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Free Download Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives by Alice Loxton
English | November 12th, 2024 | ISBN: 1035031280 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 1.26 MB
‘Utterly, utterly brilliant. Fizzing with energy, wit and insight’ – Tracy Borman, bestselling historian

Free Download Alan Sharp, "David Lloyd George: Great Britain"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1905791615 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 1.5 mb
David Lloyd George (1863-1945). The end of the First World War saw Britain at the height of its power. Its fleet and air force were the largest in the world. Its armies had triumphed in the Middle East and spearheaded the final attacks in Western Europe that had driven the defeated Germans to seek an armistice. Britain now had to translate this military victory into the achievement of its war aims and future security and prosperity. Its main negotiator at the forthcoming peace conference would be its prime minister, the ebullient and enigmatic David Lloyd George, the "Welsh Wizard" and "the man who had won the war." Lloyd George’s energy had maintained the war effort through the dark days of 1917 and early 1918, but now he anticipated, with relish, the prospect of winning the peace. Few were better equipped. He was a skilled and accomplished negotiator with the knack of reconciling the apparently irreconcilable. His admirers, of whom there were many, pointed to his brilliant and agile mind, his rapid grasp of complex questions and his powers of persuasion. His critics, who were also numerous, distrusted his sleight of hand, fleetness of foot and, frankly, his word. His six months in Paris in 1919, as he pitted his wits against formidable world leaders like Woodrow Wilson and Georges Clemenceau, were among the most enjoyable but exhausting of his life. This study investigates the extent to which Lloyd George succeeded in his aims and evaluates the immediate and longer-term results of his negotiations for Britain.

Free Download John Kirk, "Cultures of Radicalism in Britain and Ireland (Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution)"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1848933444, 1138662046 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.7 mb
This collection of essays addresses the role of literature in radical politics. Topics covered include the legacy of Robert Burns, broadside literature in Munster and radical literature in Wales.

Free Download David Edgerton, "Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources, and Experts in the Second World War"
English | ISBN: 0199832676 | 2011 | 464 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton’s bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests, and in command of a global production system. Rather than belittled by a Nazi behemoth, Britain arguably had the world’s most advanced mechanized forces. It had not only a great empire, but allies large and small.

Free Download Louise Boland, "Bookshop Tours of Britain"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1912054477 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 108.6 mb
Bookshop Tours of Britain is a slow-travel guide to Britain, navigating bookshop to bookshop. Across 18 bookshop tours, the reader journeys from the Jurassic Coast of southwest England, over the mountains of Wales, through England’s industrial heartland, up to the Scottish Highlands, and back via Whitby, the Norfolk Broads, central London, the South Downs, and Hardy’s Wessex. On their way, the tours visit beaches, castles, head down coal mines, go to whiskey distilleries, bird watching, hiking, canoeing, to stately homes, and the houses of some of Britain’s best-loved historic writers-and, last but not least, a host of fantastic bookshops.

Free Download Bf 109E: Battle of Britain (Dogfight, 12)
by Andy Saunders, Gareth Hector, Jim Laurier
English | June 18, 2024 | ISBN: 1472862406 | 80 pages | EPUB | 20 Mb

Free Download Battle of Britain Attack of the Eagles: 13 August 1940 – 18 August 1940
by Dilip Sarkar MBE
English | July 2, 2024 | ISBN: 139905791X | 288 pages | EPUB | 7.45 Mb

Free Download Dennis Grube, "At the Margins of Victorian Britain: Politics, Immorality and Britishness in the Nineteenth Century"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1350160210, 1780763441 | EPUB | pages: 234 | 0.7 mb
Victorian Britain, at the head of the vast British Empire, was the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world, yet not all Britons were seen as possessing the characteristics that defined what it actually meant to be ‘British.’ At the Margins of Victorian Britain focuses on the political means of policing unwanted ‘others’ in Victorian society: the Irish, Catholics and Jews, atheists, prostitutes and homosexuals. In this groundbreaking study, Dennis Grube details the laws and conventions that were legally and culturally enforced in order to bar these ‘others’ from gaining power and influence in Victorian Britain. Utilising a wide-ranging analysis, the book focuses on key case studies including the anti-Semitism implicit in Lord Rothschild’s barring from the House of Commons, the fine line between accepted male love and companionship and homosexuality, culminating in the Oscar Wilde trials of the 1890s, and how laws against disease were used to police prostitutes and correct moral vices. As Jews, Roman Catholics and atheists were brought into a genuine sense of partnership in the British constitution by being allowed to seek election to Parliament, homosexuals, prostitutes and the allegedly innately criminal Irish found themselves further and more vehemently displaced as the nineteenth century progressed. ‘Otherness’ stopped being a religious question and instead became a moral one. That fundamental shift marks the moment that ‘Britishness’ became a values-based question.This will be essential reading for those working in the fields of Victorian studies, social and cultural history and constitutional identity.

Free Download David Evans, R.A.F Mears, "A History of Britain. Book 1: The Celts, Romans and Anglo-Saxons to 1066"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1906768463 | EPUB | pages: 146 | 1.9 mb
This massively popular series, first released in 1937, tells the story of our islands in a straightforward, chronological narrative. Carter and Mears’ writing is fast-paced, muscular and direct, and covers the matrix of British history including overseas events, the arts, religion and major social changes. Updated and revised by an expert hand, this series is being revived at a time when the failure of our schools to provide a connected, fact-based sense of the events that defined our nation, is being rightly and increasingly lamented by politicians, parents and the media. The series has been thoroughly revised and updated by David Evans, former Head of History at Eton College. Featured in The Sunday Telegraph , The Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday.

Free Download Lionel Rose, "’Rogues and Vagabonds’: Vagrant Underworld in Britain 1815-1985"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138950904, 1138950890 | EPUB | pages: 254 | 3.7 mb
In this lively social history, first published in 1988, Lionel Rose explores in detail the plight of the street poor between 1815 and 1985. He describes the Victorian ‘Rogues and Vagabonds’ who made elicit peddling, begging frauds and other petty crime their profession. He considers the relevant legislation and systems for coping with the street poor, from the 1824 Vagrancy Act and accompanying improvements in policing, through the casual ward systems of the workhouses and the role of common lodging houses, to the development of Social Services in the 1940s and local authority provision of accommodation. This title will be of interest to students of history, criminology and sociology.