From the bright young poets of The Very Quiet Foreign Girls Poetry Group comes this stirring anthology of poems singing stories of migration & building new homes in England ...

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' England is a family in which the young are generally thwarted & most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles & bedridden aunts Still it is a family'' England Your England' is one of the most compelling & insightful portraits of the nation ever written Shot through with Orwell's deeply felt sense of patriotism & love for his homeland the essay is at the same time unfailingly clear-eyed about the nation's failings entrenched social inequality a dishonest press & a class system that only works for those at the top Written during the Second World War as the bombs were falling on England the essay today speaks to the nation's current moment of crisis just as urgently as it did in Orwell's own time It is a crucial read for anyone who wants to understand who we are & where we've come from ...

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England&s cathedrals are the nation&s glory They tower over its landscape outranking palaces castles & mansions They attract roughly half the nation&s population each year For a millennium they have been objects of pilgrimage for those seeking faith consolation & beauty Still at the start of the twenty-first century they remain unequalled in their size & splendour More than any other English institution cathedrals reflect the vicissitudes of history & should be treasured as such They are custodians of culture & of the rituals of civic life They offer welfare & relieve suffering They uplift spirits with their beauty In a real sense they are still what they were when first built a millennium ago a glimpse of the sublime Gloriously illustrated throughout England&s Cathedrals not only offers us a companion to England&s Thousand Best Churches it takes us on an enthralling tour of the nation & its history through some of our most astonishing buildings ...

England has always been a place of queens The earliest known lived nearly 2000 years ago Early queens such as Boudica & Cartimandua are historical figures while others such as Cordelia & Guinevere are mythical In both historical documents & romantic legends the early queens of Britain played a prominent role & this has never ceased to be the case Nearly eighty women have sat on the throne of England either as queen regnant or queen consort & the voices of all of them survive through their writings & those of their contemporaries For the first time the voices of each individual queen can be heard This volume charts the course of English queenship from our earliest named queen the fierce Boudica through the Anglo-Saxons Normans Plantagenets to the queens of the Wars of the Roses & the woman whose marriage brought peace after years of conflict Elizabeth of York ...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction As every schoolboy knows you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight Grotesque visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally & does exactly that He constructs on the island ' The Project' a vast heritage centre containing everything ' English' from Big Ben to Stonehenge from Manchester United to the white cliffs of Dover The project is monstrous risky & vastly successful In fact it gradually begins to rival ' Old' England & even threatens to supersede it One of Barnes's finest & funniest novels England England calls into question the idea of replicas truth vs fiction reality vs art nationhood myth-making & self-exploration ...

A special edition of England Their England by A G Macdonell reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan's 70th anniversary Banished from his native Scotland by a curious clause in his father's will Donald Cameron moves to London & decides to conduct a study of the English people; a strange race who he is told have built an entire national identity around a reverence for team spirit & the memory of Lord Nelson What follows is one of the funniest social satires ever written Whether Cameron is haplessly participating in a village cricket match being shown around an exclusive golf course or trying to watch a rugby match in the thick London fog his affectionately bemused portrait of his new countrymen is a joy to read Reminiscent of the gentle wit of P G Wodehouse & Jerome K Jerome England Their England offers a delightful portrait of Britain in the 1920s ...

The most comprehensive & revealing account of the story of England cricket & cricketers yet published 624 pages 8pp colour Wilde Simon ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A collection featuring three of the greatest Ashes Test match encounters of recent times The set begins with the 1981 Headingley Test where Ian Botham&s valiant heroics with bat & ball culminated in an innings of 149 not out thus turning the series on its head Next up is the 2005 Edgebaston Test with Kevin Pietersen&s batting & Andrew & Freddie& Flintoff&s impressive display of character & determination managing to wrest the Ashes from Australia&s grasp for the first time since 1987 Finally it&s off to The Oval for the victory that tipped the balance in the 2009 Ashes series with bowler Stuart Broad taking five wickets in the first innings ...