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The New Elizabethans

Introduction: Our Age Edmund Hillary Elizabeth David Graham Greene Michael Young Vladimir Raitz Francis Crick Doris Lessing Alan Sainsbury Alfred Hitchcock Laurence Olivier Benjamin Britten Dorothy Hodgkin Harold Pinter Richard Doll Tony Hancock Philip Larkin Barbara Windsor Lord Denning Paul Foot Francis Bacon John Lennon and Paul McCartney Margot Fonteyn Peter Hall Terence Conran Enoch …

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The King’s Jaunt

The Journey or the Jaunt? For the Credit of Old Scotland Heir to the Chevalier A Plaided Panorama

Mapping the First World War

Mapping in the First World War The Causes of War The 1914 Campaign in the West and the East Italy, Gallipoli, Macedonia, The Caucasus Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Africa The 1915 Campaign in the East and the West The 1916 Campaign in the East and the West The War at Sea and in the Air …

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Collins Complete Photography Course

Introduction The story of photography You and your camera Camera types Getting to grips with your DSLR camera Image quality Lenses Exposure Flash White balance Essentials Review Exposure Capturing the light Choosing the exposure Project 1: Bracketing Project 2: High-key photography Project 3: Low-key photography Project 4: Sunrise and sunset Project 5: Silhouettes Project 6: …

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Hide & Seek

Appointment to kill Destination Italy Rome is home Secrets and spies The end of Mussolini Operation Escape Occupation Target O’Flaherty Closing the net Raids and arrests Resistance and revenge Massacre Clampdown Liberation Conviction and conversion Kerry calling Dear Herbert The Great Escape Goodbye Rome revisited

The Enemies Within: The Story of the Miners’ Strike 1984-5

From Kinlochleven to Muskegon American Opportunities British Leyland: the Disease British Steel: the Cure Coal: War is Declared The First Skirmishes Battle Commences The Second Front Economic  Warfare Peace Moves Where Are the Reinforcements? NACODS Enter the Fray The Battle for the Media Desertions in Scargill’s Army Laying the Final Trap

Perestroika

Part One: Perestroika Perestroika: Origins, Essence, Revolutionary Character [rtoc] Perestroika – An Urgent Necessity Turning to Lenin, an Ideological Source of Perestroika A Carefully Prepared Program, rather than a Pompous Declaration More Socialism and More Democracy Lessons of History What Inspired Us to Launch Perestroika Perestroika is a Revolution A “Revolution from Above”? The Party …

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The Four Loves

Introduction Likings and Loves for the Sub-Human Affection Friendship Eros Charity