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  • Marching to the Fault Line

    The Miners' Strike and the Battle for Industrial Britain

    by Francis Beckett, David Hencke ...
    A controversial new investigation in the 1984 Miners strike and how it changed Modern Britain.The Miners' strike was a dividing line in Modern British history. Before 1984, Britain was an industrial nation, reborn from the ashes of the Second World War by Clement Atlee's vision of a welfare state. Most of the great industries were nationalised and the trade unions was one of the major forces in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Blair Inc - The Power, The Money, The Scandals

    by Francis Beckett David Hencke &Nick Kochan ...
    THE STORY BEGINS ON 27 JUNE 2007. THAT WAS THE DAY TONY BLAIR OFFICIALLY RESIGNED AS PRIME MINISTER, WAS APPOINTED MIDDLE EAST PEACE ENVOY, AND SET ABOUT MAKING HIMSELF SERIOUSLY RICH.Since leaving office in 2007, the empire of Tony Blair has grown exponentially. As a businessman he has been unprecedentedly successful for a former public servant, with a large property portfolio and an estimated ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

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  • A History of Modern Britain

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    A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. This edition also includes an extra chapter charting the course from Blair to Brexit.It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, ... Read more

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  • Churchill: History in an Hour

    by Andrew Mulholland ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour…Sir Winston Churchill was a soldier, journalist, writer, Nobel Prize winner and, above all, a leader. Conservative then Liberal then Conservative again, his political instincts won him a sustained career at the summit of British government, while his resolve and politics of personality made him broadly regarded as one of the greatest wartime ... Read more

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  • 1919

    Britain's Year of Revolution

    by Simon Webb ...
    The little-known true story of rioting and rebellion among British veterans and workers after the end of World War I.On the August Bank Holiday of 1919, the government in London dispatched warships to the northern city of Liverpool in an overwhelming show of force. Thousands of troops, backed by tanks, had been trying without success to suppress disorder on the streets.Earlier that year in London, ... Read more

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  • Hidden History

    a compelling and captivating study of the causes of WW1 that turns everything you think you know on its head

    by Gerry Docherty, James MacGregor ...
    Think you know about British history and the causes of the First World War? Think again. This fascinating and gripping study of events at the turn of the Twentieth Century is a remarkable insight into how political and social factors that we widely accept to be the causes of The Great War, were really just a construct put together by a very small, but powerful, political elite...'Thought-provoking ... Read more

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  • David Lloyd George

    The Great Outsider

    by Roy Hattersley ...
    A Welshman among the English, a nonconformist among Anglicans and a self-made man in the patrician corridors of power, David Lloyd George, the last Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain, was the founding father of the Welfare State and was as great a peacetime leader as Churchill was in war.In this fascinating biography of an authentic radical, Roy Hattersley charts the great reforms - the first ... Read more

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  • Winston Churchill: Essential Biographies

    by Robert Blake ...
    Winston Churchill is probably still the best-known Prime Minster of Great Britain. Born at Blenheim Palace, he joined the army after Harrow, but in 1899 resigned his commission to report on the Boer War. Elected to Parliament in 1900, he served in both Conservative and Liberal governments, and became Chancellor of the Exechequer under Baldwin, A period in the political wilderness was ended by the ... Read more

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  • OCR A Level History: Britain 1930–1997

    by Mike Wells, Nicholas Fellows ...
    Series series OCR A Level History
    Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016This is an OCR endorsed resource.Build strong subject knowledge and skills in A Level History using the in-depth analysis and structured support in this tailor-made series for OCR's British period studies and enquiries.- Develo... ... Read more

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  • John Curtin's War

    The coming of war in the Pacific, and reinventing Australia

    by John Edwards ...
    John Curtin became Australia’s Prime Minister eight weeks before Japan launched war in the Pacific.Curtin’s struggle for power against Joe Lyons and Bob Menzies, his dramatic use of it when he took office in October 1941, and his determination to be heard in Washington and London as Japan advanced, is a political epic unmatched in Australian experience. As Japan sank much of the Allied navy, ... Read more

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  • Attlee and Churchill

    Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace

    by Leo McKinstry ...
    Throughout history there have been many long-running rivalries between party leaders, but there has never been a connection like that between Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill, who were leaders of their respective parties for a total of thirty-five years. Brought together in the epoch-making circumstances of the Second World War, they forged a partnership that transcended party lines, before ... Read more

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