Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain
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TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Generous and empathetic ... opens up postwar migration in all its...
Very British Wit: Quips and Quotes to Suit All Manner of Occasions
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With quips, quotes and insults from classic favourites William Shakespeare and Jane Austen to modern...
Underlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Landscape
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Not so long ago, our roads, buildings, gravestones and monuments were built from local rock, our...
Union Castle Liners: from Great Britain to Africa 1946-1977
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It was one of the most important British liner routes of all - the express run from Southampton to...
The Map and the Clock: A Laureate's Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland
Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke
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The Map and the Clock is a celebration of the most scintillating poems ever composed on our islands....
German Infantryman vs British Infantryman: France 1940
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When Hitler's forces poured into France and the Low Countries in 1940, the uneasy peace of the...
Rebellious Spirits: The Illicit History of Booze in Britain
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For as long as spirits have existed, there has been someone doing something really naughty with...
British Urban Trees: A Social and Cultural History 1800-1914
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Greening the Victorian Urban WorldWhether we consider the great London Planes which are now the...
Four Nations Approaches to Modern 'British' History: 2017
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This collection brings together leading and emerging scholars to evaluate the viability of four...
Hidden Histories: A Spotter's Guide to the British Landscape
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For the times when you' re driving past a lumpy, bumpy field and you wonder what made the lumps and...