Since Records Began...: The BBC Book of British Weather
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Along with the fine art of queuing and proper tea, talking about the weather is the essence of...
The Ahmadiyya in the Gold Coast: Muslim Cosmopolitans in the British Empire
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The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a global movement with more than half a million Ghanaian members,...
Laura Doe (1350 KP) rated Stick A Flag In It: 1,000 Years Of Bizarre History From Britain And Beyond in Books
Dec 30, 2021
I loved the names of the chapters as they really did sum up the information in the chapter both brilliantly and amusingly.
This is definitely a book that you can dip in and out of and one that I would recommend to anyone who is interested in the history of Britain, even if you already think that you know a lot about it.
I would rate it 9 stars as sometimes I got a bit confused as some of the chapters in between the main timeline ones jumped about so sometimes I would think that I was further along in history than I was (for example I thought something happened around the industrial revolution but it became clear that it was actually around the time of Elizabeth I) but other than this, I thoroughly enjoyed it and loved the fact that over the busiest time of year I could just dip in and out of it and not lose the information that I had already read.
Arran Lomas has renewed the love I already had for history with this book!
Home and Foreign Investment, 1870-1913: Studies in Capital Accumulation
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Originally published in 1953, this book presents a series of studies regarding capital accumulation...
The Technological Imperative in Canada: An Intellectual History
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From the mid-nineteenth century onward, advocates argued that technology, as a moral force, would...
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented...
The Very Best of the Secret Policeman's Ball: The Greatest Comedy Line-Up Ever
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The most celebrated comedy routines in British history, from a remarkable comedy institution. From...
The Machinery of Justice in England
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First published in 1964, as the fourth edition of a 1940 original, this book presents an account...
Speaking Like Magpies
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But I can hear them speaking like magpies, And they mean to thieve his life, The Lord's anointed...
World War II in Cartoons
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The cartoon has a special place in the history of World War II, and the power of its message was...