Hurricane Squadron Ace: The Story of Battle of Britain Ace, Air Commodore Peter Brothers, CBE, DSO, DFC and Bar
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Air Commodore Peter Malam 'Pete' Brothers CBE, DSO, DFC, and Bar (1917-2008) was one of the most...
Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
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Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even...
Bare-Knuckle Britons and Fighting Irish: Boxing, Race, Religion and Nationality in the 18th and 19th Centuries
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Boxing was phenomenally popular in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain. Some of the leading...
Britain's Lost Cricket Festivals: The Idyllic Club Grounds That Will Never Again Host the World's Best Players
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Following the huge success of Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds, Chris Arnot goes in search of the...
The World at Their Fingertips: Eighteenth-century British Two-sheet Double-hemisphere World Maps
Ashley Baynton-Williams and Geoff Armitage
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Between 1680 and 1807 British publishers produced a sequence of double-hemisphere world maps each...
Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama: 'Upstart Crows': 2017
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This book examines British playwrights' responses to the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries...
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost its Edge in Computing
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In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was...
An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain: or Sixty Years of Making the Same Stupid Mistakes as Always
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Following his hugely popular account of the previous 2000 years, John O'Farrell now comes bang up to...
British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identification Albums: Volume 3: Cruisers 1865-1939
Richard Perkins and Andrew Choong
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The Richard Perkins warship identification albums form one of the most detailed studies ever...