On a sunny May morning in 1990, a bank courier strode out of the Bank of England and, minutes later, was robbed at knifepoint of 301 bearer bonds valued at £292 million. It was the biggest theft in British history. The thing is... when Ke...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: BBC Books, ISBN-13: 9781785948732)
What do our gardens say about us? Monty Don has spent many years travelling the world, from America to Japan, from Italy and the Adriatic to Spain and the Mediterranean, getting under the skin of a country through its gardens and gardening...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803997650)
Mother to Anne Boleyn and grandmother of Elizabeth I, this fresh appraisal places Elizabeth Boleyn back in the centre of the Tudor world...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198881650)
Solidarity and Pressure is the first full-length study of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM), founded in 1964. Drawing on seventy interviews, the IAAMs own records, and private papers from Anti-Apartheid activists, Solidarity and Pressure cap...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953878)
How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedomGrievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their person...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953885)
How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedomGrievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their person...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781982175016)
This sweeping and deeply researched history reexamines Britains relationship with the Caribbean, revealing how colonization shaped both regions social and political systems and continues to influence present-day inequality, identity migration and t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526181954)
Centring on a 1927 libel trial, this book tells the story of the cosmopolitan London neighbourhood of Seven Dials and its battles with racism and gentrification throughout the 1920s and 1930s, a struggle that would shape the city we know today....Lasīt vairāk
Provides a comprehensive analysis of Middle Neolithic Impressed Ware pottery in Britain and Ireland, exploring regional styles, decoration, and its national significance.This next in the successful Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Paper...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents a detailed and fascinating study of the two oldest doors in England: in the chapter house vestibule at Westminster Abbey, which pre-dates the Norman Conquest (1050s) and the north nave door at Hadstock Church, Essex, dated to the 1...Lasīt vairāk
In this exciting interdisciplinary volume, researchers, archivists, curators and social scientists offer a fresh exploration of the concept of well-being in Britain throughout history and in the present day.Well-being Past and Pr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: John Donald Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780859767415)
The Battle of George Square, a riot during the Forty Hours Strike in Glasgow, on 31 January 1919, is routinely claimed to be one of the most iconic events in Scottish working-class history. It is also the most mythologised. For a century, the narrati...Lasīt vairāk
Presents the results of an extensive re-examination of Orkney Bronze Age barrows, their chronological development and the changing nature of mortuary and burial practices. Provides the exciting results of a long-term project examining Bron...Lasīt vairāk
The year 1918 was the most dramatic of the entire First World War. It was defined by vast battles that put the British Army under enormous pressure. In March, the army found itself fighting for survival in the face of the massive German Spring Offens...Lasīt vairāk
Britain carried out many amphibious operations during the long-eighteenth century, ranging from raids to the landing of whole armies. British Amphibious Warfare 1739-1815 provides case-studies of some of these operations, and explores why their outco...Lasīt vairāk
New paperback edition - The fascinating hidden history of the British royal familys nearly men - those who had been destined for the throne, but never made it. Mantle explores the story behind these would-be-kings, showing how the question of succe...Lasīt vairāk
