Brian Harrison

Seven analytic chapters in this book pursue the massive changes wrought in Britain between 1970 and 1990. They look in detail at the changes in international relations, landscape and townscape, social framework, family and welfare structures, economic policies and realities and government which had occurred by 1990.

The United Kingdom 1970-1990

Finding a Role?

Professor of Modern British History and Fellow of Corpus Christi Church Brian Harrison

An impressively detailed but also unusually wide-ranging analysis of post-war Britain in the 1950s and 60s, covering everything from international relations to family life, the countryside to manufacturing, religion to race, cultural life to political structures.

The United Kingdom 1951-1970

Seeking a Role

Henry Colin Gray Matthew

55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Morant-Murray

Barrie Stuart Trinder

Drink and Sobriety in an Early Victorian Country Town: Banbury 1830-1960

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Strang-Taylor

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Goss-Griffiths

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Daly-Dewar

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Ela-Fancourt

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Martindale-Meynell

A Manual of Modern Tree Divination

Forest Paths

In 1970 the 'cold war' was still cold, Northern Ireland's troubles were escalating, the UK's relations with the EEC were unclear, and corporatist approaches to the economy precariously persisted. By 1990 Communism was crumbling world-wide, Thatcher's economic revolution had occurred, terrorism in Northern Ireland was waning, 'multi-culturalism' was in place, family structures were changing fast, and British political institutions had become controversial. Seven analytic chapters pursue these changes and accumulate rich detail on changes in international relations, landscape and townscape, social framework, family and welfare structures, economic policies and realities, intellect and culture, politics and government. The concluding chapter ranges chronologically even more widely to bring out the interaction of past and present, then asks how far the UK had by 1990 identified its world role. Like Harrison's Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951-1970 (2009) - the immediately preceding volume in this series - Finding a Role? includes a full chronological table and an ample index of names and themes. This, the first thorough, wide-ranging, and synoptic study of the UK so far published on this period, has two overriding aims: to show how British institutions evolved, but also to illuminate changes in the British people: their hopes and fears, values and enjoyments, failures and achievements. It therefore equips its readers to understand events since 1990, and so to decide for themselves where the UK should now be going.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Cranfield-Dalwood

Michael Richard Daniell Foot

M. R. D. Foot

Following on from the success of Brief Lives, published in 1997, and Political Lives, Stage and Screen Lives, and Literary Lives, published in 2001, Secret Lives, which will publish alongside three other titles, Royal Lives, Military Lives, and Musical Lives, will be a welcome addition to theseries to anyone with an interest in the secret underworld of political and military intrigue.What is it like to be a spy? What makes someone decide to lead a secret life? What qualities do such people have in common? How do they get away without being detected? How do they slip up? How are they found out? What makes their life so extraordinary? What makes their life so ordinary? Why did 'Kim' Philby become a spy? What events first sparked Sir Colin McVean Gubbins's interest in irregular warfare? What part did businessman Greville Wynne play in the Cuban missile crisis? Who really was Guy Fawkes?Eminent historian and former wartime intelligence officer, M. R. D. Foot, has made a personal selection of around 100 mini-biographies taken from the archives of the Dictionary of National Biography of some of the men and women who have in their lifetime made themselves famous (or made themselvesinfamous) working in secret intelligence.Viewed individually each article in this collection is a permanent historic record of a life in a particular period in time, from the times of Guy Fawkes to the end of the last century. Viewed as a collection the biographies allow for a fascinating tour through the history of secret intelligence. Entries include:Benedict Grinsburg on Edith CavellChristopher Andrew on Sir M. G. S. CummingSidney Lee on Guy FawkesPeter Wilkinson on Sir Colin McVean GubbinsNigel Clive on 'Kim' PhilbyM. R. D. Foot on Violette SzaboSidney Lee on Sir Francis WalsinghamJohn Hamilton on William WindhamM. R. D. Foot on Greville Maynard Wynne

Secret Lives

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Macan-Macpherson

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Cappe-Chancellor

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Tonson-Usher

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Hooppell-Hutcheson

Melaka Under Two Flags, 1795-1845

Holding the Fort

The Temperance Question in England 1815-1872

Drink and the Victorians

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