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The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britain in 21 Mixtapes - by Hugh Hodges

£21.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781629638843 | ISBN 10: 1629638846

This is the late 1970s and ’80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other bands and solo artists. Each chapter presen ... more
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The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey - by Julia Laite

£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788164436 | ISBN 10: 1788164431

1910, Wellington, New Zealand. Lydia Harvey is sixteen, working long hours for low pay, when a glamorous couple invite her to Buenos Aires. She accepts - and disappears. London, England. Amid a global panic about sex trafficking, detectives ... more
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The Northern Question: A Political History of the North-South Divide - by Tom Hazeldine

£20.00 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786634061 | ISBN 10: 1786634066

Britain has scarcely begun to come to terms with its recent upheavals, from the crisis over Brexit to the collapse of Labour's 'red wall'. What can explain such momentous shifts? In this essential work, Tom Hazeldine excavates the history of a d ... more
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The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places - by Neil Oliver

£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784165352 | ISBN 10: 1784165352

From much-loved historian Neil Oliver, comes this beautifully written, kaleidoscopic history of a place with a story like no other. The British Isles, this archipelago of islands, is to Neil Oliver the best place in the world. From north to ... more
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Waiting for the Revolution: The British Far Left from 1956 - by Evan Smith and Matthew Worley (Editors)

£14.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781526113665 | ISBN 10: 152611366x

Waiting for the Revolution is a volume of essays examining the diverse currents of British left-wing politics from 1956 to the present day. The book is designed to complement the previous volume, Against the grain: The far left in Britain from 1956, ... more
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Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State - by Chris Renwick

£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141980355 | ISBN 10: 0141980354

SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY PRIZE 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 A landmark book from a remarkable new historian, on a subject that has never been more important - or imperilled Today, everybody seems to agree tha ... more
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Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride: 30 Years of Gay Britain - by Paul Flynn

£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785032936 | ISBN 10: 1785032933

In 1984 the pulsing electronics and soft vocals of Smalltown Boy would become an anthem uniting gay men. A month later, an aggressive virus, HIV, would be identified and a climate of panic and fear would spread across the nation, marginalising an alr ... more
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Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century - by John Higgs

£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780226576 | ISBN 10: 1780226578

The twentieth century should make sense. It's the period of history that we know the most about, an epic geo-political narrative that runs through World War One, the great depression, World War Two, the American century and the fall of the Berlin Wal ... more
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The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes - by Brian Dillon

£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241956762 | ISBN 10: 0241956765

The Great Explosion by Brian Dillon: a masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable place. In April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the Kentish ... more
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Modernity Britain 1957-1962 - by David Kynaston

£14.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408844380 | ISBN 10: 1408844389

David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour governments of the late 1940s in Austerity Britain and through the growing prosperity of Family Britain's more placid 1950s. Now Modernity Britain 19 ... more
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The Gardens of the British Working Class - by Margaret Willes

£13.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780300212358 | ISBN 10: 0300212356

This magnificently illustrated people�s history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted, and loved was not their own. Spanning more than four centuries, from t ... more
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Rebel Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Radical History - by David Rosenberg

£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745334097 | ISBN 10: 0745334091

The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital. Transporting readers from well-known landmarks to history-making hidden corners, David R ... more
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The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010 - by Selina Todd

£10.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781848548824 | ISBN 10: 1848548826

The twentieth century experienced by over 75% of Britons had little to do with the one we've been taught. The People tells OUR story for the first time.� The Sunday Times bestseller. � 'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or backgro ... more
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Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV - by Joe Moran

£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781846683923 | ISBN 10: 1846683920

The story of television and how it has changed our lives - from the moon landings to the X Factor.� But what does your furniture point at?' asks the character Joey in the sitcom Friends on hearing an acquaintance has no TV. It's a good question: s ... more
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The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records - by Stuart Maconie

£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780091933807 | ISBN 10: 0091933803

These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to. Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have sound tracked our changing times, and � ... more
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The People Speak: Democracy Is Not A Spectator Sport - by Colin Firth, Anthony Arnove and David Horspool

£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857864482 | ISBN 10: 0857864483

"The idea was simple - take the most impassioned speeches about the fight for what is right and bring them to life for a new generation."(Colin Firth) The People Speak tells the story of Britain through the voices of the visionaries, dissenter ... more
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No Such Thing As Society: A History of Britain in the 1980s - by Andy McSmith

£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849019798 | ISBN 10: 1849019797

A highly praised new history of that most turbulent of decades: the 1980s. The 1980s was the revolutionary decade of the twentieth century. To look back in 1990 at the Britain of ten years earlier was to look into another country. The chang ... more
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The Sixties - by Jenny Diski

£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846680045 | ISBN 10: 1846680042

Many books have been written on the Sixties: tributes to music and fashion, sex, drugs and revolution. In The Sixties, Jenny Diski breaks the mould, wryly dismantling the big ideas that dominated the era � liberation, permissiveness and self-inventio ... more
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Family Britain: 1951-1957 - by David Kynaston

£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408800836 | ISBN 10: 1408800837

Family Britain continues David Kynaston�s groundbreaking series Tales of a New Jerusalem, telling as never before the story of Britain from VE Day in 1945 to the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979. As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing ... more
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The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Trouble-making from the Normans to the Nineties - by David Horspool

£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141025476 | ISBN 10: 0141025476

The English have a rich and glorious history of making trouble for themselves. One hundred and forty years before the French Revolution, the English executed their king and instituted a radical revolutionary government. In 1215, more than 570 years b ... more
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A Radical History of Britain: Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries ... - by Edward Vallance

£14.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349120263 | ISBN 10: 0349120269

From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and colourful thread of radicalism runs through a thousand years of British history. In this fascinating st ... more
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The Book of English Magic - by Philip Carr-Gomm and Richard Heygate

£16.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848540415 | ISBN 10: 1848540418

The Book of English Magic explores the curious and little-known fact that of all the countries in the world, England has the richest history of magical lore and practice. English authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Terry Pratchett, and J. ... more
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When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies - by Andy Beckett

£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780571221370 | ISBN 10: 0571221378

The seventies are probably the most important and fascinating period in modern British political history. They encompass strikes that brought down governments, shock general election results, the rise of Margaret Thatcher and the fall of Edward Heath ... more
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The Slump: Britain in the Great Depression - by John Stevenson and Chris Cook

£22.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781408230107 | ISBN 10: 1408230100

The 1930s - remembered as the decade of dole queues and hunger marches, mass unemployment, the means test, and the rise of fascism - also saw the development of new industries, the growth of comfortable suburbia, and rising standards of living for ma ... more
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Balti Britain: A Journey Through the British Asian Experience - by Ziauddin Sardar

£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847080820 | ISBN 10: 1847080820

Ziauddin Sardar, whose acclaimed Desperately Seeking Paradise demystified Islam, gives his humane, sharp and witty perspective on the experience of being a British Asian.� Sardar travels to the main Asian communities in the UK, to Leicester and Bi ... more
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The Post-war Compromise: British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics 1945-64 - by Edited by Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman and John McIlroy

£18.95 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780850366013 | ISBN 10: 0850366011

This multifaceted text, written by authors from a range of disciplines, focuses on the politics of trade unionism - not only unions' relations with political parties and the state but also on the politics of workplace conflict and industrial action.& ... more
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Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain - by Adam Sinfield

£15.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780826494757 | ISBN 10: 0826494757

Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain is a landmark work in contemporary literary and cultural analysis. It offers a provocative and brilliant account of political change since 1945 and how such change shaped the cultural output of our ... more
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Behind the Lines: Revealing and Uncensored Letters from Our War-Torn World - by Andrew Carroll

£7.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780091903404 | ISBN 10: 0091903408

For three exhausting years Andrew Carroll travelled the world, zealously collecting unpublished letters and emails from soldiers and civilians from over 35 different countries. The letters covered a staggering range of events, from World Wars I and I ... more
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