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British Government and Politics

Balancing Europeanization and Independence

by Michael L. Mannin
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010

This deeply informed text sets the government and politics of Britain firmly in the context of Britain's enduring membership in the European Union. Michael L. Mannin thoroughly applies the concept of "Europeanization" across the political system to explore how far change is a product of...
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by Testament
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018

A compelling, surprising new show that turns a spotlight onto Britain’s missing histories. “We walk. Though we are written into the landscape you don’t see us. We walked England before the English.” Thomas, Matthew and Richard walk. They walk the first Saturday of every...
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by Alan Avery
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013

This book of British Historical Documents covers the period from 325 B.C. to 2006 A.D. with a selection of over one hundred key documents from Pytheas of Massalia to Tony Blair's farewell speech to the Labour Party in 2006. Whilst concentrating on the written word, examples of paintings, coins, cartoons and photographs are included as examples of the historian's sources.
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The British Transport Commission Group

Former Thomas Tilling Companies in the 1960s

by Jim Blake
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018

This fascinating and informative book looks at the Tilling Group of bus companies during the 1960s. These operated approximately half of the inter-urban and rural bus services in England and Wales, and were nationalized by Clement Attlee's Labour Government in 1948 under the control of the British...
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by Jayne Shrimpton
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014

This book reveals the impact of wartime and austerity on British fashion and tells the story of how a spirit of patriotism and make-do-and-mend unleashed a wave of new creativity among women who were starved of high fashion by shortages and rationing. Many home dressmakers copied the high-end looks,...
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by Paul Atterbury
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014

From the Edwardian golden age of steam to the present, the railway has captured the hearts and imaginations of the British people like no other mode of travel. In wartime and peace, along major routes and minor, steam, diesel and electric trains have carried commuters to work, families to holiday...
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British Mystery Multipack

The Paradise Mystery, In the Fog, The Wooden Hand - A Detective Story and The Maxwell Mystery

by Richard Harding Davis, J. S. Fletcher, Fergus Hume
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017

British Mystery Multipack Vol. 15 presents four brilliant mysteries from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction: The Paradise Mystery by J. S. Fletcher. In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis. The Wooden Hand - A Detective Story by Fergus Hume. The Maxwell Mystery by Carolyn Wells.
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by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘“I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?” His soul repeated it again and again.’ Set against the backdrop of Britain and Russia’s political struggle in central Asia, Kim, the son of a drunken Irish soldier grows...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017

This book sheds new light on the dynamics of the colonial encounter between Britain and India. It highlights how various analytical approaches to this encounter can be creatively mobilised to rethink entanglements of memory and identity emerging from British rule in the subcontinent. This volume reevaluates...
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by Hamilton Crane, Heron Carvic
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018

Lucky Miss Seeton! A modest Premium Bond win means a whole week in legendary Glastonbury. She can draw and drink in the surroundings, just what she needs for her scene-painting role in the village production of ‘Camelot’. By coincidence, the kidnapped Heir to an industrial family may be...
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by Tim Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013

Parish & Richards are sent to Cyprus to discover if a British Army officer being held by the Cypriot police is responsible for murdering a local woman and the disappearance of three other women, or whether he is being made a scapegoat by the anti-British elements of the Cypriot government. Jerry...
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All the Lonely People

British Detective Series

by Geraldine Evans
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014

A Little Laughter. A Little Mayhem. A Little MURDER . . .  All the Lonely People #12 of 15 in the Rafferty & Llewellyn British Detective Series  For readers who like cozy mysteries, humorous mysteries and police procedurals.  When Detective Inspector...
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by Ruth Dudley Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016

'The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.... Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser.' – Sherlock Holmes Many of...
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by C. S. Forester, C E Bechhofer Roberts, Jetse Reijenga
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015

 Edith Louisa Cavell was an English nurse serving in Brussels during WWI who assisted many British, French, and Belgian soldiers to cross the border into neutral Holland. Cavell was betrayed by a spy and arrested by German Police.  The outcome of her court martial is well-known and well-preserved....
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