Télécharger le livre :  The Golden Talking-Shop
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In the late 1890s, Britain was basking in the high noon of empire, albeit with the sobering experience of the Boer War just around the corner. By 1956, the year of the Suez debacle and less than a lifetime later, the age of empire was drawing rapidly to a close and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-10-19

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Télécharger le livre :  The Golden Talking-Shop
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In the late 1890s, Britain was basking in the high noon of empire, albeit with the sobering experience of the Boer War just around the corner. By 1956, the year of the Suez debacle and less than a lifetime later, the age of empire was drawing rapidly to a close and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-09-15

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Télécharger le livre :  The Great Man
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The year 1721 has many splendours: great houses built by William Kent, fine pictures and the fruits of commerce. But there are also thirteen public hanging days a year, drunkenness is endemic, organised crime rampages through the streets. And politics are ferocious....

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-03-01

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Télécharger le livre :  The Diaries Of Charles Greville
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Charles Greville (1794-1865) made his first occasional diary entries in 1814, but the diary only became a regular habit in the mid-1820s, continuing with occasional breaks, about which he is self-reproachful, through the reigns of George IV, William IV and Victoria. ...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Reform!
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There may be a civil war, starting in the Midlands. The Birmingham garrison have rough-sharpened their swords and barricades have gone up in the town. Wellington is trying to form a government without a majority. The Duke says 'The English people are usually quiet; if...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Pitt the Elder
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This remarkable book opens at the dawn of the British Empire - with the great sea battle at Quiberon Bay where French ships, intended for the 1759 invasion of Britain, are chased, caught and defeated by a fleet commanded by Admiral Sir Edward Hawke. In this momentous...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-01-26

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