Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000
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A Duty of Care
£20.00A Duty of Care
The ‘duty of care’ which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future, once the immediate Covid crisis has passed? In ‘A Duty of Care’, Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before Corona) and AC (after Corona). He looks back to beginnings when, during wartime, Sir William Beveridge identified the ‘five giants’ on the road to recovery: want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness and laid the foundations for the modern welfare state. Hennessy examines the attack on the giants after the war and asks what the giants are now, and calls for ‘a new Beveridge’ to build a consensus for post-corona Britain with the ambition and on the scale that was achieved in the decades after the Second World War.
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British Rail
£30.00British Rail
This title is an authoritative and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail. Drawing on extensive research and in-depth access, Christian Wolmar provides a new perspective on a story long simplified.
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Frostquake
£18.99Frostquake
On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks. It was one of the coldest and harshest winters for 300 years. The drifts in East Sussex reached twenty-three feet. In London, milkmen made deliveries on skis. On Dartmoor 2,000 ponies were buried in the snow, and foxes ate sheep alive. It wasn’t just the weather that was bad. The threat of nuclear war had reached its terrifying height with the recent Cuban Missile Crisis. Unemployment was on the rise, de Gaulle was blocking Britain from joining the European Economic Community, Winston Churchill, still the symbol of Great Britishness, was fading. These shadows hung over a country paralysed by frozen heating oil, burst pipes and power cuts which are explored here.
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Frostquake
£9.99Frostquake
On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks. It was one of the coldest and harshest winters for 300 years. The drifts in East Sussex reached twenty-three feet. In London, milkmen made deliveries on skis. On Dartmoor 2,000 ponies were buried in the snow, and foxes ate sheep alive. It wasn’t just the weather that was bad. The threat of nuclear war had reached its terrifying height with the recent Cuban Missile Crisis. Unemployment was on the rise, de Gaulle was blocking Britain from joining the European Economic Community, Winston Churchill, still the symbol of Great Britishness, was fading. These shadows hung over a country paralysed by frozen heating oil, burst pipes and power cuts which are explored here.
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Operation Pedestal
£9.99Operation Pedestal
The Sunday Times bestseller
‘One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings’ DAILY MAIL
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Prisoners of History
£9.99Prisoners of History
A Spectator Book of the Year 2020
A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020
A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2020‘Inspired ? Lowe’s sensitive, disturbing book should be compulsory reading for both statue builders and statue topplers’ MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES
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The Chancellor
£10.99The Chancellor
‘An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader’ WALTER ISAACSON
From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People
An intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful – and elusive – woman in the world.
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Winds of Change
£30.00Winds of Change
This is the third volume of Peter Hennessy’s postwar history of Britain. Hennessy covers the political, economic, cultural, and social aspects of a nation with inimitable wit and empathy.
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Youthquake
£25.00Youthquake
A study of Africa’s demographics – its youth and growth – and what they mean for the continent, today and into the future.
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