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The Making of The Black Working Class in Britain
The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain
This is the first comprehensive historical perspective on the relationship between black workers and the changing patterns of Britain's labour needs. It places in an hist...
The Man With The Golden Typewriter
Man With The Golden Typewriter : Ian Fleming's James Bond Letters
On 16 August 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, 'My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write gold...
The People
The People : The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010
'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or background. And yet I looked in vain for any aspect of my family's story when I went to university to...
The Pigeon Tunnel
Pigeon Tunnel : Stories From My Life
'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagi...
The Quest for Queen Mary
The Quest For Queen Mary
* * 'Very funny and astute . . .
a loathly feast for royal-watchers' Hilary Mantel, New Statesman Books of the Year 2018
'Almost every page is a gem'A. N. Wilson, Spectator Christmas Books'
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The Scrap
The Scrap : A True Story from the 1916 Rising
In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse. In a final gamble, Pearse had a desper...
The Secret Court Martial Records of the Easter Rising
Secret Court Martial Records of the Easter Rising
Following the suppression of the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, the British Army court-martialled almost 200 prisoners. Around ninety of them received death sentences,...
The Senecans
The Senecans : Four Men and Margaret Thatcher
A year after the death of Margaret Thatcher, a young woman arrives to ask Peter Stothard, former Editor of The Times, some sharp questions about his memories of the Thatcher...
The Thirties : An Intimate History
The Thirties : An Intimate History
As Wartime did for the 1940s, this book will grasp the broad spectrum of events in the 1930s in the words of contemporary witnesses drawn from metropolitan and provincial letters and d...
The Trial Of Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover
The first full-scale literary trial in Britain's history - re-counted by the ever-charming and inimitable Sybille Bedford.
When Penguin released a new, unexpurgated edition of DH L...
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The World Broke In Two
The World Broke In Two :m Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster and the Year that Changed Literature
'This is a brilliant book about the birth of modernism, one that taught me something on every pag...
Titanic
Titianic : The World's Largest Liner
This is the story of RMS Titanic. In this authoritative and highly illustrated guide we explore what was the largest passenger steamship in the world when she set sail on her maiden ...
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Titanic Calling : Wireless Communications During the Great Disaster
Titanic Calling : Wireless Communications During the Great Disaster
Published to mark the centenary of the sinking, this book tells the story of the Titanic from a new angle: the role of wireless in the disaster. Drawin...
Titanic Lives
Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew
`Titanic Lives' is a fresh investigation of the lives of the passengers and crew on board the most famous ship in history.On the night of 14 April 1912, midway t...
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Titanic Minute By Minute
Titanic Minute By Minute
At 2.20am on 15th April 1912, the Titanic was plunging 12,000 feet to the ocean floor. Machinery, coal, crystal goblets, pianos and jewellery all tumble through the dark water. Hundreds of passe...
Titanic Unseen
Titanic Unseen : Titanic and Her Contemporaries, Images from the Bell & Kempster Albums
Titanic was meant to be another success in a litany of past glories for the White Star Line. Her fate was an unexpected shock and g...
Up To Their Necks
Up To Their Necks : The Story of a National Serviceman
The beginning of the Cold War began within days of the end of the Second World War, yet conscription still continued to replace the demobilisation of the existing a...
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Wallis In Love
Wallis In Love
Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Morton reveals new information and sources that totally transform our perception of Wallis Simpson.Wallis in Love brings a fascinating new perspective on the 20th ce...
We Can Do It : Fred Cooper Remembers Edward Box and Ernest Holmes
We Can Do It ! : Fred Cooper Remembers Edward Box & Ernest Holmes - Pioneers in Heavy Road Haulage
Follows the careers of both Ernest Homes and Fred Cooper through memories, personal archives, official documents and 150...
What Did You Say Stopped Play ?
What Did You Say Stopped Play ?
It's normal for rain to stop play in cricket. But that's not all: flying objects, passing dictators, animals of all kinds including a very improbable tiger - they have all had the same ef...
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