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De-Radicalisation in the UK Prevent Strategy
Security, Identity and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This book examines de-radicalisation policy in the UK and addresses the contradictions evident in the conceptualisation and practice of de-radicalisation.
It explores three main themes that touch upon some of the most pressing issues of our day: security, identity and religion. Situated within...
The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches
The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
''My aunt, listening to the Prime Minister's speech, remarked of <"our greatest orator>", <"He's no speaker, is he?>"' -diary of teacher M.A. Pratt, 11 Nov. 1942. The popular story of Churchill's war-time rhetoric is a simple one: the British people were energized and...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
For the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, acclaimed historian Gordon S. Wood presents a landmark collection of British and American pamphlets from the political debate that divided an empire and created a nation: In 1764, in the wake of its triumph in the Seven Years War,...
Churchill's First War
Young Winston at War with the Afghans
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Churchill's First War by Con Coughlin is a fascinating account of Winston Churchill's early military career fighting in the 1890 Afghan campaign, offering fresh and revealing parallels into today's war in Afghanistan
Just over a century ago British troops were fighting a vicious frontier war...
by Mike Wells, Nicholas Fellows
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Exam Board: OCR
Level: A-level
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
This is an OCR endorsed resource.
Build strong subject knowledge and skills in A Level History using the in-depth analysis and structured support in this tailor-made series for OCR's...
by Ian J. Cawood
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Britain in the Twentieth Century is a new approach to teaching and learning twentieth century British history at A level. It meets the needs of teachers and students studying for today's revised AS and A2 exams.
In a unique style, Britain in the Twentieth Century focuses on the key topics within...
Britannia Overruled
British Policy and World Power in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This book brings together the often separated histories of diplomacy, defence, economics and empire in a provocative reinterpretation of British 'decline'. It also offers a broader reflection on the nature of international power and the mechanisms of policymaking. For this Second Edition, David Reynolds...
by Doug West
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2019
During his long career, the English chemist and entrepreneur, Sir William Crookes, was able to make significant contributions to photography, chemistry, physics, agricultural science, public health, and scientific journalism. Historians of science have recognized Crookes for his brilliance as an experimental...
Fatal Path
British Government and Irish Revolution 1910-1922
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It was also the decade of the cataclysmic Great War, of an officers' mutiny in...
by Jacquetta Hawkes
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
The Collins Nature Library is a new series of classic British nature writing – reissues of long-lost seminal works. The titles have been chosen by one of Britain’s best known and highly-acclaimed nature writers, Robert Macfarlane, who has also written new introductions that put these classics...
Britain's War Machine
Weapons, Resources, and Experts in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests, and in...
The Night Blitz
1940-1941
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
September 1940: defeated in the Battle of Britain, despite their superior numbers and better equipped aircraft, the Luftwaffe launched a new campaign of attack, their target this time the civilian population. For eight months, with hardly a night's break, Luftwaffe bombers pounded industrial cities...
The Taste of Empire
How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
A history of the British Empire told through twenty meals eaten around the world
In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from the...