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Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914

Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914

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Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015

Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015

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Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
Queen Elizabeth II: A Celebration of Her Life and Reign in Pictures

Queen Elizabeth II: A Celebration of Her Life and Reign in Pictures

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Author: David SoudenFormat: Hardback, 198mm x 252mm, 970g, 240 pagesPublished: Ebury Publishing, United Kingdom, 2022A lavish photographic tribute to the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, as seen through...
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015

Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015

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Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914

Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914

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Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War

The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War

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Author: Sinclair McKayFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 352 pagesPublished: Quarto Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2017Once victory was declared, many of the individuals who had achieved the seemingly impossible at Bletchley...
Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

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Author: Gareth RussellFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 230g, 240 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022This is a biography of...
Artrage!: The Story of the BritArt Revolution

Artrage!: The Story of the BritArt Revolution

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Author: Elizabeth FullertonFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 240g, 224 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021The Young British Artists (YBAs) stormed on to the contemporary art scene in 1988...
The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics)

The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics)

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Author: Virginia WoolfFormat: Paperback, 111mm x 178mm, 160g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed,...
The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics)

The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics)

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Author: Virginia WoolfFormat: Paperback, 111mm x 178mm, 160g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed,...
A Secret Garden Affair

A Secret Garden Affair

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Author: Erica JamesFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 260g, 416 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023Recapture the summer sunshine this autumn with the Sunday Times bestseller that readers are calling 'captivating'...
Modern World: The Art of Richard Hamilton

Modern World: The Art of Richard Hamilton

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Author: Michael BracewellFormat: Hardback, 200mm x 260mm, 1140g, 224 pagesPublished: Art / Books, United Kingdom, 2021Richard Hamilton was the most influential British artist of his generation. Often described as 'the...
Like Trying to Catch Lightning in a Bottle: 40 Years of Making Music at Eastcote Studios

Like Trying to Catch Lightning in a Bottle: 40 Years of Making Music at Eastcote Studios

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In 1980 a young musician and engineer, recently graduated from Cambridge with a degree in architecture, decided to start a music studio. That person was Philip Bagenal and the studio...
Humankind: Ruskin Spear: Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain

Humankind: Ruskin Spear: Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain

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Author: Tanya HarrodFormat: Hardback, 185mm x 245mm, 1340g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022Humankind: Ruskin Spear is the first book on the painter Ruskin Spear RA (1911-1990)...
Facing Britain: British Documentary Photography since the 1960s

Facing Britain: British Documentary Photography since the 1960s

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Author: Ralph GoertzFormat: Paperback, 220mm x 230mm, 1020g, 220 pagesPublished: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Germany, 2021Facing Britain brings together for the first time almost all important representatives* of British...
Voyaging Out: British Women Artists From Suffrage to the Sixties

Voyaging Out: British Women Artists From Suffrage to the Sixties

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Author: Carolyn TrantFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 840g, 304 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2019Consider for a moment the history of modern art in Britain; you may struggle...
Humankind: Ruskin Spear: Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain

Humankind: Ruskin Spear: Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain

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Author: Tanya HarrodFormat: Hardback, 185mm x 245mm, 1340g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022Humankind: Ruskin Spear is the first book on the painter Ruskin Spear RA (1911-1990)...
Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship

Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship

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Author: Andy FriendFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 240mm, 1100g, 336 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2017In recent years Eric Ravilious has become recognized as one of the most important...
You Can't Say That: Memoirs

You Can't Say That: Memoirs

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Author: Ken LivingstoneFormat: Paperback, 126mm x 196mm, 563g, 720 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2012A frank, gripping, moving - and controversial - autobiography from one of the most idiosyncratic...
Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution: A Sunday Times Book of the Week

Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution: A Sunday Times Book of the Week

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Author: Max DecharneFormat: Hardback, 160mm x 236mm, 554g, 336 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024With their draped suits, suede creepers and immaculately greased hair, the Teddy Boys defined a...
Where There's Muck, There's Bras: True Stories of the Amazing Women of the North

Where There's Muck, There's Bras: True Stories of the Amazing Women of the North

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From rebels to writers, athletes to astronauts, join Kate Fox takes on an entertaining and eye-opening journey through the lives of these extraordinary women whose lives and achievements have too...