The Very Bloody History Of Britain

Author : John Farman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781448121106

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The Very Bloody History Of Britain by John Farman Pdf

Warning: This book could change your ideas about history for ever!! Do you know why the Celts got the best girls? Or who had his portrait painted after he was dead? And have you any idea who planned the first Channel Tunnel? From the dawn of civilization to the end of the Second World War, it's all here in the factually accurate and hilariously funny Very Bloody History of Britain. Bizarre, barmy and almost beyond belief, you've never had a history lesson like it!

Author : John Farman
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0099417774

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Very Bloody History of Britain by John Farman Pdf

A factually accurate and fabulously funny look at the history of Britain from the dawn of civilization to the end of the Second World War. You’ve never had a history lesson like it!

Author : John Farman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0370322924

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The Complete Bloody History of Britain by John Farman Pdf

Author : John Farman
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0099219425

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The Very Bloody History of Britain by John Farman Pdf

A factually accurate and fabulously funny look at the history of Britain from the dawn of civilization to the end of the Second World War. You’ve never had a history lesson like it!

Author : Geoff Holder
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750958110

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Bloody British History: Britain by Geoff Holder Pdf

Britain has an incredible history, steeped in all manner of blood, death, disease and horror. From cannibals to concentration camps, Geoff Holder covers events both great and gory from Britain’s terrible past, with kings, queens and pretenders to the throne; sea battles, massacres and attacks from the air. This collection explores it all, with hundreds of amazing true stories, including seven ill-judged attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria and the Gestapo’s secret plans to bring a conquered Britain to its knees. There will be blood . . .

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780593847596

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History of Britain and Ireland by DK Pdf

From ancient bloody battles and colonial conquests to the Industrial Revolution and Beatlemania, this visual guide leads you through major moments in British and Irish history. Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that shaped British and Irish history, from the Stone Age to the present day. Combining over 700 photographs, maps, and illustrations with accessible text, History of Britain and Ireland is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to learn more about the British Isles. Spanning six distinct periods of English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish history, the book tells you how Britain transformed with Norman rule, fought two World Wars in the 20th century, and finally came to terms with a new status in a fast-changing economy. This comprehensive volume places key figures – from Alfred the Great to Winston Churchill – and major events – from Caesar's invasion to the Battle of the Somme – in their wider context. This makes it easier than ever before to learn how certain charismatic leaders, political factions, and specific events influenced Britain and Ireland's development through the Age of Empires and into the modern era. Beautifully illustrated, History of Britain and Ireland is sure to delight history buffs of all ages.

Author : John Farman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781448121069

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The Short & Bloody History Of Ghosts by John Farman Pdf

Have you heard about the ghost bus that drives through London? Or seen the vampire who haunts Highgate cemetery? And would you know how to behave if you met a ghost? It's all in John Farman's spooky book of ghosts, poltegeists, vampires and things that go bump in the night! Open if you dare?

Author : Ken Wharton
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752475981

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Bloody Belfast by Ken Wharton Pdf

Former soldier Ken Wharton witnessed the troubles in Northern Ireland first hand. Bloody Belfast is a fascinating oral history given a chilling insight into the killing grounds of Belfast's streets. Wharton's work is based on first hand accounts from the soldiers. The reader can walk the darkened, dangerous streets of the Lower Falls, the Divis Flats and New Lodge alongside the soldiers who braved the hate-filled mobs on the newer, but no less violent streets of the 'Murph, Turf Lodge and Andersonstown. The author has interviewed UDR soldier Glen Espie who survived being ambushed and shot by the IRA not once, but twice, and Army Dog Handler Dougie Durrant, who, through the incredible ability of his dog, tracked an IRA gunman fresh from the murder of a soldier to where he was sitting in a hot bath in the Turf Lodge, desperately trying to wash away the forensic evidence. Wharton's reputation for honesty established from previous works has encouraged more former soldiers of Britain's forgotten army to come forward to tell their stories of Bloody Belfast. The book continues the story of his previous work, presenting the truth about a conflict which has sometimes been deliberately underplayed by the Establishment.

Author : John Farman
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0370319338

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The Very Bloody History of Britain by John Farman Pdf

Author : Kitty Hauser
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783782475

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Bloody Old Britain by Kitty Hauser Pdf

O. G. S. Crawford (1886-1957) thought history held the answers to everything. A field archaeologist, he later became a photographer flying over the Western Front during the First World War - an experience that made him a pioneer of aerial archaeology. An impassioned Marxist, it seemed to him that 1930s Britain would soon disappear, conquered by history's inevitable march to world socialism, and he made a photographic study of everyday things - churches and advertising hoardings - as future evidence of how unenlightened British society had once been. Later there came angry disillusionment and a book, too bitter to be published, called Bloody Old Britain. In recounting Crawford's extraordinary story, Kitty Hauser uses many of his photographs and penetrates neglected but fascinating aspects of British life and belief that have themselves become history.

Author : Robert Winder
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748123964

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Bloody Foreigners by Robert Winder Pdf

Immigration is one of the most important stories of modern British life, yet it has been happening since Caesar first landed in 53 BC. Ever since the first Roman, Saxon, Jute and Dane leaped off a boat we have been a mongrel nation. Our roots are a tangled web. From Huguenot weavers fleeing French Catholic persecution in the 18th century to South African dentists to Indian shopkeepers; from Jews in York in the 12th century (who had to wear a yellow star to distinguish them and who were shamefully expelled by Edward I in 1272) to the Jamaican who came on board the Windrush in 1947. The first Indian MP was elected in 1892, Walter Tull, the first black football player played (for Spurs and Northampton) before WW1 (and died heroically fighting for the allies in the last months of the war); in 1768 there were 20,000 black people in London (out of a population of 600,000 - a similar percentage to today). The 19th century brought huge numbers of Italians, Irish, Jews (from Russia and Poland mainly), Germans and Poles. This book draws all their stories together in a compelling narrative.

Author : W. Edmundson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230101210

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A History of the British Presence in Chile by W. Edmundson Pdf

This book sets out to narrate the contributions to and influence on the history of Chile that British visitors and immigrants have had, not as bystanders but as key players, starting in 1554 with the English Queen 'Bloody Mary' becoming Queen of Chile, and ending with the decline of British influence following the Second World War.

Author : Daniel Trilling
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844679607

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Bloody Nasty People by Daniel Trilling Pdf

The past decade in the UK saw the rise of the British National Party, the country’s most successful ever far-right political movement, and the emergence of the anti-Islamic English Defence League. Taking aim at asylum seekers, Muslims, ‘enforced multiculturalism’ and benefit ‘scroungers’, these groups have been working overtime to shift the blame for the nation’s ills onto the shoulders of the vulnerable. What does this extremist resurgence say about the state of modern Britain? Drawing on archival research and extensive interviews with key figures, such as BNP leader Nick Griffin, Daniel Trilling shows how previously marginal characters from a tiny neo-Nazi subculture successfully exploited tensions exacerbated by the fear of immigration, the War on Terror and steepening economic inequality. Mainstream politicians have consistently underestimated the far right in Britain while pursuing policies that give it the space to grow. Bloody Nasty People calls time on this complacency in an account that provides us with fresh insights into the dynamics of political extremism.

Author : Cathy Newman
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780008241698

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Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention by Cathy Newman Pdf

‘A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing’ Caitlin Moran ‘Newman is a brilliant writer’ Observer A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but didn’t.

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1670
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCD:31175035164188

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The History of Britain, that Part Especially Now Call'd England by John Milton Pdf