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by Stephen Oppenheimer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Stephen Oppenheimer's extraordinary scientific detective story combining genetics, linguistics, archaeology and historical record shatters the myths we have come to live by. It demonstrates that the Anglo-Saxon invasions contributed just a tiny fraction (5%) to the English gene pool.
Two thirds...
The 'Invisible Hand' and British Fiction, 1818-1860
Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
The 'invisible hand', Adam Smith's metaphor for the morality of capitalism, is explored in this text as being far more subtle and intricate than is usually understood, with many British realist fiction writers (Austen, Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot) having absorbed his model of ironic causality in complex societies and turned it to their own purposes.
The Enigma of the Aerofoil
Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Why do aircraft fly? How do their wings support them? In the early years of aviation, there was an intense dispute between British and German experts over the question of why and how an aircraft wing provides lift. The British, under the leadership of the great Cambridge mathematical physicist Lord...
Churchill's Last Wartime Secret
The 1943 German Raid Airbrushed from History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
It’s been a State secret for more than 70 years: The official line in the UK has always been that it never happened – but this new work challenges the assertion that no German force set foot on British soil during World War Two (the Channel Islands excepted), on active military service.
Churchill’s...
by John Slight
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
The British Empire governed more than half the world’s Muslims. John Slight traces the empire’s complex interactions with the Hajj—the annual pilgrimage to Mecca—from the 1860s, when an outbreak of cholera led Britain to engage reluctantly in medical regulation of pilgrims, to the Suez Crisis of 1956. He gives voice to pilgrims and officials alike.
Women and the Shaping of British Methodism
Persistent Preachers, 1807-1907
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton's call to analyse women's experience within Methodism, this book is the first to deal with British Methodist women preachers over the entire nineteenth century. The author covers women preachers in Wesley's lifetime, the reason why some...
The Myth Of Decline
The Rise of Britain Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
This history of Britain since 1945 confronts two themes that have dominated British consciousness during the post-war era: the myth of decline and the pervasiveness of American influence. The political narrative is about the struggle to maintain a power that was illusory and, from 1960 on, to reverse...
Marxism in Britain
Dissent, Decline and Re-emergence 1945-c.2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2006
Since the Second World War, Marxism in Britain has declined almost to the point of oblivion. The Communist Party of Great Britain had more than 50,000 members in the early 1940s, but less than 5,000 when it disbanded in 1991. Dissenting and Trotskyist organisations experienced a very similar decline,...
Scotland and the Easter Rising
Fresh Perspectives on 1916
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
The story of the Rising is still being told, and in these pages the reader will find much to ponder, much to discuss, and much to disagree with. From the Introduction by Kirsty Lusk and Willy Maley
On Easter Monday 1916, leaders of a rebellion against British rule over Ireland proclaimed the...
British Battlefields - Volume 3 - The Midlands
Battles That Changed The Course Of British History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Very few living men have taken part in a battle, and many must wonder how they would acquit themselves if ever they had to. A medieval battle was a very complex affair; it was far from being a simple kill or be killed. It could be won or lost at any stage; it could turn on the action of one man, and...
Ireland in the Virginian Sea
Colonialism in the British Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
In the late sixteenth century, the English started expanding westward, establishing control over parts of neighboring Ireland as well as exploring and later colonizing distant North America. Audrey Horning deftly examines the relationship between British colonization efforts in both locales, depicting...
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A Critical History of the British Aristocracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
"A proudly partisan history of the British aristocracy - which scores some shrewd hits against the upper class themselves, and the nostalgia of the rest of us for their less endearing eccentricities. A great antidote to Downton Abbey." (Mary Beard)
Exploring the extraordinary social...
by John Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
This explosive book exposes high-level corruption in London’s Metropolitan Police Service following the August 1997 death of Princess Diana in Paris. Over the ensuing decade Scotland Yard carried out one of the biggest and most wide-reaching cover-ups in its history. Police Commissioners Paul Condon...
Empire Made
My Search for an Outlaw Uncle Who Vanished in British India
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India—a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light
In 1841, twenty-year-old Nigel Halleck set out for Calcutta as a clerk in the East India Company. He went on to serve...