Télécharger le livre :  The Nanny State Made Me
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'He is as funny as Bryson and as wise as Orwell' ObserverIt was the spirit of our finest hour, the backbone of our post-war greatness, and it promoted some of the boldest and most brilliant schemes this isle has ever produced: it was the Welfare State, and it made you...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2020-03-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Long Road from Jarrow
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The Sunday Times Bestseller'A tribute and a rallying call' - GuardianThree and half weeks. Three hundred miles. I saw roaring arterial highway and silent lanes, candlelit cathedrals and angry men in bad pubs.The Britain of 1936 was a land of beef paste sandwiches and...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2017-07-20

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Télécharger le livre :  The Pie At Night
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Factory, mine and mill. Industry, toil and grime. Its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hardworking place. But, more than possibly anywhere else, the North has always known how to get dressed up, take itself out on the town and have a good...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2015-09-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Cider With Roadies
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Cider with Roadies is the true story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3); his confessions as a pubescent prog rocker; a youthful gymnastic dalliance with northern soul; the radical...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2014-09-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The People's Songs
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These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to. Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have sound tracked our changing times, and – just sometimes – changed the...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2013-06-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Hope and Glory
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In Hope and Glory Stuart Maconie goes in search of the days that shaped the Britain we live in today. Taking one event from each decade of the 20th century, he visits the places where history happened and still echoes down the years. Stuart goes to Orgreave and Windsor,...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2012-05-10

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Télécharger le livre :  How to Survive on Tour with a Rock Band
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The Lives Less Ordinary series brings you the most exciting, adventurous and entertaining true-life writing that is out there, for men who are time-poor but want the best. Lives Less Ordinary drops you into extreme first-hand accounts of human experience, whether that's...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2011-07-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Adventures on the High Teas
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Everyone talks about 'Middle England'. Sometimes they mean something bad, like a lynch mob of Daily Mail readers, and sometimes they mean something good, like a pint of ale in a sleepy Cotswold village in summer twilight. But just where and what is Middle England?...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2009-03-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Pies and Prejudice
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A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the clichés end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2008-09-04

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