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“john platts mills”

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  • Muck, Silk and Socialism

    by John Platts-Mills ...
    John Platts-Mills witnessed and participated in most of the changing events of the twentieth century. He holds an unusual position in English society – a genuine, empowered, political radical, who is also a Queen's Counsel, Member of the Common Council of the City of London and internationally renowned jurist. John Platts-Mills' clear voice and humane counsel have been heard, respected, and often ... Read more

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  • A History of Modern Britain

    by Andrew Marr ...
    A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. This edition also includes an extra chapter charting the course from Blair to Brexit.It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

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  • An English Affair

    Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

    by Richard Davenport-Hines ...
    WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014.Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution.Britain in 1963 – Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of a Conservative government, dedicated to tradition, hierarchy and, above all, old-fashioned ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Iron Lady: The Thatcher Years

    The Thatcher Years

    by Stephen Blake ...
    Allowing you to uncover the woman behind the 'Iron Lady' image, 'Iron Lady: The Thatcher Years' takes a thorough yet lighthearted look at the life and times of Britain's longest-serving twentieth-century prime minister. As both the first woman to become leader of a European country and the first British premier to achieve re-election for three consecutive terms, Margaret Thatcher's legacy is such ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Odyssey to Freedom

    by George Bizos ...
    "In October 1941 a young boy and his father disembarked at Durban harbour from a large liner commissioned into emergency service by the Allies. They were Greek refugees from their German-occupied motherland. They spoke no English. They had little money and no prospects. They were heroes, but no one knew that. Some months earlier, father and son, together with two other Greek men and seven New ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Order, Order!

    The Rise and Fall of Political Drinking

    by Ben Wright ...
    Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, smuggled wine up the Thames with the help of the Navy. Tony Blair confessed that a stiff drink and half a bottle of wine a night had become a helpful crutch while in office. Joseph Stalin flushed out traitors with vodka. The disintegration of Richard Nixon and Boris Yeltsin was largely down to drink. Winston Churchill was famous for his drinking, ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Climbing The Bookshelves

    The autobiography of Shirley Williams

    by Shirley Williams ...
    'That politics was the most exciting of all the exciting things in the world I never doubted'Shirley Williams was born to politics. As well as being influenced by her mother, Vera Brittan, her father George Catlin, a leading political scientist, encouraged his daughter to have high ambitions for herself - including daring to climb the bookshelves in his library. Elected as MP for Hitchin in 1964, ... Read more

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  • Public Servant, Secret Agent

    The elusive life and violent death of Airey Neave (Text Only)

    by Paul Routledge ...
    The first biography of Airey Neave, Colditz escapee, MI6 officer, mastermind of Margaret Thatcher’s leadership campaign and on the verge of being her first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he was brutally murdered in the palace of Westminster by the INLA.On 30 March 1979 for the first time in more than 100 years an MP was killed by a car bomb in the precincts of the House of Commons. ... Read more

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  • An Accidental Diplomat:

    by Eamon Delaney ...
    'John Le Carré meets Bill Bryson with a touch of Yes Minister' - the Irish TimesEamon Delaney's controversial Number 1 bestselling exposé of backstage life at the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs.From the lonely nights at the Soviet Desk to glamorous soirées during Ireland's presidency of the emerging European Union, Eamon Delaney kept his ear to the ground - a useful skill when wedged ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Blanket

    The H-Block Story

    by Tim Pat Coogan ...
    The H Block protest is one of the strangest and most controversial issues in the tragic history of Northern Ireland.Republican prisoners, convicted of grave crimes through special courts and ruthless interrogation procedures, campaigned for political status by refusing to wear prison clothes and daubing their cell with excrement.Were they properly convicted criminals, or martyrs to political ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • A Memoir

    by Tim Pat Coogan ...
    From the personal to the political, this is the much-awaited memoir from Tim Pat Coogan.Ireland's best-known journalist, broadcaster, historian and bestselling biographer Tim Pat Coogan has not only reported the news - he's been the news. Through the Irish Press, where he served as editor for twenty years, he is renowned for bringing social and political change to Ireland. He went on to play a ... Read more

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  • The Great Cat Massacre - A History of Britain in 100 Mistakes

    by Gareth Rubin ...
    In 1914 a train pulled into a provincial British railway station. The porter, a curious chap, asked the regiment of soldiers where they were from. 'Ross-shire,' one called down, but the porter heard 'Russia'. And so began a rumour that led to Germany losing the First World War.Often the history we learn at school is only half the story. We hear of heroic deeds and visionary leaders, but we never ... Read more

    $5.39 USD