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Free Download Terry Hancock – Directory of Britain’s Military Aircraft: vol.1: Fighters, Ground Attack, Strike and Overland Reconnaissance
The History Press | 2008 | ISBN: 0752445251 | English | 328 pages | PDF | 179.11 MB
Detailing all the aircraft, airships, and gliders which have served the U.K.’s forces throughout the 100 years of flight since the first powered flight, the airship Nulli Secundus, in 1907, this volume focuses on Fighters, Bombers, Ground Attack, Strike, and Over-land Reconnaissance. Intending to create a quick and useful reference book, author Terry Hancock details every type of manned aircraft that has carried military serials and seen service with the operational squadrons or training and support units of the British armed forces, the RFC, RNAS, RAF, Fleet Air Arm, and Army Air Corps (excluding types designed for record breaking, carrying civil registrations, types used solely by the Commonwealth, temporary serials, types retained for ground training, tethered balloons, and man-carrying kites.) Each entry lists the type name and mark, role prefix, comments on the type as a whole, details on its roles, crew, capacity, service period, units and countries, armament, engines, serials, and a performance and dimensions table.

Free Download Paul Betts, "Critiquing Evidence-Based Policing in Britain: A Genealogy "
English | ISBN: 303159293X | 2024 | 343 pages | EPUB, PDF | 498 KB + 5 MB
Evidence Based Policing (EBP) exerts significant influence on how actors think, act and speak about UK policing to the point that it is becoming institutionalised. Inspired by the insights of Michel Foucault into power-knowledge, governmentality and institutional reform over time, this book provides a comprehensive account of the emergence of EBP in Britain as well as original discourse analysis and analytical research into the texts produced by EBP. It presents a new history of EBP presented around EBP’s story-lines, subject positions and the institutional changes it has created. This history shows EBP shares a genealogical heritage with modern discourses of managerialism and neoliberalism. EBP’s roots are traced and it is re-presented as an extension of the problematic relationship in the production of criminological knowledge and the British state. This history fundamentally challenges the notion on which EBP rests: basing policing policy upon independent, robust knowledge. Instead this book argues EBP should be subject to greater illumination and challenge, suggesting EBP is a contestable device that is doing political work. It speaks to those interested in policing, critical criminology and political science.

Free Download Alwyn W. Turner, "Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s"
English | 2013 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1845134257, 1845133277 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
The 1970s. They were the best of times and the worst of times. Wealth inequality was at a record low, yet industrial strife was at a record high. These were the glory years of Doctor Who and glam rock, but the darkest days of the Northern Ireland conflict. Beset by strikes, inflation, power cuts and the rise of the far right, the cosy Britain of the post-war consensus was unravelling – in spectacularly lurid style. Fusing high politics and low culture, Crisis? What Crisis? presents a world in which Enoch Powell, Ted Heath and Tony Benn jostle for space with David Bowie, Hilda Ogden and Margo Leadbetter, and reveals why a country exhausted by decline eventually turned to Margaret Thatcher for salvation.

Free Download Matt Baker, "Countryfile – A Picture of Britain: A Stunning Collection of Viewers’ Photography"
English | 2020 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 0008254982 | EPUB | 235,2 mb
Published In Aid of BBC Children in Need *

Free Download Britain, Germany and the Future of the European Union By Christian Schweiger
2007 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0230008097 | PDF | 4 MB
Britain, Germany and the Future of the European Union outlines the changes in British and German European policies which have been characteristic of a process of normalization in both countries. Schweiger examines possible areas for cooperation between Britain and Germany on major European issues (institutional and procedural reform, EMU, economic reform, CFSP and enlargement) and the potential significance that such a working partnership could have within the enlarged European Union.

Free Download William Casey Baker, "Britain’s War for the Mediterranean: The Fight against Revolutionary France"
English | ISBN: 1682479250 | 2024 | 360 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
Britain’s War for the Mediterranean provides a definitive study on British warmaking in the Mediterranean during the War of the First Coalition. It traces the origins of foreign and naval policies from the early eighteenth century to describe the duality of British affairs. These contradictions manifested themselves in the War of the First Coalition as Great Britain attempted to build consensus in the Mediterranean World while clinging to its power base of naval power and commerce. The book explores the decisions of individuals and the wider trends of the British political and naval system, honed over the course of the eighteenth century. In explaining war against Revolutionary France, the book follows the decisions of admirals, diplomats, and politicians in attempting to cobble together a coalition of Spanish, Austrian, Sardinian, and Neapolitan forces. This book also makes connections with the other theaters of war: The Austrian Netherlands and the Caribbean.

Free Download Alison Weir, "Britain’s Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy"
English | 2008 | pages: 400 | ISBN: 009953973X | EPUB | 0,3 mb
A unique book on Britain’s royal families by this well established popular historian.

Free Download Guy Ellis – Britain’s Jet Age: From the Meteor to the Sea Vixen
Amberley Publishing | 2016 | ISBN: 1445649004 | English | 100 pages | PDF | 70.83 MB
The Jet Age began in Britain in May 1941 when the Gloster E.28/39, the first British jet aircraft, made its first flight. The first British jet fighter was the Gloster Meteor, which entered service with the RAF in 1944 and went on to serve with air forces all over the world, and the RAF never looked back. This was the start of the first generation of British jet aircraft, from the Meteor and the de Havilland Vampire in the years immediately after the Second World War, through the ill-fated Comet airliner and the Hawker Sea Hawk in the 1950s to the Gloster Javelin, the start of the second generation in the 1960s.In this book, aviation historian Guy Ellis looks at the development of this first generation of British jet aircraft.

Free Download Rochelle Almeida New York University, "Britain’s Anglo-Indians: The Invisibility of Assimilation"
English | ISBN: 1498545882 | 2017 | 240 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Anglo-Indians form the human legacy created and left behind on the Indian subcontinent by European imperialism. When Independence was achieved from the British Raj in 1947, an exodus numbering an estimated 50,000 emigrated to Great Britain between 1948-62, under the terms of the British Nationality Act of 1948. But sixty odd years after their resettlement in Britain, the "First Wave" Anglo-Indian immigrant community continues to remain obscure among India’s global diaspora.

Free Download Ronald Hutton, "Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain"
English | ISBN: 0300144857 | 2009 | 492 pages | AZW3 | 1016 KB
Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and reinvent the Druids. Hutton’s captivating book is the first to encompass two thousand years of Druid history and to explore the evolution of English, Scottish, and Welsh attitudes toward the forever ambiguous figures of the ancient Celtic world.