History Of Britain – alle Bücher und DVDs, Seite 9

Brian Groom
Made in Manchester

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made itWITH A NEW FOREWORD BY ANDY BURNHAM, MAYOR OF GREATER MANCHESTER'What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.'Long…

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David Cowan
Politics of the Past

The inter-war period (1918-1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation - the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Thousands of conversations about life in the inter-war per…

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Bernard Mees
King Arthur and the Languages of Britain

Medievalists have denied the historical existence of King Arthur for over 50 years . Arthur and the Languages of Britain demonstrates how linguistic evidence can be employed to see if the earliest histori…

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Caroline Elkins
Imperial Reckoning

A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in KenyaAs part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the…

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Alistair Moffat
Scotland's Forgotten Past

A charming, lively and often amusing tour of 36 forgotten episodes and overlooked people and places of Scottish history.Scotland's history is full of famous kings, queens, saints and warriors. But what ab…

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Henry J Miller
A Nation of Petitioners

Between 1780 and 1918, over one million petitions from across the four nations were sent to the House of Commons. This first study of the nineteenth-century heyday of petitioning explores the central role…

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Peter Oborne
Complicit

A Sunday Times BestsellerFrom one of Britain's most celebrated political journalists, a fearless and forensic indictment of British complicity in the destruction of Gaza.In a gripping narrative informed b…

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Ruramisai Charumbira
Legacies of British Colonialism in Southern Africa

From the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, British Southern Africa saw hosts of Europeans arriving in the region to transform their lives and participate in colonial life in different ways. Their narrativ…

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Fabiola Creed
The Rise and Fall of the Sunbed in Britain

This open access book explores tanning culture: how the desire for tanned white skin led to the phenomenal growth in sunbed use and how the practice spread through Britain. By analysing the role of the me…

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Peter Ackroyd
The English Soul

From celebrated historian and writer Peter Ackroyd, a magisterial portrayal of English Christianity over the centuries.This book portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity, as it has developed…

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Kenneth J Panton, Keith A Cowlard
Historical Dictionary of the Contemporary United Kingdom

Covering the United Kingdom history, the Historical Dictionary of the Contemporary United Kingdom, Second Editioncontains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary secti…

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Callum G. Brown
Ninety Humanists and the Ethical Transition of Britain

This book re-writes the origins of the progressive 1960s. It argues that 94 leading British intellectuals, nearly all humanists, were inspired by H.G. Wells to amend the ethical laws of the nation under a…

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Vanessa Morgan
The Little History of Birmingham

From a small Saxon hamlet to a large sprawling city, Birmingham has quite a story to tell. And within the pages of this handy and compact book, these stories are told.

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Peter Hart
Chain of Fire

The dramatic story of the siege of Khartoum and Britain's extraordinarily violent 1882 campaign in Egypt and Sudan.In the 1880s, British control over northeastern Africa was a political minefield that Pri…

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Laura Flannigan
Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547

The dawn of the Tudor regime is one of most recognisable periods of English history. This book sheds new light on the relationship between Crown and society by exploring the untouched archives for the Tud…

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Jon Stokes
Trees of Britain and Ireland

A comprehensive photographic identification guide to all of the native trees and shrubs of Great Britain and Ireland and many of the common non-native speciesTrees of Britain and Ireland is packed with pr…

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Catriona Kennedy
Women, Politics, and the Irish Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution

The book offers the first extended analysis of gender in Irish radical thought and post-rebellion commemoration. And, through a selection of case studies from across the religious and social spectrum, it …

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Jaipreet Virdi
Echoes of Care

Echoes of Care chronicles the historical shift that created complicated interdependences between medical intervention, language, and education to shape deaf people's experiences in nineteenth- and early t…

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David Woodman
The First King of England

From one of today's leading historians of the early medieval period, an enthralling chronicle of Æthelstan, England's founder king whose achievements of 927 rival the Norman Conquest of 1066 in shaping Br…

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George Owers
The Rage of Party

The late 17th century saw the rise of a new phenomenon that would transform Britain forever: party politics. Beginning with a furious dispute over whether to allow a Roman Catholic - James II - to become …

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