M.B - British 5

1899ー40,000 Boer farmers declare war on the British Empire, defeat the most experienced regular army of the day, and make it a capital offence to shoot a British general. It was the last of the Gen……続きを見る

After 500 years Henry VIII still retains a public fascination unmatched by any monarch before or since. Whilst his popular image is firmly associated with his appetites - sexual and gastronomic - sc……続きを見る

HMS Dreadnought (1906) is closely associated with the age of empire, the Anglo-German antagonism and the naval arms race before the First World War. Yet it was also linked with a range of other cont……続きを見る

Sir Richard Burton was best known as an intrepid explorer with a voracious appetite for adventure who penetrated the sacred cities of Mecca and Medina and was the first European to discover and iden……続きを見る

As an Allied soldier, the Ypres salient was a hellish tongue of land to serve in during the First World War. Overlooked by German forces, surrounded on three sides by the enemies' guns, with little ……続きを見る

The failed naval offensive to force a passage through the Straits of the Dardanelles in 1915 drove Winston Churchill from office in disgrace and nearly destroyed his political career. For over a cen……続きを見る

The Crimean War has been called ‘the last great war to be fought without the help of modern resources of science’. It was also the last great war to be fought by the British army in all its splendou……続きを見る

The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of ……続きを見る

Saturnine and quick-tempered, the formidable North Sea is often overlooked – even by those living within a stone's throw of its steel-grey waters. But as playground, theatre of war and cultural cros……続きを見る

Report on the rescue excavations of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery discovered during 1974/5. Full catalogue of some 150 graves - mostly of the sixth century AD - and of the jewellery, weapons and other obj……続きを見る

The first volume of "Plays for an Irish Theatre" contains W. B. Yeats' play in five acts "Where There is Nothing". This marvellous play will appeal to all lovers of the English language, and especia……続きを見る

During an election speech in 1957 the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, famously remarked that 'most of our people have never had it so good'. Although taken out of context, this phrase soon came to……続きを見る

Alles wat je wilt weten over het stoerste en meest rebelse lid van de Britse koninklijke familie, inclusief een hoofdstuk over de relatie tussen prins Harry en actrice Meghan Markle Onmisbare kost v……続きを見る

In the 1870s Millicent Garrett Fawcett had her purse snatched by a young thief in London. When he appeared in court to testify, she heard the young man charged with 'stealing from the person of Mill……続きを見る

This book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain. It argues for the importance of reading to early modern childhood and ……続きを見る

No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller Bestselling author Tom Bower reveals the making of a monarch – King Charles III King Charles faces many challenges as he succeeds his mother to the throne. Despite his ……続きを見る

Mediæval Londonーit is a perfectly distinct and real subject, though it might be difficult to give exact dates of beginning and end. Historical periods glide in, and run their course, and fade away ……続きを見る

This book examines why Zimbabwean immigrants in Britain should be viewed as a product of ethno-racial identities and prejudices developed and nurtured during the colonial and post-colonial phases of……続きを見る

First published in 1998, this volume emerged in the context of rapidly developing nursing and health care fields and features contributions on areas in the NHS and private nursing including nurses’ ……続きを見る

COMMON SENSE BONUS EDITION Three Books Included COMMON SENSE THE AGE OF REASON THE AMERICAN CRISIS About Thomas Pain Thomas Paine was an English American writer and pamphleteer whose "Common Se……続きを見る

BLACK PLAQUES are not to be found proudly mounted on a wall – and for good reason. What with their commemoration of a brutal execution outside Westminster Abbey, the selling of sex toys in St James’……続きを見る

The British Empire entered the twentieth century in a state of crisis, with many in the legal establishment fearing that the British constitution could no longer cope with the complexity of imperial……続きを見る

A celebration of Scottish history, from pre-200 up until 2011. Comprehensive and compact, this book contains all the key dates and names that make Scotland so great. Factual, but written in a light-……続きを見る

The three volumes of A History of the Peoples of the British Isles weave together the histories of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales and their peoples. The authors trace the course of social, ec……続きを見る

J. M. Barrie's 'An Edinburgh Eleven: Pencil Portraits from College Life' offers readers a unique insight into the college life of young men in Edinburgh during the late 19th century. Barrie's litera……続きを見る

In early modern England, the practice of ritual or ceremonial magic - the attempted communication with angels and demons - both reinforced and subverted existing concepts of gender. The majority of ……続きを見る

This pictorial book covers London's railways from 1967 to 1977, showing the transition from steam to diesel and electric traction.This volume has a very readable narrative, telling tales of the auth……続きを見る

Ernst Wilhelm Bredts Buch 'Belgiens Volkscharakter, Belgiens Kunst' bietet eine faszinierende Einsicht in die belgische Gesellschaft und Kunstwelt des 19. Jahrhunderts. Bredt untersucht den einzigar……続きを見る

This book demonstrates the complexity of nineteenth-century Britain’s engagement with Palestine and its surrounds through the conceptual framing of the region as the Holy Land. British engagement wi……続きを見る

This second volume of The Official History of the British Civil Service explores the radical restructuring of the Civil Service that took place during the Thatcher and Major premierships from 1982 u……続きを見る