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An English Affair: Sex, Class And Power In The Age Of Profumo
- £20.00
- WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution. Britain in 1963 Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of…
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Benjamin Britten and Russia (Aldeburgh Studies in Music, 11)
- £50.00
- Explores Benjamin Britten's deeply-felt cultural affinity with Russia and influences on the 'Russian' Britten. This book explores Benjamin Britten's creative relationship with Russia throughout his life by examining his engagement with Russian composers, musicians and writers in the context of twentieth-century politics. The remarkable relationship between Britten and Shostakovich is…
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Changing Shape: The Faith Lives Of Millennials
- £15.00
- The generation known as ÔmillennialsÕ are now emerging into adulthood. They face opportunities and challenges no generation has previously faced. For the church they are the Ômissing generationÕ. Ruth PerrinÕs landmark study of emerging adults who as teenagers described themselves as Christians, reveals what has happened to this apparently Òlost…
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God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
- £14.00
- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) was one of Britain's greatest architects, and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of a French draftsman, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21…
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Great-Uncle Harry: A tale of war and empire (SIGNED)
- £70.00
- From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of…
- Add to basket
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Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400
- £10.00
- This classic gives a picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. H. S. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church in a pattern of customary dues…
- Add to basket
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Looking For A New England 1975-1986
- £12.00
- What happened to UK cinema and TV when swinging London ended? Looking for a New England covers the period 1975 to 1986, from Slade in Flame to Absolute Beginners. A carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, the career of David Bowie, dystopias, the Joan Collins ouevre, black cinema, the origins…
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Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche
- £18.00
- The Beatles are the biggest band there has ever been. James Bond is the single most successful movie character of all time. They are also twins. Dr No, the first Bond film, and 'Love Me Do', the first Beatles record, were both released on the same day - Friday, 5…
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Notes on Thought, Preceded by a Biographical Sketch
- £80.00
- Charles Buxton (1822-1871) was an MP and son of the renowned Abolitionist MP Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton. He was a brewer and writer as well as politician. This is a posthumously published book of his commonplace book, complete with Llewellyn Davies's brief biography at the start.
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Philip: The Final Portrait: The Final Portrait
- £12.00
- This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than forty years. Philip - elusive, complex, controversial, challenging,…
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Robert Peel: a Biography
- £20.00
- Robert Peel, as much as any man in the nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern nation. He invented our police force, which became a model for the world. He steered through the Bill which allowed Catholics to sit in Parliament. He reorganised the criminal justice system. He put…
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Roots To Reckoning
- £80.00
- This seminal photo-book hows the works of three Jamaican-born British photographers, Neil Kenlock, Armet Francis and Charlie Phillips. Through their striking and moving images, the book traces their own individual journeys as they search for their own identities as black Londoners, as well as the children of Caribbean immigrants.
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Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England
- £12.00
- The most important book I've read this year' Adam Rutherford, author of Control In 1975, as a child, Richard Beard was sent away from his home to sleep in a dormitory. So were Boris Johnson and David Cameron. In those days a private boys' boarding school education was largely the…
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Seven Ages of Britain: The story of our nation revealed by its treasures
- £35.00
- What does the delicate beauty of the Wilton Diptych reveal about medieval Britain? How do Henry Moore's sensuous forms reflect the social upheavals of the twentieth century? Are there any similarities between the minds that produced the Bayeaux Tapestry and Gillray's satirical prints? Why do St Paul's Cathedral and the…
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The Blunders of Our Governments
- £10.00
- Let us take a look back over three decades of outrageous political mishaps.A gross mistake; an error due to stupidity or carelessness. There are a handful of cock-ups that we remember all too well, from the poll tax to the Millennium Dome. However, the list is longer than most of…
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The British Character studied and revealed
- £20.00
- Classic illustrations of our national character and foibles by the celebrated and much-loved cartoonist (Graham Laidler). A fondness for laughing at our own anecdotes. An assertion of the importance of tea. A weakness for oak beams. A keen interest in the weather. A tendency to 'become doggy'. The British haven't…
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The English Public School: An Irreverent and Personal History
- £13.00
- Until his retirement in 2011, Dr Martin Stephen was High Master of St Paul's School, and before that of Manchester Grammar School, two of the most academically successful independent schools in the world, bar none. As such, he is uniquely placed to write a study of that extraordinary phenomenon, the…
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The Grand Inquisitor (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Robin Day's own story of his 34 years as a television interviewer. He offers a collection of opinions, ideas and anecdotes in this account of his rise as a reporter in the 1950s to becoming television's first knight.
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The History Today Companion to British History
- £14.00
- Six British historians contribute to a comprehensive dictionary which not only is a reference work for events, people and places from 43 AD, but also acknowledges that history is as much about the writing of what happened as what actually did happen. It also includes information on historical concepts and…
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The House of Mitford
- £10.00
- The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families.' A rare glimpse of the tangled undergrowth of English snobbery, prejudice and reactionary politics' New York Times 'A fine group portrait of a truly remarkable tribe' Atlantic Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second…
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The Noble Liar: How and Why the BBC Distorts the News
- £8.00
- To some, it is the voice of the nation, yet to others it has never been clearer that the BBC is in the grip of an ideology that prevents it reporting fairly on the world. Many have been scandalised by its pessimism on Brexit and its one-sided presentation of the…
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The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society
- £20.00
- Fascinating and richly documented . . . Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.' Ð Sunday Times. Santiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America:…
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The World after the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
- £15.00
- One of the great myths of the twentieth century is that after the Second World War Britain simply relinquished its power and America quickly embraced its worldwide political and military commitments. Instead the two allies improvised an uneasy, shifting partnership for twelve long years while most of western Europe lay…
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Theatre Music and Sound at the RSC: Macbeth to Matilda
- £80.00
- This book discusses an exciting laboratory that has been developing the practice of theatre music composition and sound design since 1961: the Royal Shakespeare Company. Musical practices have evolved as composers and musical directors inherited from the past and innovated with new technology; different interpretations of single plays in multiple…
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This is London
- £45.00
- Selected transcripts of Murrow's famous CBS radio broadcasts from war-time London, which brought the war to the American audience and made him a celebrity here; still a compelling first-person account of the tension in pre-war England and of the early days of the war, when Britain stood alone.
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Unleashed (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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Unleashed (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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What does Jeremy Think? The Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain
- £11.00
- Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: ÒIt wouldnÕt have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around.Ó É How could it be that the effectiveness of the once-revered civil service had become reliant on a single man?Õ Guardian ÔThis book should be read in a similar spirit to MantelÕs masterpieces…
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An English Affair: Sex, Class And Power In The Age Of Profumo
- £20.00
- WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution. Britain in 1963 Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of…
- Add to basket
-
Benjamin Britten and Russia (Aldeburgh Studies in Music, 11)
- £50.00
- Explores Benjamin Britten's deeply-felt cultural affinity with Russia and influences on the 'Russian' Britten. This book explores Benjamin Britten's creative relationship with Russia throughout his life by examining his engagement with Russian composers, musicians and writers in the context of twentieth-century politics. The remarkable relationship between Britten and Shostakovich is…
- Add to basket
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Changing Shape: The Faith Lives Of Millennials
- £15.00
- The generation known as ÔmillennialsÕ are now emerging into adulthood. They face opportunities and challenges no generation has previously faced. For the church they are the Ômissing generationÕ. Ruth PerrinÕs landmark study of emerging adults who as teenagers described themselves as Christians, reveals what has happened to this apparently Òlost…
- Add to basket
-
God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
- £14.00
- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) was one of Britain's greatest architects, and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of a French draftsman, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21…
- Add to basket
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Great-Uncle Harry: A tale of war and empire (SIGNED)
- £70.00
- From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of…
- Add to basket
-
Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400
- £10.00
- This classic gives a picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. H. S. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church in a pattern of customary dues…
- Add to basket
-
Looking For A New England 1975-1986
- £12.00
- What happened to UK cinema and TV when swinging London ended? Looking for a New England covers the period 1975 to 1986, from Slade in Flame to Absolute Beginners. A carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, the career of David Bowie, dystopias, the Joan Collins ouevre, black cinema, the origins…
- Add to basket
-
Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche
- £18.00
- The Beatles are the biggest band there has ever been. James Bond is the single most successful movie character of all time. They are also twins. Dr No, the first Bond film, and 'Love Me Do', the first Beatles record, were both released on the same day - Friday, 5…
- Add to basket
-
Notes on Thought, Preceded by a Biographical Sketch
- £80.00
- Charles Buxton (1822-1871) was an MP and son of the renowned Abolitionist MP Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton. He was a brewer and writer as well as politician. This is a posthumously published book of his commonplace book, complete with Llewellyn Davies's brief biography at the start.
- Add to basket
-
Philip: The Final Portrait: The Final Portrait
- £12.00
- This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than forty years. Philip - elusive, complex, controversial, challenging,…
- Add to basket
-
Robert Peel: a Biography
- £20.00
- Robert Peel, as much as any man in the nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern nation. He invented our police force, which became a model for the world. He steered through the Bill which allowed Catholics to sit in Parliament. He reorganised the criminal justice system. He put…
- Add to basket
-
Roots To Reckoning
- £80.00
- This seminal photo-book hows the works of three Jamaican-born British photographers, Neil Kenlock, Armet Francis and Charlie Phillips. Through their striking and moving images, the book traces their own individual journeys as they search for their own identities as black Londoners, as well as the children of Caribbean immigrants.
- Add to basket
-
Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England
- £12.00
- The most important book I've read this year' Adam Rutherford, author of Control In 1975, as a child, Richard Beard was sent away from his home to sleep in a dormitory. So were Boris Johnson and David Cameron. In those days a private boys' boarding school education was largely the…
- Add to basket
-
Seven Ages of Britain: The story of our nation revealed by its treasures
- £35.00
- What does the delicate beauty of the Wilton Diptych reveal about medieval Britain? How do Henry Moore's sensuous forms reflect the social upheavals of the twentieth century? Are there any similarities between the minds that produced the Bayeaux Tapestry and Gillray's satirical prints? Why do St Paul's Cathedral and the…
- Add to basket
-
The Blunders of Our Governments
- £10.00
- Let us take a look back over three decades of outrageous political mishaps.A gross mistake; an error due to stupidity or carelessness. There are a handful of cock-ups that we remember all too well, from the poll tax to the Millennium Dome. However, the list is longer than most of…
- Add to basket
-
The British Character studied and revealed
- £20.00
- Classic illustrations of our national character and foibles by the celebrated and much-loved cartoonist (Graham Laidler). A fondness for laughing at our own anecdotes. An assertion of the importance of tea. A weakness for oak beams. A keen interest in the weather. A tendency to 'become doggy'. The British haven't…
- Add to basket
-
The English Public School: An Irreverent and Personal History
- £13.00
- Until his retirement in 2011, Dr Martin Stephen was High Master of St Paul's School, and before that of Manchester Grammar School, two of the most academically successful independent schools in the world, bar none. As such, he is uniquely placed to write a study of that extraordinary phenomenon, the…
- Add to basket
-
The Grand Inquisitor (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Robin Day's own story of his 34 years as a television interviewer. He offers a collection of opinions, ideas and anecdotes in this account of his rise as a reporter in the 1950s to becoming television's first knight.
- Add to basket
-
The History Today Companion to British History
- £14.00
- Six British historians contribute to a comprehensive dictionary which not only is a reference work for events, people and places from 43 AD, but also acknowledges that history is as much about the writing of what happened as what actually did happen. It also includes information on historical concepts and…
- Add to basket
-
The House of Mitford
- £10.00
- The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families.' A rare glimpse of the tangled undergrowth of English snobbery, prejudice and reactionary politics' New York Times 'A fine group portrait of a truly remarkable tribe' Atlantic Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second…
- Add to basket
-
The Noble Liar: How and Why the BBC Distorts the News
- £8.00
- To some, it is the voice of the nation, yet to others it has never been clearer that the BBC is in the grip of an ideology that prevents it reporting fairly on the world. Many have been scandalised by its pessimism on Brexit and its one-sided presentation of the…
- Add to basket
-
The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society
- £20.00
- Fascinating and richly documented . . . Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.' Ð Sunday Times. Santiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America:…
- Add to basket
-
The World after the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
- £15.00
- One of the great myths of the twentieth century is that after the Second World War Britain simply relinquished its power and America quickly embraced its worldwide political and military commitments. Instead the two allies improvised an uneasy, shifting partnership for twelve long years while most of western Europe lay…
- Add to basket
-
Theatre Music and Sound at the RSC: Macbeth to Matilda
- £80.00
- This book discusses an exciting laboratory that has been developing the practice of theatre music composition and sound design since 1961: the Royal Shakespeare Company. Musical practices have evolved as composers and musical directors inherited from the past and innovated with new technology; different interpretations of single plays in multiple…
- Add to basket
-
This is London
- £45.00
- Selected transcripts of Murrow's famous CBS radio broadcasts from war-time London, which brought the war to the American audience and made him a celebrity here; still a compelling first-person account of the tension in pre-war England and of the early days of the war, when Britain stood alone.
- Add to basket
-
Unleashed (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
- Add to basket
-
Unleashed (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
- Add to basket
-
What does Jeremy Think? The Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain
- £11.00
- Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: ÒIt wouldnÕt have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around.Ó É How could it be that the effectiveness of the once-revered civil service had become reliant on a single man?Õ Guardian ÔThis book should be read in a similar spirit to MantelÕs masterpieces…
- Add to basket