Storbritannien

The 'battle for Beijing' is universally - and quite wrongly - believed to have been about opium. This book argues that it was about freedom to trade, Britain's demands for …

The spa town of Bath has drawn visitors since the Roman’s built baths and a temple at the site of hot springs in the Avon valley. Bath Abbey was founded in the seventh century but …

A new biography revealing the personal story of the powerful, doomed minister to Henry VIII. Thomas Cromwell was King Henry VIII's most faithful servant, the only man the king …

This book examines the persistence of the rural tradition in the English novel into the twentieth century. In the shadow of metropolitan literary culture, rural writing can seem to …

In 1966, a social survey was conducted into the living, social and working conditions of the residents of the St Ann's area of Nottingham. It asked the attitudes of people who …

What are the aims of a criminal trial? What social functions should it perform? And how is the trial as a political institution linked to other institutions in a democratic polity? …

Homelessness, Health Care and Welfare Provision is the first known publication in which service providers examine the particular difficulties encountered by homeless people in …

A deadly secret. A horrifying discovery.A daughter tells the devastating true story her mother tried to hide...Growing up in a chaotic home on Merseyside, young Joanne raised …

This book tells theuplifting true story of a family who left their old life behind to spend a year living wild in a tent around Britain. With a baby and a toddler, mounting debt, …

Este libro pretende abrir nuevas v as de investigaci n en pocas y autores hisp nicos hasta ahora apenas estudiados desde el punto de vista de la melancol a. Se trata de un di logo …