Tag: Britain

Free Download Tom Kerridge Cooks Britain by Tom Kerridge
English | July 9th, 2024 | ISBN: 152667193X | 272 pages | True EPUB | 76.56 MB
Come and discover the best of British food with Tom Kerridge

Free Download The Real Lives of Roman Britain by Guy de la Bédoyère
English | May 15th, 2015 | ISBN: 0300207190 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 7.75 MB
An innovative, informative, and entertaining history of Roman Britain told through the lives of individuals in all walks of life

Free Download The Only Way Is Up: How to Take Britain from Austerity to Prosperity by Polly Toynbee, David Walker
English | July 11th, 2024 | ISBN: 1805462660 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 0.79 MB
Labour have won their most decisive victory in decades.

Free Download S. Max Edelson, "The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0674972112 | EPUB | pages: 480 | 3.0 mb
After the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years’ War in 1763, British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, and across new islands in the West Indies. To better rule these vast dominions, Britain set out to map its new territories with unprecedented rigor and precision. Max Edelson’s The New Map of Empire pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain’s imperial ambitions in the generation before the American Revolution.

Free Download The Lion and the Dragon: Britain’s Opium Wars with China 1839-1860 by Mark Simner
English | July 26, 2019 | ISBN: 1781557179 | 304 pages | PDF | 5.58 Mb
During the middle of the 19th-Century, Britain and China would twice go to war over trade, and in particular the trade in opium. The Chinese people had progressively become addicted to the narcotic, a habit that British merchants were more than happy to feed from their opium-poppy fields in India. When the Qing dynasty rulers of China attempted to suppress this trade-due to the serious social and economic problems it caused-the British Government responded with gunboat diplomacy, and conflict soon ensued.

Free Download Craig Horner, "The Emergence of Bicycling and Automobility in Britain"
English | ISBN: 1350054186 | 2021 | 224 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
In the late 19th century, bicyling and motoring offered new ways for a hardy minority to travel. Escaping from the ‘tyranny’ of the train timetables, these entrepreneurs were able to promote private mobility when the road, technology and infrastructure were unequal to the task. With a moribund network out of town, poor roadside accommodation and few services, how could road traction persist and ultimately thrive?

Free Download Stanford Tuck: Hero of the Battle of Britain: The Life of the Great Fighter Ace by Helen Doe
English | November 30th, 2023 | ISBN: 1911667912 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 22.34 MB
"This new volume corrects the previous faults and presents the story of a pilot who was the right man at the right time." – Air Classics

Free Download Nick Basannavar, "Sexual Violence Against Children in Britain Since 1965: Trailing Abuse "
English | ISBN: 3030831477 | 2021 | 344 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book investigates the changes and continuities in the ways in which sexual violence has been interpreted and represented in Britain since 1965. It explores the representational trail of the Moors murders and subsequent trial of 1966, the emergence of age of consent abolitionism in the 1970s, Cleveland’s child sexual abuse crisis of 1987-8, and 2010 and 20s contemplations on the Jimmy Savile scandal. Harnessing research into popular media forms and a huge range of personal, political and professional records, Nick Basannavar carefully parses and illustrates the ways in which journalists, medical workers, politicians, lobbyists and other groups assembled and animated their narratives, revealing complex rhetorical and emotional processes. This book challenges problematic conceptual dichotomies such as silence/noise or ignorance/knowledge. It shows instead that although categories such as ‘child sexual abuse’ and ‘paedophilia’ may be relatively recent linguistic value-constructs, sexual violence against children has existed and been represented across historical moments, in changeable and challenging ways.

Free Download James Barr, "Setting the Desert on Fire: T. E. Lawrence and Britain’s Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918"
English | ISBN: 0393335275 | 2009 | 402 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
"Barr turns history into a drama, with bright writing and a fascinating cast of characters." ―Mary Foster, Associated Press

Free Download Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland: From Peterloo to the Present by Quentin Outram, Keith Laybourn
English | February 8, 2018 | ISBN: 3319629042 | 363 pages | MOBI | 2.32 Mb
This edited collection examines the concept and nature of the ‘people’s martyrology’, raising issues of class, community, religion and authority. It examines modern martyrdom through studies of Peterloo; Tolpuddle; Featherstone; Tonypandy; Emily Davison, fatally injured by the King’s horse on Derby Day, 1913; the 1916 Easter Rising; Jarrow, ‘the town that was murdered, and martyred in the 1930s’; David Oluwale, a Nigerian killed in Leeds in 1965; and Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger striker who died in 1981. It engages with the burgeoning historiography of memory to try to understand why some events, such as Peterloo, Tonypandy and the Easter Rising, have become household names whilst others, most notably Featherstone and Oluwale, are barely known. It will appeal to those interested in British and Irish labour history, as well as the study of memory and memorialization.