British category: 24621 books
Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers
A Hall of Mirrors and the Long Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
This book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Fourteen scholars...
Colin Jordan and Britain's Neo-Nazi Movement
Hitler's Echo
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Colin Jordan and Britain's Neo-Nazi Movement casts fresh light on one of post-war Britain's most notorious fascists, using him to examine the contemporary history of the extreme right. The book explores the wide range of neo-Nazi groups that Colin Jordan led, contributed to and inspired throughout...
The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee
Volume I: From the Approach of the Second World War to the Suez Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which intelligence was used to inform policy.
For almost 80 years the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) has...
by Dr Daniel C. Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In 1969 the once peaceful Catholic civil rights movement in Northern Ireland degenerated into widespread violence between the nationalist and unionist communities. The conflict, known as the Troubles, would last for thirty years.
The early years of the Troubles helped to define the nature of...
by Luke Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This book analyses the efforts of British civil society to help a Russia seen to be struggling between 1890 and the 1920s. Luke Kelly seeks to show why churches, pressure groups, charities, politicians and journalists came to promote religious and political liberty and to relieve the victims of famines...
The 1950s
A Decade of Modern British Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction?
As Britain emerged from the shadow of war into the new decade of the 1950s, the seeds of profound social change were being sown. Exploring the full range of fiction in the 1950s, this volume...
by Philip Parker
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2020
A fascinating analysis of a dozen maps from critical points in British history over the last two thousand years, from the Celtic period when 'Britain' was just a patchwork of tribal kingdoms, to a century ago when the whole of Ireland, India, Australia, much of Africa, Asia and the Americas were marked...
by Tony Stoller
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
This book is the first comprehensive account of classical music on all British radio stations, BBC and commercial, between 1945 and 1995. It narrates the shifting development of those services, from before the launch of the Third Programme until after the start of Classic FM, examining the output...
The Romantics Reviewed
Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers. Part B: Byron and Regency Society poets - Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
First published in 1972, this volume contains contemporary British periodical reviews of Lord Byron and Regency Society Poets, including Rogers, Campbell and Moore, in publications from the Annual Review to the British Review.
Introductions to each periodical provide brief sketches of each...
Imperial Boredom
Monotony and the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that the empire was about adventure and excitement, with heroic men and intrepid women eagerly spreading commerce and civilization around the globe,...
by Michelle Faubert
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
This book delineates the discovery of a previously unknown manuscript of a letter from Granville Sharp, the first British abolitionist, to the “Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.” In the letter, Sharp demands that the Admiralty bring murder charges against the crew of the Zong for forcing 132...
The British Soldier in the Peninsular War
Encounters with Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. It is the story of how soldiers interacted with the local environment and culture, of their attitudes and behaviour towards the inhabitants, and how they wrote about all this in letters and memoirs.
by Dagmar Hecher
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2007
Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: Gut, University of Vienna (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistk), 30 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Based on a variety of social and cultural confinements regarding...
British Steam Military Connections
LNER Steam Locomotives & Tornado
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2019
In Great Britain there existed a practice of naming steam railway locomotives. The names chosen covered many and varied subjects. However, a large number of those represented direct links with military personnel, regiments, squadrons, naval vessels, aircraft, battles and associated historic events....