Product Description: Channel 4 had been a matter of controversy for years even before it came on the air in November 1982. There were lengthy debates about what its role would be and the part to be played by the ITV companies and the growing number of independent television producers...read more

Product Description: From August 1950 until 1966, Harold Macmillan kept one of the fullest and most entertaining political diaries of the 20th century. This first volume starts in the last full year of the post-war Labour government, follows his rise through the Churchill and Eden governments via a succession of high offices, and culminates with his becoming Prime Minister in 1957...read more

Covers the Conservatives' return to office in 1951 and the personalities and politics of Churchill's and Eden's governments. This book records Macmillan's political preoccupations, such as the process of European integration, Anglo-American relations. It also provides wry pen portraits of many of the leading European and American figures.

Too many sociology textbooks begin and end with how society is structured. To understand how society operates it is necessary to explore not only its constituent structures and relationships, but how these structures emerge and why changes occur within them. By bringing together a group of distinguished sociologists and social historians, this book critically appraises the usefulness of current theories in advancing our understanding of contemporary society. It explores British society as dynamic and developing. In the process the authors draw our attention to the fact that society is shaped not just by social policy and structures, but by how far these influence people's life-patterns, attitudes, experience and conduct. Celia Brackenridge (Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, Joan C Brown, Robert G Burgess (University of Warwick), Rosemary Crompton (University of Kent), John Curtice (University of Str

Product Description: This collection takes as its subject how and why the British constitution developed during the course of the 20th century. In chapters that analyse in detail the evolution of various aspects of the constitution, this work explores debates about how the constitution ought to operate and the political goods it ought to secure among politicians, jurists and academics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The essays collected here explore the popular press since 1896--from Harmsworth's Daily Mail to Maxwell's Mirror. The history of the popular press has always been about more than big headlines and big profit margins. Personal ambition, partisan loyalty, institutional rivalry, and public accountability join commercial opportunism as the book's recurrent themes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This annual review aims to cover every aspect of contemporary Britain. As an analysis of 1992, and a record of developments, policy and personnel, "Contemporary Britain" should be a useful tool for contemporary historians, researchers and librarians...read more

Product Description: Maintaining the stability of Europe has been a traditional aim of Britain's policy towards Europe. Given the pressure for revision of the status quo from discontented powers such as Germany and Italy, this became an increasingly difficult task during the inter-war period...read more

Product Description: The aim of this bibliography is to delineate the existing literature covering postwar British history by its organization of the material, and to highlight principal facets, themes and events. The bibliography will have three main attributes...read more