Author: Paul McMahon
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: british, intelligence, history, ireland, rebels, spies, irish
Number of Pages: 540
Published: 2011-04-21
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1843836564
ISBN-13: 9781843836568
One of the Irish Times’ Books of the Year, 2008 The struggle between British intelligence agencies and Irish revolutionaries has lasted for centuries - and still goes on. But it was at its most intense during the first half of the twentieth century. Ireland experienced a bloody rebellion, bitter partition and a stuttering march towards independence. Britain grappled with imperial decline and world war, while worrying about being stabbed in the back by its Irish neighbour. Using recently opened archives, this book reveals for the first time how intelligence and intelligence agencies shape
Author: Kogan Page
Publisher: Kogan Page
Keywords: british, paperback, qualificati, qualifications
Number of Pages: 942
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0749441372
ISBN-13: 9780749441371
"An up-to-date, comprehensive guide to professional and academic qualifications in Britain - the Bible in fact!" -- Education & Training "The single best one-volume reference on British Educational awards in print." -- World Education News and Reviews * Reflects the many developments which have occurred within the changing field of educational, professional, academic, technical and vocational qualifications in Britain. * Takes account of the latest changes in university status, listing degree-awarding colleges of further and higher education in addition to the universities themselves Gives up-
Author: The British Library
Publisher: British Library
Keywords: woodland, sunrise, british, portrait, chorus, sound, dawn
Number of Pages: 16
Published: 2010-02-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0712305203
ISBN-13: 9780712305204
This is the perfect chance to immerse yourself in the uplifting sounds of a perfect country morning, from the comfort of your own home. At dawn, in our countryside, there is a pronounced peak in bird singing activity. This is especially noticeable for about an hour after the first light in temperate zone woodlands during spring and early summer. At this time, male birds defend their territories and attract females with their songs. The recordings on this CD are a selection of British woodland recordings, taken from the extensive collection of the wildlife section of the British Library sound a
Authors:Giles Worsley, William Curtis Rolf,
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre BA
Keywords: british, art, stable, studies
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2005-03-08
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0300107080
ISBN-13: 9780300107081
Until the early years of the twentieth century, horses played an essential role in the agriculture, transport, industry, warfare, and sport of Britain. Their stables were practical shelters, but they were also more than thatin many cases a handsomely appointed stable served as much for the elegant display of horses as for their shelter. This beautiful book, illustrated with over one hundred specially commissioned photographs, focuses attention for the first time on the history, the variety, and the importance of stables in the British Isles.Leading architectural historian Giles Worsley examin
Author: Nigel Copsey
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: british, reader, modern, history, legitimacy, party, fascism, national, contemporary, quest
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 023057436X
ISBN-13: 9780230574366
No other political party in the history of British fascism has been as successful at the ballot box as today’s British National Party (BNP). It has won increasing success at local elections and it aspires to break through into the national arena of mainstream politics. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Contemporary British Fascism offers an in-depth study of the BNP and its quest for social and political legitimacy. Founded in 1982 and led by John Tyndall until 1999, the ’old’ BNP is investigated first. Nigel Copsey then moves on to discuss Nick Griffin’s &
Author: Martin Myrone
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: british, art, centre, studies, mellon, paul, reforming, bodybuilding, masculinities
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-03-08
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0300110057
ISBN-13: 9780300110050
This original book explores the radical transformation of the heroic male body in late eighteenth-century British art. It ranges across a period in which a modern art world was established, taking into account the lives and careers of a succession of major figuresfrom Benjamin West and Gavin Hamilton to Henry Fuseli, John Flaxman and William Blakeand influential institutions, from the Royal Academy to the commercial galleries of the 1790s.Organized around the historical traumas of the Seven Years War (175663), the War of American Independence (177583) and the French Revolution and Revolut
Authors:Matthew Hargraves, Scott Wilcox,
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: british, center, art, yale, mellon, watercolors, paul, collection
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2007-05-28
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0300116586
ISBN-13: 9780300116588
Paul Mellon (1907--1999) assembled one of the worlds greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors.In his memoirs he wrote of their beauty and freshness their immediacy and sureness of technique, their comprehensiveness of subject matter, their vital qualities, their Englishness. This catalogue celebrating the centenary of Mellon’s birth features eighty-eight outstanding watercolors from the fifty thousand works of art on paper with which he endowed the Yale Center for British Art. The selection spans the emergence of watercolor painting in the mid-18th century to its apo
