{"id":5187,"date":"2015-11-11T12:32:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T12:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=5187"},"modified":"2015-11-11T12:32:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T12:32:07","slug":"italian-alumna-and-author-book-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/11\/11\/italian-alumna-and-author-book-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian alumna and author book signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Amanda-J.-Thomas\/e\/B002S9FA3I\/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\">Amanda Thomas<\/a>, a SECL alumna having graduated in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/undergraduate\/italian\/italian.html\">Italian<\/a> in\u00a01983, has just published her new book <em>Cholera: The Victorian Plague<\/em> (Pen &amp; Sword Books, 2015), and will be signing copies of the title in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\">Waterstones<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/bookshops\/canterbury-rose-lane\">Rose Lane store<\/a> in Canterbury on 28 November from 11am.<\/p>\n<p>The book tells the story of the disease that devastated the Victorian population, and brought about major changes in sanitation. Drawing on the latest scientific research and a wealth of archival material, Amanda uses first-hand accounts, blending personal stories with an overview of the history of the disease and its devastating after-effects on British society. This fascinating history of a catastrophic disease uncovers forgotten stories from each of the major cholera outbreaks in 1831-3, 1848-9, 1853-4 and 1866.<\/p>\n<p>Following her graduation, Amanda worked in the media and, for the past few years, has been writing non-fiction history books full time for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen-and-sword.co.uk\">Pen and Sword Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For details of the book, please see the publisher\u2019s page here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen-and-sword.co.uk\/Cholera-Hardback\/p\/10951\"><br \/>\nwww.pen-and-sword.co.uk\/Cholera-Hardback\/p\/10951<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Thomas, a SECL alumna having graduated in Italian in\u00a01983, has just published her new book Cholera: The Victorian Plague (Pen &amp; Sword Books, 2015), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/11\/11\/italian-alumna-and-author-book-signing\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":5188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5192,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions\/5192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}