Your Britain

Author : Laura Beers
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674050020
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Britain written by Laura Beers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Labour's electoral success of the late 20th century was due in no small part to its grasp of media communication. This book reminds us that the importance of the mass media to Labour's political fortunes is by no means a modern phenomenon.

Author : Laura Beers
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674252357
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Britain written by Laura Beers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, new mass media—popular newspapers, radio, film—exploded at the same time that millions of Britons received the vote in the franchise expansions of 1918 and 1928. The growing centrality of the commercial media to democratic life quickly became evident as organizations of all stripes saw its potential to reach new voters. The new media presented both an exciting opportunity and a significant challenge to the new Labour Party. Laura Beers traces Labour’s rise as a movement for working-class men to its transformation into a national party that won a landslide victory in 1945. Key to its success was a skillful media strategy designed to win over a broad, diverse coalition of supporters. Though some in the movement harbored reservations about a socialist party making use of the “capitalist” commercial media, others advocated using the media to hammer home the message that Labour represented not only its traditional base but also women, office workers, and professionals. Labour’s national leadership played a pivotal role in the effective use of popular journalism, the BBC, and film to communicate its message to the public. In the process Labour transformed not only its own national profile but also the political process in general. New Labour’s electoral success of the late twentieth century was due in no small part to its grasp of media communication. This insightful book reminds us that the importance of the mass media to Labour’s political fortunes is by no means a modern phenomenon.

Author : Afua Hirsch
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473546893
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brit(ish) written by Afua Hirsch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L. Jackson's major BBC TV series Enslaved - the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today. You're British. Your parents are British. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British. So why do people keep asking where you're from? We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and the racism that plagues our present. Brit(ish) is Afua Hirsch's personal and provocative exploration of how this came to be - and an urgent call for change. 'The book for our divided and dangerous times' David Olusoga

Author : Zupagrafika
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788396326805
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brutal Britain (second Edition) written by Zupagrafika and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roy Strong
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1474607071
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Britain written by Roy Strong and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE CLASSIC HISTORY OF BRITAIN, FULLY UPDATED Roy Strong has written an exemplary introduction to the history of Britain, as first designated by the Romans. It is a brilliant and balanced account of successive ages bound together by a compelling narrative which answers the questions: 'Where do we come from?' and 'Where are we going?' Beginning with the earliest recorded Celtic times, and ending with the present day of Brexit Britain, it is a remarkable achievement. With his passion, enthusiasm and wide-ranging knowledge, he is the ideal narrator. His book should be read by anyone, anywhere, who cares about Britain's national past, national identity and national prospects.

Author : Jackie Holt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845026097
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knit Your Own Britain written by Jackie Holt and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British icons from Shakespeare to Marmite in a knitted version

Author : Chris Priestley
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780439938815
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Britain written by Chris Priestley and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2006 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Woods joins the RAF during WWII, battling the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. England, 1941. Sometimes I can't remember a time when I didn't have the roar of engines or rattle of machine-guns ringing in my ears. Sometimes it feels as though I've been a fighter pilot all my life -- that I had no life before the RAF, before the War, before the Battle of Britain. But I did. Of course I did. Once I was just Harry Woods, a kid like any other kid. And I suppose that's when my story really begins... Harry joins the RAF to protect his country, only to be called a coward by those who do not understand the battles raging in the air above. He loses friends and nearly loses his life when his plane goes down in the Channel.

Author : Tony Blair
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780813342351
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Britain written by Tony Blair and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2004-04-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Britain presents Tony Blair on all the major debates of British public life: from nationalized health care to crime prevention, from the welfare state to monetary policy, from religion to family values, from individualism to isolationism, from taxation to trade unions, from NATO to Northern Ireland, from community rebirth to economic growth. After seventeen years of Conservative Party rule under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, a change in Great Britain's leadership appears imminent. In Blair's Stakeholder Nation, government works in partnership with private and voluntary sectors to harness the pawer of the market to serve the public interest. In New Britain, we read in Blair's own articulate words how to improve the standard of living of all Britain's families; how to base a new social order on merit, commitment, and inclusion; how to decentralize British institutions of political power; and how to expand Britain's leadership in foreign affairs.

Author : Andrew Marr
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230747175
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Modern Britain written by Andrew Marr and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace among the most turbulent and surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster, the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question ‘How should we live?’ Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile, fads such as eugenics, vegetarianism and nudism were gripping the nation, while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today and the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches, flappers and Spitfires, this is a story of strange cults and economic madness, of revolutionaries and heroic inventors, sexual experiments and raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs, nightclubs and celebrities to package holidays, crooked bankers to sleazy politicians, the echoes of today's Britain ring from almost every page.

Author : Andrew Marr
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429931019
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Modern Britain written by Andrew Marr and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders think they know what they are doing, but find themselves confounded. Every time, the British people turn out to be stroppier and harder to herd than predicted. Throughout, Britain is a country on the edge – first of invasion, then of bankruptcy, then on the vulnerable front line of the Cold War and later in the forefront of the great opening up of capital and migration now reshaping the world. This history follows all the political and economic stories, but deals too with comedy, cars, the war against homosexuals, Sixties anarchists, oil-men and punks, Margaret Thatcher's wonderful good luck, political lies and the true heroes of British theatre.