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The Country Formerly Known As Great Britain
The Country Formerly Known As Great Britain
In this selection from over twenty years of reporting and writing, Ian Jack sets out to deal with contemporary Britain - from national disasters to football matches to obesity...
The Country House And The Great War
The Country House and The Great War: Irish and British Experiences
Drawing on archival materials, and incorporating never-before-seen images, this volume presents a spectrum of experiences from owners, to servants and t...
The Darkest Hour
The Darkest Hour
From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the world's greatest leaders...
The Decline And Fall of the British Empire
Decline And Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997
No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Britannia ruled t...
The Easter Rising
Easter Rising
On Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, a force of Irish men and women under arms, estimated at between 1,000 and 1,500, attempted to seize Dublin, with the ultimate intention of bringing to an end British rule i...
The Edwardian Farm
Edwardian Farm
The Edwardian period is often seen as something of a gilded age; war would imminently remove hundreds of thousands of men from the labour force, and instigate progress to mechanise. Illustrated with a wea...
The Great Silence 1918-1920
The Great Silence 1918-1920 : Living in the Shadow of the Great War
Peace at last, after Lloyd George declared it had been 'the war to end all wars', would surely bring relief and a renewed sense of optimism? But this ...
The History of the Channel Tunnel
The History of the Channel Tunnel
The Channel Tunnel, has been one of histories most protracted and at times acrimonious, construction projects. From the paranoia of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when there wa...
The Last Dance
The Last Dance : 1936 The Year Our Lives Changed
'The year has, indeed, begun in gloom. The King ill, and Kipling dead ...' so wrote the diarist Chips Channon in 1936 as George V lay on his deathbed at Buckingham Palace...
The Letters Of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Dashing For The Post : The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road. Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one the gre...
The Long And Winding Road
The Long And Winding Road
From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnson's multi-award-winning autobiography charts an extraordinary journey, almost unim...
The Long Weekend
The Long Weekend : Life in the English Country House 1918 - 1939
There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two...
The Lost World of British Communism
The Lost World of British Communism
The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain's most notable historians, draws on novels of t...
The Maisky Diaries
Maisky Diaries
Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary reco...
The Making Of Modern Britain
The Making Of Modern Britain
In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage ...
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 Outsider
Outsider : My Life in Intrigue
At eighteen, Forsyth was the youngest pilot to qualify with the RAF. At twenty-five, he was stationed in East Berlin as a journalist during the Cold War.
Before he turned thirty, he was ...
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...
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