This is a comprehensive and up-to-the-minute guidebook to Britain. It includes recommendations of the best places to stay, eat and drink, in all budget ranges. It also includes accounts of every type of attraction.
"A concise, penetrating account....This stirring book inspires an admiration for British courage."—New York Times Book Review
The late 1950s and early 1960s were a period in their own right: neither the stultifying 'high' Fifties nor the liberating 'high' Sixties, but instead an action-packed, sometimes dramatic time in which the contours of modern Britain started ...
As Patricia Anderson notes, the “Northumbrian pitman, later Labour MP” Thomas Burt (1837–1922) refers to the ... Some of the earliest examples were crude, but by the 1840s, Lloyd, Reynolds, and others were producing clearly printed and ...
The book provides an introduction to all aspects of British politics, society, geography and culture.
This edited collection looks at corruption in different arms of the British state, and calls for fundamental political change.
From Hitler's Blitzkriegs to the North African desert, Singapore, New Guinea, Burma, India, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, Arnhem, Ardennes, and the Ruhr, Churchill's Commonwealth, composed of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, ...
This is the second edition of this popular guide to all 74 of the sea anemones and corals found in British and Irish inshore waters.
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn?
John Kendle examines the break-up of the first British empire and the development of modern federalism, including such topical issues as the Anglo-Irish relationship, the United Kingdom's relationship to Europe and devolution.
This volume chronicles the history of polo in the British Isles from its beginnings in the 1860s through the summer of 2011.