in reading, writing, speaking, and understanding English. One in six lessons is a phonics lesson to train children to recognize and produce English sounds. At levels 1-3 the lessons are supported by flashcards, and by more activities on the Student MultiROM. The civic education syllabus educates children in good values and behaviour. The Photocopy Masters Books at levels 1-2 include 15 values worksheets. The Testing and Evaluation Book and the test builder element of the Teacher's Resource CD-ROM help teachers to evaluate children's progress. One lesson per page with clear lesson objectives makes the course easy to teach. Accompanying resources, including the Grammar Friends series, skills series, Teacher's Resource Pack, course readers, and Teacher Resource CD-ROM allow teachers to focus on additional skills training and means the course can fit different teaching programmes per week.

This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europe in the pre-industrial age: for families and whole societies, the roles of lawyers in reducing them to a common system, and the recurring debate on the merits of various inheritance customs in shaping particular kinds of society. At first sight the study of inheritance customs may appear to be a dull affair, concerned with outdated practices of hair-splitting lawyers; certainly, little academic interest has been shown in the subject. Yet inheritance customs are vital means for the reproduction of the social system, by the transmission of property and other rights through the family. Various family structures and social arrangements are linked by different means of inheritance. This book will interest a wide range of historians, students, postgraduates and teachers alike, whether they are concerned with social, economic, demographic or legal history, in the medieval, early modern or modern periods, and whether their interests are directed to England or other countries of Western Europe; it will also be valuable to social anthropologists, sociologists and historians of ideas. A comprehensive glossary of technical terms has been added for the non-specialist

Originally appearing shortly after E. P. Thompson's death in 1993, and acclaimed as one of his best and most deeply felt works, Witness Against the Beast appears now for the first time in paperback. 'Everything characteristic of the late E. P. Thompson - his clarity, humanity, and breadth of learning - is present in this book.' Financial Times

First published in 1905 this book by William Carter Thomson offers the reader an insight into the workings of an American travelling circus at the beginning of the 20th century. He gives an account of the daily routine of the troupe whilst on tour and during the winter 'off season', explains the jargon peculiar to circus life, describes methods of transporation, including that of the performing animals, and offers many amusing anecdotes connected with the circus world and its history. A sample itinerary shows that on a tour from April-November the circus will travel just over 11,500 miles, visiting 167 towns spread across 26 states and provinces, travelling by both rail and ferry. This edition is illustrated with 19 black and white photographs integrated with the text.

In 1837 young Goran Trebartha, whose working life is divided between two farms, finds himself caught between two seemingly incompatible cultures. His problems are added to when life is further complicated by the arrival of a mine captain and all his female family.

A seminal text on the history of the working class by one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in society that would shape the following centuries. But the capitalist elite did not form the working class—the workers shaped their own creations, developing a shared identity in the process. Despite their lack of power and the indignity forced upon them by the upper classes, the working class emerged as England’s greatest cultural and political force. Crucial to contemporary trends in all aspects of society, at the turn of the nineteenth century, these workers united into the class that we recognize all across the Western world today. E.P. Thompson’s magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britain’s greatest postwar historian. Its publication in 1963 was highly controversial in academia, but the work has become one of the most influential social commentaries every written.

"Here, at last, is Customs in Common, the remarkable sequel to E.P. Thompson's influential, landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class. The product of years of research and debate, Customs in Common describes the complex culture from which working class institutions enlarged in England--a panoply of traditions and customs that the new working class fought to preserve well into Victorian times." "In a text marked by both empathy and erudition, Thompson investigates the gradual disappearance of a range of cultural customs against the backdrop of the great upheavals of the eighteenth century. As villagers were subjected to a legal system increasingly hostile to custom, they tried both to resist and to preserve tradition, becoming, as Thompson explains, "rebellious, but rebellious in defence of custom." Although some historians have written of the riotous peasants of England and Wales as if they were mainly a problem for magistrates and governments, for Thompson it is the rulers, landowners, and governments who were a problem for the people, whose exuberant culture preceded the formation of working-class institutions and consciousness." "Using a wide range of sources, Thompson shows how careful attention to fragmentary evidence helps to decode the fascinating symbolism of shaming rituals including "rough music," and practices such as the ritual divorce known as "wife sale." And in examining the vigorous presence of women in food riots from the sixteenth century onwards, he sheds further light on gender relations of the time." "Essential reading for all those intrigued by English history, Customs in Common has a special relevance today, as traditional economies are being replaced by market economies throughout the developing world. The rich scholarship and depth of insight in Thompson's new work offer many clues to understanding contemporary changes around the globe."--J

The author modestly describes this book as `a fairly complete account of the history and progress of Greek and Latin palaeography, especially in its literary aspect, from the earliest periods represented by surviving manuscripts down to the close of the fifteenth century'.

Focusing on the intellectual influences of the English Romantic movement, the book explores the works of prominent figures like Wordsworth and Coleridge, alongside lesser-known authors such as Godwin and Thelwall. E. P. Thompson's analysis intertwines historical context with literary critique, shedding light on the societal pressures of the 1790s, including paternalism and the impact of the French Revolution. Edited by his widow, Dorothy Thompson, the collection includes original texts, notes, and an overview of his insights into this transformative period in literature and politics.