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Orde Wingate and the British Army, 1922-1944
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2010; US$ 99.00Major General Orde Wingate (1903-1944) was the most controversial British military commander of the Second World War, and perhaps of the last hundred years. Anglim's biography fills a significant void in the literature, making extensive use of Wingate's papers to place him firmly in the context of the British army of the time. more...
Thinking Northern
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 126.00Thinking Northern offers new approaches to the processes of identity formation which are taking place in the diverse fields of cultural, economic and social activity in contemporary Britain. The essays collected in this volume discuss the changing physiognomy of Northern England and provide a mosaic of recent thought and new critical thinking about... more...
In Pursuit of the English
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 12.99In Pursuit of the English is a novelist's account of a lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous, funny, pathetic, full-blooded life in a working-class rooming house. It is a shrewd and unsentimental picture of Londoners you've probably never met or even read about--though they are the real English. The cast of characters--if that term can be applied to... more...
The History of London
Andrews UK 2010; US$ 6.99This fascinating biography of one of the world's most famous cities was originally published in the early 20th Century. It chronicles the life of London from its days as an early settlement through to more modern times. Including over 60 images, photographs, engravings and drawings, this excellent book is a must-have for those who live in the city,... more...
Nobody In Particular
Transworld 2010; US$ 9.32NOBODY IN PARTICULAR is the hand-on-heart, honest, charming and occasionally tear-inducingly tragic, often laugh out loud funny story of what it was like to grow up in Liverpool in the 1950s and '60s as the youngest child in a large and somewhat eccentric Anglo-Irish family: Cherry's father would while away the hours playing his guitar in the outside... more...
Do Not Pass Go
Random House Group Ltd 2008; US$ 12.00A book that tells the story of London since the thirties through the 28 streets, stations and utililties of the Monopoly board. In the wonderful world of Monopoly it still only cost -50 to buy a house in Islington, you can move around London with the shake of a dice and even park your car for free. In Do Not Pass Go Tim Moore, belying... more...
Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 44.00This book traces the relationship between Anglicanism and science in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cambridge. more...
A Community Transformed
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 55.00The sequel to McIntosh's acclaimed work Autonomy and Community: The Royal Manor of Havering, 12001500. more...
Violent London
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 30.95Almost as soon as it was built, London suffered the first of many acts of violent protest, when Boudica and her followers set fire to the city in AD 60. Ever since, the capital's streets have been a forum for popular insurrection. Covering nearly 2,000 years of political protest, this is a riveting alternative history of past and present conflict. more...
London Under
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00London Under is a wonderful, atmospheric, imaginative, oozing short study of everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheaters to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts, and modern tube stations. The depths below are hot, warmer than the surface, and this book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting... more...









