Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945-1970, Hardback - Lise Butler

This book examines the relationship between social science and public policy in left-wing politics. It focuses on the time period between the end o...

This book charts the dispute over defence spending between the left and business, government and the trade unions between 1970 and 1983. Whereas th...

Uniting Nations is a comparative study of the personal histories and interconnected lives and careers of the Britons who entered the international ...

DescriptionThe study of Marxism in Britain throws light on what many historians have referred to as the enemy within'. In this book, David Burke lo...

This book takes a look at the records from a time period of increasing importance to the tank historian

Unknown story of the Rothstein family and their influence in British communism

Publisher: Hikoki PublicationsAuthor(s): James JacksonNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 219 x 304 x 25Cover type: HardbackRedes...

This book focuses on the Jesus of the popular Christian culture shared by not only church-, kirk-, and chapel-goers, but also the growing numbers o...

Attending closely to the politics of form, the sixteen essays range across 'literary', 'middlebrow' and 'popular' genres, including espionage thril...

Engaging biographer Michael Jago tackles the political life of Rab Butler, the best prime minister Britain never had.Publisher: Biteback Publishing...

Publisher: Berghahn Books, IncorporatedAuthor(s): Michael Scott ChristoffersonNumber of pages: 306Collection: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies...

Philosophy and social science assume that reason and cause are objective and universally applicable concepts. Through close readings of ancient and...

Written by a renowned expert in the field, this is the full story of the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, more commonly known as MI6, from its for...

A companion piece to 2014's Against the grain, this collection of essays explores trajectories in the British far left from 1956 to the present day...

The first book to deal exclusively with the British musical film from the very beginning of talking pictures in the late 1920s through the Depressi...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Gerry BadgerIllustration(s): over 250 illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 3...

As well as holding some of the world's most prized cultural treasures, the British Library is the repository of the nation's collective memory. In ...

Explores high and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions; science and technology - the...

Exploring a diverse range of plays, novels, essays, poetry, and reportage, this book shows how Claudia Jones, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, ...

The first book taking stock of a new left generationPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Raina LipsitzNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

The real story of how Winston Churchill and the British mastered deception to defeat the Nazis - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and using br...

This book examines in words and pictures the huge changes that have taken place in the last 50 years on the British railway network.

The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 - John Darwin

During the Age of Revolution, the British Crown responded to crises in its colonies with a heavy hand. Lisa Ford shows how imperial peacekeeping me...

Design, development and modelling guide to the Scorpion, Scimitar and CVR(T) family.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Grummitt, DavidIllus...

Secret Alliances is an authoritative new perspective on some of the most remarkable exploits of the Second World War.

For those living in Britain between 1939 and 1945, the war was an ever-present reality. Huge numbers of objects relating to the war effort at home ...

The Road to 1945 is a rigorously researched study of the crucial moment when political parties put aside their differences to unite under Churchill...

The true story of the British Empire's fall and America's rise in the aftermath of World War II

A major new history of the Special Relationship between the secret services of the UK and the US, to mark 80 years since it began in February 1941....

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

More than 170, 000 British prisoners of war (POWs) were taken by German and Italian forces during the Second World War. Guests of the Third Reich w...

A new softcover edition of a classic work at a very pleasing price. Superb photographs from the author's exhaustive collection. Simply the best ref...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Michael LynchIllustration(s): Fully illustrated in colour and black and whiteNumber of pages: 144Col...

Abstraction in Post-War British Literature explores the ways in which writers and thinkers responded to non-representational art in the decades fol...

A classic WW2 POW memoir of capture and escape.

The story of how Britain's intelligence operatives, experts and special operations teams contributed to the Allies' victory in the Second World War.

Explores the ways in which the British Religious Affairs Branch aimed to organise religious life in post-war Germany.

A follow-up to the author's bestselling British Pacific Fleet, a timely publication as the Royal Navy's new carriers come into service.Illustration...

What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci's notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have been so t...

Explores the aspects of left-wing culture, activities and ideas at a time when social democracy was in crisis. This book also situates the crisis o...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Erik ButlerIllustration(s): 10 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions...