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by David Hobbs
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
In 1945 the most powerful fleet in the Royal Navy's history was centred on nine aircraft carriers. This book charts the post-war fortunes of this potent strike force – its decline in the face of diminishing resources, its final fall at the hands of uncomprehending politicians, and its recent resurrection...
The Official History of the British Civil Service
Reforming the Civil Service, Volume I: The Fulton Years, 1966-81
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
This first volume of the Official History of the UK Civil Service covers its evolution from the Northcote-Trevelyan Report of 1854 to the first years of Mrs Thatcher’s government in 1981.
Despite current concerns with good governance and policy delivery, little serious attention has been...
Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain
History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 1997
In this intellectual history of British cultural Marxism, Dennis Dworkin explores one of the most influential bodies of contemporary thought. Tracing its development from beginnings in postwar Britain, through its various transformations in the 1960s and 1970s, to the emergence of British cultural...
by Philip Guedalla
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
A figure described as “the last candle of the Eighteenth Century”, Lord Palmerston was the great statesman of his era. He served in the War Office in the days of Empire, then in the Foreign and Home Offices before ascending to Prime Minister very late in his life, an office which he held...
A Very English Scandal
Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Now a major TV drama series starring Hugh Grant and Ben Wishaw, a behind-the-scenes look at the desperate, scandalous private life of a British MP and champion manipulator, and the history-making trial that exposed his dirty secrets
While Jeremy Thorpe served as a Member of Parliament and Leader...
by Alison Weir
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Lancaster and York. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for control of the British monarchy. Kings were murdered and deposed. Armies marched on London. Old noble names were ruined while rising dynasties seized power and lands. The war between the royal House...
by David Starkey
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
From one of our finest historians comes an outstanding exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully revised and updated. The monarchy is one of Britain’s longest surviving institutions – as well...
Diana
The Last Days
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Was Diana murdered? Was the British Royal family involved? Was she pregnant and engaged to Dodi? Did the paparazzi or 'a blinding white flash' cause the crash? Was driver Henri Paul really drunk or were his blood tests switched?
Since Princess Diana died in Paris on 31 August 1997 there have...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
*Includes pictures of the queens and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Discusses the Elizabethan era and Victorian era in depth and looks at their legacies and depictions in pop culture.*Includes a Table of Contents"Video et taceo." ("I see, and say nothing") Queen Elizabeth ISince...
The Imperial Tea Party
Family, politics and betrayal – the ill-fated British and Russian royal alliance
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
The British and Russian royal families had just three full meetings before the Romanovs’ tragic end in 1918. In The Imperial Tea Party, Frances Welch draws back the curtain on those fraught encounters, which had far-reaching consequences for 20th-century Europe and beyond.
Russia and Britain...
Pray
Notes on a Football Season
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Nick Hornby, author of the bestselling soccer classic Fever Pitch, offers an insightful account of an extraordinary sports season. Concentrating on a number of significant games in British soccer during the 2011–2012 season, Hornby chronicles the emotional, political, and societal highlights and...
Journey to Munich
A Maisie Dobbs Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler’s Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue—the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear’s New York Times bestselling “series that seems to get better with each entry” (Wall Street Journal).
It’s...
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Gustave Doré
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (The Complete Illustrated Edition)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Poem...
by Dean James
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Simon Kirby-Jones Mysteries #1
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Cat in the Stacks Mystery Series, a traditional British village cozy mystery series…with a twist!
“Sure to revolutionize the traditional British cozy and win the hearts of fans everywhere.” —Publishers Weekly
“A...