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Sunshades in October: An Analysis of the Main Mistakes in British Economic Policy Since the Mid Nineteen-Fifties
1st Edition
By Norman Macrae
August 10, 2026
Sunshades in October (1963) argues that under certain circumstances economic domestic restraint will in fact do precisely the opposite. This went against British economic policy of the time, based on the assumption that a restraint on domestic demand must always serve, in some measure, to ease the ...
The Climate of London
1st Edition
By T. J. Chandler
August 10, 2026
First Published in 1965, The Climate of London considers the nature of London’s climate, including the manner and degree to which this varies in sympathy with changes in the city's morphology, and studying in particular the contrasts between the built-up area and the surrounding rural districts. ...
The Clue to the Brontës
1st Edition
By G. Elsie Harrison
August 10, 2026
Originally published in 1948, The Clue to the Brontës was written in part as response to a previous biography of Charlotte Brontë by Mrs Gaskell. The author argues that Gaskell's biography gets it all wrong. Harrison draws connections between Patrick Brontë and John Wesley. She finds Gaskell ...
The Economics of Subsidising Agriculture: A Study of British Policy
1st Edition
By Gavin McCrone
August 10, 2026
Originally published in 1962, this book was a study of British agricultural policy since the Second World War – during a period which saw the adoption of a comprehensive system of agricultural support which stood in marked contrast to the free trade policy adhered to previously. The policy of ...
The Football Managers
1st Edition
By Tony Pawson
August 10, 2026
There are few posts more dramatic, more controversial, or more public than a football Manager’s. The pressures of success, and failure; the problems of finance and business management; the challenge of tactics and training: these are just some of the issues which Tony Pawson examines in this book, ...
The Member of Parliament and the Administration: The Case of the Select Committee on Nationalized Industries
1st Edition
By David Coombes
August 10, 2026
The Member of Parliament and the Administration (1966) looks at some vital aspects of the work of the backbench Member of Parliament. It is based on an intensive study, undertaken by documentary research and interviews, of the Select Committee on Nationalized Industries, for a decade from its ...
The Partition of India: Policies and Perspectives 1935–1947
1st Edition
Edited
By C. H. Philips, Mary Doreen Wainwright
August 10, 2026
The partition of India in 1947 was an outstanding event in world history. It formed a major turning point in the modern history of the sub-continent and of the Commonwealth. Originally published in 1970, after more than twenty years had passed, this title brought together the evidence and put into ...
The Study of Political Behaviour
1st Edition
By David Butler
August 10, 2026
The Study of Political Behaviour (1958) shows the lines along which political research has developed, both in Britain and in other countries. It looks at ways of studying voter preferences and choice, party allegiance, analyst expertise and polling accuracy....
The Victorians
1st Edition
Edited
By Laurence Lerner
August 10, 2026
First published in 1978, The Victorians presents a survey of the Victorian era, exploring the relationship between literature and society through three distinct sections. The first delineates the literary history in two chapters on the Victorian novel and Victorian poetry respectively. In the ...
A Note-Book of European History: 1400–1920
1st Edition
By S.H. McGrady
August 03, 2026
First published in 1926, A Note-Book of European History chronicles five centuries of European development. Beginning at the turn of the 15th century, the book traces European history through the Renaissance, Reformation, and Enlightenment, culminating in the early twentieth century. McGrady’s ...
A Short History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to the Present Day
1st Edition
By J.C. Beckett
August 03, 2026
No country’s history has been more obscured by prejudice and emotion than Ireland’s. By untangling the complex threads from St. Patrick’s mission onwards, A Short History of Ireland (originally published in 1952, reissuing the sixth edition of 1979) traces Ireland’s evolution through the 1970s and ...
A Short History of Irish Literature
1st Edition
By Seamus Deane
August 03, 2026
First published in 1986, A Short History of Irish Literature combines the scholarship of exceptional range and depth with the power to persuade us to read authors we have forgotten or neglected, and to re-read sympathetically those we have insensitively undervalued or dismissed. From the earliest ...