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Free Download Paul Jackson, "Pride in prejudice: Understanding Britain’s extreme right"
English | ISBN: 1526156725 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Pride in prejudice offers a concise introduction to extreme right cultures in Britain today, exploring the origins of this complex movement and the numerous groups and activists that make up Britain’s contemporary extreme right. Showcasing the latest research, Pride in prejudice demonstrates that the movement has a long history in Britain. Jackson evaluates successes and failures in policy responses to the extreme right, and identifies the on-going risks posed by lone-actor terrorism.

Free Download New Zealand, Britain, and European Integration Since 1960: Staying Alive by Hamish McDougall
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 346 Pages | ISBN : 3031450167 | 5.9 MB
This book explores how New Zealand, a small country almost as far from Western Europe as it is possible to be, assumed political importance in Britain’s accession to the European Community vastly out of proportion to its size, proximity and strategic position. At several points in accession negotiations, the issue of New Zealand’s continued trade with Britain threatened to derail UK Government attempts to join the Community. This issue also interacted with the broader context of the Cold War, economic shocks and decolonisation, materially affecting the terms of entry into the European Community, and altering Britain’s relations with its European partners and the British public’s perceptions of British membership. After entry, New Zealand continued to resurface as a continued source of tension between Britain and an integrating Europe. The role that New Zealand played sheds light on Britain’s attempts to retain global influence after the demise of its formal empire. Contributing to a growing body of research which challenges the traditional historical narratives of British ‘decline’ and colonial ‘independence’ in the second half of the twentieth century, this book fills an important gap in the historiography of Britain following the 1973 enlargement of the European Communities.

Free Download Don Cecil Corbett, "Mary Fielding Smith, Daughter of Britain: Portrait of Courage"
English | 2010 | ASIN: B004D4Y6WC | EPUB | pages: 310 | 0.3 mb
History is filled with the names of exceptional women, but few have exhibited the courage and faith of Mary Fielding Smith, the daughter of a Bedfordshire farmer-preacher, who left her native land and became a heroine in her own right. She became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Canada and then joined the body of Saints in the United States, witnessing the onslaught of intolerance against the Mormons in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois.

Free Download Great Britain’s Great War by Jeremy Paxman
English | October 3rd, 2013 | ISBN: 0670919616 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 5.17 MB
Jeremy Paxman’s magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people.

Free Download Dornier Do 17 in the Battle of Britain: The ‘Flying Pencil’ in the Spitfire Summer by Chris Goss
English | January 24th, 2023 | ISBN: 1526781204 | 232 pages | True EPUB | 167.63 MB
During Britain’s desperate struggle for survival that in the summer of 1940, the Dornier Do 17 played a prominent part in raids designed at neutralizing the RAF’s ability to resist and the British people’s will to fight back. Having been built to outrun contemporary fighters when introduced into the Luftwaffe in 1937, it had become the Luftwaffe’s main light bomber, and for the attack against Britain, three bomber wings, KG 2, KG3 and KG77, were equipped with the Do 17. But by 1940, the Do 17 was nearing obsolescence and, with its weak defensive armament, it fell prey to Fighter Command’s Hurricanes and Spitfires.

Free Download Defending Britain’s Skies, 1940-1945 (Despatches From the Front) by John Grehan, Martin Mace
English | October 19th, 2014 | ISBN: 1783462078 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 15.92 MB
Despatches in this volume include that on the Battle of Britain, and air fighting 1940-1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh C.T. Dowding, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Fighter Command, Air Operations by Fighter Command between November 1940 and the end of December 1941, the anti-aircraft defence of the United Kingdom between 1939 and 1945, and the report on air operations by Air Defence of Great Britain and Fighter Command in connection with the German flying bomb and rocket offensives, 1944-1945.

Free Download James Cantres, "Blackening Britain: Caribbean Radicalism from Windrush to Decolonization "
English | ISBN: 1538143542 | 2020 | 270 pages | EPUB | 437 KB
Covering the period from the interwar years through the arrival of the steamship SS Empire Windrush from Jamaica in 1948 and culminating in the period of decolonization in the British Caribbean by the early 1970s, this project situates the development of networks of communication, categories of identification, and Caribbean radical politics both in the metropole and abroad. Blackening Britain explores how articulations of Caribbean identity formation corresponded to the following themes: organic collective action, political mobilization, cultural expressions of shared consciousness, and novel patterns of communication. Blackening Britain shows how colonial migrants developed tools of resistance in the imperial center predicated on their racialized consciousness that emerged from their experiences of alienation and discrimination in Britain.

Free Download Charlotte de Mille, "Bergson in Britain: Philosophy and Modernist Painting, c. 1890-1914 "
English | ISBN: 147449238X | 2023 | 400 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Charlotte de Mille shows that the reception of the philosophy of Henri Bergson by British artists and critics was far more wide spread and of far greater importance in the UK than has been previously thought.

Free Download Tiffany Beechy, "Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain: Materiality and the Flesh of the Word"
English | ISBN: 0268205159 | 2023 | 340 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
This rich study takes Insular art on its own terms, revealing a distinctive and unorthodox theology that will inevitably change how scholars view the long arc of English piety and the English literary tradition.

Free Download Tiffany Beechy, "Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain: Materiality and the Flesh of the Word"
English | ISBN: 0268205159 | 2023 | 340 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
This rich study takes Insular art on its own terms, revealing a distinctive and unorthodox theology that will inevitably change how scholars view the long arc of English piety and the English literary tradition.