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*As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week*

'A genius for a certain kind of social history that, in shining a light on one small place, illuminates a huge amount' Sunday Telegraph

A toy train. A stack of letters. A tiny pulse glass, inherited from her great-great-grandfather, which was used to time a patient's heartbeat before pocket watches... Gillian Tindall, one of our most admired domestic history writers, examines seemingly humble objects to trace the personal and global memories stored within them, and re-animate the ghostly heartbeats of lost lives.

'Elegiac... Tindall reflects on a lifetime's interest in historical recovery' The Telegraph

'Tindall is a fine historian and writes with a wryness of everyday human foibles' The Times

The Pulse Glass: And the beat of other hearts

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*As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week*'A genius for a certain kind of social history that, in... Read more

    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 05/11/2020
    ISBN13: 9781529111088, 978-1529111088
    ISBN10: 1529111080

    Number of Pages: 288

    Non Fiction , History

    Description

    *As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week*

    'A genius for a certain kind of social history that, in shining a light on one small place, illuminates a huge amount' Sunday Telegraph

    A toy train. A stack of letters. A tiny pulse glass, inherited from her great-great-grandfather, which was used to time a patient's heartbeat before pocket watches... Gillian Tindall, one of our most admired domestic history writers, examines seemingly humble objects to trace the personal and global memories stored within them, and re-animate the ghostly heartbeats of lost lives.

    'Elegiac... Tindall reflects on a lifetime's interest in historical recovery' The Telegraph

    'Tindall is a fine historian and writes with a wryness of everyday human foibles' The Times

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