'At Duty's Call'

'At Duty's Call'Author: W. J. Reader ISBN: 9780719097539 Publisher: Manchester University Press Year first published: 02 Aug 1988 Pages: 176 Format: Paperback softback The Victorian private solider was a despised figure. A working man had to be desperate indeed to take the Queen's shilling. Yet in the first sixteen months of the Great War two and a half million men from the UK and many more from the empire, flocked to the colours without any form of legal compulsion.

an isolated rural estate

Watch as the wallpaper develops a deeper shade of yellow and the dust layer gains another inch

But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother

With her fiance now her ex-fiance

symbolism and myth 4

an energy-sapping witch

interdisciplinary exploration of a perennially popular cultural production

like "the smell of guava" mysteriously wafting through the City of the Dead

The drama that the company performed at the Cockpit between 1626 and 1636 includes many underexplored and neglected plays from the period alongside more celebrated works by dramatists including James Shirley and John Ford

This book focuses on the historical and current place of religion in the Irish education system from the perspective of children's rights and citizenship

Forker offers a discussion of Marlowe's use of sources

Tommy is dangerously seduced by the world of intelligence policing