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Among the Thugs
by Bill Buford  Publisher Comments They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's...
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Governess: The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres
by Ruth Brandon Publisher Comments The rise and fall of the English governess, the domestic heroine who inspired Victorian literature’s greatest authors. Between the 1780s and the end of the nineteenth century, an army of sad women took up residence in other people’s homes...
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Captain Swing
by Eric Hobsbawm Synopsis This title charts the social history of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1830. As capitalism penetrated deeper and deeper into the countryside with the onset of the industrial revolution, farmers rioted all across rural England. These uprisings...
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To Marry an English Lord: Or, How Anglomania Really Got Started
by Gail Maccoll Publisher Comments AMERICAN HEIRESSES TAKE ON THE PEERAGE In 1895, nine American girls, including a Vanderbilt (railroads), LaRoche (pharmaceuticals), Rogers (oil) and Whitney (New York trolleys), married peers of the British realmoXamong them, a duke, an earl, three...
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Those Entrusted with Arms: A History of the Police, Post, Customs and Private Use of Weapons in Britain
by Frederick Wilson Publisher Comments A History of the Police, Post, Customs and Private Use of Weapons in Britain....
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Albion: The History of the British Imagination
by Peter Ackroyd Publisher Comments With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across...
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British as a Second Language: Travels Among the English
by David Bennun Publisher Comments David Bennun had lived in Africa his whole life. At the age of 18, he came to Britain, the mother country—the country he had read about and seen in films. Would it be the noble, educated, admirable United Kingdom he had been led to expect? He was...
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The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair
by Peter Mandler Publisher Comments A highly original and wide-ranging book tracing the surprisingly varied history of ideas amongst the English about their own 'national character' over the past two centuries....
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Royal Poxes & Potions
by Raymon Lamont Brown Publisher Comments Focusing primariily on the Georgian Period, this book tells the stories of the relationships between royal physicians and the monarchs they treated, giving us a unique perspective on monarchs and the monarchy....
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Uk Law & Your Rights for Dummies
by Liz Barclay Publisher Comments Boost your legal know-how with this simple guide that does away with the jargon and complication of the law, and helps you get a handle on a wide range of everyday legal issues....
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The Human Tradition in Modern Britain (Human Tradition Around the World)
by Caroli Litzenberger Publisher Comments This engaging book provides a gateway to larger themes in modern British history through a set of fascinating portraits of individuals that explore important events and movements from the perspective of the people involved. As a rich and humanized...
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The Real Oliver Twist: Robert Blincoe: A Life That Illuminates a Violent Age
by John Walker Publisher Comments Robert Blincoe's political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before. His life provides an outstanding example of courage and a refusal to be downtrodden....
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Beyond Nab End
by William Woodruff Publisher Comments A sequel to Woodruff's bestselling memoir of a Lancashire childhood, "The Road To Nab End" which begins in the 1930s and tells the story of how the one-time steelworker won a place at Ruskin College, Oxford against the odds, and provides a moving account...
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The Hutton Inquiry (Uncovered Editions)
by Tim Coates Synopsis The report of Lord Hutton's inquiry into the death, in July 2003, of Dr David Kelly, a British scientist and expert in chemical and biological warfare, who was employed by the government to advise it on weapons in such warfare....
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English Society in the 18th Century: Second Edition (Penguin Social History of Britain)
by Roy Porter Synopsis In this boldly drawn portrait of 18th century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered run the gamut - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays...
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The Politics of Regulation
by Alison Young Publisher Comments The privatization of British utilities by the conservative governments of the 1980s and 1990s was a major shift in public policy. It was also an experiment in reinventing government, since the newly privatized companies were regulated by high-profile...
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Hurricane Hits England
by Onyekachi Wambu Synopsis In June 1948, the SS Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, England, carrying with it the first wave of young immigrants from the Caribbean. Whatever hopes and fears those young men and women entertained about life in their new home, their arrival marked a...
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The Rise of the Welfare Monarchy: The Making of a Welfare Monarchy
by Frank Prochaska Publisher Comments Royal Bounty is a pioneering study of the monarchy's social role and its influence in the institutional and civic life of Britain from George III to the present. Drawing on previously unused material from the Royal Archives and elsewhere, the book opens...
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Bridging Divides
by Eve Darian Smith Publisher Comments A cutting-edge work of legal anthropology, centering on the Channel Tunnel between England and France and the legal, political, and metaphorical complexities of the newly united Europe....
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Possession of Land
by Mark Wonnacott Publisher Comments Explains the meaning, significance and practical effect of the concept of ???possession??? in contemporary land law....
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