Télécharger le livre :  50 Years On
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In FIFTY YEARS ON, Roy Hattersley explores and explains the events which have shaped modern Britain. Combining acute analysis of domestic politics with a brilliant eye for the bigger picture, his 'prejudiced history' takes the reader from the high hopes of 1945 to the...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2017-07-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The Edwardians
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Edwardian Britain is the quintessential age of nostalgia, often seen as the last long summer afternoon before the cataclysmic changes of the twentieth century began to take form. The class system remained rigidly in place and thousands were employed in domestic service....

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2017-07-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Blood And Fire
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An uneducated youth, William Booth left home in 1849 at the age of twenty to preach the gospel for the New Methodist Connexion. Six years later he founded a new religious movement which succeeded to such a degree that the Salvation Army (which it became) is now a...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2017-07-06

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Télécharger le livre :  John Wesley: A Brand From The Burning
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John Wesley led the Second English Reformation. His Methodist 'Connexion' was divided from the Church of England, not by dogma and doctrine but by the new relationship which it created between clergy and people. Throughout a life tortured by doubt about true faith and...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2017-07-06

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Télécharger le livre :  A Yorkshire Boyhood
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It was not until he was dead and I was forty that I realised my father was once in Holy Orders,' Roy Hattersley tells us in the opening pages of A YORKSHIRE BOYHOOD; so setting the tone for an elegant, continually surprising book.A somewhat precocious only child, Roy...

Editeur : Abacus
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Télécharger le livre :  Borrowed Time
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Called an uneasy peace, the twenty years between the wars were a time of turmoil - Britain saw a general strike and the worst economic crisis in its history, armed rebellion in Ireland and open revolt in India, a Prime Minister's resignation and the King's abdication....

Editeur : Abacus
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Télécharger le livre :  Who Goes Home?
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Each night when the House of Commons rises, throughout the Palace of Westminster policemen shout, 'Who goes home?', a relic of the days when Members of Parliament were escorted safely to their beds. WHO GOES HOME? is Roy Hattersley's witty and characteristically frank...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2017-07-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Buster's Diaries
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BUSTER'S DIARIES - offer a unique floor-level insight into the aromatic world of the man-owning dog. Buster stepped into the limelight in April 1996 after an incident with a goose in St James's Park, a goose which happened to belong to the Queen. Pursued by the press...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2017-07-06

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Télécharger le livre :  In Search of England
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Passionate, affectionate and indefatigably curious, In Search of England joins a tradition of writing, from William Cobbett to JB Priestley, that makes a journey around the English countryside and character. England is the most various of countries; within its borders,...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2010-10-07

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Télécharger le livre :  David Lloyd George
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A Welshman among the English, a nonconformist among Anglicans and a self-made man in the patrician corridors of power, David Lloyd George, the last Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain, was the founding father of the Welfare State and was as great a peacetime leader...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2010-09-16

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Télécharger le livre :  Buster's Secret Diaries
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Diaries celebrating a dog's joy at owning a human, by the most famous dog in Britain.Buster has written these diaries himself - whenever he could remember where he hid the manuscript in his garden. In it he lays bear the truth of how The Man has held Buster back,...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2008-09-18

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