This superb collection of imagery showcases the very best of the British Wildlife Photography Awards an annual competition ...

This Seminar Study was the first book to trace the British womens suffrage campaign from its origins in the 1860s through to the achievement of equal suffrage in 1928. In this second edition Smith provides new evidence drawn from the authors research on how the main post-1918 womens organisation (the NUSEC) worked with Conservative Party women to persuade the Conservative Party to endorse equal franchise rights. Smith focuses on the actions of reformers & their opponents with due attention paid to the campaigns in Scotland & Wales as well as the movements in Engl&. He explores why womens suffrage was such a contentious issue & how women gained the vote despite opponents fears that it would undermine gender boundaries. Suitable for students studying the Suffrage Movement modern British history & the history of gender. ...

In the final part of his trilogy exploring The Troubles in Northern Ireland Peter Taylor talks to undercover agents of the British state & reveals for the first time the hidden secrets of the war they waged against the IRA for thirty years. PROVOS & LOYALISTS told the story of the conflict from the point of view of the Republicans & Loyalists; now the story with all its tragic twists & turns is told from the British perspective. For the first time undercover soldiers Special Branch officers & a top MI6 agent step out of the shadows & along with the Whitehall mandarins who helped shape policy from Westminster tell their stories. ...

Fully updated this map combines clear design & an easy-to-read scale with more road detail to ensure that you never lose your way. It

Includes:: information on toll points service areas road numbers motorways dual carriageways & wide & narrow local roads. National Parks ski resorts visitor attractions & towns & places of interest are also highlighted. The map is presented in a practical slimline format with a durable weatherproof cover for protection from the elements.

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This is a guide to a popular region home to St Malo Honfleur & Mont St Michel three of Frances top attractions. This guide covers not only the beaches but also gives extensive coverage of the smaller villages or rural areas that are great for relaxing day trips; explores the regions food culture as well as places of historic interest. A new all-inclusive colour map at the front of the guide gives important information on what not to miss & how to get round the region. ...

Marco Polo maps feature completely up-to-date digitally generated mapping. The high quality cartography with distance indicators & scale converters aid route planning.

Includes:: city maps of Brest Nantes & Rennes. A fold-out overview map is ideal for route planning & 7 self-adhesive Marco Polo mark-it stickers can be used to pin-point a destination or route for future reference. Scenic routes & places of interest are highlighted
- ideal for touring holidays. Comprehensive index. The map scale is 1: 200 000.


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Hugh Dennis has secretly been worrying about what being British" meant for nearly a decade ever since his friend Ardal O' Hanlon had told him in passing that he was the most British person he had ever met. Hugh was unclear whether he was being praised teased vaguely insulted or possibly all three
- because it has always been very difficult to know how to feel about being British. & then the London Olympics came along. We gave the world a gleaming new vision of Britain; a smiling Britain of achievement a Britain responsible for leading the world into the modern era through the Agrarian & Industrial revolutions a nation proud to embrace multi-culturalism individuality & eccentricity. A country where a major politician can dangle helplessly from a zip wire like a discarded straw dolly & gain in popularity & whose Queen can send herself up & then descend by parachute. The unexpected legacy of the Games has been a Britain with a new found self-confidence in which we all know how to be British. A Britain which should be embarrassed by nothing & proud of everything from sheep to chimneys to the Spice Girls to industrial action & what had always previously been described as our "ailing transport network". A Britain which having been pinned firmly in its own half has dribbled the length of the field nutmegged the defenders unleashed a curling dipping shot into the top right hand corner scored a wonder goal & is now kissing the badge. This is Hugh Dennis' exploration of the changing image of Britain & Britishness."
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In advance of her new novel The Road to Urbino read Roma Tearne s brilliant Brixton Beach. Opening with the horrors of the London bombings this is the profoundly moving story of civil war & a child s struggle to come to terms with loss. London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs brings the capital to a halt. Simon Swann a medic from one of the large teaching hospitals is searching frantically amongst the chaos & the rubble. All around police sirens & ambulances are screaming but Simon does not hear. He is out of breath because he has been running & he is distraught. But who is he looking for? To find out we have first to go back thirty years to a small island in the Indian Ocean where a little girl named Alice Fonseka is learning to ride a bicycle on the beach. The island is Sri Lanka & its community is on the brink of civil war. Alice s life is about to change forever. Soon she will have to leave for England abandoning her beloved grandfather & accompanied by her mother Sita a woman broken by a series of terrible events. In London Alice grows into womanhood. Trapped in a loveless marriage she has a son. Slowly she fulfils her grandfathers prophecy & becomes an artist. Eventually she finds true love. But London in the twenty-first century is a mass of migration & suspicion. The war on terror has begun & everyone even Simon Swann middle class rational medic that he is will be caught up in this war in the most unexpected & terrible way. ...

This is the story as told by a man who was both a devoted fan & a loyal team member of British Racing Motors. Who saw & was involved in the repeated failures & humiliating times of the 1950 s through the gradual progress of winning minor races to Jo Bonnier winning the first World Championship Grand Prix in Holland in 1959. Culminating in the ultimate honour in 1962 when in East London South Africa Graham Hill drove the BRM to victory to win both the drivers World Championship & the Constructors Championship for the BRM team. Thereby making a considerable contribution to British motor racing history. British Racing Motors (generally known as BRM) was a British Formula 1 motor racing team often described as Britain's Ferrari as it built its own cars. Founded in 1945 the team raced from 1950 to 1977 competing in 197 Grand Prix & winning 17. This is the BRM story told by a man who was both a devoted fan & a loyal member of the British Racing Motors team. Seen purely from a mechanic's point of view this account of BRM is generally complimentary but at times is critical of personnel & procedures. Dick Salmon was involved in the repeated failures & humiliations of the 1950s through the gradual progress of winning minor races to the excitement of Jo Bonnier winning the first World Championship Grand Prix in Holland in 1959. BRM's glory culminated in the ultimate honor in 1962 when in East London South Africa Graham Hill drove a BRM to victory to win both the Driver's World Championship & in doing so brought the Constructor's Championship to the BRM team thereby making a considerable contribution to international motor racing history. Probably for the first time criticism is levelled at both Louis Stanley & the introduction of the H16 engine as contributory factors to the ultimate failure of British Racing Motors: Louis Stanley for his freeloading extravagance & the rather foolish decision by BRM's management to build such a complicated & bulky power unit. ...

BRM (British Racing Motors) was a motor racing venture created in 1950 to represent Britain in the new Formula 1 category. A symbol of Britains post-war rebirth the BRM car did nothing by halves: its 1.5-litre 16-cylinder supercharged engine & advanced

Specification made it a technical tour de force but it earned a reputation as a fantastic folly such that Stirling Moss described it as without doubt the worst car I ever drove. This book is a fascinating portrait of a racing car that still engenders enduring fascination.

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