Blackwell, 2005. — 600 p. — (Blackwell Companions to British History). A Companion to Contemporary Britain covers the key themes and debates of 20th-century history from the outbreak of the Second World War to the end of the century. Assesses the impact of the Second World War. Looks at Britain’s role in the wider world, including the legacy of Empire, Britain’s ‘special...
UCL Press, 2018. — 350 p. Histories of Technology, the Environment, and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a broad, multifaceted look at how technology and the environment have become intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last three hundred years. For the first time, the book brings together two perspectives with...
Institute of Commonwealth Studies in the University of London, 1996. - 426p. Imperial policy and colonial practice 1925-1945: Schedule of contents. Abbreviations. Principal holders of offices 1925-1945. Summary of documents. Documents: part 11 (nos 79-166). Economic policy. Social policies and colonial research. Biographical notes. Public Record Office sources searched....
Manchester University Press, 2007. — 256 p. This book provide readers with ready access to and interpretation of the significant literature on "The English Question", and enables them to make sense of the political, historical and cultural factors which constitute that question. The book addresses the condition of England in three interrelated parts. The first looks at...
Penguin Books, 2013. — 528 p. After the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in a cramped room in the servants’ quarters of Belvoir Castle on April 21, 1940, his son and heir ordered the room, which contained the Rutland family archives, sealed. Sixty years later, Catherine Bailey became the first historian given access. What she discovered...
Routledge, 2019. — 588 p. Spanning almost a century of penal policy and practice in England and Wales, this book is a study of the long arc of the rehabilitative ideal, beginning in 1895, the year of the Gladstone Committee on Prisons, and ending in 1970, when the policy of treating and training criminals was very much on the defensive. Drawing on a plethora of source material,...
Routledge, 2016. — 259 p. Because of the exceptionally high proportion of imports in Britain’s food supply and the determined efforts of the enemy to sever the supply lines, efficient management of food resources was an essential element in the British national war effort. This volume was the first comprehensive study of this vital aspect of government strategy and fills a gap...
The History Press, 2021. — 288 p. Princess Diana is seen as the first British royal to tear up the rulebook in terms of what behavior befit a princess, and in her wake Catherine and Meghan are taking leaps and bounds in modernizing the monarchy. But before this trio of deservedly lauded and often lambasted women, there was a princess who paved the way. Born in 1897, Princess...
The History Press, 2013. — 208 p. Oswald Mosley decided he could carry on where Hitler and Mussolini had left off. On street corners his fascist speakers would proclaim 'not enough Jews were burned at Belsen'. Enter the 43 Group. In a ferocious, bloody and brilliantly covert five-year campaign, they destroyed the Mosleyites. The membership of the Group was almost entirely made...
Routledge, 2018. — 737 p. This book is the official history of British Cabinet Secretaries, the most senior civil servants in UK government, from the post-war period up to 2002. In December 1916 Maurice Hankey sat at the Cabinet table to take the first official record of Cabinet decisions. Prior to this there had been no formal Cabinet agenda and no record of Cabinet decisions....
London : Grafton Books, 1987. — 432 p. In their testament to the human spirit, the letters that form the spine of this book are nothing less than the Irish equivalent of the diary of Anne Frank. That was not at all the original intent of the author, David Beresford, an award-winning correspondent for the British newspaper The Guardian. In 1979 he was assigned to Northern...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1980. — 248 p. The partition of Ireland was the process by which the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland divided Ireland into two self-governing polities: Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland. It was enacted on 3 May 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. The Act intended for both territories to remain within the United...
Pen and Sword Military, 2016. — 304 p. The Great War was the first ‘Total War’; a war in which human and material resources were pitched into a life-and-death struggle on a colossal scale. British citizens fought on both the Battle Fronts and on the Home Front, on the killing fields of France and Flanders as well as in the industrial workshops of ‘Blighty’. Men, women and...
Manchester University Press, 2018. — 275 p. This book provides a concise set of twelve essays looking at various aspects of the British left, movements of protest and the cumulative impact of the First World War. There are three broad areas this work intends to make a contribution to; the first is to help us further understand the role the Labour Party played in the conflict,...
London: Black Swan, 1990. — 264 p. Michael Bloch gives a new twist to the oft-told story of King Edward's short reign.Drawing on a decade-long study of the King's personality, and on privileged access to his papers, he sees the King's abdication partly as the result of a plot to get rid of him by men who mistrusted his modernity and popular touch, but also explainable by the...
Roberts Rineheart Publishers, 1997. — 240 p. "Bobby Sands was twenty-seven years old and sixty-six days on hunger strike when he died in the H Blocks of Long Kesh, on 5 May 1981. The young IRA Volunteer, who had spent almost the last nine years of his short life in prison, was world-famous by the time of his death, having been elected to the British parliament and having...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 200 p. Britain's role and performance in the two World Wars continues to generate considerable debate but the wars are rarely considered together. Leading military historian Brian Bond here challenges the popular view of the First World War as catastrophic and futile in contrast to the Second World War as a well-conducted and victorious moral...
Red Globe Press, 2001. — 254 p. It is commonplace to assume that the twentieth-century British economy has failed, falling from the world's richest industrial country in 1900 to one of the poorest nations of Western Europe in 2000. Manufacturing is inevitably the centre of this failure: British industrial managers cannot organise the proverbial 'knees-up' in a brewery; British...
Spellmount, 2014. — 224 p. The First World War was a human catastrophe but it also saw a dynamic development of new weapons and a new kind of war; between the lions and the donkeys came the managers - and the workers - who transformed a nation into a war machine in forty-eight months. Our Land at War takes you on a journey to the key places that witnessed this war effort and...
Manchester University Press, 2003. — 252 p.
The British army was almost unique among the European armies of the Great War in that it did not suffer from a serious breakdown of discipline or collapse of morale. It did, however, inevitably suffer from disciplinary problems. While attention has hitherto focused on the 312 notorious 'shot at dawn' cases, many thousands of British...
Boydell Press, 2021. — 301 p. This meticulously researched book gives a detailed and authoritative history of agricultural change in the second half of the twentieth century. The book skilfully weaves together the hitherto underexplored individual returns of the Farm Management Survey with oral histories of the farmers who enacted change on the ground to offer an incisive...
Wharncliffe, 2011. — 192 p. The two world wars of the twentieth century seem so distant from us now, a lifetime ago, in a different age. Yet in London the evidence of these conflicts is around us, near at hand, in the many relics and reminders that are scattered across the fabric of the modern city. And, as Alan Brooks demonstrates in this fascinating photographic record, they...
Droemer, 2022. — 700 S. "Nie wieder" lautete der Schwur, darf so etwas passieren, als der traumatische Tod der Prinzessin von Wales die königliche Familie dazu zwang, sich neu zu erfinden. Tina Brown, die brillante Journalistin und Autorin der besten Diana-Biografie, enthüllt in ihrem neuen Buch die wahre Geschichte der Windsors im letzten Vierteljahrhundert. Die Palace Papers...
Droemer, 2022. — 700 S. "Nie wieder" lautete der Schwur, darf so etwas passieren, als der traumatische Tod der Prinzessin von Wales die königliche Familie dazu zwang, sich neu zu erfinden. Tina Brown, die brillante Journalistin und Autorin der besten Diana-Biografie, enthüllt in ihrem neuen Buch die wahre Geschichte der Windsors im letzten Vierteljahrhundert. Die Palace Papers...
Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2019. — 203 p. The extent to which the Great War impacted upon English landed society is most vividly recalled in the loss of young heirs to ancient estates. English Landed Society in the Great War considers the impact of the war on these estates. Using the archives of Country Life, Edward Bujak examines the landed estate that flourished in...
Routledge, 1997. — 208 p. Social Movements have become a central focus of political study in recent years. Paul Byrne's accessible account of British Social movements introduces students to the relevant theories, and puts them into practice by examining groups such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Women's Movement and the Green Party. Byrne goes on to look at how the...
Dynasty Press, 2021. — 561 р. The inside story of The Queen's Marriage from renowned royal author Lady Colin Campbell contains previously undisclosed revelations. In this new book royal historian Lady Colin Campbell covers The Queen's Marriage in intimate detail. Using her connections and impeccable sources she recounts details of the inside story of the monarch's relationship...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 385 p. David Cannadine is widely regarded as one of the most insightful historians of modern Britain--and certainly one of the most witty and entertaining. His most recent book, Ornamentalism, a provocative argument about the role of class in the British Empire, was hailed as "vigorous, stimulating, and bursting with ideas." Now, with In...
Manchester University Press, 2000. — 255 p. In the already vast literature on Churchill, no single work has focused on his changing attitude towards the Soviet Union. In the first four decades after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, he oscillated in a seemingly bewildering fashion between enmity and apparent friendship with the Soviets. Taking the Bolshevik Revolution as its...
Swift Press, 2021. — 288 p. The extraordinary story behind A Very British Scandal, starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany Margaret was debutante of the year, the beautiful fairy-tale heiress immortalised in Cole Porter's 'You're The Top' - who ended up penniless and ostracised from her own family. Legal actions coloured her life - her divorce from the Duke of Argyll was one of...
Routledge, 2003. — 497 p. Britain in the Twentieth Century is a new approach to teaching and learning twentieth century British history at A level. It meets the needs of teachers and students studying for today's revised AS and A2 exams. In a unique style, Britain in the Twentieth Century focuses on the key topics within the period. Each topic is then comprehensively explored...
Recorded Books, 2015. — 320 p. This is a story of a bitter struggle, in which collusion with the UK police and security services resulted in victimization, violence and unemployment, with terrible effects on families and communities. Drawing on first-hand accounts of the workers, Blacklisted reveals how, when major construction projects were unionized, those involved were...
Pen and Sword Books, 2020. — 224 p. This historical study sheds new light on the partnership and rivalry between two of the UK's most significant political leaders from WWII to the Cold War. For more than two decades, Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden worked closely together. As Churchill's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, Eden took over leadership of the nation...
Macmillan Education, 1998. — 294 p. Historian John Charmley examines and explains how the modern Conservative party has managed to adapt to, first Liberalism, then a Welfare State, before the huge changes it engendered in Britain in the 1980s.
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 112 p. A fortified place’. This is not the way we usually think of Southend-on-Sea but it was the description used by the Germans during the Great War. Built beside the Thames Estuary and with the Shoebury Garrison to the east, Rochford Aerodrome to the north and the longest pleasure pier in the world to the south, it was regarded as a legitimate target....
Yale University Press, 2021. — 384 p. After two decades of relative peace following the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, the Brexit referendum in 2016 reopened the Northern Ireland question. In this thoughtful and engaging book, Feargal Cochrane considers the region’s troubled history from the struggle for Irish independence in the nineteenth century to the present. New chapters...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 198 p. British Tank Production and the War Economy, 1934-1945 explores the under-researched experiences of the British tank industry in the context of the pressures of war. Benjamin Coombs explores the various demands placed on British industry during the Second World War, looking at the political, military and strategy pressures involved.
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 256 p. Best known for his notorious 'Rivers of Blood' speech in 1968 and his outspoken opposition to immigration, Enoch Powell was one of the most controversial figures in British political life in the second half of the twentieth century and a formative influence on what came to be known as Thatcherism. Telling the story of Powell's political...
I.B. Tauris, 2014. — 672 p. David Lloyd George is widely regarded as one of the most effective British prime ministers of the twentieth century. A dynamic speaker and committed social reformer, he led Britain successfully through the devastation of World War I and had a powerful impact on international politics. In the post-war peace treaties, he sought a just, rather than a...
Orion, 2014. — 320 p. Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last five years at Number 10 were a period of intense emotional and political turmoil in her private and...
Routledge, 2014. — 278 p. This volume comprehensively describes how British farmers coped with the problems of shortage of labour and other factors of production, as well as assessing how well agriculture performed as a supplier of food to the nation. Use of previously neglected records provides much evidence on issues such as the deployment of substitute labour and the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. — 320 p. Formed out of the Royal Irish Constabulary at the time of Partition, the RUC's history is predictably a turbulent one right through to its replacement in 2001 by the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Few police forces in the world have suffered so grievously as the RUC and this book is a fitting memorial to the sacrifices made in the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 243 p. Examines the debates and developments about House of Lords reform since 1911, and notes that disagreements have occurred within, as well as between, the main political parties and governments throughout this time. It draws attention to how various proposals for reform have raised a wider range constitutional and political problems.
Routledge, 2018. — 358 p. First published in 1985. In the 1930s the Labour Party undertook a deliberate search for a viable economic programme to introduce a democratic socialism to Britain. Against the background of the economic turmoil of the period, a group of young economists working for the party thrashed out the theoretical and practical implications of the Keynesian...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 382 p. This book challenges the central theme of the existing histories of twentieth-century Britain, that the British state was a welfare state. It argues that it was also a warfare state, which supported a powerful armaments industry. This insight implies major revisions to our understanding of twentieth-century British history, from...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 224 p. The truth about the sacrifice and suffering on the home front during World War I is rarely discussed. In this book, some of the oldest men and women in the country speak about experiences and events that have remained buried for 85 years. Their testimony shows the same candor and courage we have become accustomed to hearing from veterans...
Routledge, 2011. — 256 p. Crime and Society in Twentieth-Century England traces the broad pattern of criminal offending over a hundred year period that experienced unprecedented levels of upheaval and change. This period included two world wars, the end of the British Empire, significant shifts in both gender relations and ethnic mix and a decline in the power of the economy....
Pluto Press, 1987. — 410 p. A political history of Northern Ireland is reprinted here. Michael Farrell charts the story of Northern Ireland from its violent birth to its violent present. He describes the bloody pogroms with which the Unionist leaders, armed and financed by Britain, established their state. He records the fruitless efforts of the Catholics in and out of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1989. — 248 p. This book is a study of the connections between Britain's foreign, financial and military policies during the 1920s, demonstrating that these issues were closely related because Britain needed to draw a balance between the military forces, which seemed necessary to support its strategic aims, with that strength which it seemed able to afford....
Routledge, 2015. — 252 p. The National Front was one of the most controversial political parties in Britain. This exploration, first published in 1981, of the NF ideology and its meaning for members is based on a participation observation study which involved the development of relations with its headquarters, and with branch staff and members in several English cities. The...
Routledge, 2019. — 311 p. The civilian police during the First World War in Great Britain were central to the control of the population at home. This book will show the detail and challenges of police work during the First World War and how this impacted on ordinary people's daily lives. The aim is to tell the story of the police as they saw themselves through the pages of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 329 p. This book explores the British Labour Party and the trade unions and how their relationship with the Jews of Palestine and Israel has evolved over the past one hundred years. It also reflects the changing attitudes of the Labour Party and the unions towards the persecution of the Jews, a Jewish homeland in Palestine, Israel and antisemitism....
The Scarecrow Press, 2008. — 350 p. For nearly four decades the conflict in Ireland has embittered relations between the communities living there and spoiled relations between the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain. For three decades it escalated, punctuated by periodic bloody clashes followed by somewhat calmer periods of tension during which violence of all...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 369 p. — (The A to Z Guide Series). For nearly four decades the conflict in Ireland has embittered relations between the communities living there and spoiled relations between the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain. For three decades it escalated, punctuated by periodic bloody clashes followed by somewhat calmer periods of tension during which violence...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. — 272 p. — ISBN 0-19-821893-1 1933-1941 The Background to the SPD’s Exile in Britain: the Period from 1933 to 1941 First Contact with England The Attitude of the Foreign Office towards German Political Exiles 1939-1941 1941-1943 The Establishment of the SPD in Exile in 1941 The SPD and the Labour Party: Good Prospects The SPD and the Labour Party:...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. — 272 p. — ISBN 0-19-821893-1 1933-1941 The Background to the SPD’s Exile in Britain: the Period from 1933 to 1941 First Contact with England The Attitude of the Foreign Office towards German Political Exiles 1939-1941 1941-1943 The Establishment of the SPD in Exile in 1941 The SPD and the Labour Party: Good Prospects The SPD and the Labour Party:...
Springer, 2016. — 290 p. This book explores the recreation and subsequent development of the British Monarchy during the twentieth century. Contributors examine the phenomenon of modern monarchy through an exploration of the establishment and the continuing impact of the Windsor dynasty both within Britain and the wider world, to interrogate the reasons for its survival into...
Routledge, 2020. — 388 p. Modern Britain focuses on two major periods of British history; the interwar period, and postwar Britain. The authors compare and contrast developments in the two periods, dealing with the themes of: * growth and welfare * industry * labour * social policy * the economy. Combining a narrative with a conceptual and analytic approach,Modern Britain...
Pen and Sword History, 2016. — 208 p. This is a strong narrative of the war, easy to read, mixing news with personal feelings and events (often revealing gap between official news and reality). The diary captures the authors' growing disillusionment with the war, as it gradually encroaches on her life. The diary starts with great excitement, realizing its importance but...
University of Virginia Press, 2013. — 286 p. Exploring the fate of the ideal of the English gentleman once the empire he was meant to embody declined, Praseeda Gopinath argues that the stylization of English masculinity became the central theme, focus, and conceit for many literary texts that represented the "condition of Britain" in the 1930s and the immediate postwar era....
University of Virginia Press, 2013. — 286 p. Exploring the fate of the ideal of the English gentleman once the empire he was meant to embody declined, Praseeda Gopinath argues that the stylization of English masculinity became the central theme, focus, and conceit for many literary texts that represented the "condition of Britain" in the 1930s and the immediate postwar era....
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 288 p. The First World War introduced the widespread use of lethal chemical weapons. In its aftermath, the British government, like that of many states, had to prepare civilians to confront such weapons in a future war. Over the course of the interwar period, it developed individual anti-gas protection as a cornerstone of civil defence. Susan...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 329 p. It is often assumed that politicians are swept along by global forces and influences, without the power – or the desire – to shape events. By contrast, this book is concerned with the way that cultural values, individual moral sentiments and politicians’ interpretation of economic and other imperatives have helped to shape political...
Faber and Faber, 2011. — 400 p. Patriotism Perverted is an exploration of British anti-Semitism in the last six months of peace and the first year of the Second World War. It shows how, against the backdrop of an endemic British 'social anti-Semitism', a virulent form of this tendency was able to emerge in the late Thirties in a variety of extremist movements. These movements...
Pavilion, 2018. — 160 p. An internationally admired figure Queen Elizabeth II is the most high-profile monarch in the world, and her enduring popularity is tantamount to her wide-ranging supporters. Spanning from 1927 to present day, Elizabeth reveals the details of Britain's longest-reigning monarch's extraordinary life.Sarah Gristwood follows the twists and turns of Elizabeth...
University of Toronto Press, 2021. — 375 p. Based on a decade of research in over twenty archives, The Chronology of Revolution is an accessible and richly detailed work of historical and cultural analysis that fixes its gaze on the legacy of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Communists anticipated that the party, formed in the world's first industrialized nation,...
Routledge, 1999. — 334 p. A timely reference guide to the Labour Party which brings together the essential facts and figures about the Party since its foundation through to the 'New Labour' of the 1990's. It is the essential reference book for anyone wanting reliable information on the Labour Party.
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 288 p. Nowhere in Europe are people more likely to enjoy a regular flutter in stocks and shares than in Britain. Whether we consider the millions of online stockbroking accounts or the billions spent on spread betting - it is a national pastime in today's Britain to play the markets. How did this distinctively British obsession with investment...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 320 p. Peace and Power in Cold War Britain explores the ban the bomb and anti-Vietnam War movements from the perspective of media history, focusing in particular on the relationship between radicalism and the rise of television. In doing so, it addresses two questions, both of which seem to recur with each major breakthrough in communications...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 320 p. A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes. The...
Pen and Sword Military, 1990. — 262 p. This is a memoir with a difference, Its author, Air Marshal Sir Peter Horsley, was deprived in his earliest years of both parents. The youngest by several years of a family of seven, he has what he himself describes as 'a miserable start'. Though given a traditional middle-class upbringing through the generosity of relations, his restless...
I.B. Tauris, 2011. — 288 p. Twentieth-century developments have altered the position of women beyond all recognition. Women's suffrage and equal rights, the consumer society, control of fertility, the sexual revolution, and the millennium's new breed of female breadwinners have made this a transformative period for women. This anthology of original sources is accompanied by...
Random House, 1992. — 528 p. Between the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s the First World War opens like a gap in time. England after the war was a different place; the arts were different; history was different; sex, society, class were all different. Samuel Hynes examines the process of that transformation. He explores a vast cultural mosaic comprising novels and poetry,...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 590 p. This is a ground-breaking history of the British monarchy in the First World War and of the social and cultural functions of monarchism in the British war effort. Heather Jones examines how the conflict changed British cultural attitudes to the monarchy, arguing that the conflict ultimately helped to consolidate the crown's sacralised...
Routledge, 2002. — 245 p. Unlike many nations Britain had not developed a national citizenship by the 20th century. Instead belonging in Britain was merely a function of allegiance to the Crown. This lack of definition was seen as beneficial. This title explores the implications of such vagueness as a new millennium begins.
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 408 p. The first woman elected to lead a major Western power and the longest serving British prime minister for 150 years, Margaret Thatcher is arguably one the most dominant and divisive forces in 20th-century British politics. Yet there has been no overarching exploration of the development of Thatcher's views towards Northern Ireland from her...
Frank Cass, 2003. — 303 p. This new collection of essays by a panel of established international scholars sheds new light on what some of those influences were and what actions were taken as a result of Britain's Far Eastern commitments. Not only are new evidence and approaches to those issues addressed presented, but new avenues for further research are clearly outlined. This new...
Routledge, 1991. — 208 p. Exploring the spatial and cultural links between metropolitan core and colonial periphery centres, the author argues a case for a global approach to understanding modern cities.
Routledge, 1999. — 232 p. In the aftermath of the Great War, multilateral disarmament was placed at the top of the international agenda by the Treaty of Versailles and the Covenant of the League of Nations. This book analyzes the naval, air and land disarmament policies of successive British governments from 1919 to 1934, articulating their dilemma either to fulfil their...
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. - 662 p.
Before the First World War, the British Admiralty conceived a plan to win rapid victory in the event of war with Germany - economic warfare on an unprecedented scale.This secret strategy called for the state to exploit Britain's effective monopolies in banking, communications, and shipping - the essential infrastructure...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 511 p. This handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume on the history and memory of the Holocaust in Britain. It traces the complex relationship between Britain and the destruction of Europe’s Jews, from societal and political responses to persecution in the 1930s, through formal reactions to war and genocide, to works of...
Routledge, 2020. — 245 p. Historians of political history are fascinated by the rise and fall of political parties and, for twentieth-century Britain, most obviously the rise of the Labour Party and the decline of the Liberal Party. What is often overlooked in this political development is the work of the Independent Labour Party (ILP), which was a formative influence in the...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 565 p. In the twentieth century England lost an empire, built a welfare state, and began to accept the idea of being part of Europe. Abroad her relative power declined; at home life became more tolerable for the unfortunate and more secure for the majority of the people. This book surveys these two great currents of change and examines their...
Amberley Publishing, 2016. — 96 p. The enduring popularity of the BBC TV series Dad's Army has focused attention on one of the strangest and least military armies ever formed - the British Home Guard. What started as an improvised band of volunteers had grown by 1942 into a conscripted, disciplined and well-equipped force with a strength of nearly two million men. Norman...
Liverpool University Press, 2019. — 384 p. This work makes an original and important contribution both to the field of British fascist/extreme Right studies and to the Ulster question. Given that British fascism was a phenomenon of the inter-war period, first making its appearance shortly after the Irish question had been constitutionally settled by the creation of the Irish...
Croom Helm, 1980. — 224 p. The continuing interest in the history, ideas, structure and development of fascism in Britain in the twentieth century appears to show little sign of diminishing. This collection of essays, first published in 1980, deals in some depth with new evidence and interpretations of the phenomenon of British fascism and provides a reassessment of some of the...
The History Press, 2021. — 144 p. The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Sheffield offers an intimate portrayal of the city and its people living in the shadow of the Great War for five years. A beautifully illustrated and highly accessible volume, it recounts the tale of a Boy Scout leader's...
Lawrence and Wishart, 1987. — 300 p. The Communist Party of Great Britain was the largest communist party in Great Britain. Founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist parties, the CPGB gained the support of many socialist organisations and trade unions following the political fallout of the First World War and the Russian October Revolution. Ideologically the...
Picador, 2011. — 1100 p. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the turn of the Millennium, Britain has been utterly transformed by an extraordinary century of war and peace. A History of 20th Century Britain collects together for the first time Andrew Marr's two bestselling volumes A History of Modern Britain and The Making of Modern Britain. Together, they tell the story of...
Macmillan, 2011. — 448 p. With the flair for narrative and the meticulous research that readers have come to expect, in The Diamond Queen Andrew Marr turns his attention to the monarch – and to the monarchy, chronicling the Queen’s pivotal role at the centre of the state, which is largely hidden from the public gaze, and making a strong case for the institution itself. Arranged...
Henry Holt and Company, 2012. — 368 p. A surprising and very personal biography of a woman who may be the world's last great queen, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of her reign Elizabeth II, one of England's longest-reigning monarchs, is an enigma. In public, she confines herself to optimistic pieties and guarded smiles; in private, she is wry, funny, and an...
Routledge, 2003 - 256 p. ISBN10: 0714683744 ISBN13: 9780714683744 (eng)
Before Michael I. Handel died his colleagues and students compiled this collection of essays that were written for a conference on strategy held during 2001. The papers address Churchill's views and ideas on war, strategy and realpolitik.
Manchester University Press, 2011. — 272 p. Military Service Tribunals were formed following the introduction of conscription in January 1916, to consider applications for exemption from military service. Swiftly, they gained two opposing yet equally unflattering reputations. In the eyes of the military, they were soft, obstructionist "old duffers". To most of the men who came...
Faber and Faber, 2022. — 464 p. A gripping investigation into one of Irish history’s greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals the true story behind one of the most significant political assassinations to ever have been committed on British soil. On 22 June 1922, Sir Henry Wilson – the former head of the British army and one of those credited with winning the First World War –...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2012. — 293 p. A history of walking over the British countryside. Published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Ramblers' Association, 'Ramble On' tells the story of how country walks were transformed from a small and often illegal pastime to the most popular recreational activity in the country. From the brave band of hikers who scaled the...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2004, -417p This book addresses one of the least understood issues in modern international history: how, between 1930 and 1945, Britain lost its global pre-eminence to the United States. The crucial years are 1930 to 1940, for which until now no comprehensive examination of Anglo-American relations exists. Transition of Power analyses...
Atlantic Books, 2019. — 752 p. Throughout history there have been many long-running rivalries between party leaders, but there has never been a connection like that between Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill, who were leaders of their respective parties for a total of thirty-five years. Brought together in the epoch-making circumstances of the Second World War, they forged a...
New Amsterdam Books, 2002. — 368 p. Compellingly written and even-handed in its judgments, this is by far the clearest account of what has happened through the years in the Northern Ireland conflict, and why. After a chapter of background on the period from 1921 to 1963, it covers the ensuing period―the descent into violence, the hunger strikes, the Anglo-Irish accord, the...
Pluto Press, 2021. — 256 p. From the anti-roads protests of the 1990s to HS2 and Extinction Rebellion, conflict and protest have shaped the politics of transport. In 1989, Margaret Thatcher's government announced 'the biggest road-building programme since the Romans.' This is the inside story of the thirty tumultuous years that have followed. Roads, Runways and Resistance draws...
Liverpool University Press, 2014. — 260 p. For the British Empire and its allies of the Great War, 1917 was a year marked by crises. But here and there glimmers of light pierced the gloom. Soldiers began solving the problems posed by trench warfare. The dominions asserted themselves in the councils of imperial power. And the US finally entered the war. This book examines the...
Routledge, 2021. — 236 p. Originally published in 1971, this book traces the revival, triumph, division and decline of the British Liberal Party in the late 19th & 20th centuries. It does so by focusing on the career of David Lloyd George, itself the decisive agent for change in this period. The first part of the book is an extended critical essay; the second part consists of...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 142 p. — (Very Short Introductions).
The last century has been a tumultuous one for the culture and politics of Britain. Kenneth Morgan's Twentieth-Century Britain is a crisp analysis of the forces of consensus and conflict that have existed in Britain since the First World War. Using a wide variety of sources, including the records of political...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 401 p. In England's Cross of Gold, James Ashley Morrison challenges the conventional view that the UK's ruinous return to gold in 1925 was inevitable. Instead, he offers a new perspective on the struggles among elites in London to define and redefine the gold standard―from the first discussions during the Great War; through the titanic...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 364 p. Winston Churchill had an acute appreciation of what belongs to war and what belongs to peace. We tend to remember his resistance to Nazi tyranny during the Second World War and his actions as a man of war. In this book, scholars from the United States, Great Britain, and South Africa examine his other actions and comments, those that...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 288 p. This volume is devoted to the shaping of British foreign and defence policymaking in the twentieth century and illustrates why it's relatively easy for states to lose their way as they grope for a safe passage forward when confronted by mounting international crises and the antics of a few desperate men.
Routledge, 2020. — 225 p. This book is a study of the British casino industry and how it has been shaped by criminality, prohibition, regulation and liberalization since the beginning of the First World War. The reader will gain a detailed knowledge of the history, culture, identity and participants within the British casino industry, which has, to date, escaped the attention...
London: The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1982. — 288 p. — ISBN 0 333 27192 0 (he); ISBN 0 333 27193 9 (pbk). Neither Enemies Nor Friends Contact and Conflict Living with a Revolution Our Fatal Choices The Wartime Alliance Cold War and Detente The Cultural And Economic Aspects Russophobia and Russophilia Russia and the Intellectuals The Impact on the Left Economic Relations Summing Up...
London: The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1982. — 288 p. — ISBN 0 333 27192 0 (he); ISBN 0 333 27193 9 (pbk). Neither Enemies Nor Friends Contact and Conflict Living with a Revolution Our Fatal Choices The Wartime Alliance Cold War and Detente The Cultural And Economic Aspects Russophobia and Russophilia Russia and the Intellectuals The Impact on the Left Economic Relations Summing Up...
NY : Nation Books, 2006. — 434 p. At seventeen, Bobby Sands was interested in music, girls, and soccer. Ten years later, he led his fellow prisoners on a protest that grabbed the world’s attention. Bobby Sands turned twenty-seven on hunger strike, after spending almost nine years in prison because of his activities as a member of the Irish Republican Army. When he died on May...
Routledge, 2004. — 232 p. Great Britain's economic blockade of Germany in World War I was one of the key elements to the victory of the Entente. Though Britain had been the leading exponent of blockades for two centuries, the World War I blockade was not effective at the outbreak of hostilities. Pre-war changes had led to the Admiralty supplanting the Royal Navy's leadership role...
Constable and Robinson, 2013. — 275 p. The British monarchy may be over a thousand years old, but the House of Windsor dates only from 1917, when, in the middle of the First World War that was to see the demise of the major thrones of continental Europe, it rebranded itself from the distinctly Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the homely and familiar Windsor. By redefining its...
Routledge, 2013. — 312 p. The origins of the post of Prime Minister can be traced back to the eighteenth century when Sir Robert Walpole became the monarch’s principal minister. From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early years of the twenty-first, however, both the power and the significance of the role have been transformed. British Prime Ministers from Balfour to...
Routledge, 2017. — 392 p. This introductory survey covers all aspects of the period when Britain was transformed into an industrial, urban society, with political power in the hands of the middle class. The Victorian turning point, 1868-1880. Fin de Siele, 1880-1900. Edwardian England, 1901-1914. Further reading.
Brill, 2018. — 279 p. — (Historical Materialism Book Series 171). In Social-Imperialism in Britain Neil Redfern examines the relationship between British labour and British capital in the two world wars of the twentieth century. He argues that the Second World War, the so-called ‘People’s War’, no less than the First World War, was an imperialist war. He further argues that in...
Pen and Sword, 2007. — 290 p. Major General Sir Roy Redgrave has enjoyed an unusual, some might say eccentric, life. Born into the same family as the well known actors, he was brought up in Romania as part of a thriving international community before he joined the British Army and advanced to high rank. Following on from the success of his memoir Balkan Blue the author has...
Pen and Sword Books, 2011. — 224 p. London was a target for Zeppelins and bombers during the First World War, for bombers, V1s and rockets in the Second, and for Cold War missiles and for terrorists in more recent times, yet rarely has the history of twentieth-century attacks on the capital been studied as a whole. Peter Reese, in this thought-provoking account, vividly...
Birlinn, 2021. — 336 p. Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as Hitler’s credulous dupe, the man who proclaimed in September 1938 that the Munich agreement guaranteed ‘peace in our time’. This is a magisterial reappraisal of Chamberlain and his legacy. It reveals the nuances of a complex and sensitive man who was a true radical and a man of passion, especially in all that...
Random House, 2021. — 288 p. The prequel to The Crown: the first truly candid portrait of George V and Mary, the Queen's grandparents and creators of the modern monarchy. The lasting reputation of George V is for dullness. His biographer Harold Nicolson famously quipped that 'he did nothing at all but kill animals and stick in stamps'. But is that really all there was to King...
Head of Zeus, 2014. — 464 p. Bestselling historian Andrew Roberts's much-admired reappraisal of one of the most influential - and controversial - British politicians of the 1930s. A fox-hunting Anglo-Catholic aristocrat, nicknamed 'The Holy Fox' by Churchill for his political guile, Halifax was one of the most prominent Tory politicians of the interwar period. As Viceroy of India,...
Routledge, 2022. — 401 p. 20th Century Britain provides an authoritative and accessible survey of contemporary research on economic activity, society, political development and culture. Written by leading academics, it examines recent advances in scholarship and gives a grounding in established approaches and topics. The first part comprises thematic essays covering the whole...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 445 p. This book explores the political and intellectual significance of Edward Heath’s leadership of the Conservative Party. It contains a series of original and distinctive chapters that feature extensive archival materials and original insights from leading political scientists and historians. The volume contributes significantly to our...
Cape Press, 1982. — 551 p. This book examines the British role in the origins of the conflict between the Soviet Union and the Western powers, which rapidly came to be known as the Cold War, from the vantage-point, primarily, of records in the Foreign Office. This stress on the opinions and actions of officials clearly requires a word of justification. At the beginning of 1943,...
Macmillan Education, 2003. — 360 p. This comprehensive study describes the major political events of the Twentieth-century in Britain in a cogent, lucid way. William D. Rubinstein presents the history, key personnel, problems and achievements of Britain's administrations, from Lord Salisbury's government in 1900 to Tony Blair's 'Cool Britannia'. Ideal for both students and...
Penguin, 2021. — 320 p. This remarkable book shines the brightest of lights into some of the darkest and most misunderstood corners of our shared history. In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in our imperial past. In prose that is, at once, both clear-eyed and full of...
Polity Press, 1991. — 200 p. The lifestyle, economic basis and political affiliations of the British upper class are the focus of this exciting new textbook. Combining a review of existing sociological theory on class and capitalism with material drawn from a great variety of sources it is likely to become a standard course text. Examining the question of whether there is still...
Routledge, 2003. — 540 p. This comprehensive survey of English history during the first half of the twentieth century has three main themes: the political and social consequences of the replacement of the Liberal Party by the Labour Party; the continuous development of the welfare state; and the changes in England’s imperial and international position caused by the ambitions of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 257 p. In 1907 the Probation of Offenders Act introduced a system which allowed offenders to be rehabilitated at home under supervision, rather than being sent to prison. This book explores how the probation system was used to regulate the private lives, emotions and behaviours of people in Britain between 1907 and 1962. Access to the private...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 304 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964 explores the reception, generation, and use of economic ideas in the British Liberal Party between its electoral decline in the 1920s and 1930s, and its post-war revival under Jo Grimond. Drawing on archival sources, party publications, and the press, this...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 220 p. Mick Mannock, Fighter Pilot is the authoritative life story of Britain and Ireland's most successful fighter pilot of the First World War; a working class hero and staunch socialist who in the skies above the Western Front combined engineering prowess, tactical initiative, and grim determination to become an inspirational squadron commander.
Yale University Press, 2019. — 288 p. After the tragic consequences of his involvement in the catastrophic Dardanelles Campaign of World War I, Churchill’s political career seemed over. He was widely regarded as little more than a bombastic and unpredictable buccaneer until, in 1921, an unexpected inheritance heralded a series of events that laid the foundations for his future...
Manchester University Press, 2022. — 248 p. When Britain left the European Union in January 2021, it set out on a new journey. Shorn of empire and now the EU too, Britain’s economy is as national as it has ever been. A decade or so since globalisation seemed inevitable, this is a remarkable reversal. How did this happen? Britain alone argues that this “nationalisation” ―...
Macmillan Education, 2003. — 348 p. How and why did Britain become involved in the First World War? Taking into account the scholarship of the last twenty-five years, this second edition of Zara S. Steiner's classic study, thoroughly revised with Keith Neilson, explores a subject which is as highly contentious as ever. While retaining the basic argument that Britain went to war...
Halsgrove, 2008. - 162 p.
Norfolk in the Great War is an evocative portrait of the of the county during the First World War. It reveals the huge turmoil in the county caused by the war, including the mobilization of troops, the requisitioning of animals, the care of casualties, and the shortages of food. The author also describes how the Home Front also became the front line of...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 465 p. What did sex mean for ordinary people before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, who were often pitied by later generations as repressed, unfulfilled and full of moral anxiety? This book provides the first rounded, first-hand account of sexuality in marriage in the early and mid-twentieth century. These award-winning authors...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 752 p. — (The Oxford History of England). Beginning on August 4, 1914, the day Britain entered the "Great War," this book guides us through three decades of unparalleled upheaval and change in Britain that eventually lead to the defeat of Japan in 1945--a momentous event that marked the end of the Second World War. Twin themes of international...
Routledge, 2022. — 156 p. In order to understand today's nationalism, we need to address the historical decline of working-class communities, the sense of loss brought by deindustrialisation and how working-class people have been denied a voice in society and politics. Discontent has manifested strongly in these deprived post-industrial areas, often branded as communities that...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 502 p. How has the UK evolved into the country it is today? This clear, comprehensive survey of its history since 1900 explores the political, economic, social and cultural changes which have divided the nation and held it together, and how these changes were experienced by individuals and communities. Pat Thane challenges conventional...
House of Commons Library, 2012. — 157 p. Olympic Britain is not just about the enormous leap in human physical achievement over the past century. It tells the story of the profound economic and social change this country has witnessed since those first Games in London in 1908. It does so through the medium of statistics which, among other things, tell us that of the 1.1 million...
Routledge, 2021. — 275 p. This book, first published in 1967, examines the foundations and the substance of the Montgomery Legend. His appearance upon the scene in the Western Desert coincided with a change in warfare as ‘ironmongery replaced generalship’, as General Fuller observed, and with Montgomery’s victories came a British need for a Champion for all to see. The public...
The Stationery Office Bookshops, 1998. — 580 p. Overwiew of cabinet machinery and involvement in colonial/imperial affairs. Cabinet commities 1925-1957. Summaries of relevant cabinet office classes. Prime minister`s office. Foreign office. The treasury. Interdepartemental comissions. International organizations.
Routledge, 2020. — 329 p. This book answers the question why London has been a stronghold for the Labour Party for relatively long periods of the last century and continues to be so to this day to an extent that surprises contemporaries. The book draws on evidence from history and political sociology as well as the personal experience of the author in London local government...
Hurst, 2022. — 470 p. Over Britain's first century of mass democracy, politics lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of broken consensus and political agony illuminate our current age of upheaval? Historians usually focus on the dawn of a new consensus--postwar Keynesianism, or Thatcherite neoliberalism. Yet journalist Phil Tinline argues that we should be more...
Suffolk: St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, 2003. — 280 p. The British Labour Party ended the twentieth century as it began it, at its formation in 1900 – as a non-socialist party, albeit with many socialists among it numbers. Between 1918 and 1995, however, Labour was formally committed to the common ownership of the means of production. Yet whether, during this period, Labour was at any...
London: Royal Historical Society, 2003. — 280 p. — ISBN10: 9780861932627; ISBN13: 978-0861932627 — (Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series. Book 32) In the general election of 1931, the Labour Party campaigned on the slogan `Plan or Perish'. The party's pledge to create a planned socialist economy was a novelty, and marked the rejection of the gradualist,...
The History Press, 2018. — 256 p. In February 1918, Lady Northcliffe, wife of the owner of The Daily Mail and The Times had the idea of raising funds for the Red Cross by asking women to give a pearl as a tribute to the dead and the wounded in the Great War. The plan was to create a necklace which would be auctioned at Christie’s. However, the idea grew beyond her greatest...
The History Press, 2022. — 224 p. It is 1952 and Britain is changing. The Second World War is over, but the country is still scarred, recovering from six years of horror and still in the grip of food rationing. The British Empire is crumbling as countries fight for their independence both literally and physically. And George VI, the king who had refused to abandon London, is...
History Press, 2011. — 193 p. The six children of King George V and Queen Mary all lived to maturity except the youngest, Prince John. The eldest, who was Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, reigned as King Edward VII for less than a year. His infamous romance with Mrs Simpson plunged the country into the abdication crisis and led both of them into a long period of exile....
The History Press, 2014. — 132 p. Home to all three armed services, Plymouth was greatly affected by both major conflicts of the twentieth century. Between 1914 and 1918, Devonport Dockyard was responsible for much routine repair and maintenance work as well as building new ships and submarines, while the marines and army battalions were active in various theaters of war...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 227 + xvi p. — ISBN: 978–0–230–01335–3. This study traces the resurgence of a conservative suffrage leadership, questions the inevitability of the narrow franchise granted to women in 1918, and suggests that something important was lost, especially to the Labour party and to feminism, when a broad vision of democracy and patriotism became a casualty...
London: Random House, 2016. — 526 p. — ISBN: 9781407013077. This is the story of the social and political history of London in the 20th century. The book presents London as a city of sustained and sometimes delicately balanced paradoxes, and of diverse geography and peoples. From its fin de siecle imperial splendour, amidst pockets of appalling poverty, to its revitalized...
A historical book. — The Bodley Head, 2014. — 356 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84792-165-9. Keep the home fires burning... 11pm, Tuesday 4 August 1914: For the next four years the people of London would find themselves at the hub of the ever-enlarging storm of World War One. The many tangled threads of Britain’s war converged on the capital: the majority of munitions were manufactured...
London : Constable, 1918. — 288 p. Subject (keywords, tags): World War, 1914-1918; War; Great Britain - Defenses. Description To my countrymen. The story of war. What is peace? What is war?- England and Germany. Thoughts on the war. The theory of war.- The Dardanelles commission. Neglected aspects of the war. The British constitution and the conduct of war
Michael Joseph, 1986. — 244 p. James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE (1916 – 1995) was a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from October 1964 to June 1970, and again from March 1974 to April 1976. He was the Leader of the Labour Party from 1963 to 1976, and was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1983. Wilson is the only...
Ballantine, 1958. — 255 p. Much more than a military history, rather an invocation which summons out from the depths of the past the catastrophic year 1917. Here is brought to light again all its many facets, its antagonisms, its blunders, its horrors and its heroism, and also their repercussions on politics and social life. In an extraordinary way the author recaptures the...
Lnd. -N. -Y. : F. Cass, 2004. - 367 p.
World War I conjures up visions of barbed wire, trenches, mud and massive and futile offensives with horrendous casualties. The frustrating stalemate on the western front with its unprecedented casualties provoked a furious debate in London between the civil and military authorities over the best way to defeat Germany. The passions aroused...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2003. — 602 p. — (Blackwell Companions to British History). This Companion brings together 32 new essays by leading historians to provide a reassessment of British history in the early twentieth century. The contributors present lucid introductions to the literature and debates on major aspects of the political, social and economic history of Britain between...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 216 p. Maidstone in the Great War tells the remarkable story of this Kent county town's immense contribution to the Great War effort from the outbreak of war in 1914, to the long-awaited Allied victory in 1918. Maidstone has a long and illustrious military history it even had its own Civil War battle, dating back to 1648 and with the onset of the...
М.: Воениздат, 1937. - 148 с.
В книге генерала Эдварда Бейли Ашмора, возглавлявшего в годы Первой мировой войны британские войска ПВО, излагается история возникновения и развития противовоздушной обороны Великобритании. Книга содержит также практические предложения относительно организации противовоздушной обороны на территории Соединенного Королевства. В свое время она оказала...
М.: Воениздат, 1937. - 148 с.
В книге генерала Эдварда Бейли Ашмора, возглавлявшего в годы Первой мировой войны британские войска ПВО, излагается история возникновения и развития противовоздушной обороны Великобритании. Книга содержит также практические предложения относительно организации противовоздушной обороны на территории Соединенного Королевства. В свое время она оказала...
М.; Л.: Соцэкгиз, 1936. — 298 с. Предлагаемая читателю книга состоит из трех частей: 1) появившаяся а Лондоне в октябре 1935 г., непосредственно перед английскими выборами, книга «Расследование о мире» («Inquest on peace») трех анонимных публицистов, примыкающих к рабочей партии и пишущих по вопросам внешней политики в журнале «New Statesman» под псевдонимом «Бдительные»...
Пересмотренное и дополненное издание. Перевод с английского А. Д. Аникина и В. Л. Мартенса. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1959. — 738 с. Р. Палм Датт — вице-председатель Коммунистической партии Англии — широко известен советскому читателю как автор ряда научных марксистских трудов, посвященных теории и практике рабочего движения, проблемам империализма и общего...
М.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1951. — 169 с. Обострение противоречий английского капитализма после второй мировой войны. Лейбористские оруженосцы монополий. Поход против буржуазно-демократических прав и свобод. Бюрократизация государственного аппарата и его сращение с монополиями. Крушение конституционных принципов английской «демократии». Банкротство парламентаризма....
М.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1951. — 169 с. Обострение противоречий английского капитализма после второй мировой войны. Лейбористские оруженосцы монополий. Поход против буржуазно-демократических прав и свобод. Бюрократизация государственного аппарата и его сращение с монополиями. Крушение конституционных принципов английской «демократии». Банкротство парламентаризма....
Москва: Изд-во и тип. Гос. изд-ва иностр. лит., 1947. — 143 с. Книга Фредерика Мэллали рассказывает о прошлой и нынешней деятельности фашистских организаций в Англии. Советский читатель прочтет ее с интересом, так как до сих пор с фактами и событиями, описанными автором, можно было ознакомиться лишь по кратким газетным сообщениям. Мы узнаем, что в Англии, кичащейся своими...
Москва: Изд-во и тип. Гос. изд-ва иностр. лит., 1947. — 143 с. Книга Фредерика Мэллали рассказывает о прошлой и нынешней деятельности фашистских организаций в Англии. Советский читатель прочтет ее с интересом, так как до сих пор с фактами и событиями, описанными автором, можно было ознакомиться лишь по кратким газетным сообщениям. Мы узнаем, что в Англии, кичащейся своими...
М.: Изд-во Акад. наук СССР, 1958. — 264 с. Изучение государственного строя и политических партий Великобритании весьма важно для понимания глубоких исторических процессов, развивающихся на наших глазах. Авторы этой книги задались целью рассказать тем советским читателям, которые интересуются международной политикой, как управляется Великобритания и Британская империя, какие...
М.: Изд-во Акад. наук СССР, 1958. — 264 с. Изучение государственного строя и политических партий Великобритании весьма важно для понимания глубоких исторических процессов, развивающихся на наших глазах. Авторы этой книги задались целью рассказать тем советским читателям, которые интересуются международной политикой, как управляется Великобритания и Британская империя, какие...
М.: Изд-во Акад. Наук СССР, 1955. — 476 с. Английская политика в Европе накануне второй мировой войны — такова тема книги. Ее хронологические рамки ограничены двумя событиями, которым суждено надолго остаться в памяти человечества: мюнхенским сговором империалистических государств 30 сентября 1938 г. и нападением фашистской Германии на Польшу 1 сентября 1939 г. Рассматривая эту...
М.: Изд-во Акад. Наук СССР, 1955. — 476 с. Английская политика в Европе накануне второй мировой войны — такова тема книги. Ее хронологические рамки ограничены двумя событиями, которым суждено надолго остаться в памяти человечества: мюнхенским сговором империалистических государств 30 сентября 1938 г. и нападением фашистской Германии на Польшу 1 сентября 1939 г. Рассматривая эту...
Учебное пособие. — Москва: Вузовский учебник: Инфра-М, 2012. — 472 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9558-0244-2; ISBN: 978-5-16-005388-2. Цель данного учебного пособия – представить целостную картину развития британского общества в XX – начале XXI в. В книге рассматриваются основные проблемы внутренней, внешней и колониальной политики Великобритании, особенности политического и экономического...
М.: Государственное издательство политической литературы, 1960. — 100 с.
В настоящий выпуск «Библиотечки по научному социализму» включены работы видного деятеля английского и международного рабочего движения Гарри Поллита: «Коммунистическая партия и лейбористская партия», «Народ решит» (доклад на XXIV Национальном съезде КПВ), «Октябрьская революция и английское рабочее...
М.: Государственное издательство политической литературы, 1960. — 100 с.
В настоящий выпуск «Библиотечки по научному социализму» включены работы видного деятеля английского и международного рабочего движения Гарри Поллита: «Коммунистическая партия и лейбористская партия», «Народ решит» (доклад на XXIV Национальном съезде КПВ), «Октябрьская революция и английское рабочее...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2001. — 476 с. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN 5-89329-447-5. Монография является первым в отечественной научной литературе исследованием деятельности Союза фашистов Освальда Мосли. В работе анализируются проекты лидеров фашистов по переустройству британского общества, рассматриваются организационная структура и главные направления политической активности Союза, а также...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2001. — 476 с. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN 5-89329-447-5. Монография является первым в отечественной научной литературе исследованием деятельности Союза фашистов Освальда Мосли. В работе анализируются проекты лидеров фашистов по переустройству британского общества, рассматриваются организационная структура и главные направления политической активности Союза, а...
М.: Мысль, 1972. — 478 с. — (Экономика и политика стран современного капитализма). В книге анализируются новейшие явления в экономике и политике современной Великобритании. Дана характеристика производственной и финансовой базы британского империализма, сдвигов во внешнеэкономических связях страны. Большое внимание уделено анализу структуры монополистического капитала и...
М.: Мысль, 1972. — 478 с. — (Экономика и политика стран современного капитализма). В книге анализируются новейшие явления в экономике и политике современной Великобритании. Дана характеристика производственной и финансовой базы британского империализма, сдвигов во внешнеэкономических связях страны. Большое внимание уделено анализу структуры монополистического капитала и...
М.: Политиздат, 1970. - 112 с.
Настоящую брошюру, выходящую в серии «Великая сила ленинских идей», написал по просьбе Политиздата для советских читателей один из старейших английских коммунистов, товарищ Эндрю Ротштейн. Автор рассказывает о трудах В. И. Ленина, посвященных британскому социалистическому движению, об огромном значении ленинских идей для развития рабочего движения...
М.: Политиздат, 1970. - 112 с.
Настоящую брошюру, выходящую в серии «Великая сила ленинских идей», написал по просьбе Политиздата для советских читателей один из старейших английских коммунистов, товарищ Эндрю Ротштейн. Автор рассказывает о трудах В. И. Ленина, посвященных британскому социалистическому движению, об огромном значении ленинских идей для развития рабочего движения...
М.: Госполитиздат, 1951. — 88 с. Когда рядовые английские избиратели голосовали летом 1945 г. за лейбористов, они верили, что лейбористские лидеры наладят хорошие отношения с Советским Союзом... В результате выборов лейбористы получили в парламенте 393 места из 640, т. е. абсолютное большинство. Отдав свои голоса лейбористам, английские пролетарии, простые люди Англии,...
М.: АПН, 1985. — 360 с. с илл. На основе личных встреч, бесед, наблюдений известный советский журналист В.Симонов рисует социально-политическую картину жизни Британии начала 80-х годов. В открывающейся перед читателем панораме событий особенно впечатляют эпизоды, в которых рассказывается о голодовке узников Ольстера, о судьбах безработных, число которых за годы правления тори...
МГУ: 1985. — 152 с.
Монография посвящена изучению важных социально-экономических процессов в Англии в период первой мировой войны; рассматриваются причины,
вызвавшие резкое усиление государственного вмешательства в экономику, исследуются основные формы и методы государственного регулирования в
промышленности, сельском хозяйстве, в торговле, на транспорте, в...
М.: Издательство Московского университета, 1985. — 152 с. Монография посвящена изучению важных социально-экономических процессов в Англии в период первой мировой войны; рассматриваются причины, вызвавшие резкое усиление государственного вмешательства в экономику, исследуются основные формы и методы государственного регулирования в промышленности, сельском хозяйстве, в торговле,...
М.: Госиздат, 1928.
Книга "Secrets of Crew House, The Story of a Famous Campaign" написана одним из основных руководителей и вдохновителей английской политической работы по разложению своих противников, сэром К. Стюартом (Sir Campbell Stuart). Издание содержит подробное изложение организации, политических принципов, методов и техники пропаганды.
М.: Прогресс, 1975. — 487 с. Монографию английского историка А. Сэмпсона на родине автора и за рубежом часто называют энциклопедией британского образа жизни. "Новая анатомия Британии" содержит детальное, конкретное, живое описание многих существенных аспектов современного британского государства. Моя цель - объясняет Сэмпсон, - пригласить читателя на экскурсию по коридорам...
М.: Издательство Прогресс, 1975. — 487 с. Монографию английского историка А. Сэмпсона на родине автора и за рубежом часто называют энциклопедией британского образа жизни. "Новая анатомия Британии" содержит детальное, конкретное, живое описание многих существенных аспектов современного британского государства. Моя цель - объясняет Сэмпсон, - пригласить читателя на экскурсию по...
М.: Соцэкгиз, 1958. — 592 с. Подъём рабочего движения в Англии в 1919—1920 гг. Борьба английского народа против антисоветской политики Ллойд-Джорджа — Черчилля. Контрнаступление буржуазии на рабочий класс в 1921—1923 гг. Англия в период временной, частичной стабилизации капитализма. Англия в период мирового экономического кризиса. Внутренняя и внешняя политика Англии накануне...
М.: Соцэкгиз, 1958. - 592 с.
Содержание
Подъём рабочего движения в Англии в 1919—1920 гг.
Борьба английского народа против антисоветской политики Ллойд-Джорджа — Черчилля
Контрнаступление буржуазии на рабочий класс в 1921—1923 гг.
Англия в период временной, частичной стабилизации капитализма
Англия в период мирового экономического кризиса
Внутренняя и внешняя политика...
М.: Родина, 2023. — 122 с. — (Документальный триллер). — ISBN 978-5-00180-898-5. В 1947 году рухнула великая Британская империя. Сейчас, в начале 2020-х годов, развал угрожает уже самому Соединённому королевству. Подъём шотландского и ирландского национализма всё больше угрожает монопольной власти Лондона. Веками угнетённые кельтские народы отказываются и дальше мириться с...
М.: Родина, 2023. — 122 с. — (Документальный триллер). — ISBN 978-5-00180-898-5. В 1947 году рухнула великая Британская империя. Сейчас, в начале 2020-х годов, развал угрожает уже самому Соединённому королевству. Подъём шотландского и ирландского национализма всё больше угрожает монопольной власти Лондона. Веками угнетённые кельтские народы отказываются и дальше мириться с...
М.: Родина, 2023. — 122 с. — (Документальный триллер). — ISBN 978-5-00180-898-5. В 1947 году рухнула великая Британская империя. Сейчас, в начале 2020-х годов, развал угрожает уже самому Соединённому королевству. Подъём шотландского и ирландского национализма всё больше угрожает монопольной власти Лондона. Веками угнетённые кельтские народы отказываются и дальше мириться с...
М.: Соцэкгиз, 1940 г. - 140 с. Сокращенный перевод с английского Т.Давыдова. Книга Хэкси приподнимает край завесы над пресловутой «английской демократией». И даже невооруженному глазу становится видно, что эта «демократия» - синоним реакционнейшей диктатуры финансового капитала Англии. Книга с пользой и интересом будет прочитана советским читателем. содержание: Предисловие...
Новое, исправл. издание. М.: Профиздат, 1956. – 206 с.
Об английском тред-юнионизме написано множество книг буржуазными литераторами, социологами и историками. Однако среди этой литературы очень трудно найти издания, в которых научно освещалось бы развитие тред-юнионизма.В книге «Британский тред-юнионизм», изданной британским Институтом политического и экономического...
Новое, исправл. издание. М.: Профиздат, 1956. – 206 с.
Об английском тред-юнионизме написано множество книг буржуазными литераторами, социологами и историками. Однако среди этой литературы очень трудно найти издания, в которых научно освещалось бы развитие тред-юнионизма.В книге «Британский тред-юнионизм», изданной британским Институтом политического и экономического...
Новое, исправл. издание. М.: Профиздат, 1956. – 206 с.
Об английском тред-юнионизме написано множество книг буржуазными литераторами, социологами и историками. Однако среди этой литературы очень трудно найти издания, в которых научно освещалось бы развитие тред-юнионизма.В книге «Британский тред-юнионизм», изданной британским Институтом политического и экономического...
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