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The Pulse Glass: And the beat of other hearts
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A personal and global history in objects, Gillian Tindall traces the memories and meanings that accrue to the artefacts of human lives through time.
Before ordinary doctors had access to accurate pocket watches, they timed a patient's pulse with a 30-second sandglass. A `pulse glass' was a functional piece of medical equipment, designed to measure a life, never intended to ...more
Before ordinary doctors had access to accurate pocket watches, they timed a patient's pulse with a 30-second sandglass. A `pulse glass' was a functional piece of medical equipment, designed to measure a life, never intended to ...more
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A typically moving and meticulous social history from Gillian Tindall. Fascinating throughout ...
An interesting set of vignettes of items that evoke memories in the author.
Very interesting ,objects that survive when we are gone and what they can tell us of lives gone and forgotten....only heard the abridged version on the radio, but would like to read the book and more of this author....this is history to me ,not wars and parliament .
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Gillian Tindall began her career as a prize-winning novelist. She has continued to publish fiction but has also staked out an impressive territory in idiosyncratic non-fiction that is brilliantly evocative of place.
Her The Fields Beneath: The History of One London Village which first appeared thirty years ago, has rarely been out of print; nor has Celestine: Voices from a French Village, published ...more
Her The Fields Beneath: The History of One London Village which first appeared thirty years ago, has rarely been out of print; nor has Celestine: Voices from a French Village, published ...more
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