A Portrait Of Modern Britain
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A Portrait Of Modern Britain
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Author : Rishi Sunak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
A Portrait Of Modern Britain written by Rishi Sunak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
Printed Images In Early Modern Britain
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Author : Michael Cyril William Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2010
Printed Images In Early Modern Britain written by Michael Cyril William Hunter and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art categories.
Printed images were widely disseminated in early-modern Britain, yet, by comparison with texts, they have been relatively neglected, even by historians to whom they ought to be of the greatest interest. This volume helps remedy this state of affairs. Complementing the online digital library of British printed images to 1700, it offers a series of essays which demonstrate the many and varied ways in which images can better integrated into the history of the period. Including contributions from many leading exponents of the cultural history of early-modern Britain, it repeatedly underlines how every facet of British culture in the period can be better understood with an appreciation of printed images.
The Making Of Modern Britain
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Author : Andrew Marr
language : en
Publisher: Pan
Release Date : 2009-10-01
The Making Of Modern Britain written by Andrew Marr and has been published by Pan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-01 with History categories.
In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace among the most turbulent and surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster, the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question 'How should we live?' Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile, fads such as eugenics, vegetarianism and nudism were gripping the nation, while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today and the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches, flappers and Spitfires, this is a story of strange cults and economic madness, of revolutionaries and heroic inventors, sexual experiments and raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs, nightclubs and celebrities to package holidays, crooked bankers to sleazy politicians, the echoes of today's Britain ring from almost every page.
Modern Britain
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Author : Jan Erik Mustad
language : en
Publisher: Samfundslitteratur
Release Date : 2012
Modern Britain written by Jan Erik Mustad and has been published by Samfundslitteratur this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with England categories.
All Day Long
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Author : Joanna Biggs
language : en
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Release Date : 2015-04-09
All Day Long written by Joanna Biggs and has been published by Serpent's Tail this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-09 with Literary Collections categories.
Nearly all of us have to work, but how much do we really know about what other people do all day? What is it like to be a fishmonger, a sex worker or an Orthodox rabbi? Or a banker, a research scientist or a carer? How do our jobs affect our lives, beliefs and happiness? And what happens when we don't work? Joanna Biggs has travelled the country to find the answers, talking to interns and bosses, professionals and entrepreneurs, thinkers and doers. She takes us from Westminster to the Outer Hebrides, from a hospital in Wales to the industrial Midlands, introducing us to different worlds of work and the people who inhabit them. Rich with the voices of the wealthy and poor, native and immigrant, women and men of the UK in the twenty-first century, All Day Long shows us who we are through what we do.
Empireland
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Author : Sathnam Sanghera
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2021-01-28
Empireland written by Sathnam Sanghera and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-28 with History categories.
EMPIREWORLD IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION ***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'*** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting, not ignoring, the past' Gerard deGroot, The Times _____________________________________________________ EMPIRE explains why there are millions of Britons living worldwide. EMPIRE explains Brexit and the feeling that we are exceptional. EMPIRE explains our distrust of cleverness. EMPIRE explains Britain's particular brand of racism. Strangely hidden from view, the British Empire remains a subject of both shame and glorification. In his bestselling book, Sathnam Sanghera shows how our imperial past is everywhere: from how we live and think to the foundation of the NHS and even our response to the COVID-19 crisis. At a time of great division, when we are arguing about what it means to be British, Empireland is a groundbreaking revelation - a much-needed and enlightening portrait of contemporary British society, shining a light on everything that usually gets left unsaid. _______________________________________________________ 'Empireland takes a perfectly-judged approach to its contentious but necessary subject' Jonathan Coe 'I only wish this book has been around when I was at school' Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London 'This remarkable book shines the brightest of lights into some of the darkest and most misunderstood corners of our shared history' James O'Brien Sathnam Sanghera, Sunday Times bestseller, February 2024
A History Of Modern Britain
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Author : Andrew Marr
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2009-07-03
A History Of Modern Britain written by Andrew Marr and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-03 with History categories.
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, political leaders think they know what they are doing, but find themselves confounded. Every time, the British people turn out to be stroppier and harder to herd than predicted. Throughout, Britain is a country on the edge – first of invasion, then of bankruptcy, then on the vulnerable front line of the Cold War and later in the forefront of the great opening up of capital and migration now reshaping the world. This history follows all the political and economic stories, but deals too with comedy, cars, the war against homosexuals, Sixties anarchists, oil-men and punks, Margaret Thatcher's wonderful good luck, political lies and the true heroes of British theatre.
Aspects Of Aristocracy
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Author : David Cannadine
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1994-01-01
Aspects Of Aristocracy written by David Cannadine and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with History categories.
He reconstructs the extraordinary financial history of the dukes of Devonshire, narrates the story of the Cozens-Hardys, a Norfolk family who played a remarkably varied part in the life of their county, and offers a controversial reappraisal of the forebears, lives, work, and personalities of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West - a portrait, notes Cannadine, of more than a marriage.
12 Days That Made Modern Britain
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Author : Andrew Hindmoor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
12 Days That Made Modern Britain written by Andrew Hindmoor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
This book offers a history of modern Britain since the late 1970s. Twelve chapters take as their starting-point one particularly important day in recent British history and describes what happened on that day and what happened as a result of that day.