# The Pulse Glass

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- Book: [The Pulse Glass](https://www.bookquiver.com/gillian-tindall/the-pulse-glass) ([The Pulse Glass.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gillian-tindall/the-pulse-glass.md))
- Authors: [Gillian Tindall](https://www.bookquiver.com/gillian-tindall)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7356-693-4
- Published: 2019-10-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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