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Roy Hattersley
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50 Years On
In FIFTY YEARS ON, Roy Hattersley explores and explains the events which have shaped modern Britain. Combining acute analysis of domestic politics with a brilliant…
A Yorkshire Boyhood
It was not until he was dead and I was forty that I realised my father was once in Holy Orders,' Roy Hattersley tells us…
Blood and Fire
An uneducated youth, William Booth left home in 1849 at the age of twenty to preach the gospel for the New Methodist Connexion. Six years…
John Wesley: A Brand From The Burning
John Wesley led the Second English Reformation. His Methodist 'Connexion' was divided from the Church of England, not by dogma and doctrine but by the…
Buster's Diaries
BUSTER'S DIARIES - offer a unique floor-level insight into the aromatic world of the man-owning dog. Buster stepped into the limelight in April 1996 after…
Borrowed Time
Called an uneasy peace, the twenty years between the wars were a time of turmoil - Britain saw a general strike and the worst economic…
The Edwardians
Edwardian Britain is the quintessential age of nostalgia, often seen as the last long summer afternoon before the cataclysmic changes of the twentieth century began…
Who Goes Home?
Each night when the House of Commons rises, throughout the Palace of Westminster policemen shout, 'Who goes home?', a relic of the days when Members…
In Search Of England
Passionate, affectionate and indefatigably curious, In Search of England joins a tradition of writing, from William Cobbett to JB Priestley, that makes a journey around…
David Lloyd George
A Welshman among the English, a nonconformist among Anglicans and a self-made man in the patrician corridors of power, David Lloyd George, the last Liberal…