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  • Called Up, Sent Down

    The Bevin Boys' War

    de Tom Hickman ...
    At the outbreak of the Second World War the government short-sightedly allowed thousands of miners to enlist in the armed services. By 1943 the war effort was in danger of grinding to a halt because of a lack of coal. In answer Ernest Bevin, the Minister of Labour, sought service volunteers – and compulsorily sent 20,000 18-year-olds, who'd expected to fight for their country, down the mines with ... Leer más

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  • Le bidule de Dieu

    de Tom Hickman ...
    Traducido por Philippe Paringaux ...
    Une balade aussi érudite que drôle, à travers les âges et les continents, au pays de cet inconnu célèbre qu'est le pénis.Sceptre royal, chaussures pointues, cigare ou guitare électrique : le pénis a souvent bénéficié des représentations les plus flatteuses, tandis que le vagin était considéré comme un cloaque obscur et impur. La découverte du sexe d'un homme peut toutefois se révéler source de ... Leer más

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  • Public Law after the Human Rights Act

    de Tom Hickman ...
    It is remarkable that 10 years after the Human Rights Act came into effect, and with further reform possible, there are still no clear answers to basic questions about the relationship between the Human Rights Act, human rights principles and the common law. Such basic questions include: what is the Human Rights Act? What is the relationship between human rights principles and common law doctrines ... Leer más

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  • Black Gold

    The History of How Coal Made Britain

    de Jeremy Paxman ...
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  • How We Lived Then

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    Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold. In contrast with the thousands of books on military operations, barely any have concerned themselves with the individual's experience. The problems of the ordinary family are barely ever mentioned - food rationing, clothes rationing, ... Leer más

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  • National Service

    From Aldershot to Aden: tales from the conscripts, 1946-62

    Permission to speak, Sah!In the aftermath of the Second World War, over two million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed services. Some were sent abroad and watched their friends die in combat. Others remained in barracks and painted coal white. But despite delivering such varied experiences, National Service helped to shape the outlook of an entire generation of young British males ... Leer más

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  • Blitz Diary

    Life Under Fire in the Second World War

    During the 1930s, war with Germany became increasingly likely. The British Government believed that it would start with massed ranks of enemy planes, dropping bombs and poison gas on civilians in major towns and cities, terrifying them into surrendering. When war broke out, preparations to protect the population were piecemeal and inadequate. As anticipated, people were shocked by the first raids ... Leer más

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    'BR rebel chairman resigns' The Guardian.'Rebel rail chief in row' Daily Mail.'I don't take it back says sacked rail chief' Daily Express.This is the notorious book that got Gerard Fiennes sacked from British Railways while he was Chairman and General Manager of the Eastern Region in 1968.Fiennes became a railwayman by accident, joining the L.N.E.R as a Traffic Apprentice in 1928. Over the next ... Leer más

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  • The Pitmen's Requiem

    Peter Crookston's book offers a beautifully written journalist's account of a Durham mining village and the Great Northern Coalfield woven around the life of Robert Saint, the composer of Gresford, a brass band composition commemorating an earlier mining disaster in which 256 workers died. Crookston brings his formidable observational qualities and writing skills as a journalist to produce a ... Leer más

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  • The Last Fighting Tommy

    The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009

    Harry Patch, born June 17, 1898, was the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War. From his vivid memories of an Edwardian childhood, the horror of the Great War and fighting in the mud during the Battle of Passchendaele, working on the home front in the Second World War, and fame in later life as a veteran, The Last Fighting Tommy is the story of an ... Leer más

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  • 50 Things You Didn't Know About 1916

    Even those who know a great deal about the Easter Rising may not know that there were temporary ceasefires in the St Stephen's Green area, to allow the park attendants to feed the Green's ducks. Few know that the first shots of the rising were actually fired near Portlaoise and not in Dublin or indeed that both sides issued receipts: the rebels for food, the British for handcuffs. It features ... Leer más

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