Institute of Commonwealth Studies in the University of London, 2004. — 624 p. East of Suez and the Commonwealth 1964–1971: Schedule of contents Abbreviations: parts I–III Principal holders of offices 1964–1971 Notes to Introduction Summary of documents Documents The defence withdrawal from East of Suez Aden and South Arabia South-East Asia Persian Gulf Maps Aden & Protectorate...
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2019. — 160 p. — (Scientist of Wales Series). The main focus of this book is on the contribution of Welsh scientists, engineers and facilities in Wales to the British nuclear programme – especially the military programme – from the Second World War through to the present day. After the war, a number of Welsh scientists at Harwell played an...
Indiana University Press, 2017. — 276 p. In 2016, Britain stunned itself and the world by voting to pull out of the European Union, leaving financial markets reeling and global politicians and citizens in shock. But was Brexit really a surprise, or are there clues in Britain’s history that pointed to this moment? In A History of Britain: 1945 to Brexit, award-winning historian...
Reaktion Books, 2004. — 224 p. — (Contemporary Worlds). In Britain since the Seventies, well-known historian Jeremy Black examines the most recent developments in British political, social, cultural and economic history. Taking the triumph of consumerism as an organizing theme, he charts the rise and fall of the Conservative Party, developments in British society, culture and...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - 288 p. Book Description No other political party in the history of Britain's fascist tradition has been as successful at the ballot box as today's British National Party (BNP). This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Contemporary British Fascism offers an in-depth study of the BNP and its quest for social and political legitimacy....
Institute of Commonwealth Studies in the University of London, 2000. — 937 p. Frontispiece: Mr Macmillan addressing Members of both Houses of the South African Parliament, 3 February 1960 The Conservative government and the end of empire 1957–1964 Principal holders of offices, 1957–1964 Notes to Introduction Summary of documents: part I Colonial high policy, plans and surveys...
Institute of Commonwealth Studies in the University of London, 2001. — 855 p. Nigeria: Schedule of contents: parts I–II Abbreviations: parts I–II Principal holders of offices 1953–1960: part II Chronological table of principal events: parts I–II Summary of documents: part II Documents: part II Appendix to part II The Northern and Southern Cameroons, February 1961–February 1962...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. - 256 p. Britain's Long War assesses the process of strategic change within the British Government's position on Northern Ireland, starting with Westminster's first intervention in 1969 and ending with the Belfast Agreement in 1998. Drawing on a vast range of primary sources including recently released cabinet papers, Peter Neumann analyzes the...
John Enoch Powell, MBE ( 16 June 1912 – 8 February 1998) was a British politician, classical scholar, linguist, and poet. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP, 1950–74), Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) MP (1974–87), and Minister of Health (1960–63). He attained most prominence in 1968, when he made a controversial speech on immigration, now widely referred to as the...
London: Policy Press, 1999. - 368 p. The New Labour government elected in May 1997 claimed that it would modernise the welfare state, by rejecting the solutions of both the Old Left and the New Right.New Labour, new welfare state? provides the first comprehensive examination of the social policy of New Labour; compares and contrasts current policy areas with both the Old Left...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 — 278 p. — ISBN: 978-1137023827, 1137023821. Through compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how Britain and its people have come to terms with the loss of prestige stemming from the decline of the British Empire. The result is a volume that offers...
Cambridge: University Press, 2007. - 294 p. This book questions conventional accounts of the history of European integration and British business. Integration accounts conventionally focus on the nation-state, while Neil Rollings focuses on business and its role in the development of European integration, which business historians have overlooked to this point. Business...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 708 p. Tony Blair has dominated British political life for more than a decade. Like Margaret Thatcher before him, he has changed the terms of political debate and provoked as much condemnation as admiration. At the end of his era in power, this book presents a wide-ranging overview of the achievements and failures of the Blair governments....
Institute of Commonwealth Studies in the University of London, 2006. — 618 p. Malta: Schedule of contents Principal holders of offices 1946–1972 Chronological table of principal events Notes to Introduction Summary of documents Documents Biographical Notes Bibliography I: Sources searched at The National Archives Bibliography II: Official publications, unpublished private...
London: Routledge, 2001. - 224 p. The UK government of Tony Blair is committed to fostering a European dimension of planning practice. Significant developments in relation to planning within Europe are occurring. The creation of the European Spatial Development Perspective, the reform of the Structural Funds, and the implementation of programmes to foster trans-national...
Monograph. — N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 344 p. This major new addition to Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History analyses the economic policies of the Attlee government, both international and domestic, in the light of Labour's ideas and doctrines about the economy. Jim Tomlinson highlights the concern of the government with issues of industrial efficiency,...
London: Routledge, 2003. — 345 p. Shortly after it was founded in 1947, the CIA launched a secret effort to win the Cold War allegiance of the British left. Hugh Wilford traces the story of this campaign from its origins in Washington DC to its impact on Labour Party politicians, trade unionists, and Bloomsbury intellectuals
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 264 p. Women born in mid-twentieth-century Britain were the 'welfare state generation' – not only were their lives fundamentally shaped by the welfare state, but they also helped to transform it. In this ground-breaking work, Eve Worth examines the impact of the welfare state on the life course of women whose opportunities and social experiences...
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