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Free Download Bang! A History of Britain in the 1980s By Graham Stewart
2013 | 560 Pages | ISBN: 1848871457 | EPUB | 3 MB
Britain in the 1980s was a polarized nation. With the two main political parties as far apart as at any time since the 1930s, the period was riven by violent confrontation, beginning with the explosion of rioting that rocked England’s cities in 1981 and again in 1985; a year-long fight with the National Union of Mineworkers, and then with print workers in Wapping. There was the war to retake the Falkland Islands and the re-escalation of the troubles in Northern Ireland, which began with hunger strikes and peaked with the attempt to assassinate the entire Cabinet in the Brighton bombing. It was also a decade of political innovation-in the life and death of the Social Democratic Party, the mass privatization of state-owned industries, the sale of council houses, and the deregulation of financial markets-and cultural ferment, with the rise and fall of indie pop, the emergence of house music, Channel 4 and the growth of alternative comedy; and Prince Charles’s interventions on architecture. Graham Stewart’s magnificent and comprehensive history of the eighties covers all these events, and many more, with exhilarating verve and detail, and also examines the legacy of a decade that sowed the seeds of modern Britain.

Free Download A History of Britain, 1885-1939 by John Davis
English | PDF | 1999 | 309 Pages | ISBN : 0333420632 | 31.7 MB
The period between 1885 and 1939 was a pivotal half century in British history, in which the Victorian political system yielded to a system far more recognisably modern, in response to popular pressure for social reform and the implications of global superpower status. Dr Davis relates these political developments to the background of social and economic change and to the consequences of Britain’s position as an imperial power. Drawing extensively upon the new historical scholarship of the 1980s and 1990s, John Davis presents an original analysis of political change in a crucial period of Britain’s recent past.

Free Download Life in Britain and Germany on the Road to War
by Anton Rippon;Nicola Rippon;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1399047167 | 210 pages | True PDF EPUB | 6.55 MB

Free Download Introduction to the Electricity Industry in Great Britain
Published 8/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Language: English | Duration: 1h 4m | Size: 556 MB
Complete overview of the electricity industry in GB including generation, networks, markets, retail and net zero

Free Download The Northmen In Britain (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798875128394 | 2024 | 6 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Eleanor Hull
Narrator: Cole Bolchoz
Two great streams of Northern immigration met on the shores of Britain during the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries. The Norsemen from the deep fiords of Western Norway, fishing and raiding along the coasts, pushed out their adventurous boats into the Atlantic, and in the dawn of Northern history we find them already settled in the Orkney and Shetland Isles, whence they raided and settled southward to Caithness, Fife, and Northumbria on the east, and to the Hebrides, Galloway, and Man on the western coast. Fresh impetus was given to this outward movement by the changes of policy introduced by Harald Fairhair, first king of Norway (872-933). Through him a nobler type of emigrant succeeded the casual wanderer, and great lords and kings’ sons came over to consolidate the settlements begun by humbler agencies. Iceland was at the same time peopled by a similar stock. The Dane, contemporaneously with the Norseman, came by a different route.

Free Download Hedgelands: A Wild Wander Around Britain’s Greatest Habitat (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYNDH5H2 | 2024 | 5 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 291 MB
Author: Christopher Hart
Narrator: Charles Armstrong
In this joyous journey around the wild edges of Britain, Christopher Hart takes us through the life, ecology and history of the humble British hedge, showing us how this much-loved (but somewhat overlooked) feature is inextricably woven into our language, history and culture. Hedges – or hedgerows – have long been an integral part of the British landscape; a bastion of privacy for our gardens, a protective presence on winding country lanes and a vital hiding place for birds and beasts on farmland. This man-made marvel is finally getting its time in the sun.

Free Download The Maurice Burton Way: Britain’s first Black Cycling Champion
by Maurice Burton, Paul Jones
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1399407392 | 273 Pages | True PDF | 26 MB

Free Download Maurice Burton, "The Maurice Burton Way: Britain’s first Black Cycling Champion"
English | ISBN: 1399407392 | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
‘Maurice has lived a hell of a life. The world needs to hear about it’

Free Download The Great Frontier War: Britain, France, and the Imperial Struggle for North America, 1607-1755 By William Nester
2000 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 0275967727 | PDF | 2 MB
For more than a century and a half, from 1607 to 1763, Britain and France struggled to master the eastern half of North America. They fought five blood-soaked wars and continuously provoked various Indian tribes to raise arms against each other’s subjects for the mastery of the land. The last French and Indian War, from 1754 to 1760, would dwarf all previous conflicts in the number of troops, expense, geographical expanse, and total casualties. Placing the French and Indian War in a broad historical context, this study examines the struggle for North America during the two preceding centuries and includes not only the conflict between France and Britain, but also the parts played by various Indian tribes and the other European powers.The last French and Indian War makes for colorful reading with its array of inept and daring commanders, epic heroism among the troops, far-flung battles and sieges, and creaking fleets of warships. Ironically, America’s most famous founder, George Washington, helped to spark the war, first by trudging through the wilderness in the dead of winter with a message from Virginia Governor Dinwiddie to the French to abandon their forts in the upper Ohio River valley, then a half year later by ordering the war’s first shots when his troops ambushed Captain Jumonville, and finally when he ignominiously surrendered his force at Fort Necessity and unwittingly signed a surrender document in French naming himself Jumonville’s assassin. Topical chapters discuss the economic, political, social, and military attributes of the participants, and narrative chapters examine the campaigns of the war’s first two years.

Free Download Mark Westgarth, "The Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer in Britain 1815-1850: The Commodification of Historical Objects "
English | ISBN: 1032569913 | 2023 | 202 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 69 MB
Rather than the customary focus on the activities of individual collectors, The Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer in Britain 1815-1850: The Commodification of Historical Objects illuminates the less-studied roles played by dealers in the nineteenthcentury antique and curiosity markets.