British category: 24621 books
by Vicki Cummings, Chris Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
This collection of 24 papers aims to reconsider the nature and significance of the Irish Sea as an area of cultural interaction during the Neolithic period. The traditional character of work across this region has emphasised the existence of prehistoric contact, with sea routes criss-crossing between...
by Sir Francis Younghusband
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer. He is remembered for his travels in the Far East and Central Asia; especially the 1904 British expedition to Tibet, which he led, during which a massacre of Tibetans occurred,...
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
A Play In One Act.
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886.
by K. Jefferys
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Since its creation the British Olympic Association (BOA) has been one of the most important institutions in sports governance. In spite of its prominence there has hitherto been no single-volume history of the Association. This scholarly yet accessible study fills that gap, assessing the origins, evolution, strengths and shortcomings of the BOA.
The Romano-British Peasant
Towards a Study of People, Landscapes and Work during the Roman Occupation of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This important and significant volume examines, for the first time, the ordinary people of Roman Britain. This overlooked group – the farmers, shopkeepers, labourers and others – fed the country, made the clothes, mined the ores, built the villas and towns and got their hands dirty in the fields...
Star Trek and the British Age of Sail
The Maritime Influence Throughout the Series and Films
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Clear all moorings, one-half impulse power and set course for a mare incognitum... A popular culture artifact of the New Frontier/Space Race era, Star Trek is often mistakenly viewed as a Space Western. However, the Western format is not what governs the worldbuilding of Star Trek, which was, after...
Dear Codebreaker
The Letters of Margaret Rock (Bletchley Park Codebreaker) & John Rock (Parachute and Glider Forces Pioneer)
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2013
Margaret Rock is one of the very few women codebreakers who worked at the Government Code & Cypher School's codebreaking operation at Bletchley Park in World War 2. Working with legendary codebreaker Dillwyn Knox, and colleage Mavis Lever, Margaret was given the opportunity to turn her love for...
Zigzag
The incredible wartime exploits of double agent Eddie Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Eddie Chapman was a womaniser, blackmailer and safecracker. He was also a great hero - the most remarkable double agent of the Second World War. Chapman became the only British national ever to be awarded an Iron Cross for his work for the Reich. He was also the only German spy ever to be parachuted...
Boudica
The Life of Britain's Legendary Warrior Queen
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
An “intelligent and infectiously enthusiastic” biography of the Celtic queen and an analysis of her impact on British and feminist history (The Sunday Times).
Boudica has been mythologized as the woman who dared to take on the Romans to avenge her daughters, her tribe, and her enslaved...
Gladstone
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill, a towering historical biography, available for the first time in paperback.
William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine...
William Golding
The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In 1953, William Golding was a provincial schoolteacher writing books on his breaks, lunch hours and holidays. His work had been rejected by every major publisher—until an editor at Faber and Faber pulled his manuscript off the rejection pile. This was to become Lord of the Flies, a book that would...
Not Just Jane
Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
“Not Just Jane restores seven of England’s most fascinating and subversive literary voices to their rightful places in history. Shelley DeWees tells each woman writer’s story with wit, passion, and an astute understanding of the society in which she lived and wrote.”
**—**Dr. Amanda...
The Last Englishmen
Love, War, and the End of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in India
John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers—W. H. Auden and...
by Max Hastings
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
A vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime from acclaimed historian Max Hastings, Winston’s War captures the full range of Churchill’s endlessly fascinating character. At once brilliant and infuriating, self-important and courageous, Hastings’s Churchill comes brashly...