Crossing the Floor: Reg Prentice and the Crisis of British Social Democracy
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Reg Prentice remains the most high-profile politician to cross the floor of the House of Commons in...
Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World
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In 1982, at the age of just twenty-three and halfway through her architecture studies, Elspeth Beard...
British Bed and Breakfast: Alastair Sawday's Special Places to Stay
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Many brand new B&B's are included in our new guide to wonderful Bed & Breakfast places across...
The Atlantic Trade and British Architecture, Art and Landscape 1740-1840
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2007 marked the two hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain and its...
Adjusting the Contrast: British Television and Constructs of Race
Sarita Malik and Darrell M. Newton
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Through contextual and textual analyses, this title explores a range of texts and practices that...
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...
A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic
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The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor...
Imperial Unknowns: The French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650-1750
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In this major new study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern...
Letters from the Light Brigade: The British Cavalry in the Crimean War
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The Charge of the Light Brigade is one of the most famous, controversial and emotive small-scale...