
The Appreciation of Film: The Postwar Film Society Movement and Film Culture in Britain
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This book offers the first full account of the film society movement in Britain and its contribution...

The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination
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'Delightfully good ...an exuberant and learned celebration of British culture ...full of love for...

The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty
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'Borman approaches her topic with huge enthusiasm and a keen eye for entertaining...this is a very...

Transnationalism, Diaspora and Migrants from the Former Yugoslavia in Britain
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The geo-political area of what once constituted Yugoslavia has been a region of significant...

Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Special Forces Unit that Sabotaged the Nazis...
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Britain's Special Air Service or SAS was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout...

Finding Brutalism: A Photographic Survey of Post-War British Architecture
Simon Phipps and Hilar Stadler
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For more than thirty years, British photographer Simon Phipps has been documenting the rebuilding of...

Walk into the Dark Ages: Discover the Greatest Early Medieval Sites of Britain and Ireland
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Following the acclaimed Walk Into Prehistory, Walk Into the Dark Ages explores approximately 40 of...

Agent Rose: The True Spy Story of Eileen Nearne, Britain's Forgotten Wartime Heroine
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In September 2010 the body of Eileen Nearne was found in a flat in Torquay. With no known friends or...

Oxbridge Men: British Masculinity and the Undergraduate Experience, 1850-1920
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The mythic status of the Oxbridge man at the height of the British Empire continues to persist in...