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Zulu!

The Battle for Rorke's Drift 1879

by Edmund Yorke
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005

Fought in January 1879 and immortalized in the film epic Zulu, Rorke's Drift represented one of the most glorious, if subsequently controversial episodes in British military history. For 12 desperate hours, outnumbered by over 25-1, barely 140 British soldiers, based at the remote mission station...
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by A. Wilmot
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

First published in 1880. According to Wikipedia: "The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Following Lord Carnarvon's successful introduction of federation in Canada, it was thought that similar political effort, coupled with military campaigns, might succeed...
Cover of Historical Dictionary of the British and Irish Civil Wars 1637-1660
by Martyn Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016

When a large number of the people in Scotland rejected King Charles I's religious policy, they set in motion a train of events that resonated throughout England, Wales, and Ireland and challenged the rule of the king. Between 1637 and 1660 the British Isles were embroiled in a series of wars, rebellions,...
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by A. James Hammerton
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017

This is the first social history to explore experiences of British emigrants from the peak years of the 1960s to the emigration resurgence of the turn of the twentieth century. It explores migrant experiences in Australia, Canada and New Zealand alongside other countries. The book charts the gradual...
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Ending 'East of Suez'

The British Decision to Withdraw from Malaysia and Singapore 1964-1968

by P. L. Pham
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010

In 1964 Britain's defence presence in Malaysia and Singapore was the largest and most expensive component of the country's world-wide role. Yet within three and a half years the Wilson Government had announced that Britain would be withdrawing from its major Southeast Asian bases and abandoning any...
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by Ethel St. Clair Grimwood
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

The Fantastic story of the “Heroine of Manipur” who led to bloody, battered survivors of the Manipur Mutiny to safety over some of the roughest roads in all of India. Includes 9 illustrations. “Manipur, Rebellion in (1891). This small state in north-eastern India southeast of Assam was a quasi-independent...
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The Importance of Respect

Tony Blair and his concept to turn 'The Angry Island' into a modern culture of respect

by Thomas Schachtebeck
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English - Discussion and Essays, grade: 1,7, Free University of Berlin (Fachbereich Englisch), course: Introduction to Cultural Studies II , language: English, abstract: 1Introduction Since Margaret Thatcher's radical influence on the economic policy...
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Building the British Atlantic World

Spaces, Places, and Material Culture, 1600-1850

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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. In this groundbreaking study, thirteen leading scholars explore the idea of transatlanticism--or a shared "Atlantic world"...
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by Emma Macleod
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015

Macleod examines changing British conceptions of America across the political spectrum during a period of political, cultural and intellectual upheaval. Macleod incorporates British writers of conservative, liberal and radical views.
Cover of The British Welfare Revolution, 1906-14
by John Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017

The Welfare Revolution of the early 20th century did not start with Clement Attlee's Labour governments of 1945 to 1951 but had its origins in the Liberal government of forty years earlier. The British Welfare Revolution, 1906-14 offers a fresh perspective on the social reforms introduced by these...
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British Fictions of the Sixties

The Making of the Swinging Decade

by Dr Sebastian Groes
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016

British Fictions of the Sixties focuses on the major socio-political changes that marked the sixties in relationship to the development of literature over the decade. This book is the first critical study to acknowledge that the 1960s can only be understood if, next to its contemporary socio-political...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013

Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979. Written by leading international scholars in the field, this collection offers new ways of thinking about the social, political,...
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Crossing the floor

Reg Prentice and the crisis of British social democracy

by Geoff Horn
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016

Reg Prentice remains the most high-profile politician to cross the floor of the House of Commons in the post-war period. His defection reflected an important 'sea change' in British politics; the end of the post-war consensus and the beginnings of the Thatcher era. This book examines the key events...
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by Gordon Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019

Beginning in the 1830s and ending with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, the Victorian Era saw the British Empire—the largest the world had seen—dominate the world. British ingenuity in the fields of technological development and the heavy industry of its Industrial Revolution led to Britain...
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