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The State of Freedom
A Social History of the British State since 1800
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
What is the state? The State of Freedom offers an important new take on this classic question by exploring what exactly the state did and how it worked. Patrick Joyce asks us to re-examine the ordinary things of the British state from dusty government files and post offices to well-thumbed primers...
Britain After Empire
Constructing a Post-War Political-Cultural Project
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Through compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how Britain and its people have come to terms with the loss of prestige stemming from the decline of the British Empire. The result is a volume that offers new ideas on what it is to be 'British'.
Transformational Diplomacy after the Cold War
Britain’s Know How Fund in Post-Communist Europe, 1989-2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This book examines the 'Know How Fund', Britain’s bilateral technical assistance programme in post-communist central and eastern Europe, devised in response to the end of the Cold War.
The Know How Fund (KHF) was the technical assistance programme which Margaret Thatcher’s government launched...
by H. Perraton
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Foreign students have travelled to Britain for centuries and, from the beginning, attracted controversy. This book explores changing British policy and practice, and changing student experience, set within the context of British social and political history.
British National Identity and Opposition to Membership of Europe, 1961-63
The Anti-Marketeers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the opponents of Britain's first attempt to join the European Economic Community (EEC), between the announcement of Harold Macmillan's new policy initiative in July 1961 and General de Gaulle's veto of Britain's application for membership in January 1963....
by Tony Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2006
A revised edition of Tony Harrison's award-winning Selected Poems
This indispensable new selection of Tony Harrison's poems includes over sixty poems from his famous sonnet sequence The School of Eloquence and the remarkable long poem 'v.', a meditation in a vandalized Leeds graveyard which...
by R.J. Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
The Muster Roll of the province of Ulster is a large, leather-bound volume in the British Library. The volume consists of 283 folio sheets on which are recorded the names of 13,147 males from the nine counties of Ulster. Each county forms a seperate section of the volume and the men who mustered are...
I Should Know That: Great Britain
Everything You Really Should Know About GB
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
From icons of British history to geography, and the economy to the legal system, I Should Know That: Great Britain covers a wide range of topics, filling in all those embarrassing gaps in your knowledge of this fair isle. Inspired by the UK citizenship test, this useful and interesting guide includes...
by Douglas Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Built by the Romans, looted by the Danes, and conquered by King William I (who devastated the town to build a castle and a cathedral), the city of Lincoln has had a long and most dreadful history. Containing medieval child murder, vile sieges of (and escapes from) the castle, the savage repression...
A History of the British Empire in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 1 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A History of the British Empire in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 1 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
From the Commencement of the War with France to the Death of Pitt (1793-1805)
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
An engrossing portrait of an important era—when kingdoms were broken and rebuilt, new systems of government were invented, tried, and discarded, and treaties and laws were made and broken, and England played a key role in world’s affairs. Author Marcus Dorman also examines the literary and art movements of the time, as well as developments in industry.
England's Mistress
The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
She was the most famous woman in England–the beautiful model for society painters Joshua Reynolds and George Romney, an icon of fashion, the wife of an ambassador, and the mistress of naval hero Horatio Nelson. But Emma Hamilton had been born to the poverty of a coal-mining town and spent her teenage...
Tudors Versus Stewarts
The Fatal Inheritance of Mary, Queen of Scots
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The war between the fertile Stewarts and the barren Tudors was crucial to the history of the British Isles in the sixteenth century. The legendary struggle, most famously embodied by the relationship between Elizabeth I and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, was fuelled by three generations of powerful...
by Anne Cadwallader
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Farmers, shopkeepers, publicans and businessmen were slaughtered in a bloody decade of bombings and shootings in the counties of Tyrone and Armagh in the 1970s. Four families each lost three relatives; in other cases, children were left orphaned after both parents were murdered. For years there were...
by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive study of the remaking of Ireland's aristocracy during the seventeenth century. It is a study of the Irish peerage and its role in the establishment of English control over Ireland. Jane Ohlmeyer's research in the archives of the era yields a major...