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Neville Chamberlain
History has not looked kindly upon Neville Chamberlain. Despite a long and distinguished political career, his trip to Munich in 1938 and the 'appeasement' of Hitler have forever overshadowed his many other achievements and blighted his reputation, his name now synonymous with the futility of trying to reason with dictators and bullies. Yet, as this biography shows, there is much more to this complex and intriguing character than is generally supposed, and even the infamous events of 1938 are open to more charitable interpretations than is usually the case. Appeasement brought the British government crucial time in which to rearm, and in particular allowed the RAF to drastically increase the...
Plu Stiniog
Emrys Evans, Manod, was a well-known North Wales fisherman and a keen historian of Welsh angling. He formed a collection of 133 fly patterns used in the multitude of hill lakes in the area of Blaenau Ffestiniog, together with extensive manuscript notes. To add to this portfolio, his son-in-law, Gareth Tudor Jones, photographed each fly. After Emrys's death in 2008, at the age of 91 years, his family explored the possibility of publishing his work. With the support of the Cambrian Angling Association, Geraint Vaughan Jones of Llan Ffestiniog was able to edit and publish it. The book was written in Welsh, and the first edition was published in the Welsh language in quite a limited edition. Thi...
Sgyrsiau Noson Dda
Dros y blynyddoedd, mae stafelloedd Plas Tan y Bwlch - canolfan Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri ym Maentwrog - wedi cynnal llu o sgyrsiau a darlithoedd sydd wedi codi hwyl a difyrru. Yn y gyfrol hon ceir casgliad o dair sgwrs am gymeriadau'r chwareli, ffraethineb Bro Hiraethog ac atgofion dyn ambiwlans gan Emrys Evans, Gwilym Morris a John Hughes, mewn sgyrsiau a recordiwyd gan Twm Elias. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Portrait of a Party
The Conservative Party is the least investigated and understood of British political parties. Using an original approach and an unparalleled range of sources, Stuart Ball analyses the nature and working of the Conservative Party during one of the most significant and successful periods in its history.
Veteran MPs and Conservative Politics in the Aftermath of the Great War
Between 1918 and 1939, 448 men who performed uniformed service in the First World War became Conservative MPs. This relatively high-profile cohort have been under-explored as a distinct body, yet a study of their experiences of the war and the ways in which they - and the Conservative Party - represented those experiences to the voting public reveals much about the political culture of Interwar Britain and the use of the Great War as political capital. Radicalised ex-servicemen have, thus far, been considered a rather continental phenomenon historiographically. And whilst attitudes to Hitler and Mussolini form part of this analysis, the study also explores why there were fewer such types in Britain. The Conservative Party, it will be shown, played a crucial part in such a process - with British politics serving as a contested space for survivors' interpretations of what the war should mean.
The Guardsmen
This work aims to shed light on the political generation of Harold Macmillan. A collective biography of a political era seen through four Conservative politicians, Macmillan the academic, Lord Salisbury the aristocrat, Oliver Lyttelton the man of action and Harry Crookshank the wit - a tightly-knit group of privileged Englishmen all born between 1893-4, who shared a common education (Eton, Oxford, the Guards), who fought together in World War I and who rose to political prominence in time for the next, and all served as senior members of Churchill's peacetime administration during the 1950s.
Facing Fascism
This book provides a complete history of the Conservative party from 1935 to 1940 and explores its responses to the problems of fascism.
UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970
This open access book offers an unprecedented analysis of child welfare schemes, situating them in the wider context of post-war policy debates about the care of children. Between 1945 and 1970, an estimated 3,500 children were sent from Britain to Australia, unaccompanied by their parents, through child migration schemes funded by the Australian and British Governments and delivered by churches, religious orders and charities. Functioning in a wider history of the migration of unaccompanied children to overseas British colonies, the post-war schemes to Australia have become the focus of public attention through a series of public reports in Britain and Australia that have documented the har...
Vehicles of Grace and Hope
A biographical dictionary of Welsh missionaries from all denominations who worked in North-East India during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, including details of mission supporters and other relevant information about places of interest.
