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The British and the Greek Resistance, 1936–1944
Spies, Saboteurs, and Partisans
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Between 1941 and 1944, the Germans and the Italians imposed a brutal occupation of Greece. This, as well as the outbreak of famine, drove many Greeks to join a variety of resistance movements in the mountains. The British government anticipated the German occupation of Europe and created the Special...
Britain and the Dictatorships of Argentina and Chile, 1973–82
Foreign Policy, Corporations and Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
This book explores the links between the British government and the dictatorships of Argentina and Chile, 1973-82, using newly-opened British archives. It gives the most complete picture to date of British arms sales, military visits and diplomatic links with the Argentine and Chilean military regimes...
by Tom Parker Bowles
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Sunday Times Bestseller It’s a national icon, a British institution, the finest grocer of them all. Fortnum & Mason is a store that has fuelled the tide of British history, fed the appetites of kings and queens, maharajahs and czars, emperors, dukes and divas alike. Fortnum & Mason is a...
The Everyday Cold War
Britain and China, 1950-1972
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In 1950 the British government accorded diplomatic recognition to the newly founded People's Republic of China. But it took 22 years for Britain to establish full diplomatic relations with China. How far was Britain's China policy a failure until 1972? This book argues that Britain and China were...
by Lewis Betts
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
This book offers new perspectives on British nuclear policy-making at the height of the Cold War, arguing that the decisions taken by the British government during the 1950s and 1960s in pursuit of its nuclear ambitions cannot be properly understood without close reference to Duncan Sandys, and in...
Novel Histories
British Women Writing History, 1760–1830
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760–1830 argues that British women’s history and historical fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries changed not only the shape but also the political significance of women’s writing. At a time when women’s participation...
by M. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Fictional or real, pirates haunted the imagination of the 18th and 19th century-British public during this great period of maritime commerce, exploration, and naval conflict. British Pirates in Print and Performanc e explores representations of pirates through dozens of stage performances, including adaptations by Byron, Scott, and Cooper.
by Christine Bolt
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This book presents a study of the development of the feminist movement in Britain and America during the 19th century. Acknowledging the similar social conditions in both countries during that period, the author suggests that a real sense of distinctiveness did exist between British and American feminists....
The First Afghan War 1839–42
Invasion, catastrophe and retreat
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In 1839 forces of the British East India Company crossed the Indus to invade Afghanistan on the pretext of reinstating a former king Shah Soojah to his rightful throne. The reality was that this was another step in Britain's Great Game – Afghanistan would create a buffer to any potential Russian...
Women in British Public Life, 1914 - 50
Gender, Power and Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
An examination of the ways in which women challenged the British educational, employment and welfare systems after the franchise. Helen Jones explores how women adapted their strategies to confront the system from within, and what constraints were imposed on them. She also examines the active role...
British Canals
Is their resuscitaion practicable?
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
The appointment of a Royal Commission on Canals and Waterways, which first sat to take evidence on March 21, 1906, is an event that should lead to an exhaustive and most useful enquiry into a question which has been much discussed of late years, but on which, as I hope to show, considerable misapprehension...
British Steam Sunset
A Vision of the Final Years 1965–1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
In this new album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a selection of pictures he took around the country in British steam's final years.
British Railways withdrew their last steam engines with almost indecent haste in the mid- to late-1960s, many having...
The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent
Volume I: From the V-Bomber Era to the Arrival of Polaris, 1945-1964
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Volume I of The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent provides an authoritative and in-depth examination of the British government’s strategic nuclear policy from 1945 to 1964.
Written with full access to the UK documentary record, this volume examines how British governments...
Silent Listener
British Electronic Surveillance: Falklands 1982
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
On April 2, 1982, Argentina launched Operation Rosario, the invasion of the Falklands. The British, caught off guard, responded with Operation Corporate. Deployed alongside the rest of the British Army was a small specialist intelligence unit, whose very existence was unknown to many commanders and...