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Write Your Own Great Tale

Great Tales

Attention all secondary school teachers. Get your Year 10 and 11, and 12 and 13 students to bring the past to life by writing a Great Tale!

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Time Gentlemen Please

Roy Hattersley discusses Borrowed Time

Roy Hattersley

Listen to the Yorkshire Post's interview with the former deputy leader of the Labour Party.

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Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling 1865-1900

Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling 1865-1900

Charles Allen

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his early years there, before being sent, aged six, to England, a desperately unhappy experience. Charles Allen's great-grandfather brought the...

Hardback: £20.00

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For King and Country: Voices from the First World War

For King and Country: Voices from the First World War

Brian MacArthur

Far more than an anthology, FOR KING AND COUNTRY is Brian MacArthur's attempt to write a history of the First World War by drawing on the writings of those who were present at the events they...

Hardback: £20.00

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Germany: Jekyll and Hyde: An eyewitness analysis of Nazi Germany

Germany: Jekyll and Hyde: An eyewitness analysis of Nazi Germany

Sebastian Haffner

A few years ago, Sebastian Haffner's DEFYING HITLER, a memoir about growing up in interwar Germany, sold over forty thousand copies. After he moved to Britain in the 1930s Haffner became so shocked...

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Plain Tales from the British Empire

Plain Tales from the British Empire

Charles Allen

PLAIN TALES FROM THE BRITISH EMPIRE gathers together Charles Allen’s best loved books on the British experience across the Empire: PLAIN TALES FROM THE RAJ, TALES FROM THE SOUTH CHINA SEAS and...

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