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When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies by Andy Beckett
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38The seventies encompass strikes that brought down governments, shock general election results, the rise of Margaret Thatcher and the fall of Edward Heath, the IMF crisis, the Winter of Discontent and... -
The First Referendum: Reassessing Britain's Entry to Europe, 1973-75 by Lindsay Aqui 9781526145192
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $157.92Although the United Kingdom's entry to the European Community (EC) in 1973 was initially celebrated, by the end of the first year the mood in the UK had changed from 'hope to uncertainty'. When... -
The First Referendum: Reassessing Britain's Entry to Europe, 1973–75 Lindsay Aqui 9781526198099
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.43Although the United Kingdom's entry to the European Community (EC) in 1973 was initially celebrated, by the end of the first year the mood in the UK had changed from 'hope to uncertainty'. When... -
Harold Wilson by Ben Pimlott 9780008182618
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.95Reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Harold Wilson's birth, Ben Pimlott's classic biography combines scholarship and observation to illuminate the life and career of one of Britain's... -
Who Governs Britain?: Trade Unions, the Conservative Party and the Failure of the Industrial Relations Act 1971 by Sam Warner
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $157.92Providing fresh insights from the archival record, Who governs Britain? revisits the 1970-74 Conservative government to explain why the Party tried - and failed - to reform the system of industrial... -
Forging the Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, the 1970s, and the Origins of Neoliberalism Terrence Casey 9781032660851
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $78.62This book tells the story of the rise of Margaret Thatcher in the context of crises assailing Britain in the 1970s and how her ascent to power ushered in the neoliberal era.Forging the Iron Lady... -
First and Lasting Impressions Frank Field 9781916846142
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.88These essays capture Frank Field's personal reflections on influential figures in public life across his remarkable 40-year political journey which was spent campaigning against poverty and injustice... -
A Different Kind Of Weather: A Memoir William Waldegrave 9781472119773
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'Why did you go into politics in the first place?'A question that former Cabinet minister has found himself asked, and indeed asking himself, over the years, Lord Waldegrave's is a life lived through... -
William Armstrong and British Policy Making by Kevin Theakston 9781137571588
Booksplease Price: $193.77This book offers a detailed account of the life and career of William Armstrong, the most influential civil servant in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the most powerful and significant... -
OCR A Level History: Britain 1930-1997 Mike Wells 9781471837296
Booksplease Price: $73.96Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016This is an OCR endorsed resource.Build strong subject knowledge and skills in A Level History using the... -
My Revision Notes: OCR AS/A-level History: Britain 1930-1997 Mike Wells 9781471875946
RRP: $24.15Booksplease Price: $20.98Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-LevelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: Summer 2016Target success in OCR AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision;... -
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My Revision Notes: OCR AS/A-level History: Britain 1930-1997 by Mike Wells 9781471875946 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.15Booksplease Price: $10.19Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-LevelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: Summer 2016Target success in OCR AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision;... -
False Prophets: British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria by Professor Nigel Ashton
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $41.31'Fascinating' Guardian, 'Book of the Day''A truly masterly book... A tour de force that will be read for a very long time.' Peter HennessySelected by the New Statesman as an essential read for... -
False Prophets: British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria by Professor Nigel Ashton 9781786493286
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'Fascinating' Guardian, 'Book of the Day''A truly masterly book... A tour de force that will be read for a very long time.' Peter HennessySelected by the New Statesman as an essential read for... -
Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979 Kenneth Rose 9781474601559
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.01'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary... -
Heath by Denis MacShane
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70A passionate European, Edward Heath succeeded in taking Britain into the European Community. He was latter challenged for the leadership of the party by Margaret Thatcher who sidelined him during her... -
1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison 9780857305824
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $19.051974 WAS A YEAR OF MAJOR CHANGE AROUND THE WORLD. Presidents resigned, emperors were deposed, and new governments came to power. On both sides of the Atlantic, major political figures left the scene,... -
The Heath Government 1970-74: A Reappraisal by Stuart Ball 9780582259911
Booksplease Price: $120.96Only now is it possible to see Edward Heath's controversial administration (1970-1974) in balanced historical perspective - and increasingly it seems a turning-point for postwar Britain. This timely... -
Without Benefit of Laundry: The Autobiography of John Peyton (Lord Peyton of Yeovil) by Lord Peyton 9780747533313
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $33.05This is an autobiography of an insider in Edward Heath's cabinet and Margaret Thatcher's shadow cabinet, outside, but observant of Thatcher's and Major's cabinets. John Peyton was born in 1919 and... -
Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two 1979-2014 Kenneth Rose 9781474610582
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $45.36Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the post-war Establishment. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft. His... -
Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979 Kenneth Rose 9781474601542
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $46.41'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary... -
Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two 1979-2014 Kenneth Rose 9781474610599
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.01Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the post-war Establishment. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft. His... -
Exceeding My Brief by Barbara Hosking 9781785904622
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23From the tragic massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, to signing the Treaty of Rome when Britain entered the Common Market, Barbara Hosking was there. This is the story of a Cornish... -
Memoirs by Rt. Hon Lord Douglas Hurd 9780349118284
Booksplease Price: $52.50Douglas Hurd retired as Foreign Secretary in 1995 after a distinguished career in Government spanning 16 years. As Secretary of State for Ireland, Home Secretary and then six years in the Foreign... -
China's Economic Reform by Gao Shangquan 9781349244690
Booksplease Price: $97.19'Friends of China can help her best by maintaining broad but not uncritical support and striving for a deeper understanding of this ancient culture and the political and economic structure of the... -
U.D.I: The International Politics of the Rhodesian Rebellion by Robert C. Good 9780691618876
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $100.95Fearing that their "civilization" would be overwhelmed, a tiny enclave of whites in Central Africa rebelled against a power which a little more than twenty-five years before had ruled the largest... -
Disjunctive Prime Ministerial Leadership in British Politics: From Baldwin to Brexit by Christopher Byrne 9783030449100
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $107.52This book illustrates the cyclical pattern in the kinds of dilemmas that confront political leaders and, in particular, disjunctive political leaders affiliated with vulnerable political regimes. The... -
Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown by John Campbell
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone. Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher. Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. Personal rivalry is the very stuff of politics. The causes and controversies, the parties and... -
Britain and European Union: Dialogue of the Deaf by Lord Beloff 9780333671924
Booksplease Price: $99.29The forefathers of the European Union, led by Jean Monnet, hoped to create a 'United States of Europe' with national sovereignties subordinated to a federal government. Few in Britain shared their... -
Rover P5 and P5B James Taylor 9781398123236
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.53The Rover P5 and P5B were the flagship Rover models throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. These cars were the official transport for prime ministers from Edward Heath to Margaret Thatcher and also... -
Losing an Empire and Finding a Role: Britain, the USA, NATO and Nuclear Weapons, 1964-70 by K. Stoddart 9780230300880
Booksplease Price: $190.18This book sheds fresh light on developments in British nuclear weapons policy between October 1964, when the Labour Party came back into power under Harold Wilson following a thirteen year absence,... -
Margaret Thatcher: Volume One: The Grocer's Daughter by John Campbell 9780099516767
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64'A fascinating account... Campbell's research is as exhaustive as it is meticulous' ObserverWhen Margaret Thatcher unexpectedly emerged to challenge Edward Heath for the Conservative Party leadership... -
Losing an Empire and Finding a Role: Britain, the USA, NATO and Nuclear Weapons, 1964-70 by K. Stoddart 9781349336562
Booksplease Price: $193.62This book sheds fresh light on developments in British nuclear weapons policy between October 1964, when the Labour Party came back into power under Harold Wilson following a thirteen year absence,... -
The World Since 1945: A Concise History by Keith Robbins
Booksplease Price: $61.97Keith Robbins' accessible and stimulating account of world history since 1945 provides a framework for making sense of the political and social developments of the period. The focus is firmly on... -
The Conservative Party and the Destruction of Selective Education in Post-War Britain: The Great Evasion by Dr. Piers Legh 9781350254633
Booksplease Price: $190.20The book tells the untold story of the Conservative Party’s involvement in terms of stance and policy in the destruction of selective state education from 1945 up to the present day. Close... -
George VI (Penguin Monarchs): The Dutiful King by Philip Ziegler
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.63The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackIf Ethelred was notoriously 'Unready' and Alfred 'Great', King George VI should bear the... -
A Strained Partnership?: Us-Uk Relations in the Era of deTente, 1969-77 by Thomas Robb
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $130.60This is the first monograph-length study that charts the coercive diplomacy of the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as practised against their British ally in order to persuade Edward... -
The Impact of the Euro: Debating Britain's Future by Mark Baimbridge 9780333778470
Booksplease Price: $190.18Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) will have far-reaching consequences for participating nations. This book contains a unique and editorially neutral collection of key arguments favouring and opposing... -
Strange People I Have Known: ... And Other Stories by Andy McSmith 9781785908057
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.38Westminster and Whitehall are secret worlds, hidden to most. But working as a lobby journalist, former Labour Party staffer Andy McSmith has had exclusive access to our top politicians for decades... -
Conservative Party Economic Policy: From Heath in Opposition to Cameron in Coalition by R. Wade 9781137295231
RRP: $188.98Booksplease Price: $169.51Covering the period from Ted Heath's assumption of the leadership of the Conservative Party through to the early years of the Coalition, this volume provides a detailed analysis of the Tory Party's...