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 Free Download On The Buses - Buses of Britain Book 8 - 29 March 2024 English | 102 pages | PDF | 98.7 MB ![Wayfarer Love, Loss and Life on Britain's Ancient Paths [Audiobook]](https://i123.fastpic.org/big/2024/0410/e3/afafa290f275aaa3759b5777f971f5e3.jpeg) Free Download Wayfarer: Love, Loss and Life on Britain's Ancient Paths (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0CNKRCPCW | 2024 | 7 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 209 MB Author: Phoebe Smith Narrator: Phoebe Smith A woman's tale of the transformative power of walking Britain's ancient pilgrim paths. On an assignment to walk the most famous pilgrimage in the world - the Camino de Santiago, in northern Spain - Phoebe Smith somehow lost her way. Having spent a lifetime exploring unfamiliar places, she quit her dream job, ended her long-term relationship and headed home to North Wales to discover the point to... everything. In her search for answers she found herself - quite by accident - walking some of Britain's oldest pilgrim paths. And by following these old ways, she ended up confronting past traumas that she thought she had laid to rest. Skilfully weaving together Phoebe's own story with those of countless travellers past and present, Wayfarer reveals how nature and place can heal past wounds, offering a pathway to salvation she'd never thought existed. ![The Kings and Queens of Britain [Audiobook]](https://i123.fastpic.org/big/2024/0410/8d/6107caf4f73337fee9b83c24de22078d.jpeg) Free Download The Kings and Queens of Britain (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B09SPW1R48 | 2022 | 5 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 331 MB Author: Cath Senker Narrator: Gordon Griffin Who was the first king of England? Did Henry I assassinate his brother? How did "Bloody Mary" reinstate Roman Catholicism? For more than 1,000 years, the British monarchy has dramatically shaped national and international history. Kings and queens have conquered territory, imposed religious change and extracted taxation, each with their own motivations and ambitions. In this fascinating audiobook, Cath Senker delves into the extraordinary history of the British monarchy and its host of kings, queens, and pretenders. There have been benevolent rulers, violent ones, religious fanatics, brilliant economists, masters of diplomacy, and the power hungry. But, whether they have abused their power or used it for good, each monarch has played a part in the rich tapestry of British history, coping with both international and civil wars, rebellions and criticism. The Kings and Queens of Britain introduces a 1000-year history, providing rich biographical detail of Britain's remarkable monarchs.  Free Download John Clarke, "The Battle for Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture" English | ISBN: 1529227666 | 2023 | 252 pages | PDF | 14 MB This book addresses the social, political and economic turbulence in which the UK is embroiled. Drawing on Cultural Studies, it explores proliferating crises and conflicts, from the multiplying varieties of social dissent through the stagnation of rentier capitalism to the looming climate catastrophe. Examining arguments about Brexit, class and 'race', and the changing character of the state, the book is underpinned by a transnational and relational conception of the UK. It traces the entangled dynamics of time and space that have shaped the current conjuncture. Questioning whether increasingly anti-democratic and authoritarian strategies can provide a resolution to these troubles, it explores how the accumulating crises and conflicts have produced a deepening 'crisis of authority' that forms the terrain of the Battle for Britain.  Free Download Peter J. Brown, "Meteorological Disasters in Medieval Britain " English | ISBN: 3110719576 | 2023 | 299 pages | PDF | 11 MB When high-magnitude meteorological hazards impact vulnerable human populations, disasters are the inevitable consequence. Through archaeological and historical evidence, this book investigates how these sudden and unpredictable events affected British medieval populations (AD 1000-1500). Medieval society understood disasters in a practical sense and took steps to minimise risk by constructing flood defences and reinforcing structures damaged by storms. At the same time, natural hazards were widely interpreted through a framework of religious and superstitious beliefs and a wide variety of measures were followed to secure protection against the dangers of the natural world. Disasters, therefore, were interpreted through a duality of understanding in which their occurrence could be the result of spiritual or superstitious triggers but practical solutions were a key component in mitigating their tangible impacts. In evaluating this duality, this book focuses on specific case studies and considers both their diverse historical contexts as well as their consequences for society against the backdrop of significant demographic and climatic change―as a result of the Black Death and the transition to the Little Ice Age.  Free Download France Winddance Twine, "A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy" English | 2011 | ISBN: 0822348764, 0822349000 | PDF | pages: 324 | 12.6 mb A White Side of Black Britain explores the racial consciousness of white women who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage in the United Kingdom. Filling a gap in the sociological literature on racism and antiracism, France Winddance Twine introduces new theoretical concepts in her description and analysis of white "transracial" mothers raising their children of African Caribbean ancestry in a racially diverse British city. Varying in age, income, education, and marital status, the transracial mothers at the center of Twine's ethnography share moving stories about how they cope with racism and teach their children to identify and respond to it. They also discuss how and why their thinking about race, racism, and whiteness changed over time. Interviewing and observing more than forty multiracial families over a decade, Twine discovered that in most of them, the white woman's racial consciousness and her ability to recognize and negotiate racism were derived as much from her relationships with her black partner and his extended family as from her female friends. In addition to the white birth mothers, Twine interviewed their children, spouses, domestic partners, friends, and members of their extended families. Her book is best characterized as an ethnography of racial consciousness and a dialogue between black and white family members about the meaning of race, racism, and whiteness. It includes intimate photographs of the family members and their communities. ![The Face of Britain The Nation Through Its Portraits [Audiobook] (2024)](https://i123.fastpic.org/big/2024/0326/34/ebe3f845b88db5251428df9bf8d04f34.jpeg) Free Download The Face of Britain: The Nation Through Its Portraits (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B014I4BYL2 | 2015 | 14 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 418 MB Author: Simon Schama Narrator: Simon Schama, Roy McMillan Churchill and his painter locked in a struggle of stares and glares; Gainsborough watching his daughters run after a butterfly; a naked John Lennon five hours before his death. Simon Schama has written a tour de force about British portraits over the centuries in which the image-maker, the subject and everyone else looking on are brought unforgettably to life. Mesmerising in its extraordinary storytelling, The Face of Britain will change the way we see our past - and ourselves. ![Portillo's Hidden History of Britain [Audiobook] (2024)](https://i123.fastpic.org/big/2024/0324/99/8db9ab69ec2da3ef67ebedd3d0b86699.jpeg) Free Download Portillo's Hidden History of Britain (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B07GBCCH9N | 2018 | 5 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 302 MB Author: Michael Portillo Narrator: Phillip Franks Discover the hidden history of Britain through the stories of its 'lost' or abandoned places and buildings. Portillo's Hidden History of Britain presents a compelling and wonderfully evocative history of Britain through the stories of its 'lost' or abandoned buildings. The chapters will cover a variety of historical themes: Crime and Punishment, Health and Medicine, Defence and Warfare, Manufacturing Industry, Transport and Communication, and Entertainment and Leisure. Using a combination of his own investigations and archive research, plus memories and quotations from the contributors he interviewed for the series, Michael will explain what the buildings were used for and by whom, why they were abandoned and what they can tell us about our past. |
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