The best history books of 2024, from a lost England to Fascist Italy
The weight of 2024’s history books concentrates, as often in recent years, on the last century or so – though with revelatory ...
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A History of 1930s British Literature
The Year's Work in English Studies, Vol. 100 ... the decade and its characteristic concerns at the heart of twentieth-century literary history. This book expands the range of writers covered, moving ...
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Horrible Histories: Author Terry Deary on being 'a fish out of water'
The author has been described by The Radio Times as "a man whose scatological, cartoonish but utterly factual style has put a firework under British history books". So you might assume that after ...
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A Short History of English Literature
A History of English Literature is a comprehensive survey, in chronological fashion, of the major periods, authors and movements from Chaucer to the present. Written for undergraduate and postgraduate ...
New Book Examines the Role Propaganda Has Played in the History of British Cinema
"All art is propaganda, but not all propaganda is art." The saying from 1984 and Animal Farm author George Orwell features in ...