British category: 24621 books
General Lord Rawlinson
From Tragedy to Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
In this biography Rodney Atwood details the life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent (1864-1925), a distinguished British soldier whose career culminated in decisive victories on the Western Front in 1918 and command of the Indian Army in the early 1920s. He served his soldier's apprenticeship in the...
Which People's War?
National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Which People's War? examines how national belonging, or British national identity, was envisaged in the public culture of the World War II home front. Using materials from newspapers, magazines, films, novels, diaries, letters, and all sorts of public documents, it explores such questions as: who...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Drawing on examples from British world expressions of Christianity, this collection further greater understanding of religion as a critical element of modern children’s and young people’s history. It builds on emerging scholarship that challenges the view that religion had a solely negative impact...
Britain since 1688
A Nation in the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Authored by a team of North American university professors who specialize in the subject, Britain since 1688: A Nation in the World has been specifically written for students in the United States, or from other countries where pre-existing knowledge of the history of Britain cannot be taken for granted.
Beginning...
German Unification 1989-90
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume VII
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
This volume is comprised of a collection of diplomatic documents covering British reactions to, and policy towards, the collapse of the German Democratic Republic and the unification of Germany in 1989-90.
The peaceful unification of Germany in 1989-90 brought a dramatic end to the Cold War....
by Rod Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
For more than 30 years, internationally acclaimed wreck diver and best-selling author, Rod Macdonald, has surveyed and researched shipwrecks around the world. His books such as Dive Scapa Flow and The Darkness Below are household names in the diving world. In Great British Shipwrecks Rod uses his...
Black Tommies
British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Black Tommies is the first book entirely dedicated to the part played by soldiers of African descent in the British regular army during the First World War. If African colonial troops have been ignored by historians, the existence of any substantial narrative around Black British soldiers enlisting...
by Hon. Sir John William Fortescue K.C.V.O.
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Sir John Fortescue, widely known for his multi-volume history of the British Army was invited to give the Ford lecture in 1911, he choose for his subject the British political figures who guided Britain through the Napoleonic Period. The French revolutionary wars and the Napoleonic wars spanned more...
The Great British Book of Baking
120 best-loved recipes from teatime treats to pies and pasties. To accompany BBC2's The Great British Bake-off
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Learn how to bake over 120 delicious recipes in the official book to accompany the hit BBC2 TV series The Great British Bake-off.
This book takes us on a tour of the very best in baking our nation has to offer - from Eccles cakes to Cornish pasties, Chelsea buns to Scottish gingerbread.
Over...
by Luci Gosling
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Drawing on the archives of Mary Evans Picture Library, ‘Images of the Past – The British Seaside’ is a nostalgic promenade through the history of Britain’s seaside resorts from their early genesis as health destinations to their glorious, mid-20th century heyday, subsequent decline and recent...
British Prose Poetry
The Poems Without Lines
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This book is the first collection of essays on the British prose poem. With essays by leading academics, critics and practitioners, the book traces the British prose poem’s unsettled history and reception in the UK as well as its recent popularity. The essays cover the nineteenth, twentieth and...
British Embassies
Their Diplomatic and Architectural History
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
A unique and glamorous book about British Imperial and post-Imperial architecture and a lively and evocative read for anyone interested in the international projection of British power and culture.
British Embassies have a special role in our history. They represent our country in bricks and...
The British and Cyprus
An Outpost of Empire to Sovereign Bases, 1878-1974
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
This is the story of the British involvement with the island of Cyprus over 100 years. Since World War I, Cyprus has played a key role in British defense strategy. After the withdrawal from Egypt, the island became the British Middle East headquarters. Britain retains two sovereign bases on the island,...
Kenya and Britain after Independence
Beyond Neo-Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This book explores British post-colonial foreign policy towards Kenya from 1963 to 1980. It reveals the extent and nature of continued British government influence in Kenya after independence. It argues that this was not simply about neo-colonialism, and Kenya’s elite had substantial agency to shape...