An original and absorbing chronicle of Britain's railways from the master of the art: essential reading for any traveller, railway enthusiast or anglophile

An enlarged facsimile edition of Bradshaw's descriptive railway handbook of Europe originally published in 1853.

Collector's item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of Britain in the 1860s - Bradshaw's Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophile.

A full-length modern study of the Diggers, among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. Provides a reassessment of the Digger leader Gerrard Winstanley, a figure who has attracted great interest in recent years amongst historians, literary scholars, theologians and environmental activists.

One hundred years on from the Battle of the Somme, Breakdown tells the unusual and little-known story of shell shock in one of the bloodiest battles ever fought by the British army.

A manifesto for the neo-luddite revolution: an exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from the future

From the Great Exhibition to Dickensian slums, the triumph of empire to the anxiety of revolt - Victorian Britain was an age of paradoxes.

The First World War in vivid, personal detail, in the voices of those who lived it

A shattering literary memoir by the son of Holocaust survivors, and a darkly tender exploration of a child's relationship with his father

A full colour map, where the city in about 1480 is shown against a background of a detailed Ordnance Survey of the early 20th century. Produced in association with the University of Bristol.

A magisterial and profoundly perceptive survey of Britain's post-war role on the global stage, from Suez to Brexit. 'The fullest long-run political and diplomatic narrative yet of Britain's fateful, tragi-comic road to Brexit.' DAVID KYNASTON 'An instant classic .

1940 was the most significant year in European history this century, this book examines what it meant for the people of Britain then and now. Malcolm Smith details the resultant influences that have constructed our national consciousness.

Compares and contrasts the historical course of Britain and America, exploring the significance of their similarities and differences over a period of two centuries. This book includes wide-ranging analyses of such issues as industrialization and urbanization, democracy and politics.

Deals with the history of the British Isles that recounts the history of the two states - the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland - and four nations. This book presents the story of what happened in the British Isles, and its interdependence with Europe and the rest of the world.

This study explores relations between Britain and Ireland during the late-19th and early-20th century. The text provides the background to the unfolding and dramatic events in both Northern Ireland and in Britain as the United Kingdom moves towards a federal constitutional structure.

During the Cold War, East-West tension, though dominated by the Superpowers, was often conditioned, and in its early stages accelerated, by Britain's continuing world wide interests and influence. Using records released in the 1980s, this text offers an interpretations of this influence.

Britain and the Olympic Games, 1908-1920 focuses upon the presentation and descriptions of identity that are presented through the depictions of the Olympics in the national press. This book breaks Britain down into its four nations and presents the debates that were present within their national press.

Describing the period 1815-1832 as 'The birth of a new age', this book considers the tremendous forces of change operating after industrialisation and discusses the achievement of Lord Liverpool's administration in containing these pressures, thereby leading the way to evolutionary change rather than revolution.

Provides original documents which are designed to evaluate claims that World War II introduced a new sense of social solidarity and social idealism which led to a consensus on welfare state reform. This book offers important evidence on crime, race relations, women, health and the family.

First authoritative study of efforts to arm Britain's World War II Home Guard

A wonderful combination of wartime anecdotes, personal letters and contemporary images

A biography of the second Earl of Liverpool, revealing a highly capable leader who laid the foundations for nineteenth-century Britain's prosperity.