Product Description: Good Friday 1612. High on a hill in the wild and lawless area of Pendle, a secret meeting is held at Malkin Tower. By the end of the year, most of those present have been sentenced to death at Lancaster Castle - hanged for the crime of witchcraft...read more

Product Description: This important new single-volume study of W. E. Gladstone offers a readily accessible account of one of the most important and consequential political careers in modern British and Irish history. It is a story of how a statesman of almost superhuman energy and forcefulness of character strove to realise God's purposes, as he saw them, in the twisting and slippery paths of public service...read more

Product Description: A one-woman play that vividly portrays the life and message of a prisonor of conscience.

Product Description: This important new single-volume study of  W. E. Gladstone offers a readily accessible account of one of the most important and consequential political careers in modern British and Irish history. It is a story of how a statesman of almost superhuman energy and forcefulness of character strove to realise God's purposes, as he saw them, in the twisting and slippery paths of public service...read more

Product Description: When the Press Complaints Commission was set up in 1991, British journalism was at an all-time low. In a democracy the media must be free but competition between tabloids had produced a press notorious for intrusiveness, tastelessness, inaccuracy, callous methods and chequebook journalism...read more

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Product Description: Richard Shannon provides a magisterial account of the fortunes of the Conservative party after the death of Disraeli, tracing the changes in party thinking and organization under the pressures of the newly expanded electorate. The rise of Lord Salisbury is thoroughly examined together with the demands of empire, the problems of Home Rule and the Unionist alliance...read more

Product Description: After his 1867 reform act has established a 'democratic' franchise in the boroughs, Disraeli's attempts to reconcile the elements of what became known as Tory Democracy were judged by most contemporary Conservatives as at best risky and at worst a betrayal - yet the party triumphantly, if painfully, adapted...read more

Product Description: Book by Shannon, Richard (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Shannon, Richard