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  • After the Miners’ Strike

    A39 and Cornish Political Theatre versus Thatcher’s Britain: Volume 1

    by Paul Farmer, Rebecca Hillman, Mark Kilburn ...
    In this rich memoir, the first of two volumes, Paul Farmer traces the story of A39, the Cornish political theatre group he co-founded and ran from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Farmer offers a unique insight into A39’s creation, operation, and artistic practice during a period of convulsive political and social change.The reader is plunged into the national miners’ strike and the collapse of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Full English

    A Journey in Search of a Country and its People

    by Stuart Maconie ...
    A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller A Times bestseller A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2024 A Spectator Book of the YearWhat kind of country is England today?What does it mean to be English?Are we hungry for change or seeking old certainties?Join Stuart Maconie on an enlightening, entertaining journey through England, from Bristol's Banksy to Durham's beaches, from Cot... ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Who Dares Wins

    Britain, 1979-1982

    by Dominic Sandbrook ...
    SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, LONDON EVENING STANDARD, DAILY MAIL AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'Magisterial ... If anyone wants to know what has been happening to Britain since the 1950s, it is difficult to imagine a more informative, or better-humoured guide ... a Thucydidean coolness, balance and wisdom that is superb.' - AN Wilson, The Times'Who Dares Wins</e... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Long Road from Jarrow

    A journey through Britain then and now

    by Stuart Maconie ...
    The Sunday Times Bestseller'A tribute and a rallying cal****l' - GuardianThree and half weeks. Three hundred miles. I saw roaring arterial highway and silent lanes, candlelit cathedrals and angry men in bad pubs. The Britain of 1936 was a land of beef paste sandwiches and drill halls. Now we are nation of vaping and nail salons, pulled pork and salted caramel.In the autumn of 1936, some 200 men ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Exceeding My Brief

    Memoirs of a Disobedient Civil Servant

    by Barbara Hosking ...
    From the tragic massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, to signing the Treaty of Rome when Britain entered the Common Market, Barbara Hosking was there.This is the story of a Cornish scholarship girl with no contacts who ended up in the corridors of power. It is also the very personal story of her struggle with her sexuality as a bewildered teenager, and as a young woman in the 1950s, a time ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Thirties

    An Intimate History of Britain

    by Juliet Gardiner ...
    Acclaimed author of 'Wartime', Juliet Gardiner, brings to life the long neglected decade of the twentieth century – the 1930s.J.B. Priestley famously described the 'three Englands' he saw in the 1930s: Old England, nineteenth-century England and the new, post-war England. Thirties Britain was, indeed, a land of contrasts, at once a nation rendered hopeless by the Depression, unemployment and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Austerity Britain, 1945-1951

    by David Kynaston ...
    Series series Tales of a New Jerusalem
    As much as any country, England bore the brunt of Germany's aggression in World War II, and was ravaged in many ways at the war's end. Celebrated historian David Kynaston has written an utterly original, and compellingly readable, account of the following six years, during which the country rebuilt itself. Kynaston's great genius is to chronicle the country's experience from bottom to top: ... Read more

    $35.39 CAD

  • London in the Twentieth Century

    A City and Its People

    by Jerry White ...
    In 1901, London was the greatest city the world had seen in size, wealth and grandeur. Yet it was also a city where poverty and disease were rife. London in 2001 was no longer among the world's very largest cities, but was still one where vast wealth was displayed - alongside beggars sleeping rough.Such paradoxes are among the defining experiences of living in London in this extraordinary century, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Engel's England

    Thirty-nine counties, one capital and one man

    by Matthew Engel ...
    England, says Matthew Engel, is the most complicated place in the world. And, as he travels through each of the historic English counties, he discovers that's just the start of it. Every county is fascinating, the product of a millennium or more of history: still a unique slice of a nation that has not quite lost its ancient diversity.He finds the well-dressers of Derbyshire and the pyromaniacs of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Pitmen's Requiem

    by Peter Crookston ...
    Peter Crookston's book offers a beautifully written journalist's account of a Durham mining village and the Great Northern Coalfield woven around the life of Robert Saint, the composer of Gresford, a brass band composition commemorating an earlier mining disaster in which 256 workers died. Crookston brings his formidable observational qualities and writing skills as a journalist to produce a ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Worktown

    The Astonishing Story of the Project that launched Mass Observation

    by David Hall ...
    In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the everyday lives of ordinary working people at work and play - in the pub, dance hall, factory and on holiday. Their aim was to create an 'anthropology of ourselves'. The first of its kind, it later grew into the Mass ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • East Garston - Stations of the Great Western Railway GWR

    Stations of the Great Western Railway, #7

    by Charles Darvelle ...
    Series Book 7 - Stations of the Great Western Railway
    An enjoyable history of one of the long vanished branch line stations on the Great Western Railway.East Garston is no more. The site remains, but there is little to show where this once bustling village railway station and its level crossing once stood. East Garston handled a wide variety of agricultural freight, as well as passengers and parcels.In this book we learn when East Garston was built ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus