Influence of Railways on Economic Change
The book approaches the history of railway building and its impact upon economic change in a new...
EAN: 9781041073086
Chopsy
Chopsy is a memoir like no other – a gut-wrenchingly powerful, yet frequently funny account of a...
EAN: 9780715656136
Parliamentary Scrutiny of Government Bills
The making of laws in Britain takes a long time. Government bills gestate slowly, being conceived...
EAN: 9781041209034
Central Departments and Local Authorities
Originally published in 1966, the book examines central-local relations in detail in six major...
EAN: 9781041208778
Public Inquiries as an Instrument of Government
To the unfortunate citizen threatened by the demolition of his house to make way for a new road,...
EAN: 9781041208068
Government Explains
An informed public is the basis of a sound democracy. Originally published in 1965, this study...
EAN: 9781041207931
Her Majesty's Customs and Excise
Have you anything to declare? The collection of Customs duties in this country has a long and...
EAN: 9781041204657
Parliamentary Ombudsman
In the late 1950s the term ‘Ombudsman’ was familiar only to specialists in the government of...
EAN: 9781041198611
Unhomely England in Post-Imperial British Novels
This book investigates the nature of ‘home’ and nation in post-imperial British novels, which...
EAN: 9781032333786
Red Branch
This novel is set in 1883. Irish revolutionaries are changing the face of London with American...
EAN: 9798990767836
Peter Cameron
The first monograph on Peter Cameron, one of the most successful 'offenders-turned-artists'...
EAN: 9781915670274
Landscapes of Common Land
Addresses the subject of common land from the perspective of landscape history and archaeology,...
EAN: 9781914427336
Scotland's Turmoil
Johnnie Gallacher zigzags his way through two frenetic centuries of Scottish history: from the...
EAN: 9781904737742
Film Studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy
A comparison of the material histories of film studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy...
EAN: 9781839025341
Little Book of the Isle of Wight
A funny, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information...
EAN: 9781837051625
Irish History: Strange but True
A light-hearted look at the peculiar aspects of Ireland's history
EAN: 9781837051359
Master and Cartographer
A new study, for first time revealing the story of Greenvile Collins, hugely significant...
EAN: 9781837051120
Agatha Christie's London
Rediscover the capital through the eyes of the Queen of Crime
EAN: 9781837050796
First Kings
A gripping, real-life ‘Game of Thrones’ story spanning the Viking Age
EAN: 9781837050550