Last of the Few The Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots Who Won It by Max Arthur | 1.49 MB
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Free Download The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQ1427Y2 | 2024 | 10 hours and 45 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: John Eglin
Narrator: Dan Calley
Gambling captures as nothing else the drama of the "long eighteenth century" between the age of religious wars and the age of revolutions. The society that was confronted with games of chance pursued as commercial ventures also came to grips with unprecedented social mobility, floated by new wealth from new sources created fortunes from trade in sugar, cotton, ivory, silk, tea, or enslaved human beings. Likewise, play for money was prominent in the public imagination as money itself, deployed through an ever expanding and ever more sophisticated range of mechanisms, increasingly invaded public awareness, as when prospective spouses in period fiction were rated in terms of annual income as if they were municipal bonds. Similarly, the archetypal figure of the gambler captured the imagination of the public in fiction, media, and politics. At the same time, new interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-encouraged and bankrolled by those in power-fostered a new and unprecedented appreciation for mathematical probability and its applications, opening the possibility that games of chance might be pursued as a profitable commercial venture. The Gambling Century focuses like no previous work on those who enabled, facilitated, and profited from gambling, as well as on efforts to regulate or outlaw it.

Free Download Railways of Britain - Issue 53 Classic Locomotives of the UK - 26 January 2024
English | 110 pages | PDF | 113.8 MB

Free Download Stuart Fisher, "The Canal Guide: Britain's 55 Best Canals"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1472974050 | PDF | pages: 353 | 111.3 mb
A beautifully illustrated guide to Britain's 55 most fascinating and attractive canals.

Free Download Spectacular Britain: A spotter's guide to the UK's most amazing natural phenomena by Kevin Sene
English | April 16th, 2024 | ISBN: 1844866343 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 137.91 MB
From the Northern Lights to whirling coastal birds, and sunken villages to the annual deer rut, the UK is home to some of the world's finest natural spectacles. With this guide and a little luck, you too can experience the magic of seeing something truly extraordinary.

Free Download Penelope J Corfield, "Power and the Professions in Britain 1700-1850"
English | ISBN: 0415222656 | | 280 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The modern professions have a long history that predates the development of formal institutions and examinations in the nineteenth century. Long before the Victorian era the emergent professions wielded power through their specialist knowledge and set up informal mechanisms of control and self-regulation.

Free Download Kenneth McConkey, "Memory and Desire: Painting in Britain and Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"
English | 2019 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1138720445, 1138720461 | EPUB | 22,8 mb
This title was first published in 2002. 'Memory and Desire' is a lavishly illustrated account of the art world in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. It calls upon rich resources of contemporary diaries, letters and art criticism, as well as the analysis of works of art to answer questions about how and why new artistic tendencies emerged and tastes changed. Eschewing the familiar narrative of an inevitable progress towards modernism, Kenneth McConkey considers a broad range of art and critical thinking in the period. Discussing the market for old master paintings, which rivalled those for modern art, and the question of how and why certain genres of art were particularly successful at the time, McConkey explores the detail and significance of contemporary taste. He draws upon the work of commercially successful painters such as John Singer Sargent, William Orpen, George Clausen, Alfred East, John Lavery and Philip Wilson Steer, and their critic-supporters to throw light upon current arguments about training, aesthetics, visual memory and the creation of new art. 'Memory and Desire' is a major contribution to our knowledge of this important period in British art.

Free Download Tim McLelland - Canberra: Britain's First Jet Bomber (Aeroplane Icons)
Kelsey Publishing | 2014 | ISBN: 1909786497 | English | 132 pages | PDF | 121.12 MB
The history of the jet engine's development is well known, and the story of how the jet engine eventually became the basis of Britain's fi rst jet fi ghter (the Meteor) is familiar to almost anyone with an interest in aviation. However, it is perhaps interesting to note how the development of a jet-powered bomber is a story that far fewer people understand, even though the creation of such an aircraft was undoubtedly as important as the fi ghter's development - if not more so. English Electric's Canberra bomber was created without fuss and fanfare, and without any significant delays or disasters. It was perhaps this straightforward process that has encouraged commentators to almost ignore the Canberra as a relatively unimportant part of Britain's aviation history. But the Canberra was far from mundane. At the time of the aircraft's development, the RAF's Bomber Command relied upon aged, obsolescent Lincolns that were barely superior to the Lancasters from which they had been derived. The Canberra was a proverbial breath of fresh air. It was fast, it could climb to hitherto unattainable altitudes and it was astonishingly manoeuvrable.

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Free Download Women's Health in Britain and America: Texts and Contexts by April Patrick
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 475 Pages | ISBN : 3031412567 | 12.8 MB
Women's Health in Britain and America: Texts and Contexts offers an unparalleled record of women's health in the United Kingdom and the United States since 1750. Through chapters on pregnancy and childbirth, contraception and abortion, and breast and gynecological cancers, today's readers can better understand historical precedents for contemporary issues. Introductory overviews present context about the history of medical care for women, such as diagnosis and treatment of specific conditions, medical advances, social and political contexts, and the effects of these on their lived experiences. The book presents a collection of primary texts including archival memoirs, letters, and diaries as well as published fiction, poetry, and medical advice. Women's Health in Britain and America provides the necessary background for those new to the subject while also offering unique texts that will engage those already immersed in the field. As the political and social discussions around women's bodies become more contentious and consequential, the history and the multiplicity of voices presented on these pages are more important than ever.