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  • Seamus Heaney

    A Portrait in Letters

    by Peter Raina ...
    «An admirable undertaking, as impressive for its scholarship as its sympathy. Heaney is presented here at the centre of a worldwide network of correspondents, and what emerges is a vivid sense of both the great writer and the living man.»(Seamus Perry, Fellow of Balliol College and Tutor in English Literature, Professor of English, University of Oxford)«I just finished reading it. I found it very ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Devolution of Power to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland:The Inner History

    Tony Blair’s Cabinet Papers, 1997 Volume One, Devolution in Scotland and Wales

    by Peter Raina ...
    In 1987 Tony Blair’s New Labour won a landslide victory in the British elections. To show it meant business, the new government immediately embarked on a major legislative programme, granting devolution to the outlying «Regions» joined with England in the UK. The cabinet papers concerned with this initiative have just been released, and Peter Raina is publishing them, with brief commentaries, in ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Devolution of Power to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland: The Inner History

    Tony Blair’s Cabinet Papers, 1997 Volume Two, The Representative Government in Northern Ireland

    by Peter Raina ...
    «Raina’s documentation provides invaluable insight into the high-powered and high-level political calculations that made it happen. It is perhaps the most signal achievement of the era and this expertly curated collection on its genesis and evolution is unquestionably of permanent value.»(Professor Marc Mulholland, Professor of Modern History, Oxford)This is the second volume in which Peter Raina ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Doris Lessing - A Life Behind the Scenes

    The Files of the British Intelligence Service MI5

    by Peter Raina ...
    In March 1949 the security service MI5 received notice of a suspect person about to enter Britain and went to great pains to keep her under surveillance. This person was the author Doris Lessing. She would eventually go on to win the Nobel Prize for literature as an «epicist … who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny». And it was precisely this ... Read more

    $52.29 USD

  • Heinrich von Kleist Poems

    Introduced and translated into English rhyming verse

    by Peter Raina ...
    This collection of poems by Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) translated into modern English rhyming verse by Peter Raina will bring the stature of this contemporary of Goethe and Schiller into sharp focus and will reach a new readership of English speakers across the world.The subjects treated in this anthology include reaction to major political events (particularly Napoleon’s incursions into ... Read more

    $52.29 USD

  • John Sparrow: Warden of All Souls College, Oxford

    «I loathe all common things»

    by Peter Raina ...
    John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls, was a notable character in post-war Oxford. He was educated in the old-time classical humanist tradition, and this remained his field even as the world about him changed. A man with a brilliant mind, he is often remembered negatively – as a bogeyman to progressives because of his outspoken conservatism – and as a disappointment to those who expected a more solid ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • The Seventh Earl Beauchamp

    A Victim of His Times

    by Peter Raina ...
    The 7th Earl Beauchamp was a prominent figure in English public life in the years 1900–30, but his career ended in scandal. He was barred from English soil, his reputation was destroyed and his papers were withheld from public view. In this book, Peter Raina uses previously unreleased documents to reassess Beauchamp’s life and legacy.Born into the aristocracy, Beauchamp was driven by a sense of ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • House of Lords Reform: A History

    Volume 2. 1943–1958: Hopes Rekindled

    by Peter Raina ...
    Peter Raina’s House of Lords Reform recounts the long struggle to bring an ancient institution up to date. The first volume ended in 1937, as crisis overwhelmed Europe. Reform issues were not forgotten, however. This second volume continues the story, presenting a wealth of illuminating records, a great many of them published here for the first time.The 4th Marquess of Salisbury planned changes to ... Read more

    $170.49 USD

  • A Daring Venture

    Rudolf Hess and the Ill-Fated Peace Mission of 1941

    by Peter Raina ...
    At the height of the Second World War, Hitler’s Deputy, Rudolf Hess, made a dramatic solo flight to the British Isles. His arrival there was sensational news – and it baffled everyone. Why had he come?Hess claimed he had flown to Britain entirely of his own initiative and was on a personal mission of peace. But so unlikely was the success of such an appeal in Churchill’s entrenched Britain that ... Read more

    $82.59 USD

  • House of Lords Reform: A History

    Volume 4. 19712014: The Exclusion of Hereditary Peers Book 1: 19712001 Book 2: 20022014

    by Peter Raina ...
    Peter Raina’s magnificent history of Lords reform has already brought into the public domain a mass of original documents and thrown light on the debates they fuelled. In Volume 4 he brings his study up to the present age.The Thatcher and Blair governments were both determined to shake up the system, and in such times the old House of Lords began to look more and more outdated. Mrs Thatcher’s ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • House of Lords Reform: A History

    Volume 3. 1960-1969: Reforms Attempted

    by Peter Raina ...
    Volume 3 of Peter Raina’s magisterial history covers the 1960s and draws on newly released documents. In astonishing detail, it traces new plans drawn up during the Macmillan-Wilson era to reform the House of Lords. ‘Mission impossible,’ a civil servant declared. But when, to remain a Commons MP, Tony Benn insisted on disclaiming an inherited peerage, he started off a fresh willingness to tackle ... Read more

    $185.99 USD

  • George 'Dadie' Rylands

    Shakespearean Scholar and Cambridge Legend

    by Peter Raina ...
    Just once in a while, actors and performers change the whole way in which they approach the words in their scripts. Such a change happened in the early-to-middle years of the twentieth century; and the person behind it was "Dadie" Rylands. He was a man with an ear acutely attuned to the nuances of poetry, and he insisted that it was the ear and not the eye that mattered most in productions of ... Read more

    $92.89 USD