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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 7 books in this booklist
£21.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781629638843 | ISBN 10: 1629638846
This is the late 1970s and ’80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other bands and solo artists. Each chapter presen ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786634061 | ISBN 10: 1786634066
Britain has scarcely begun to come to terms with its recent upheavals, from the crisis over Brexit to the collapse of Labour's 'red wall'. What can explain such momentous shifts? In this essential work, Tom Hazeldine excavates the history of a d ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408844380 | ISBN 10: 1408844389
David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour governments of the late 1940s in Austerity Britain and through the growing prosperity of Family Britain's more placid 1950s. Now Modernity Britain 19 ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745334097 | ISBN 10: 0745334091
The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital. Transporting readers from well-known landmarks to history-making hidden corners, David R ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780091933807 | ISBN 10: 0091933803
These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to. Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have sound tracked our changing times, and – ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857864482 | ISBN 10: 0857864483
"The idea was simple - take the most impassioned speeches about the fight for what is right and bring them to life for a new generation."(Colin Firth) The People Speak tells the story of Britain through the voices of the visionaries, dissenter ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848540415 | ISBN 10: 1848540418
The Book of English Magic explores the curious and little-known fact that of all the countries in the world, England has the richest history of magical lore and practice. English authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Terry Pratchett, and J. ... more
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