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by Alan Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC
Level: A-level
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
Endorsed for Edexcel.
Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility....
An Empire on Trial
Race, Murder, and Justice under British Rule, 1870–1935
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
An Empire on Trial is the first book to explore the issue of interracial homicide in the British Empire during its height – examining these incidents and the prosecution of such cases in each of seven colonies scattered throughout the world. It uncovers and analyzes the tensions of empire that underlay...
Eight Months’ Campaign Against The Bengal Sepoy Army During The Mutiny Of 1857 [Illustrated Edition]
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Eight Months’ Campaign Against The Bengal Sepoy Army During The Mutiny Of 1857 [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny]
“The Indian Mutiny from the siege of Delhi to the mutineers' defeat at Cawnpore, via the relief of Lucknow. Written by an officer of the British Horse Artillery.
An...
Britain, Ireland and Northern Ireland since 1980
The Totality of Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book is the first in-depth analysis of the interaction between the British and Irish governments and the role they have played in seeking to resolve the conflict in Northern Ireland since 1980.
Eamonn O’Kane examines Britain and Ireland’s objectives in relation to the Northern Ireland...
Call to Arms
The British Army 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This is a comprehensive account of how the British Army coped with and adapted to the enormous challenges and pressures of the First World War -- the first major continental war that the army had had to fight for almost a hundred years. Following the course of the War, both on the Western Front and...
P&O
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
From humble beginnings in the 1830s, The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company grew to dominate British mercantile shipping for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Initially, the company's paddle steamers carried Her Majesty's Mail to the Iberian Peninsula, as the name implies,...
by Max Hastings
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Bomber Command’s air offensive against the cities of Nazi Germany was one of the most epic campaigns of World War II. More than 56,000 British and Commonwealth aircrew and 600,000 Germans died in the course of the RAF’s attempt to win the war by bombing. The struggle in the air began meekly in...
Rediscovering Irregular Warfare
Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britain's Special Operations Executive
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE), which conducted sabotage campaigns and supported resistance movements in Axis-occupied Europe and in Asia, is often described as Winston Churchill’s brainchild. But as A. R. B. Linderman reveals in this engrossing history, the real genius behind Britain’s...
by Margaret Willes
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
This magnificently illustrated people’s history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted, and loved was not their own. Spanning more than four centuries, from the earliest records of the laboring classes in the country...
Building Better Britains?
Settler Societies in the British World, 1783-1920
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The impact of empires and the lingering presence of colonialism continue to be major preoccupations for scholars in the twenty-first century. This concise text explores the spread of settler colonies within the British Empire over the course of the nineteenth century, specifically those in New Zealand,...
by Albert Jack
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
From the bestselling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, Urban Myths & Legends, Ten Minute Mysteries and many more......
A wonderful collection of short stories recalling some of the popular British legends and heroes who, once upon a time, made Britain great.
Remembering Tommy
The British Soldier in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The British soldier of World War I has been depicted in many books. Invariably, a pen picture paints him as stoic, joining the army in a wave of patriotic fervor, and destined to serve four years on the Western Front in some of the most costly battles in history. Yet often the picture is difficult...
by Allan Kulikoff
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies. Examining the lives of farmers and their families, he tells the story of immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement,...
Romano-British Settlement and Cemeteries at Mucking
Excavations by Margaret and Tom Jones, 1965–1978
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Excavations at Mucking, Essex, between 1965 and 1978, revealed extensive evidence for a multiphase rural Romano-British settlement, perhaps an estate center, and five associated cemetery areas (170 burials) with different burial areas reserved for different groups within the settlement. The settlement...