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Free Download Leon Hunt, "Cult British TV comedy: From Reeves and Mortimer to Psychoville"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 071908377X | EPUB | pages: 272 | 0.5 mb
This book is the first sustained critical analysis of Cult British TV comedy from 1990 to the present day. The book examines ‘post-alternative’ comedy as both ‘cult’ and ‘quality’ TV, aimed mostly at niche audiences and often possessing a subcultural aura (comedy was famously declared ‘the new ‘rock’n’roll’ in the early ’90s). It includes case studies of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer and the sitcom writer Graham Linehan. It examines developments in sketch shows and the emergence of ‘dark’ and ‘cringe’ comedy, and considers the politics of ‘offence’ during a period in which Brass Eye, ‘Sachsgate’ and Frankie Boyle provoked different kinds of media outrage.

Free Download British Traitors: Betrayal and Treachery in the Twentieth Century by Gordon Kerr
English | October 20, 2022 | ISBN: 0857304798 | 256 pages | PDF | 2.19 Mb
British Traitors explores the lives and motivations of a number of the traitors who betrayed their country during the twentieth century. From Kim Philby to Lord Haw-Haw, Wilfred Macartney to George Blake, the book Investigates what drives a person to commit that most heinous of crimes – treason.

Free Download David Deutsch, "British Literature and Classical Music: Cultural Contexts 1870-1945 "
English | ISBN: 1474235816 | 2015 | 272 pages | AZW3 | 716 KB
British Literature and Classical Music explores literary representations of classical music in early 20th century British writing. Covering authors ranging from T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells and D.H. Lawrence, the book examines literature produced during a period of widely proliferating philosophical, educational, and performance-oriented musical activities in both public and private settings. David Deutsch demonstrates how this proliferation caused classical music to become an increasingly vital element of British culture and a vehicle for exploring contentious issues such as social mobility, sexual freedoms, and international political rivalries.

Free Download British Lend-Lease Warships 1940-45: The Royal Navy’s American-built destroyers and frigates (New Vanguard, 330)
by Angus Konstam, Adam Tooby
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 1472861280 | 48 pages | EPUB | 11 Mb

Free Download Emily Stevenson, "British Indian Picture Postcards in Bengaluru: Ephemeral Entanglements "
English | ISBN: 0367549190 | 2023 | 164 pages | PDF | 18 MB
Combining ethnographic and archival research, this book examines the lives of colonial-period postcards and reveals how they become objects of contemporary historical imagination in India.

Free Download British Fiji Class Cruisers and their Derivatives
by Conrad Waters
English | May 15, 2024 | ISBN: 1526799839 | 408 pages | EPUB | 127 Mb

Free Download Best British Short Stories 2023 edited by Nicholas Royle
English | 15 Oct. 2023 | ISBN: 1784632996 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 0.6 MB
Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere.

Free Download Best British Short Stories 2022 edited by Nicholas Royle
English | 15 Nov. 2022 | ISBN: 1784632481 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 0.5 MB
The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its twelfth year.

Free Download Armoured Warfare in the British Army, 1914-1939 (Find, Fix and Strike) by Richard Taylor
English | April 13, 2022 | ISBN: 1399001183 | 248 pages | MOBI | 12 Mb
This is the first volume in a three-volume illustrated history of the evolution of armored maneuver warfare in the British army, covering the period from 1914 until 1939. Author Dick Taylor’s tour de force covers the evolution of the tank and armored cars in response to the specific conditions created by trench warfare, the history of the use of tanks during the war, as well as the critical period between the wars in which the tank was both refined and neglected. He also looks in detail at the amalgamations and mechanization of the horsed cavalry which led to the formation of the Royal armored Corps in 1939.

Free Download 50 Keystone Flora Species of Coastal British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest: A Pocket Guide by Collin Varner
English | August 15th, 2024 | ISBN: 0295752882 | 128 pages | True EPUB | 88.70 MB
A compact, user-friendly guide to ecologically significant plant species of the Nothwest Coast