Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies
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Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies, Rainbow Dust explores...
Hidden Villages of Britain: Histories and Tradition Past and Present
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Explore the most interesting and picturesque examples of British village life. Based on the highly...
The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in 18th-Century Britain
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Pioneered by William Hogarth (1697-1764) and his peers in the early 18th century, and then...
Another Man's War: The Story of a Burma Boy in Britain's Forgotten African Army
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In December 1941 the Japanese invaded Burma. For the British, the longest land campaign of the...
Making Musicians: A Personal History of the Britten-Pears School
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Moira Bennett worked at the Britten-Pears School in its hectic heyday in the 1980s. She charts its...
Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940-1960
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During World War II, the Allied military forces faced severe problems integrating equipment,...
One-eyed Baz: Barrington 'Zulu' Patterson, One of Britain's Deadliest Men
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Blinded in one eye by a childhood incident, his tormentors called him 'One Eye' or 'Cyclops'; it...
From Epsom to Tralee: A Journey Round the Racecourses of the British Isles
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In 1955, Reginald Gill - milkman and part-time illegal bookie - took his 12-year-old son Roy to the...
Gendered Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System
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Britain is often heralded as a country in which the rights and welfare of survivors of conflict and...