Category: England

By Philip Ziegler

Written through Philip Ziegler, one among Britain's so much celebrated biographers, George VI is a part of the Penguin Monarchs sequence: brief, clean, specialist debts of England's rulers in a collectible format

If Ethelred used to be notoriously 'Unready' and Alfred 'Great', King George VI may still undergo the identify of 'George the Dutiful'.

Throughout his existence, George committed himself to the pursuit of what he suggestion he should be doing instead of what he desired to do. Inarticulate and loathing any type of public appearances, he permitted that it used to be his future to determine conspicuously within the public eye, gritted his the teeth, battled his crippling stammer and received on with it.

He was once now not born to be king, yet he made an admirable one, and was once the figurehead of the kingdom on the time of its maximum trial, the second one global warfare. it is a really good, touching and infrequently humorous ebook approximately this reluctant public determine, and the non-public man.

Philip Ziegler is the writer of the accredited biographies of Mountbatten, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath. His different books contain The Duchess of Dino, William IV, The Black Death and such a lot lately Olivier. firstly a diplomat, he labored for a few years in ebook publishing earlier than changing into a full-time author.

By Gervase Phinn

During this name, Gervase tells of a lifestyles jam-packed with happiness, dialog, song and books shared along with his 3 siblings, mom and dad. This ebook is a picture of growing to be up in Yorkshire within the Fifties - reminisce with Gervase, and percentage in his own trip - of college days and vacations in addition to his tentative steps into the grownup international. eat various uproarious tales together with the incident regarding a damaged greenhouse, crashing his brother's newly restored motorbike in addition to secrets and techniques approximately his first dates, adventures at summer time camp, family members journeys to Blackpool and lots of different appealing stories. With a depraved ear for the comical, and a pointy eye for element, this fantastically written e-book visits poignant moments, major occasions and beneficial stories from a boy referred to as Gervase.

By Alexandra Walsham

By Kevin Sharpe

This quantity explores the ebook and reception of authority in early sleek England. The chapters examine a extensive variety of ancient fabrics, permitting a wealthy historicisation of various texts and featuring the historical past of society and kingdom as a cultural in addition to an institutional or narrowly political history.

By Peter Brimacombe

Elizabeth i used to be the final English monarch really to rule the kingdom; she inherited a susceptible and divided nation but relentlessly formed it right into a significant international energy, and decisively defeated the mightiest invasion fleet ever to method our beaches. Her relationships with the main males within the country have been important to the good fortune of her reign. Her maximum attributes have been a smart judgement of human nature coupled with the unerring skill to settle on and encourage males. in the course of an extended and excellent reign, she surrounded herself with the ablest, such a lot full of life and fearless minds within the state. Her retinue used to be completely male however the basically guy she didn't pick out used to be a husband, even though there has been definitely no scarcity of suitors. Elizabeth was once devoutly non secular yet embraced the recent studying with calculated discrimination. She encouraged amazing structure, when her sea captains sailed nice oceans to find new beaches and based a effective out of the country empire. Centre level in those heady days...

By Tony Kushner

"In the modern British context, ‘heritage’ is a hugely politicized and contentious term", Tony Kusher writes in his creation to this edited selection of essays with reference to Jewish historical past, hence atmosphere the tone for a booklet as a lot drawn to the upkeep because it is the certainty of this culture.

This publication offers a extra theoretical framework for the pursuit of Jewish historiography and historical past protection in Britain. The essays amassed right here glance either to the earlier and to the longer term, discussing the character of the Jewish historical past that has already been produced and looking out towards chances of destiny improvement. Kushner has gathered a variety of topics from social historical past to structure to the query of Jewish women.

This e-book might be of curiosity to scholars of social background and ethnic stories, relatively Jewish background in London and Manchester. it will likely be additionally of a few use to these drawn to structure.

By Joan Thirsk

By Helmut Thome

In speedy allen ökonomisch hoch entwickelten Ländern ist die Gewaltkriminalität in der zweiten Hälfte des vorigen Jahrhunderts deutlich angestiegen - in Umkehrung eines langfristig rückläufigen traits individueller (außerstaatlicher) Gewaltanwendung seit Beginn der Neuzeit. Die Autoren entwickeln hierfür einen Erklärungsansatz, der vor allem von Norbert Elias' Zivilisationstheorie und Emile Durkheims Gesellschaftstheorie inspiriert worden ist. Sie präsentieren detaillierte Zeitreihen über die Entwicklung unterschiedlicher Formen der Gewaltkriminalität, die sodann in Beziehung gesetzt werden zu bestimmten Aspekten des ökonomischen und sozialen Strukturwandels in den drei Vergleichsländern, die ihrerseits auf Veränderungen des Integrationsmodus moderner Gesellschaften hinweisen. Die examine befasst sich insbesondere mit der Effektivität und Legitimität des staatlichen Gewaltmonopols, den wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Sicherungs- und Steuerungssystemen, Formen der Sozialkapitalbildung, ökonomischer und sozialer Ungleichheit, Prekarisierung von Arbeitsverhältnissen, verschiedenen Aspekten einer zunehmenden Ökonomisierung der Gesellschaft, dem Wandel von Familienstrukturen und der Nutzung von Massenmedien und modernen Kommunikationstechnologien.

By Paul Henderson Scott

Few occasions in our historical past have had such lasting outcomes because the Union of 1707, however it is generally misrepresented and misunderstood. there isn't any stable explanation for this as the evidence are transparent from the bright and clever bills of lots of these concerned. it's a interesting and wonderful tale. Paul Scott, who has researched those modern debts for a few years, explains how the Union happened, mostly within the phrases of significant individuals who both made the Union or resisted it.

By N. J. G. Pounds

This wide-ranging e-book lines the improvement of pop culture in England from the Iron Age, while it first grew to become obvious as an entire, to the eighteenth century. The booklet offers intensive with the fundamental foundations--shelter and housing, heat and safeguard, furniture and household comfort, foodstuff and its instruction, and ultra-familial and ultra-communal kinfolk. A separate bankruptcy is dedicated to the tradition of cities. The textual content is illustrated all through by means of items, artifacts and constructions, a lot of that are visible representations of previous cultures, significantly in sculpture and ornament.