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  • Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s

    Pop culture and politics in the decade that shaped modern Britain

    by Lucy Robinson ...
    Now that’s what I call a history of the 1980s tells the story of eighties Britain through its popular culture. Charting era-defining moments from Lady Diana’s legs and the miners’ strike to Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage and Adam and the Ants, Lucy Robinson weaves together an alternative history to the one we think we know. This is not a history of big geopolitical disasters, or a nostalgic romp ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Hebdige and Subculture in the Twenty-First Century

    Through the Subcultural Lens

    Edited by Keith Gildart, Anna Gough-Yates, Sian Lincoln, Bill Osgerby, Lucy Robinson, John Street, Peter Webb, Matthew Worley ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book assesses the legacy of Dick Hebdige and his work on subcultures in his seminal work, Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979). The volume interrogates the concept of subculture put forward by Hebdige, and asks if this concept is still capable of helping us understand the subcultures of the twenty-first century. The contributors to this volume assess the main theoretical trends behind ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Youth Culture and Social Change

    Making a Difference by Making a Noise

    Edited by Bill Osgerby, Sian Lincoln, Anna Gough-Yates, Peter Webb, Lucy Robinson, Keith Gildart, Matthew Worley, John Street ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture. The book’s themes are riots, music and gangs, connecting spectacular expression of youthful disaffection with everyday practices. By so doing, Youth Culture and Social Change maps out new ways of historicizing responses to economic and social change: public unrest and popular culture. ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Gay men and the Left in post-war Britain

    How the personal got political

    by Lucy Robinson ...
    Series series Critical Labour Movement Studies
    Available in paperback for the first time, his book demonstrates how the personal became political in post-war Britain, and argues that attention to gay activism can help us to fundamentally rethink the nature of post-war politics. While the Left were fighting among themselves and the reformists were struggling with the limits of law reform, gay men started organising for themselves, first ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Louis MacNeice: The Dark Tower, Christopher Columbus & more

    Six Classic Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramas

    by Louis MacNeice ...
    Narrated by Dylan Thomas, Laurence Olivier, Mary Wimbush, Margaret Rawlings, Patricia Gallimore, Harry Lloyd, Jude Akuwudike, Adrian Scarborough, Lucy Robinson, Matthew Tennyson, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 37 min

    A rare collection of vintage radio dramas from the renowned Ulster poet, plus bonus documentaryBorn in Belfast in 1907, Louis MacNeice wrote some of the most beautiful and best-loved poetry of the 20th century. But he was also one of the BBC’s most innovative writers and producers, scripting numerous dramas for radio, including the landmark production The Dark Tower and the epic verse play ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain

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    Edited by Graham Dawson, Jo Dover, Stephen Hopkins ...
    This ground-breaking book provides the first comprehensive investigation of the history and memory of the Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain. It examines the impacts of the conflict upon individual lives, political and social relationships, communities and culture in Britain, and explores how the people of Britain (including its Irish communities) have responded to, and engaged with the conflict ... Read more

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  • Our NHS

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  • Special Relations

    The Americanization of Britain?

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  • The BBC

    Myth of a Public Service

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