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Winifred Coombe Tennant
Winifred Coombe Tennant (1874-1956)

politician, suffragist, philanthropist, patron of the arts

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Between two worlds
Thomas Jones
Thomas Jones (1870-1955)

pedagogue, civil servant, politician

  • Lewis School Pengam

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Rhymney memories
The Mabinogion
A diary with letters, 1931-1950
Whitehall diary
The Gregynog Press
Lloyd George
Gerallt Gymro
A theme with variations
Brut y tywysogyon
Brut y tywysogyon; or, the chronicle of the princes
Whitehall diary
Mr. Gladstone and the spoken word
Cerrig milltir
Welsh broth
Leeks and daffodils
The native never returns
A diary with letters
Brenhinedd y saesson; or, the kings of the Saxons. BM Cotton Ms. Cleopatra Bv and the Black book of Basingwerk, NLW Ms. 7006. Text and translations with introd. and notes by Thomas Jones
Oswald Mosley
Oswald Mosley (1896-1980)

politician, aircraft pilot

  • Winchester College, West Downs School

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My life
My answer
Britain first
Revolution by reason and other essays by Oswald Mosley
Mosley - right or wrong?
Tomorrow we live
Tomorrow we live
Ireland's right to unite when entering European Union
Blackshirt policy
Two Germans of genius
Revolution by reason and other essays
Mosley
The British peace - how to get it
Education not conscription
Menace of Russian communism
Policy of Union movement and what membership means
The alternative
Fascism: 100 questions asked and answered
Mosley--right or wrong?
"Atrocities"
Government of tomorrow
Europe - faith and plan
Revolution by reason
A national policy
The Greater Britain
Fascism
Europe
An answer to Labour
Unemployment
Policy and debate
Taxation and the people
A policy for Britain
Why we left the old parties
The European situation
Policy and debate
Why Mosley left the Labour government
Europe: faith and plan
European socialism
Rettung des Abendlandes die dritte Macht
10 points of fascist policy
The A.B.C. of modern economics
A national policy
Mosley's tomorrow we live
My life
Blackshirt policy
Fascism in Britain
My life
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer (born 1940)

politician, stockbroker, newspaper editor, congressional staff

  • Brooklyn College, primary school

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The art of tough
Nine and counting
Nine and counting
A time to run
Blind trust
Mexico City Policy: Effects of Restrictions on International Family Planning Funding
Strangers in the Senate
Time to Run
Water Pollution Risks Of Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (mtbe)
Sidonius Apollinaris
Sidonius Apollinaris (0430-0488)

politician, Catholic priest, poet

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The letters of Sidonius
Sidonius
OEuvres, tr., avec le texte en regard et des notes par J.F. Grégoire et F.-Z. Collombet
Oeuvres
Poems and letters; with an English translation by W.B. Anderson
Caii Sollii Apollinaris Sidonii Arverorum Episcopi Opera
Sidoine Apollinaire
Oeuvres de C. Sollus Apollinius Sidonius
Apollinaris Sidonius, Carm. 22
Oeuvres de Sidoine Apollinaire
Gli Apollinari
Poems and letters
Caii Sollii Apollinaris Sidonii ... Opera
C. Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius
Le nozze di Polemio e Araneola
Poems and letters
Sidonio Apollinare
Oeuvres de Sidoine Apollinaire
Sidonius poems and letters
C. Soll. Apollinaris Sidonii opera.Œuvres, texte Lat.,accompagnées de notes des divers ...
[Expositiones sive Declarationes titulorum utriusque iuris]
Carmina
Sidonii Apollinaris Poema aureum et epistolæ
Caij Sollij Apollinaris Sidonij Aruernorum Episcopi Opera
Carme 24
Sidoine Appollinaire
De tijd van Rome's laatste keizers: veertien brieven van Apollinaris Sidonius uit de jaren 455-475
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

educator, autobiographer, pedagogue, businessperson, politician, human rights activist, teacher

  • Hampton University

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Working with the hands
My larger education
Up from Slavery
Three Negro classics
The Booker T. Washington papers
Frederick Douglass
The story of my life and work
Pāre ghartīko purushārtha
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
The story of my life and work
Three African-American classics
The Booker T. Washington papers
Booker T. Washington Reader
Builder of a Civilization by Booker T. Washington
History's Greatest Speeches
Will to Be Free
Ātmoddhāra
The Booker T. Washington papers
Free Associations
Frederick Douglass
The story of my life and work
Hei nu cheng ming ji
An autobiography
An autobiography
The Booker T. Washington chronicles
Frederick Douglass
Hei nu cheng gong zhe zi zhuan
Words of Ages
A new Negro for a new century
The future of the American Negro
The man farthest down
The story of the Negro
Three African-American Classics
African American Literature
The Negro in the South
African-American Six Book Treasury - The Souls of Black Folk, Up From Slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
If You Call My Name
The Negro in business
Tuskegee & its people: their ideals and achievements
The Negro in the South
Address prepared by Mr. Booker T. Washington
In Their Own Voices
Character building
Booker T. Washington Papers (13 Volumes and 1 Index)
Black History Collection
The Classic Slave Narratives
The Negro in the South, his economic progress in relation to his moral and religious development
Education of the Negro
The Negro in the South, his economic progress in relation to his moral and religious development
The Negro Problem
The story of slavery
The Future Of The American Negro
The educational and industrial emancipation of the negro
Black-belt diamonds
The rights and duties of the Negro
Address of Booker T. Washington
Seven Slave Narratives, seven books including
Booker T. Washington Papers Vol. 1
Character building
Three African-American Classics :
Colored American from Slavery to Honorable Citizenship
Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 12
Three African American Classics : Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Up from Slavery
Putting the most into life
Story of the Negro: The Rise of the Race from Slavery
An autobiography
Vom sklaven empor
A protest against the burning and lynching of Negroes
Address of Booker T. Washington, principal Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala
The Negro Problem
The story of my life and work an autobiography
Story of the Negro
The Negro problem / contributions by Booker T. Washington ... [et al.] ; with an introduction by Bernard R. Boxill
Address of Booker T. Washington, delivered at the alumni dinner of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., June 24, 1896, after receiving the honorary degree of master of arts
Negro in the South
The Hardwick bill
Booker T. Washington's Own Story Of His Life And Work
The Future of the American Negro
An address on Abraham Lincoln
An address by Booker T. Washington, prin., Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama
Souls of Black Folk, up from Slavery
Negro in the South, His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development; Being the William Levi Bull Lectures for the Year 1907
Up From Slavery and The Atlanta Compromise Speech
Story of My Life and Work
Is The Negro Having A Fair Chance?
Address of Booker T. Washington ...
Negro education not a failure
A Will to Be Free (an African American Heritage Book)
Encouraging Words
Booker T. Washington's address at the jubilee Thanksgiving services
Booker T. Washington The Negro in Business
From Slave to College President
Pocket Guide to Writing in History 7e & Black Protest and the Great Migration & Souls of Black Folk & Up from Slavery
Souls of Black Folk & Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Up from Slavery
Address of Booker T. Washington, principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, delivered at the opening of the Cotton States and International Exposition, at Atlanta, Ga., September 18, 1895
African-American Six Book Treasury - the Souls of Black Folk, up from Slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
African-American Classic Three Book Set - The Souls of Black Folk, Up From Slavery, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Negro problem
Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery and The Life of Frederick Douglass
The story of my life and work, Booker T. Washington
Sowing and Reaping
Character Building
The Negro Problem
Character and Culture
Character Building
Booker T. Washington Collection
The Negro Problem
Character Building
Address prepared by Mr. Booker T. Washington for delivery at a dinner given by the members of the Union League Club on February 12, 1899
The Booker T. Washington papers
The Booker T. Washington papers
Addresses in Memory of Carl Schurz, Carnegie Hall, New York, November 21 1906
"The better part," speech of Booker T. Washington delivered at the peace jubilee, Chicago, October 16, 1898
Signs of Progress among the Negroes
Selected Short Works of Booker T. Washington (Esprios Classics)
The American Negro (Southern States)
The Story of my Life and Work
Character Building
One hundred selected sayings of Booker T. Washington
Women's Magazines, 1940-1960 & Up from Slavery & American Social Classes in the 1950s & Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era
Character Building
Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s & Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Up from Slavery
Vom Sklaven Empor
Character Building (an African American Heritage Book)
The Story of the Negro
Negro Problem
Putting the Most into Life
Booker T. Washington Papers Collection
Negro Problem; a Series of Articles by Representative American Negroes of To-Day;
Black Prostest and the Great Migration & Up from Slavery & Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s & ... & Crosscurrents in the Black Atlantic
Women's Magazines, 1940-1960 & Movements of the New Left, 1950-1975 & 1912 Election and the Power of Progressivism & Up from Slavery
The Negro and the "Solid South;"
Handarbeit
Story of the Negro Volume II
Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 10
Quotations of Booker T. Washington
Selected speeches of Booker T. Washington
The Story Of The Negro
Story of the Negro, the Rise of the Race from Slavery Volume 1 by Booker T. Washington
American Literature for Christian Homeschoolers, Volume 4
Story of the Negro
The Negro problem
Frederick Douglass
Story of My Life and Work
Story of the Negro
The Negro in the South
The Negro Problem
Character Building and the Story of Slavery
Free Associations
Character Building and The Story of Slavery
Sowing and reaping
Story of the Negro the Rise of the Race from Slavery, Vol. 2
Character Building
Monument to Robert Gould Shaw
The Negro in the South
Up from Slavery with Related Documents
Future of the American Negro and the Atlanta Compromise Speech
The Story of My Life and Work
Negro Problem
The Negro Problems
Atlanta Compromise
Story of the Negro
Up from memory
Booker T. Washington Collection
Character Building : A Musical
Up from Slavery and the Atlanta Compromise Speech
Story of the Negro, the Rise of the Race from Slavery II
The Story of the Negro: The Rise of the Race from Slavery
Negro in Business
Story of My Life and Work an Autobiography;
Story of the Negro the Rise of the Race from Slavery, Vol. 2 Paperback
Character Building
The Story of the Negro
The Future of the American Negro
The Negro in the South
The Story of my Life and Work
Story of the Negro, the Rise of the Race from Slavery; Volume 01
The Negro problem
Manson Family Murders 50 Years On
The Negro Problem
The story of my life and work an autobiography;
Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 3
Charakterbildung
Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol. 14
Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle & Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Up from Slavery & Harlem Renaissance
Story of My Life and Work [microform]
Character Building
American Literature for Christian Homeschoolers, Volume 3 : Up from Slavery
Story of Slavery
Frederick Douglass
The Future of the American Negro and The Atlanta Compromise Speech
Story of My Life and Work (Esprios Classics)
The Negro in the South, His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development
The future of the American Negro
The Negro and the signs of civilization
The story of my life and work
The Works of Booker T. Washington : Up From Slavery
Will to Be Free (an African American Heritage Book)
The story of the Negro, the rise of the race from slavery.By : Booker T. Washington
Story of My Life and Work
The Negro in the South, His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development
Metaphysics of Love
An autobiography
The Negro problem
Me-ʻavdut le-ḥerut
The free Negro in slavery days
Address of Booker T. Washington, principal Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala
The papers of Booker T. Washington
Story of slavery
Memórias de um Negro Americano
The Negro problem
The negro in business--
The Negro problem
The story of the Negro
The Negro problem
The Negro in the South
The New York times
Booker T. Washington Papers, 1889-1895 Vol. 3
The fruits of industrial training
Hei wei ren
The successful training of the Negro
Some European observations and experiences
Some results of the Armstrong idea
Memórias de um Negro
On Mother Earth
Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Istitute, Tuskegee, Alabama. Delivered at the opening of the Cotton States and International Exposition, at Altanta, Ga. Sept. 18, 1895
Black Diamonds
The Negro and the labor unions
Some European observations & experiences
Industrial training for the Negro
Letter of Booker T. Washington on the negro and the farm labor problem of the South
Booker T. Washingtons̓ own story of his life and work
The story of the Negro
Law and order and the Negro
The Papers of Booker T. Washington, 1864-1960
Booker T. Washington Papers, 1906-1908 Vol. 9
Daily resolves
Vom sklaven empor
The story of my life and work
An open letter to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, February 19, 1898
Excerpts from the Congregationalist and Christian world
Gerrit Paape
Gerrit Paape (1752-1803)

poet, columnist, journalist, politician, judge, ceramic painter, pottery painter

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Mijne vrolijke wijsgeerte in mijne ballingschap
De Bataafsche Republiek
Het leven en sterven van een hedendaags aristocraat
Vrolijke caracterschetsen
Jon Juaristi
Jon Juaristi (born 1951)

linguist, translator, poet, essayist, politician

  • Colegio Gaztelueta, University of Seville

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Cambio de destino
Sermo humilis