British category: 24621 books
by Mai-Lin Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest explores the importance to Romantic literature of a concept of human interest. It examines a range of literary experiments to engage readers through subjects and styles that were at once "interesting" and that, in principle, were in their "interest."...
Cosmo Lang
Archbishop in War and Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
In December 1936, at the height of the Abdication Crisis, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury held the fate of the British monarchy in his hands. Together with the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, he helped to manoeuvre Edward VIII from the throne and to replace him with the king's brother,...
The Last British Battleship
HMS Vanguard, 1946–1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
The ninth HMS Vanguard, bearing one of the most illustrious names in the Royal Navy with honours from the Armada to Jutland, was the last and largest of Britain’s battleships and was commissioned in 1946\. Her design evolved from of the King George V class and incorporated much of the fully developed...
Consuming Behaviours
Identity, Politics and Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
In twentieth-century Britain, consumerism increasingly defined and redefined individual and social identities. New types of consumers emerged: the idealized working-class consumer, the African consumer and the teenager challenged the prominent position of the middle and upper-class female shopper....
The Great European Union Referendum Debate
Should the United Kingdom Remain a Member of the European Union or Leave the European Union?
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This book is the authors contribution to the debate on Britains future relationship with the European Union. Unusual circumstances led him to spend over ten years researching the significance of European integration. He discovered that a British Secret Service Agent, who investigated Jackthe-Ripper...
Browned Off and Bloody-Minded
The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport’s...
Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles
Essays in Honour of Janet Burton
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
This book celebrates the work and contribution of Professor Janet Burton to medieval monastic studies in Britain. Burton has fundamentally changed approaches to the study of religious foundations in regional contexts (Yorkshire and Wales), placing importance on social networks for monastic structures...
by Martin Derry, Neil Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
The Gloster F.9/40 was Britain’s first jet fighter and as the Meteor F.I became the first jet-powered aircraft of any description to enter service with the Allies in World War II. Several early Meteors were dispatched to Europe in the hope that 1945 might witness the first ever jet-on-jet combats...
Sport and the Military
The British Armed Forces 1880–1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
On battleships, behind the trenches of the Western Front and in the midst of the Desert War, British servicemen and women have played sport in the least promising circumstances. When 400 soldiers were asked in Burma in 1946 what they liked about the Army, 108 put sport in first place - well ahead...
Youth, Heroism and War Propaganda
Britain and the Young Maritime Hero, 1745-1820
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Youth, Heroism and Naval Propaganda explores how the young maritime hero became a major new figure of war propaganda in the second half of the long eighteenth century. At that time, Britain was searching for a new national identity, and the young maritime hero and his exploits conjured images of...
Money Talks
British Monarchs and History in Coins
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Money Talks is a fast-paced history of the humble British coin, the events which at times literally shaped it and the stories reflected in its creation. It has been used to barter and to bribe, to hold a cloak in place and to pay a king’s ransom, been an object of pride and a symbol of courage....
by Daniel Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
From the preface:
"The zeal for Archæological investigation which has recently manifested itself in nearly every country of Europe, has been traced, not without reason, to the impulse which proceeded from Abbotsford. Though such is not exactly the source which we might expect to give...
Men and Manliness on the Frontier
Queensland and British Columbia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there existed a dominant discourse on what it meant to be a man –denoted by the term 'manliness'. Based on the sociological work of R.W. Connell and others who argue that gender is performative, Robert Hogg asks how British men performed manliness on the colonial frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia.
by Samuel A. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This book focuses on the activities of the scientific staff of the British National Institute of Oceanography during the Cold War. Revealing how issues such as intelligence gathering, environmental surveillance, the identification of ‘enemy science’, along with administrative practice informed...