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Free Download Best of British Leyland – June 2023
English | 100 pages | TruePDF | 23.8 MB

Free Download Best of British – July 2023
English | 76 pages | PDF | 78.5 MB

Free Download Sebastian Domsch, Mascha Hansen, "British Sociability in the European Enlightenment: Cultural Practices and Personal Encounters"
English | 2021 | pages: 250 | ISBN: 303052566X, 3030525694 | PDF | 4,0 mb
This volume covers a broad range of everyday private and public, touristic, commercial and fictional encounters between Britons and continental Europeans, in a variety of situations and places: moments that led to a meaningful exchange of opinions, practices, or concepts such as friendship or politeness. It argues that, taken together, travel accounts, commercial advice, letters, novels and philosophical works of the long eighteenth century, reveal the growing impact of British sociability on the sociable practices on the continent, and correspondingly, the convivial turn of the Enlightenment. In particular, the essays collected here discuss the ways and means – in conversations, through travel guides or literary works – by which readers and writers grappled with their cultural differences in the field of sociability. The first part deals with travellers, the second section with the spreading of various cultural practices, and the third with fictional encounters in philosophical dialogues and novels.

Free Download Toby Thacker, "British Culture and the First World War: Experience, Representation and Memory"
English | ISBN: 1441121633 | 2014 | 376 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The First World War has been mythologized since 1918, and many paradigmatic views of it – that it was pointless, that brave soldiers were needlessly sacrificed – are deeply embedded in the British consciousness. More than in any other country, these collective British memories were influenced by the experiences and the work of writers, painters and musicians.

Free Download History of the British Army, 1714-1783: An Institutional History by Stephen Conway
English | May 11, 2021 | ISBN: 1526711400 | 224 pages | PDF | 5.54 Mb
Much has been written about the British army’s campaigns during the many wars it fought in the eighteenth century, but for over 150 years no one has attempted to produce a history of the army as an institution during this period. That is why Stephen Conway’s perceptive and detailed study is so timely and important. Taking into account the latest scholarship, he considers the army’s legal status, political control and administration, its system of recruitment, the relationships between officers and men, and the social and economic as well as constitutional interactions of the army with British and other societies.

Free Download Natasha Periyan, "The Politics of 1930s British Literature: Education, Class, Gender "
English | ISBN: 1350019844 | 2018 | 296 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Drawing on a rich array of archival sources and historical detail, The Politics of 1930s British Literature tells the story of a school-minded decade and illuminates new readings of the politics and aesthetics of 1930s literature.

Free Download Shamsad Mortuza, "The Figure of the Shaman in Contemporary British Poetry"
English | 2013 | pages: 30 | ISBN: 1443842087 | PDF | 0,2 mb
This genealogical study focuses on the work of five contemporary British poets in order to locate them in a counter cultural tradition that is informed by strategic responses to ‘State terrorism.’ It identifies some historical moments of ruptures such as the persecution of the Celtic druids by the Romans, the killing of the Welsh bards by Edward 1, the appropriation of the bardic materials by the Romantic poets writing in a post-French Revolution era, and the Beatnik response to a post-World War bi-polar world in order to contextualize and discuss the poets of British Poetry Revival writing under Thatcherism. Drawing on Mircea Eliade’s notion of shamanism as ‘archaic techniques of ecstasy,’ these poets have transformed Eliade’s version of the shaman’s ‘elective trauma’ and enacted a critical rejection of totalitarian tools of the state and society. Categorized as the ‘Technicians of the Sacred’ and the ‘Technicians of the Body’ these shamanic poets include Iain Sinclair, Jeremy Prynne, Brian Catling, Barry MacSweeney, and Maggie O’Sullivan. Their poetic strategy is not a New Age fad; it rather investigates and inventories the ‘hidden’ energies of past and present to wrest spirituality away from the confines of religion and politics, while embodying it in textual praxis.

Free Download John Morrow, "British Flag Officers in the French Wars, 1793-1815: Admirals’ Lives"
English | ISBN: 1474277675 | 2018 | 352 pages | PDF | 7 MB
During the French wars (1793-1801, 1803-1815) the system of promotion to flag rank in the Royal Navy produced a cadre of admirals numbering more than two hundred at its peak. These officers competed vigorously for a limited number of appointments at sea and for the high honours and significant financial rewards open to successful naval commanders. When on active service admirals faced formidable challenges arising from the Navy’s critical role in a global conflict, from the extraordinary scope of their responsibilities, and from intense political, public and professional expectations. While a great deal has been written about admirals’ roles in naval operations, other aspects of their professional lives have not been explored systematically.

Free Download Les Rogers – British Aviation Squadron Markings of World War I: RFC – RAF – RNAS
Schiffer Publishing | 2001 | ISBN: 0764312847 | English | 299 pages | PDF | 119.7 MB
Years in the making, this book covers the wide variety of markings used by British aviation units in World War I. Organized numerically by squadron number the book includes both textual and photographic examples for nearly all RFC, RAF, and RNAS squadrons. Many of the photographs are published here for the first time, and the color profiles offer a representative selection of units, aircraft, and color schemes. A classic book.

Free Download The Great British Sewing Bee: the Skills
by The Great British Sewing Bee;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1787139492 | 160 pages | True EPUB | 14.2 MB