The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, in recent years, egged on by social media and the ubiquity and velocity of the internet, it has been subject to some grave assaults. There appear no longe...Daugiau...
The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, in recent years, egged on by social media and the ubiquity and velocity of the internet, it has been subject to some grave assaults. There appear no long...Daugiau...
An epic new history . . . a work of epic scholarship, breathtaking range, and piercing originality Daily Express An astonishing achievement of narrative history . . . I think the word is magisterial. Spectator Excellent, thor...Daugiau...
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Sing As We Go is an astonishingly ambitious overview of the political, social and cultural history of the country from 1919 to 1939. It explores and explains the politics of the period, and puts such moments of national turmoil as the Gen...Daugiau...
A richly detailed history of Britain at its imperial zenith, revealing the simmering tensions and explosive rivalries beneath the opulent surface of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras.The popular memory of Britain in the years befor...Daugiau...
An ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian Ageand the Victorian mindby a master historian.Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest, and uncertainty; there were attempts to assassinate the queen and h...Daugiau...
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The popular memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly, and thriving country. Britain commanded a vast empire; she bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil l...Daugiau...
Masterly. CHARLES VYVYAN, STANDPOINT Fascinating stuff. SPECTATOR Possibly the finest, most comprehensive analysis of the home front in the Great War ever produced. LITERARY REVIEW Every bit as good as its two pred...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-Sep-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Century, ISBN-13: 9781847948311)
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Throughout, he complements his analysis with vivid portraits of the men and women who shaped British life during the war - soldiers such as Lord Kitchener, politicians such as Churchill, pacifists such as Lady Ottoline Morrell, and overmighty subject...Daugiau...
‘A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times ‘A magnificent account of a...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Sep-2017, Hardback, Leidėjas: Random House Books, ISBN-13: 9781847947420)
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`A magnificent account of a less than magnificent epoch. Jonathan Meades, Literary Review The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country....Daugiau...
What is the difference between amend and emend, between imply and infer, and between uninterested and disinterested? When should one put owing to rather than due to? Why should the temptation to write actually, basically or at this moment in time alw...Daugiau...
Presents an exploration of the making of the Victorian age and the Victorian mind. This book traces the evolution of British democracy and shows how early laissez-faire attitudes to the lot of the less fortunate turned into campaigns to improve their...Daugiau...
A tweedy purveyor of folklore; too many larks ascending and too much Linden Lea: no composers work has ever been more cruelly stereotyped than that of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Fifty years after his death in 1958, Vaughan Williams reputation is great...Daugiau...
There were few more controversial British politicians of the twentieth-century than Enoch Powell. There were few more brilliant, and yet, whilst being an MP for thirty-seven years, his ministerial career lasted a mere fifteen months. His influence ho...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-May-2014, Hardback, Leidėjas: Random House Books, ISBN-13: 9781847946768)
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What is the difference between amend and emend, between imply and infer, and between uninterested and disinterested? When should one put owing to rather than due to? Why should the temptation to write actually, basically or at this moment in time alw...Daugiau...
Offers authors memoirs from the condemned cell, having murdered six people who stood between him and an earldom he hoped to inherit. This book explores and parodies the anti-Semitic attitudes of Edwardian England....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Oct-2013, Hardback, Leidėjas: Random House Books, ISBN-13: 9781847946775)
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Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest and uncertainty, where there were attempts to assassinate the Queen and her prime minister, and the ruling class lived in fear of riot and revolution. This book offers an exploration of th...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Apr-2012, Other digital carrier, Leidėjas: Faber Finds, ISBN-13: 9780571287215)
A tweedy purveyor of folklore; too many larks ascending and too much Linden Lea: no composers work has ever been more cruelly stereotyped than that of Ralph Vaughan Williams. The truth could hardly have been more different: that folksy feel...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Apr-2012, Other digital carrier, Leidėjas: Faber Finds, ISBN-13: 9780571287208)
There were few more controversial British politicians of the twentieth-century than Enoch Powell. There were few more brilliant, and yet, whilst being an MP for thirty-seven years, his ministerial career lasted a mere fifteen months. His influen...Daugiau...
