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  • Wales: England's Colony?

    by Martin Johnes ...
    From the very beginnings of Wales, its people have defined themselves against their large neighbour. Wales: England's Colony? shows, that relationship has not only defined what it has meant to be Welsh, it has also been central to making and defining Wales as a nation. Yet the relationship between the two nations has not always been a happy one and never one between equals. Wales was England's ... Read more

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  • Aberfan

    Government and Disaster

    by Professor Iain McLean, Professor Martin Johnes ...
    On 21 October 1966, 116 children and 28 adults died when a mountainside coal tip collapsed, engulfing homes and part of a school in the village of Aberfan below. It is a moment that will be forever etched in the memories of many people in Wales and beyond. Aberfan - Government & Disaster is widely recognised as the definitive study of the disaster. Following meticulous research of public records - ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Christmas and the British: A Modern History

    by Martin Johnes ...
    The modern Christmas was made by the Victorians and rooted in their belief in commerce, family and religion. Their rituals and traditions persist to the present day but the festival has also been changed by growing affluence, shifting family structures, greater expectations of happiness and material comfort, technological developments and falling religious belief. Christmas became a battleground ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Wales since 1939

    by Martin Johnes ...
    The period since 1939 saw more rapid and significant change than any other time in Welsh history. Wales developed a more assertive identity of its own and some of the apparatus of a nation state. Yet its economy floundered between boom and bust, its traditional communities were transformed and the Welsh language and other aspects of its distinctiveness were undermined by a globalizing world. Wales ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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    Past Forward: A Century of Sound

    A BBC Radio 4 history series

    by Greg Jenner ...
    Narrated by Greg Jenner, Stephen Fry, Naomi Alderman, Martin Johnes, David Vincent, Rob Evans, Kitty Hart-Moxon, Joe Moran, Geoff Dyer, Sathnam Sanghera0 ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 35 min

    A funny, fascinating and personal look at 100 years of history in the BBC archivesHistorian Greg Jenner uses a random date generator to visit somewhere in the BBC's vast archives of remarkable sound clips from the last 100 years. Using that clip as a jumping-off point to explore what has changed between then and now, Greg talks to experts and those connected to the archived people, places, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Prime Ministers We Never Had

    Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn

    by Steve Richards ...
    A deep dive into the "almosts" of British political history. What qualities separate a prime minister from those who nearly made it? Steve Richards dissects the careers of eleven influential figures, from Rab Butler to Jeremy Corbyn, who, despite their talent and ambition, never reached the highest office. This insightful analysis explores the complex interplay of leadership, circumstance, and ... Read more

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  • The Battle for Britain

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    by David Torrance ...
    On 18 September 2014, Scots will decide their future: should the country quit the United Kingdom and take control of its own destiny, or should it remain part of what advocates call the most successful political and economic union of modern times? Everyone in the country has a stake in this decision. Now, in this fascinating and insightful new book, David Torrance charts the countdown to the big ... Read more

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  • Nor Shall My Sword

    The Reinvention of England

    by Simon Heffer ...
    Should England be independent from Scotland?May 1999. The Scots have their first opportunity in 300 years to elect their own parliament. In 2014 that referendum will finally take place.To many in England, the continuing rise of Scottish nationalism causes unease. Scotland could well choose to leave the United Kingdom. In this provocative polemic, Simon Heffer argues that England must let Scotland ... Read more

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  • Crisis? What crisis?

    The Callaghan government and the British ‘winter of discontent’

    by John Shepherd ...
    Over thirty years later, the ‘winter of discontent’ of 1978–79 still resonates in British politics. On 22 January 1979, 1.5 million workers were on strike. Industrial unrest swept Britain in an Arctic winter. Militant shop stewards blocked medical supplies to hospitals; mountains of rubbish remained uncollected; striking road hauliers threatened to bring the country to a standstill; even the dead ... Read more

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  • History and Hope

    The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

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    In 1970, a group of people had what many commentators felt was a ludicrous dream, that politics in Northern Ireland 'should not be dominated by division, but should be about co-operation, partnership and reconciliation'. This dream was to become the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. In the years since, this ambition to overcome tribal politics for a greater good has been preserved, through good ... Read more

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  • British Labour Leaders

    by Charles Clarke, Toby S. James ...
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