20th Century History

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A hilarious memoir and modern classic of trying to make it as a rock star, perfect for fans of High Fidelity and Daisy Jones & the Six 'In the Spring...

'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph 'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary Review Kenneth Rose was one...

A compelling family drama from the nation's favourite storyteller. Florence Stanville is a woman with a past. When she moves to Guisethorpe on the east coast of England, the townsfolk...

In 1938 the War Office ordered the Director of Military Intelligence to create a unit that would research the tactics and organisation needed in the event of an invasion. After...

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In 1945 Britain emerged triumphant and victorious from the Second World War. On 26 July, after a landslide Labour victory, Clement Attlee became Prime Minister and the nation looked forward...

From young princess to internationally revered head of state, Queen Elizabeth has always fascinated and intrigued. This fully updated second edition celebrates and remembers the glorious reign of Britain's longest-serving...

A nostalgic exploration of Britain's distinctive and architecturally significant seafront buildings from the 1920s to the new millennium. British seaside resorts enjoyed phenomenal popularity for much of the twentieth century....

The authorized history of the world's oldest and most storied foreign intelligence service, drawing extensively on hitherto secret documents. Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (also commonly known as MI6) was born...

World War II stung Britain like a wasp. It was a stimulus and an endurance. The Blitz concentrated the mind wonderfully. The arts flowered - poetry and painting, cinema and...

Margaret Thatcher's government was, she says, about the application of a philosophy, not the implementation of an administrative programme. These ideas and beliefs were propelled throughout her time in office...

Traitor King , by Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie, looks at the years following the abdication of Edward VIII when the former king was kept in exile, feuding with...

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOW Inventory of...

This is the official history marking the centenary of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve from its formation in 1903 through its unification with the mercantile Royal Navy Reserve in 1958...

The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders with British artists, sculptors and writers The...

The real woman behind our throne, her life and loves As we celebrate her Diamond Jubilee, this brand new biography of Queen Elizabeth II is the first all-round, up-close picture...

This generously illustrated book is a comprehensive survey of the arts in Britain from 1945. Uniquely, it also reveals the cultural and social setting in which the writers, musicians, architects...

By the last year of the Second World War, the RAF's Bomber Command had become a devastating military force. The peak of its operations came in March 1945 when the...

This is a comprehensive exploration of the intellectual transition that gave rise to modern British social anthropology. The author emphasizes the interplay of ethnographic data and anthropological theory, offering a...

The great passenger liners of the twentieth century make for iconic images of maritime history and design. This beautiful, full-colour book presents the development of passenger ships across the twentieth...

Revealing the Midget Class Submarines from X-Class to Stickleback. The X Class submarines were conceived during WW2, small craft of around 51ft (16m) long, designed to be towed by a...

Nicholas Grimshaw is ranked alongside Sir Norman Foster and Sir Richard Rogers as a leading figure of the high-tech movement in British architecture in the last decade. The period 1965-1988...

The last of nine volumes in The Penguin History of Britain, this volume explains the political changes that transformed Britain in the 20th century and attempts to make sense of...

Bestselling author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera explores the global legacy of the British Empire, and the ways it continues to influence economics, politics, and culture around the world. 2.6 billion...

Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, fully revised and updated with a new chapter. 'Absorbing . . . particularly acute on the political aspects of constitutional monarchy, but he also writes...

This supplement to the classic reference work, The Dictionary of National Biography records the lives of 748 men and women who died between 1971 and 1980. Though most are British...

Alfred Waterhouse was one of the most successful British architects of the second half of the 19th century. Following the passion for Gothic espoused by Pugin and Ruskin he developed...

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Richard Fellows' book explores the many influences on Edwardian architects. New methods and techniques, a mixture of tradition and progress, as well as the influence of the arts and crafts...

Since its foundation in 1897, Country Life has consistently featured new British houses, thus building up an unrivalled photographic archive on 20th-century architecture, one that covers a much wider variety...

'Victoria Selman is an exciting and powerfully fresh voice' Patricia Cornwell 'Gravely compelling, sophisticated, terrifying' Chris Whitaker 'An absorbing and captivating read, this held me in its thrall from beginning...

The follow-up to the 2 million-copy-selling Losing My Virginity, documenting the incredible last twenty years in Sir Richard Branson's life. PAPERBACK EDITION FULLY UPDATED WITH TWO NEW CHAPTERS After creating...

Many buildings erected during the Victorian age had no precedents, such as railway stations, large hotels and factories. New structures had to be planned from first principles and architectural styles...

Recapture the summer sunshine this autumn with the Sunday Times bestseller that readers are calling 'captivating' and 'a treasure of a read'... Love grows where you least expect it... July...

This volume presents the history of the Archigram Group which revolutionized British and European architectural thinking in the 1960s. Peter Cook, Ron Herron, Warren Clark and Dennis Crompton proposed a...

Contemporary British art has been reaching wider audiences in recent years at home and abroad, with the nation-wide interest attracted by the Turner Prize and the increased profile of young...

How did Edward VII, whose reign lasted for only nine years, become one of the most popular and well-known of British monarchs? This biography, combining informative text with illustrations, provides...

Six tells the complete story of the service's birth and early years, including the tragic, untold tale of what happened to Britain's extensive networks in Soviet Russia between the wars....

Queen Victoria's son, Prince Leopold, died from haemophilia, but no member of the royal family before his generation had suffered from the condition. Medically, there are only two possibilities: either...

This descriptive gazetter looks, town by town, at all surviving theatres built between 1750 and 1950. It makes assesments of their quality, architecturally and theatrically and also assesses the potential...

Politics Without Democracy provides an entertaining and highly original view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy - a change characterized in other countries by convulsive and...

The brand new epic family drama from the nation's favourite storyteller. Where can a daughter turn when her father's love is stolen away? When heart-broken Sarah Quinn is left to...

'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday Times The referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most controversial political events of our times. For the first...

When the Titanic sank, so did the Edwardian age that created it. In this brilliantly original history, Gareth Russell recasts a tragedy we think we know to explore an era...

This 1996 book presents Edwardian entertainment and the Edwardian entertainment industry as parts of a vital, turbulent era whose preoccupations and paranoias echo those of our own day. Responding to...