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Free Download Time’s Monster: History, Conscience and Britain’s Empire by Priya Satia
English | October 20, 2020 | ISBN: 0241464129 | PDF | 9.55 Mb
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE

Free Download John Bartle, Nicholas J. Allen, "Breaking the deadlock: Britain at the polls, 2019"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1526152363 | PDF | pages: 245 | 20.5 mb
The 2019 General Election was historic. In one fell swoop it resolved the longstanding stalemate surrounding Brexit and redrew the electoral map of Britain, breaking the deadlock in Parliament and bringing about the fall of Labour’s so-called ‘Red Wall’.

Free Download John Bartle, Nicholas J. Allen, "Breaking the deadlock: Britain at the polls, 2019"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1526152363 | PDF | pages: 245 | 20.5 mb
The 2019 General Election was historic. In one fell swoop it resolved the longstanding stalemate surrounding Brexit and redrew the electoral map of Britain, breaking the deadlock in Parliament and bringing about the fall of Labour’s so-called ‘Red Wall’.

Free Download Jack Brown, "The London Problem: What Britain Gets Wrong About Its Capital City"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1913368149 | EPUB | pages: 110 | 0.2 mb
Brown reflects on anti-London sentiment in the UK as the capital continues to gain power.

Free Download S A Walkland, "The Legislative Process in Great Britain"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1032130199, 1032130113 | EPUB | pages: 2468 | 0.2 mb
Originally published in 1968, this book deals with the process of public legislation in modern Britain at the time, not in terms of constitutional formulae, but by a realistic appraisal of the relationships between the political institutions and forces which gave the process its shape. It concentrates particularly on the procedures and conventions which operated at the preparatory stages of legislation, and established that legislation was almost exclusively a governmental function, Parliament playing only a minor role. It is particularly concerned to stress the extent to which consultation by the government with pressure groups was now a major feature of the legislative process, and concludes that subordinate departmental legislation, developed as a result of collaboration between pressure groups and Civil Servants, was the most characteristic and important stage of the legislative process in Britain.

Free Download John Christopher, "The Race for Hitler’s X-Planes: Britain’s 1945 Mission to Capture Secret Luftwaffe Technology"
English | ISBN: 0752464574 | 2013 | 224 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
An account of the race for secret Nazi aviation technology at the end of World War II

Free Download Mike Hall, "The Severn Tsunami? The Story of Britain’s Greatest Natural Disaster"
English | ISBN: 0752470159 | 2013 | 160 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
On January 30, 1607, a huge wave, over 7 meters high, swept up the River Severn, flooding the land on either side. The wall of water reached as far inland as Bristol and Cardiff. It swept away everything in its path, devastating communities and killing thousands of people. Historian and geographer Mike Hall pieces together the contemporary accounts and the surviving physical evidence to present, for the first time, a comprehensive picture of what actually happened on that fateful day and its consequences. He also examines the possible causes of the disaster: was it just a storm surge, or was it, in fact, the only recorded instance of a tsunami in Britain?

Free Download Britain’s Spiders: A Field Guide, 2nd Edition by Helen Smith, Lawrence Bee, Geoff Oxford
English | November 3, 2020 | ISBN: 0691204748 | True PDF | 496 pages | 316 MB
A comprehensively updated edition of an identification guide that was named a Guardian Best Nature Book of the Year

Free Download Bob Clarke, "Britain’s Cold War"
English | ISBN: 0752450174 | 2010 | 256 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." So said Winston Churchill in 1946. About to begin was Britain’s most expensive and turbulent periods of military history. The story of Britain’s Cold War deals with all aspects of the chilling time when Britain could have been obliterated so easily by the unleashing of Russian nuclear weapons. The Cold War was like no other conflict yet experienced. More than a struggle between two superpowers, it was a war of ideologies, the capitalist West and the communist East. The Cold War leached its way into every facet of British life to the extent that it was not really considered a war at all. But a war it was. The period was punctuated by an arms race which pushed the world to the edge of destruction, as both East and West amassed arsenals of nuclear weapons far beyond what would be needed to destroy, quite literally, everything.