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Pages: 310
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The British Isles have only been successfully invaded and occupied once since 1066: the German occupation of the Channel Islands from 1940-1945. This book comme
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Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Douglas Hamilton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This volume examines the various ways in which islands (and groups of islands) contributed to the establishment, extension, and maintenance of the British Empir
Imperial Intimacies
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Authors: Hazel V. Carby
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'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation,
The British Isles
Language: en
Pages: 379
Authors: Hugh Kearney
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Hugh Kearney's classic account of the history of the British Isles from pre-Roman times to the present is distinguished by its treatment of English history as p
Notes from a Small Island
Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Bill Bryson
Categories: Authors, American
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In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one la