The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain: Life in the Age of Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton and The Great Fire of L
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Imagine you could see the smiles of the people mentioned in Samuel Pepys’s diary, hear the shouts...
Extraordinary Ordinariness: Everyday Heroism in the United States, Germany, and Britain, 1800-2015
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Everyday heroes and heroines--ordinary men, women, and children who are honored for actual or...
Managing the Economy, Managing the People: Narratives of Economic Life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit
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This study offers a distinctive new account of British economic life since the Second World War,...
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...
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...
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...
A History of Fair Trade in Contemporary Britain: From Civil Society Campaigns to Corporate Compliance: 2015
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This book offers an original contribution to the empirical knowledge of the development of Fair...